4/20/2007-Since Nina received the Plum TV grant they’ve been able to publish subsequent issues of the newsletter every month, up to and including #10! With the extra funds from the Plum Grant they have been able to keep producing their issues, and also keep their website up to date so that it can access more people. Since receiving the Plum Grant, Nina and her Newsletter have been able to continue the dialogue surrounding contemporary art in Miami, by providing a forum for intelligent and capable writers to edit content pertinent to their specific interests.
The Diet Newsletter
Submitted by ninajohnson on Mon, 11/26/2007 - 00:07
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The most accurate and comprehensive description of The Diet Newsletter is the newsletter itself, www.gallerydiet.com A few hopes and thoughts on the Diet newsletter, The Diet newsletter is an online publication appearing once monthly which creates a local source for dialogue relevant to the national and international arts community. While focused in Miami, the Diet newsletter has woven perspectives from outside the city into the local dialogue, broadening the scope of discussion surrounding visual art work in South Florida. The newsletter will be divided into four parts; columns, reviews, postings, and conversations. Columns will be written from an international perspective, they should serve as portals for the newsletter’s audience to the international occurrences of the contemporary art world, they should give insight and connect the readers with events, places, and shows that they would not have discovered without the columnist. Reviews should occur at varying levels; locally, internationally, and nationally. They should include reviews of shows, lectures, panels, performances and the like. The only constraint for the reviews is that they must be reviews, by this I mean criticism, praise, an argument for or against something that the writer was inspired by, be that a negative or positive inspiration. The writer’s opinion must be felt in this category. It is imperative for the reader to feel the author’s stance. Postings is a place for Diet contributors (editors, and writers) to post essays, words, books, films, music, any outside source material that they should feel relates to that particular issue of the newsletter. This is a place where the reader can expand his or her point of reference, understand where the writers are coming from and have a chance to learn directly from the source. Conversations will be a place where artists, dealers, curators, thinkers, or any active participant in the art world can speak to one another on a predetermined date, record the dialogue and publish it, so that the reader may sit, as in John Favreou’s Dinner for Five at an imaginary round table of sorts with people they may admire, despise, or not even know and derive information from both sides of the conversation.
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THANKS TO THE PLUM TV/DOSOMETHING.ORG WEEKLY GRANT WE'VE RELEASED ISSUE #8 OF THE DIET NEWSLETTER! WE NEED MORE WRITING SUBMISSIONS TO KEEP GOING STRONG SO IF YOU HAVE AN IDEA FOR ONE, EMAIL US AT INFO@GALLERYDIET.COM - ALSO CHECK OUT MY EDITORIAL ABOUT WINNING THIS GRANT