Two Coats of Paint is an NYC-based art project, that includes an award-winning art blogazine, artists residency, conversations, catalogue essays for painters, and other special initiatives. In 2022, Two Coats of Paint started a new online publication, Obituaries & Remembrances, to publish art world obituaries and commemorate artists who have died. If you would like to contribute an obituary for a NYC-area painter, curator, or writer, please send a proposal to twocoatsofpaint@gmail.com with OBITUARY in the subject line.
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About the blogazine: Launched in 2007 and nationally read, Two Coats of Paint publishes original content with an emphasis on contemporary painting and related issues. Two Coats has been sponsored by numerous museums, universities, galleries, and arts organizations including the Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum, New Art Dealers Association (NADA), School of Visual Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, American University, and Rhode Island School of Design. In 2014 and 2016, Two Coats of Paint received prestigious Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grants for blogging. Founder Sharon Butler began Two Coats of Paint when she was a professor at a small university in Connecticut. She is an accomplished painter who now lives in Queens, New York.
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If you would like to have a catalogue essay written for an upcoming exhibition, please send an email to twocoatsofpaint@gmail.com and put CATALOGUE ESSAY in the subject line.
Founder, Editor, Publisher: Sharon Butler
Editor and Critic: Jonathan Stevenson
Poetry Editor: Mary G. Sargent
Production Associate: Kenneth Greiner
Research Associate: Emily Karam
Social Media Assistant: Lena Curland
Contributors (since 2022): Jason Andrew, Michael Brennan, Jacob Patrick Brooks, David Carrier, Jenny Zoe Casey, Jacob Cartwright, Vittorio Colaizzi, Jim Condron, Holly Coulis, Carol Diamond, Peter Dudek, Laurie Fendrich, Joy Garnett, Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, Kylie Heidenheimer, Catherine Howe, Gwenaël Kerlidou, Julia Kunin, Ellen Letcher, D. Dominick Lombardi, Margaret McCann, Tom McGlynn, James J. A. Mercer, Riad Miah, Bonnie Morano, Patrick Neal, Saul Ostrow, Kari Adelaide Razdow, Leslie Roberts, Fay Sanders, Mary Sargent, Liz Scheer, Zach Seeger, Adam Simon, Jason Stopa, Julie Torres, Cody Tumblin, Frank Webster, Marjorie Welish, Mark Wethli, Julie Wolfe, Carolyn Zick
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