Dear Marin County Arts Lovers,
Welcome to UPTAKE Culture Feed, the new MarinArts digital content platform. We have created UPTAKE to enhance engagement with culture in Marin.
The
name UPTAKE reminds us that we strengthen ourselves and our communities by
engaging with the arts and creative process. The verb uptake (the act of strengthening through absorption) evokes Marin’s
splendorous landscape, populated with diverse flora and fauna that continually
take up nutrition for growth and strength.
UPTAKE’s
editorial feeds our cultural ecosystem through stories about an array of local
creators and cultural contributors in the visual arts, music, theater, film,
literature, and culture. We hope to nourish your connection with the arts and
your creative process – the book you’re reading becomes more interesting, the
gallery you visit is more intriguing, your solutions for problems are more
creative. Here are the story categories we will focus on:
Interpret: Providing context and inspiring discussion around the arts in interviews
with experts, fun facts, background on a creative topic, or in deeper dives.
Create: Exploring the creative process in the lives and work of our artists and
creators, as well as the profound impact of creativity in all areas of our lives.
Marin 101: Shedding light on the legacy of the artists and cultural organizations
who shape Marin’s unique cultural legacy.
What We’re Reading: Sharing stories from other publications about artists,
musicians, writers, performers, and events in Marin, and beyond.
In
these first three stories, we welcome the contributions to each of these
categories by writers Kate Fitzsimmons, Paula Farmer, and Zack Ruskin. While we
don’t accept unsolicited stories, we’d love to hear from you. Please reach out
to me at editor@marinarts.org.
Regards,
Pamela Coddington
MarinArts.org/uptake
editor@marinarts.org
Pamela Coddington is a writer and editor. Full disclosure: She is a big supporter of the arts in Marin County and has done work with Youth in Arts, Image Flow Photography Center, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Smith Andersen North, and Headlands Center for the Arts. Pamela is a graduate of New York University with a B.A. in Art History, and holds a post-baccalaureate degree in writing from U.C. Berkeley. Pamela lives and works in San Rafael with her family.