  The Magazine of Culture and Community
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 Arts Council of the Central Okanagan 8-1304 Ellis Street Kelowna BC Canada V1Y 1Z8 Email: Click Here. Elke Lange, Executive Director Telephone: 250.861-4123 Copublished by Wheat King Publishing Jeff Pexa, President Telephone: 250.491.0169 Produced in association with Okanagan Bookworks
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OUR EDITORIAL AIMS AND SCOPE
Okanagan Arts is a magazine for people who are actively engaged with the arts. Our mandate is to provide the Okanagan arts audience with information, ideas and images that will increase their knowledge of and passion for the arts and the artists who create, teach, support, nurture and perform it.Okanagan Arts is a forum for artists and others interested in works that cross the often artificial boundaries separating arts disciplines. Featuring illustrated articles written by artists about their own work as well as articles by journalists, historians, teachers, academics and researchers, the magazine is particularly concerned with issues related to the interaction of the arts with the community.
Okanagan Arts focuses on the literary, visual, music, video, performance, digital, language, environmental and conceptual arts - especially as they relate to contemporary practice. We examine the historical and social context of art, and its impact on the life of our community. We investigate how artists make use of tools, materials, ideas and technology. Emerging concepts, materials, trends and techniques and other subjects of general artistic interest are covered, as are the practical, legal, economic and political aspects of art in society.
OUR AUDIENCE
Okanagan Arts primary audience is twofold: contemporary artists of all disciplines, and arts enthusiasts.
Arts practitioners will comprise a significant portion of our readership. We take a broad definition of the arts, and include visual, literary, performing, graphic, digital, and support artists among our audience. We also include teachers, librarians, curators and culinary artists, all of whose contributions to the culture of our community is often under-represented.
Enthusiast readers are primarily college-educated, age 35-plus, comfortable (if not affluent) residents and visitors with the means to collect art and craft, participate in a wide range of cultural activities (visit galleries and museums, read literary works, attend performances and lectures, etc.), and in some cases participate in art-making themselves in pursuit of their passions.
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