Community Newspaper #1: Are.na Classifieds, an interview with Isolde, Are.na Pairing Service and more
Hi, Welcome to the first issue of the Are.na Community Newspaper, which will for now be distributed via this Editorial newsletter. Once a month, in between...
(Correction) Call for Pitches: Are.na Annual Vol. 8
Submit your Pitches for the Next Are.na Annual, Themed “Score” by Meg Miller Score for John Cage’s Fontana Mix, 1958. CORRECTION #2: I’m very sorry, this is...
(Correction) Call for Pitches: Are.na Annual Vol. 8
Submit your Pitches for the Next Are.na Annual, Themed “Score” by Meg Miller Score for John Cage’s Fontana Mix, 1958. CORRECTION: the previous email had the...
Call for Pitches: Are.na Annual Vol. 8
Submit your Pitches for the Next Are.na Annual, Themed “Score” by Meg Miller Score for John Cage’s Fontana Mix, 1958. Each year, we put together a book of...
Release and let go
Learning to Float by Peter Johnson Photo by Mark Odumuyiwa. This piece was originally published in the Are.na Annual vol 7: pool, which now available in the...
On slime molds and nonlinear time
The Kingdom of Misfits by Lee Stark A Badhamia polycephala plasmodium. Image by Lee Stark. This piece was originally published in the Are.na Annual vol 7:...
On Exchanging Hospitality for Knowledge
An Interview with Robida Collective by Meg Miller and Vida Rucli Academy of Margins – Summer school on situated publishing, 2024. Photo by Teo Giovanni...
Horses Don’t Stop
Horses Don’t Stop An old postcard depicting the pony swim at Chincoteague. They say the ponies first came ashore from a shipwrecked Spanish galleon. An...
Extra Practice on the ebbs and flows of pooling resources
Pools for Conviviality by Extra Practice Illustration by Extra Practice We’re publishing this piece as a little preview of what’s in the Are.na Annual vol 7:...
Are.na Annual vol. 7: Pool
Introducing the New Are.na Annual by Meg Miller and Amirio Freeman Are.na Annual, vol. 7: Pool, cover by Maya Man Today we’re publishing the Are.na Annual...
The lending library making design print more accessible
An Interview with Alison Beshai of Resource Library by Meg Miller Resource Library book stamp. Photo by Alison Beshai. I’d heard Alison Beshai’s name a bunch...
An interview with the people running Index
Behind Index, a Growing Network of Community Spaces by Meg Miller Index Greenpoint. Space designed by Breanna Urquhart. Photo by Manuela Lourenço. The second...
“I feel like Birdcall is more of an ecosystem of learning.”
An Interview with Jisu Lee on the Seoul-based Space Birdcall by Meg Miller Jisu and others at birdcall, in front of the library shelves. The first I’d heard...
Evan Collins on Factory Pomo
Forging the Aesthetic of the Information Age by Evan Collins This piece was published in collaboration with the digital culture newsletter Dirt. In the early...
Charles Broskoski on why business should be personal
Personal Business by Charles Broskoski The Shop Around the Corner, You've Got Mail (1998) This piece was published in collaboration with the digital culture...
Introducing Areal, Are.na’s New Typeface
Introducing Areal, Are.na’s New Typeface An interview with Dinamo’s Johannes Breyer on the custon Arial “revival” typeface. Areal, a new typeface custom-made...
It’s telling how telling a telling can be
It’s telling how telling a telling can be by Luiza Dale Footnotes and Headlines, Corita Kent In 2023, I attended an online design symposium on reading and...
To whom do these palpitations belong?
Disarming at the Precipice by Joanne Lam Giuseppe Penone carving the young tree from the old tree. This piece originally ran in the Are.na Annual vol. 6,...
In honor of Juneteenth (2025)
An Interview with Darrel Kennedy and Alice Otieno of Blacks of Are.na On the occasion of their Juneteenth merch drop, now available in the Gift Shop. Written...
The cloud is very much a material thing
Memory Banks by Megumi Tanaka IBM 3850, the first ever robotic tape library (1974). This piece originally ran in the Are.na Annual vol. 6, themed “document.”...