ArtsEditor develops and publishes original feature-length articles, opinion pieces, and news items through independent arts reporting, reviewing, and relevant discourse(sm), in the areas of visual, performing, literary, film, and musical arts. Our primary emphasis is on Boston, its surrounding communities, and throughout New England, with interest in New York City as well. We seek to provide our readers access to an extensive range of activities within the arts through a contemporary publication.

ArtsEditor not only brings the arts to the people of this region, but seeks to develop initiatives for a global audience. A significant component in further developing ArtsEditor is to establish editions of the publication in other cities, using the Boston edition as the founding example.

ArtsEditor distinguishes itself not only through high quality writing, but also its approach to the online medium. Digital technology has already dismantled significant boundaries between creation and criticism. The Internet offers an ideal forum for the development of a new form of participatory readership that inserts both critic and audience into the creative process. ArtsEditor aims to preserve the implicit strengths of an educated, authoritative voice, while lending itself to the fluidity of an open medium with fewer physical, personal, or geographic constraints.

ArtsEditor is organized on the premise that the arts influence people. We aim to offer a view of the arts that transcends any one discipline, and in effect provide a means of accessing the arts.


S. Edward Burns, Founding Editor and Publisher

Edward, originally from Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He also has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, and he received a Master of Science in Arts Administration from Boston University. His master's coursework included studies of nonprofits, art law and cultural policy, galleries, museum operations, public affairs, fundraising initiatives, and community arts. Edward founded ArtsEditor in 1999.

Jeremy Perkins, Interactive Designer and Co-founder

Jeremy graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in graphic design. For eight years, Jeremy worked full-time at G2G, a Massachusetts-based new media company, as Interactive Designer. In June 2006, he moved to a position at iFactory in downtown Boston. He has designed Web sites, CD-ROMs, and touch-screen kiosks for a range of clients in higher education, publishing, architecture, and the arts. And he has also collaborated extensively on ArtsEditor since its premiere.

Paul Jump, Editor-at-Large

Paul is a graduate of Oxford University, England, with a BPhil in Philosophy. He also attended Edinburgh University, Scotland, obtaining an M.A. in Philosophy. He now works as a journalist for the magazine Third Sector, having previously freelanced at Guardian Unlimited. He also writes fiction in his spare time. His association with ArtsEditor began in 2001, when he arrived in Boston. Three years later he moved back to London, and has continued to write and edit regularly for the publication.

Christopher Graffeo, Associate Editor

Christopher completed his Bachelor of the Arts at the University of Virginia, where he graduated with high distinction in American Studies and English Literature. His undergraduate thesis took up critical theory and 20th Century art history to explore the deployment of new creative and analytical forms on the Internet. He currently resides in New York City, where he has begun a post-baccalaureate curriculum studying medicine and philosophy at Columbia University. Christopher began contributing to ArtsEditor in 2006.

contributing writers

ArtsEditor seeks contributing writers and editors on a regular basis who possess the ability to meet deadlines and to question, reason, and reach independent conclusions through lively, expressive, rigorous prose. Prospective contributors should send via the postal mail a letter of introduction, including a current resume, two writing samples, and three references to: S. Edward Burns, Founding Editor and Publisher.