The Chart

2015–2022

The Chart was an online arts journal dedicated to tenderness, visibility, and urgency in arts writing. Through slow publishing from the edge of the continent, we supported critical artistic dialogue from the margins in the forms of online publishing, annual printed anthologies, and visiting critic programming.

We complemented efforts of other publications by covering material that could be perceived as challenging or invisible to other outlets, with the goals of creating shared language; recognizing deep connections across borders and cultures; celebrating diversity in thinking, ideas, and lived experiences; and honoring the relevance of regionally-specific participation in matters that we grapple with together as a nation.

The Chart was particularly interested in new scholarship on emerging artists, conversations that prioritize cultural care, and work of all kinds that is rigorous, generous, and which prefigures a more equitable art world.

The Chart has been archived in its entirety at Conifer, a project of Rhizome. You can view the site here. 

Thank you to all of our contributors over the years: Alana Dao, Alison Hildreth, Andrea Steves, Andy Johnson, Annika Earley, Asata Radcliffe, Ashleigh Burskey, Benjamin Spalding, Brian Doody, Bukola Koiki, Carolina González Valencia, Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo, Chris Stiegler, Clare Tyrrell-Morin, David Martínez, dayday, Douglas W. Milliken, Dylan Hausthor, Eden Osucha, Edwige Charlot, Eli Nixon, Ellen Y. Tani, Elyse Grams, Emily Jane Young, Erin Johnson, Frances Barker, Francois Hughes, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Gordon Hall, Graeme Kennedy, Grant Wahlquis, Helen Greenbriar, Hilary Irons, Ian Carlsen, Ikram Lakhdhar, Irina Skornyakova, Jacob Fall, Jacquelyn Gleisner, Jaime Gaiti, James McAnally, Jeffrey Ackerman, Jenn Corey, Jessica Lynne, Joshua Reiman, Julie Poitras Santos, Julien Langevin, Juliet Karelsen, Justin Levesque, Kathy Weinberg, Katie Vida, Lia Wilson, Mai Snow, Mariah Bergeron, Marques Bostic, Meg Hahn, Megan Grumbling, Meghan Brady, Myron M. Beasley, npilar, Nyanen Deng, Olivia Canny, olivier, Rose Linke, Shaun Leonardo, Skye Priestley, Theresa Secord, Veronica A. Peréz, Vivian Ewing, and Yulia Pinkusevich. 

Thank you to our visiting critics, Imani Roach, Andy Johnson, Jordan Amirkhani, Jacquelyn Gleisner, James McAnally, and Leah Triplett Harrington, and to our interns, Meg Hahn, olivier, Olivia Canny, and Julien Langevin. Julien was also the journal’s first (and only) staff writer.

And thank you, especially, to the arts communities in Maine and beyond who inspired this work, nourished it, and made it all possible. You really know how to show up, and I am ever and always grateful.