Lee Snelgrove
@leesnelgrove.bsky.social
Arts administrator, Columbia flag guy, lover of public spaces
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They literally ruin everything they touch
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They literally ruin everything they touch
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I've said it elsewhere, but if you're a young organization in the South that meets the eligibility criteria for the new literary fund (budget over $50k) but has not yet gained 501(c)(3) status, @hubcitypress.bsky.social might be able to serve as your fiscal sponsor.
www.mellon.org/news/coaliti...
www.mellon.org/news/coaliti...
Coalition Launches Historic $50 Million Initiative to Bolster Nonprofit Literary Arts
New fund is dedicated to strengthening the field, advancing support for creative writers and ensuring their contributions to American literature for generations to come.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I've said it elsewhere, but if you're a young organization in the South that meets the eligibility criteria for the new literary fund (budget over $50k) but has not yet gained 501(c)(3) status, @hubcitypress.bsky.social might be able to serve as your fiscal sponsor.
www.mellon.org/news/coaliti...
www.mellon.org/news/coaliti...
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I had the latest entry in the Communities in Transition series for @thestate.com. We took a look at Rosewood, the classic Columbia neighborhood that is working to retain its charm amid broader growth and change across the city and region. Tracy Glantz shot the pics.
One of Columbia’s ‘best kept secrets.’ Can Rosewood sustain charm amid growth?
The classic Columbia neighborhood looks to guard its charm amid broader growth across the city and seemingly inevitable change in the region.
www.thestate.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I had the latest entry in the Communities in Transition series for @thestate.com. We took a look at Rosewood, the classic Columbia neighborhood that is working to retain its charm amid broader growth and change across the city and region. Tracy Glantz shot the pics.
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
October 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
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when was the last time you heard someone mention NFTs?
gotta remember to savor these little things
gotta remember to savor these little things
October 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
when was the last time you heard someone mention NFTs?
gotta remember to savor these little things
gotta remember to savor these little things
Public art is never permanent as long as people don’t continuously value the pieces and the reasons they were created in the first place. Even the odd and complicated pieces deserve love. (Gift Article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/a...
San Francisco Wants to Destroy a 96-Year-Old’s Defining Artwork
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Public art is never permanent as long as people don’t continuously value the pieces and the reasons they were created in the first place. Even the odd and complicated pieces deserve love. (Gift Article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/a...
One of my favorite parts of author visits is the Richland Library "Off Book" recording. Here's the most recent one with @silviamg.bsky.social. We still want to know what @sgj.bsky.social thinks about his cameo in The Bewitching! youtu.be/EtL31zGFZhw?...
OFF BOOK: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
YouTube video by Richland Library
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October 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
One of my favorite parts of author visits is the Richland Library "Off Book" recording. Here's the most recent one with @silviamg.bsky.social. We still want to know what @sgj.bsky.social thinks about his cameo in The Bewitching! youtu.be/EtL31zGFZhw?...
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
What is happening? This is all posted by @thestate.com in the last five days.
September 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
What is happening? This is all posted by @thestate.com in the last five days.
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this is truly an era of blather and balderdash. we are up to our eyeballs in claptrap and i for one have had just about my fill
September 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
this is truly an era of blather and balderdash. we are up to our eyeballs in claptrap and i for one have had just about my fill
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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“Busted Plug” was found in a field. Hunter-Gatherer and its mural were knocked down. How do these losses impact Columbia’s push to build identity with public art?
‘Victims of changes’: Why Columbia public art gets taken down, painted over
“Busted Plug” was found in a field. Hunter-Gatherer and its mural were knocked down. How do these losses impact Columbia’s push to build identity with public art?
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August 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
“Busted Plug” was found in a field. Hunter-Gatherer and its mural were knocked down. How do these losses impact Columbia’s push to build identity with public art?
“'Columbia has a lot of talented artists,..performers, musicians...But when somebody rolls into town from another place, they will see public art, and they’ll say, ‘This is a creative place,’ and they’ll know that there are going to be lots of artists of all types in that place.'"
via @thestate.com
via @thestate.com
‘Victims of changes’: Why Columbia public art gets taken down, painted over
“Busted Plug” was found in a field. Hunter-Gatherer and its mural were knocked down. How do these losses impact Columbia’s push to build identity with public art?
www.thestate.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“'Columbia has a lot of talented artists,..performers, musicians...But when somebody rolls into town from another place, they will see public art, and they’ll say, ‘This is a creative place,’ and they’ll know that there are going to be lots of artists of all types in that place.'"
via @thestate.com
via @thestate.com
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A 90-minute video of making a batch of woodblock prints “from blank paper to finished print” from the printer’s POV. Relaxing & ASMR-adjacent. [youtube.com]
Any Sufficiently Archaic Technology is Indistinguishable from Magic
In this video, Tokyo-based printmaker Dave Bull shows the entire process of making a batch of woodblock prints from blank paper to finished print - in PPOV style (Printer’s Point Of View) - with each of the impressions happening in an uncut, unedited, uninterrupted flow, of ten sheets per colour. Th
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August 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A 90-minute video of making a batch of woodblock prints “from blank paper to finished print” from the printer’s POV. Relaxing & ASMR-adjacent. [youtube.com]
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A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online. That’s roughly a book a week. The list runs over 100 pages and he checked most of the books out of the local library. [openculture.com]
A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online
Dan Pelzer died earlier this year at the age of 92, leaving behind a handwritten list of all the books he’d read since 1962. His family had it digitized, put it online, and now it’s gone viral, somewhat to the surprise of those of us who’d never heard of him before.
www.openculture.com
August 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online. That’s roughly a book a week. The list runs over 100 pages and he checked most of the books out of the local library. [openculture.com]
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dawg how has it gotten WORSE
August 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
dawg how has it gotten WORSE
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But do we really know for sure how many bs there are in blueberry?
August 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
But do we really know for sure how many bs there are in blueberry?
I really enjoy the times I get to sit and ask a list of oddball questions to esteemed visitors to Richland Library for the Off Book series. Most recently, Elizabeth Rusch visited and talked about falling into ticks and her favorite USWNT players - youtu.be/_FKW55sLZuA?...
OFF BOOK: Elizabeth Rusch
YouTube video by Richland Library
youtu.be
August 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I really enjoy the times I get to sit and ask a list of oddball questions to esteemed visitors to Richland Library for the Off Book series. Most recently, Elizabeth Rusch visited and talked about falling into ticks and her favorite USWNT players - youtu.be/_FKW55sLZuA?...
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Mailing a regular letter a distance of 40 miles in VT now takes 10-13 days (routed through CT for "efficiency") if you're wondering how basic services are doing under this regime. Another great American institution strangled by conservatives.
July 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Mailing a regular letter a distance of 40 miles in VT now takes 10-13 days (routed through CT for "efficiency") if you're wondering how basic services are doing under this regime. Another great American institution strangled by conservatives.