''Art Practical'' is an online arts

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based in San Francisco producing arts criticism, essays, quarterly issues, and programming related to contemporary art and visual culture in the Bay Area and beyond.

History

The magazine was established in 2009 by Patricia Maloney, who served as director and editor-in-chief until 2015. In 2013, the publication acquired and incorporated the events website Happenstand and the arts publication ''Daily Serving'', which maintained its independent site with Maloney as director. Beginning in 2015, the

California College of the Arts The California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996, it opened a second campus in ...

became the publisher of ''Art Practical'' and ''Daily Serving'' with Maloney transitioning to executive director and with Kara Q. Smith and Bean Gilsdorf, respectively, as

editors-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ...

. In March 2015, Maloney resigned and took the position of executive director of ''Southern Exposure''. Michele Carlson was named as the new executive director in May 2016.

Publication

The magazine has produced over 1,000 reviews, hundreds of columns, and more than a dozen thematic issues organized by staff and guest editors. The publication also hosts a user-submitted events calendar for arts and cultural events in the

San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a List of regions of California, region of California surrounding and including San Francisco Bay, and anchored by the cities of Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose, California, S ...

Programming

The magazine has organized programming and partnered with numerous organizations including

The Lab The Lab (formerly Co-LAB) is a not-for-profit arts organization, performance space, and artist residency located in the Redstone Building in San Francisco's Mission District. Since 1984, The Lab has hosted performances and projects by artists i ...

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art, modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art ...

, Ratio 3, and the Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium. The publication was awarded a residency in 2011 in Kansas City via the Charlotte Street Foundation and

Spencer Museum of Art The Spencer Museum of Art is an art museum operated by the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. History In 1917, the Kansas City art collector Sallie Casey Thayer donated her collection of over seven thousand works of art, ...

and a residency in 2012 in Miami via Cannonball (formerly Legal Art Miami). From 2013-2016, the magazine co-sponsored an artist residency with the

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a multi-disciplinary Contemporary art, contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States. Located in Yerba Buena Gardens, YBCA features visual art, performance, and film/video that cel ...

. The recipients of the three residencies were Chris Vargas (2013), Nomi Talisman and Dee Hilbert-Jones (2014), and Jerome Reyes (2016).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Art Practical Contemporary art magazines Magazines established in 2009 Magazines published in the San Francisco Bay Area Online magazines published in the United States Visual arts magazines published in the United States