The Arting Company

04/05/2026

04/05/2026

Christine Tyler Hill’s journey to mail-club moguldom started in late 2023 when she took the crossing-guard job and began uploading a regular “cloud report” to social media.

The designer and illustrator's early dispatches included photos of a handwritten thank you note from a child, a long-haired dachshund on a walk and snow falling on a corner store. Occasionally, she’d draw and share illustrations, such as of a crosswalk sign and a bald eagle she had spotted.

It wasn’t long before Hill realized she had a captive audience. If her updates became sporadic, followers would send her messages asking when the next post was coming.

Late last year, after her design work for environmental organizations began to dry up, Hill decided to step up her side gig. She had seen TikTok videos featuring young creatives who had started art-subscription businesses through the mail and wondered, “What if I did a mail club?”

In January, she posted a seven-second clip to TikTok: For $8 a month, she would send out an eight-page magazine with illustrations and observations from the intersection, her garage art studio and beyond.

Within a few days, it had hundreds of thousands of views and 1,000 people signed up. When Hill paused subscription orders, her wait list quickly grew to 3,600.

Now, the 36-year-old has parlayed interest in her daily musings into a one-woman publishing empire that is bringing in about $14,000 a month.

She's part of a small group of creative types who have found healthy demand for analog subscription services in a world of digital screens.

📫 Read more: https://on.wsj.com/4vad3BD

03/31/2026

Photos: In the 90's, Providence was home to an artist collective in a previously abandoned mill, called Fort Thunder. See link below ⬇️

📸 Bob Thayer/The Providence Journal

02/03/2026

Monastery Resident Artist Jyll Mullen is a talented visual artist whose abstract landscapes are shaped by the desert, sea and the places she’s walked. Her work layers color and texture in ways that echo memory emotion and connection to land and community. You can visit her micro gallery inside The Monastery, see finished pieces available for purchase and see works in progress right in her studio space.

📍 Peoria Arts District in Downtown Peoria
🗓 Saturday, February 14th
⏰ 4 to 8pm
Plan your visit at https://www.peorias2ndsaturdays.com/

01/22/2026

01/14/2026

At a certain stage, the question is no longer whether the work is good.

It is practical. What belongs in the series and what does not. How the work should be shown. What to say yes to and what to leave behind.

This is often the point where artists feel stuck not creatively, but strategically. The work is there, but the structure around it is missing.

If this is where you are now, it may be time to work with a curator.

I am here when you are ready.


Art: Jana Kunzler

01/13/2026

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