ARTitude Zine

ARTitude Zine is an award-winning independent magazine about art, craft and creativity. It was launched in 2001 by Suzanne Simanaitis and Helga Strauss, two friends who met via art swaps and shared a desire for a publication that would embrace and encourage creative people of all backgrounds. ARTitude Zine ceased to publish new issues in 2008, but the available back issues are loaded with timeless information that is still inspiring new readers to stop dreaming about it and go make some stuff!

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Limited supplies of most back issues are available for purchase at my Etsy shop. A few issues have already sold out! And they won’t be reprinted, so don’t miss the boat – order your set today.

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19_uipa_2005In 2004 and 2005, we were astonished and delighted to be nominated for UTNE Independent Press Awards alongside “real” magazines like BUST, Organic Gardening and Mother Jones – newsstand publications with actual budgets and staff and distribution channels! It still makes me giggle to think about it! I think this vote of confidence speaks volumes about the quality of our little zine and its talented contributing writers and artists.

Producing each issue was an adventure and a pleasure. ARTitude Zine may not be a handmade item, but it is full of useful how-to information that you can use today, and believe me, those of us behind the scenes poured ourselves into it – body, mind and soul, for seven wonderful years.

I hope you’ll enjoy reading this body of work, a true labor of love.

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