August Moods: Or, Some Important Updates from Studio for Tomorrow

Hello, you.

I’m writing with an important update about Studio for Tomorrow…

I unintentionally took the month of August off. It was lovely and it was my birthday and I got a new dog who is the darling of my eye and I rested and caught up with beloved friends and I worked on the book that I am supposedly writing and I have no regrets about it, except that I’ve failed YOU, my kind and patient supporters. I’ve been thinking about this and how to solve my feelings of guilt while also expressing to you my extreme gratitude for your kindness as you wait for a new August issue of S4T that never arrived, and I’ve come up with a plan…

August moods with Zadie Pancakes in the desert.

I am extending all subscriptions to free, for the next several months! See below for how this affects your subscription:

If you have a free subscription (2 newsletters a month), I am changing your subscription to a full subscription (approximately 4 newsletters a month and maybe a video or two) effective from today until the end of the year. (If you prefer to only receive two newsletters a month still and don’t want the extra email, feel free to send me a quick email at ella@lauraagosto.com and let me know!).

If you have a paid monthly subscription, I am changing your monthly fee to $0 until the end of the year, and you will continue to get all of the newsletters, as per usual.

If you have a paid annual subscription, I am extending your subscription for free to add another four months past its current expiration date.

If you are one of my founding members, you already have a lifetime subscription and my eternal gratitude, but I’ll also send you a little extra gift (and hopefully also the other subscription gifts that I’ve promised you) in the next four months.

You will see these changes take effect in the next couple of days - you might get an email from Substack updating your subscription - please know that this is the transition to the free version, not an appeal for you to pay more or again. I am so grateful for all of your support of this newsletter, which was one of my primary sources of income when it started last fall. Your support buoyed my spirits and helped me pay the bills. I am so deeply grateful.

As always, if you realize that this newsletter no longer serves your needs, the unsubscribe options should be fairly straightforward, below. My feelings won’t be hurt (because I never look to see who has unsubscribed, since I want to continue to not have my feelings hurt). Please do what is best for you, at this moment. I am grateful that you’ve found me here and read some of my words & I wish you all good things.

If you think this is a perfect time to share the newsletter with a friend or colleague, all new subscriptions will also be free through the end of the year. Thank you for sharing this work with others.

And now, forward, and on to other things… I’ll be back in your inbox, soon!

with gratitude,

LA

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Laura August, PhD makes essays and exhibitions, lumpy pots and wild gardens. She has curated more than 20 exhibitions as an independent curator working between the U.S. and Central America. In 2021, she was named an inaugural Mellon Arts + Practitioner Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, and her writing about contemporary art in Guatemala City has been recognized with an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Alongside her consulting practice for artists and writers, she teaches a process, practice, and professional strategies class for artists at the Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She currently makes her home on the edge of the Chihuahua Desert, and she is the first full-time Curator at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at The University of Texas at El Paso.