Why
The front page belongs to the city’s artists.
Every day, the first thing a reader sees on Vantage is one image of Seattle. That slot rotates through Seattle artists, in any medium: photograph, paint, illustration, collage, textile, whatever the work is. Credited, linked to the artist, and kept here after its run.
Nominate someone whose work should be seen by the whole city, or nominate yourself. A person reads every one.
What the artist gets: the front page of the site for a quarter, a page in issue two of the magazine, a place in the letters that go to the whole room, credit and a link on everything, and introductions to people who buy, commission, and hang work. Doors they would not have thought to knock on.
Nominate an artist
The magazine, issue two
Put your name on the print run.
Issue two of the Vantage magazine goes to print in October, and the cover belongs to an artist nominated on this page. We unveil it at the launch, the Fall Mixer at The Shop on October 14, with the magazines on the table. It is the one thing Vantage makes that people keep: copies go to every partner room, onto the table at every October night, into the press kit, and home with the members. The cover also goes out by email to 1,000 people, across the Vantage socials, and onto the feed of every Vantage ambassador, who repost it.
Printing runs about $8 a copy. Sponsor a stack and your name is on the masthead of the thing they keep, with a “sponsored by” credit on the website, copies for your own room, and a seat in the room it was made for. Sponsor the whole run and the back cover is a full page, yours.
It is printed by Girlie Press, a Capitol Hill print shop since 1995 and a business in our own directory. Every sponsor dollar goes to a Seattle shop, which is the whole idea. Our first sponsor is Level Up Home.
Nothing is charged here. Rachael writes back with the one-pager and the print date.
Sponsorship is advertising, not a donation: for most businesses that makes it a deductible marketing expense, and your accountant has the last word.
Sponsor the print run