AEA: About & Support
Here's a Quick Primer About This Project, Artica Ever After
This subsection of my larger Substack aims to tell (a part of) the story of Artica, an arts organization in St. Louis best known for a public festival long-held in an unlikely corner of the North Riverfront every fall; in 2024, the fest moved from north of the Gateway Arch to a location south of that landmark.
Of late, the organization’s also been offering more programming throughout the year, though the base of this project will focus on the annual festival, which has been running continuously since 2002; even during the pandemic-impacted year of 2020.
Artica’s mission is this: “Each year, Artica invites artists of all genres and media to honor this city's history, push creative boundaries, and engage their communities through interactive art at our annual riverfront festival. The multidisciplinary nature of Artica Festival inspires collaboration between artists and fosters the development of new, contemporary works of art. This free, unconventional art festival is the culmination of our efforts to promote the advancement of local artists year round.”
The project Artica Ever After is being curated and published by Thomas Crone, the assumed writer/interviewer of all the pieces here unless otherwise noted. Here’s what this site is and is not:
Artica Ever After was funded by Artica during the 2022 grant cycle, to the tune of $500.00, with an additional $35.00 grant at the end of the fiscal year. With that said…
Artica Ever After is a project fully executed by writer and publisher Thomas Crone. He offers any information on this site for the promotional, marketing, historical research and grant funding use of the Artica organization or interested researchers down the line, with the only proviso that research credit be given back to this page, Artica Ever After. Any editorial choices, errors of omissions to this page are those of Thomas, not Artica. (Please contact him at thomascrone314@gmail.)
Materials will be published here regularly, starting on August 7, 2023, two months prior to 2023’s festival, "On the Shoulders of Turtles All the Way Down.” This is a living document and additions and corrections will continue through the 2025 festival’s weekend.
By taking part, interview subjects agree to the above “open source” nature of this research. Other research (including links) is assumed to be in the public, fair use realm.
Lastly: though funded by the Artica organization to the amount noted above, this project has taken a considerable amount of time. If you value Artica and appreciate any of the information presented here, you can: a) subscribe to Thomas Crone’s Memory Hall; b) Buy Me a Coffee; c) you can send a tip directly via Venmo. Any contributions are very much appreciated and very much unexpected.
Enough backstory and legalese. Now head into the good stuff…