The Expo presents: Pollinator -- an arts-resource exchange email list

[expo at lists.artsandmedia.net]

Dear Expo folks ... 

A month or so back we surveyed you about what to name a new, open, email discussion list for arts-makers.

We suggested a number of names -- Art Barn, Art Share, etc. -- but the winning entry is.... 

     Pollinator! -- Material & Human Resources for Arts & Culture
     http://lists.artsandmedia.net/mailman/listinfo/pollinator/

The Pollinator list will focus on connecting artists, musicians, producers and culture workers of all sorts with human and material resources for current and local art projects. For now we recommend de-emphasizing event announcements and such -- there are already plenty of resources for that. 

You can sign up for the Pollinator list by using the URL above. 

And to sweeten the deal, sometime between now and Sept. 15 we will be giving away THREE used Macintosh computers on the list to subscribers. Remember, you have to be signed up for the new listserv to be eligible. We will not be giving them away on the regular Expo list.  

Pollinator was dreamt up by local artist Stephanie Gerson, who proposed the idea to us, and then helped move the whole project forward. 

It is an open dialogue list. It's starting from scratch. If you want to get involved, you have to sign up and start posting: 

     http://lists.artsandmedia.net/mailman/listinfo/pollinator/


One person suggested a starting Facebook community to allow artists to upload samples of their work. This is a wonderful idea, and Stephanie had already discussed something similar, along with other features which would facilitate artist-to-artist collaboration. 

But we decided to start small, with just a listserv. If it's widely used, Pollinator could expand include other features. So definitely keep thinking of what you might want out of this and let us know.

Alrighty, that's it for now.

Stephanie Gerson
MS Candidate
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California, Berkeley

Josh Wilson
Independent Arts & Media
Expo for the Artist & Musician
http://artsandmedia.net/

p.s. Here's the tally on the original set of names we proposed:

artnik: - 1
artware: - 1
artbarn: - 1
pollinator: + 4, -1
artswap: + 1, -1


So even if we include the -1's (names people explicitly didn't like),
which would put it at a 3 instead of a 4, pollinator still gets the most
votes.

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