Many thanks to those who have contributed to Two Coats of Paint’s 2025 Year-end Campaign. About five weeks remain, and we could use quite a bit more help. For those who have not yet made a move, I urge you to make your tax-deductible contribution soon.

It starts again! The annual campaign—a reminder that survival in the arts isn’t just about making work, but sustaining the framework that allows it to exist and thrive. We know art is essential, and it needs financial support. Today, we launch the 2024 Two Coats of Paint Year-End Fundraising Campaign, because the simple truth is that without funding, the platform falters, the conversation dims….

Today marks the first day of the Two Coats of Paint Annual Year-end fundraising campaign. In 2023, with your generous support, we will continue to keep our vibrant and expansive conversation about painting going.

In May 2022, I will have been publishing Two Coats of Paint for fifteen years. Thanks to reader support, it’s been a long, strange and fruitful trip that all began when my studio was half an attic in a creaky Victorian house in Mystic, Connecticut…None of this would have been possible without the generosity of our readers. All told, in fourteen-and-a-half years, Two Coats has published nearly 4000 posts. With your continued help, well post 4000 more…

Now that the presidential election is over and 2020 is drawing to a close, we have begun our annual year-end fundraising campaign. Two Coats of […]