SKEW is an annual art + dialogue magazine produced by Level Ground.
This year’s issue features the work of Black artists across the diaspora around the curatorial theme Black Embodiment in all its expansiveness:
The physical, spiritual, tangible, and ethereal expressions. The values, obstacles, dreams, and fantasies that govern how we engage the act of embodiment In this reality and those yet discovered.
In this period of human experience, with governing societies ever insisting their false vision of Blackness is truth, we ask in this issue, how do you SKEW in the creation of you?
Our powers of embodiment are undeniably strong. So authentic and radiant that they are endlessly co-opted then cursed in the same breath. Yet still we slay.
SKEW is cooperatively owned by the Black contributors featured in each issue. This means that 100% of proceeds from SKEW sales and donations will go directly to support the Black artists who make up this year's SKEW community.
SKEW Magazine has expanded to include a printed publication and a digital hub for online conversations and multimedia art. Through the SKEW // Digital Hub (where you are now), you can engage conversations and and explore video, audio, and interactive art selected by the curatorial team – all from the comfort of your own home.
Level Ground is an award-winning artist collective and production incubator creating experiments in empathy.
Through organizing and creating with artists, Level Ground is committed to destabilizing oppressive social structures through art making, community building, and resource sharing.
We are a cooperatively-led organization committed to creating a cohesive, non-hierarchical community. We build solidarity through our mutual desires to be in right relationship with each other and the planet, and by fostering collaborations that celebrate our intersecting identities. We hope to inspire new ways of organizing public and private communities in the arts and beyond.
Every year we run 4 core programs and a variety of projects that support, sustain, and give access to multimedia artists across diverse platforms. You can check out most of our past work here.