We Pause

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

We pause to listen. To learn. To honor. To reset, and recommit.

We pause to ensure that we:

• Strengthen the social justice work that we do through our programs and our founding commitment to serve and support the exploration of creativity in all forms.

• Support the voices and the work of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Disabled, LGBTQIA+, and Women artists and thinkers so that they are seen, read, and heard.

• Reflect on and challenge the assumptions and material realities that shape our mission.

• Create networks of collaboration and creativity based on respect, equity, and safety.

Craigardan remains committed to fostering a sense of place and welcome, beginning with the pages of our new interdisciplinary arts publication, The Gardan. As we continue to reflect and learn as individuals and as an organization, we hope the journal will become a creative space made of your work, your voices, your stories.

We are excited to share with you Issue 02 of The Gardan. And we are excited to reopen lines of communication after a deliberate two-month pause to conduct an internal antiracism audit and to identify the areas where we can do better.

Issue 02 is a CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, and dedicated only to that purpose.  Please consider this a template, an invitation, to converse and collaborate in The Gardan.