Hum journal is a publication designed to share and archive the creative work of artists of all mediums in the Greater Boston Area. A small print publication that expands on its content and impact through an internet presence, we hope Hum will further facilitate and expose a culture of beauty-production and creative camaraderie in Boston. Less of an outlet and more of an adhesive, HUM intends to bond together artists and writers from diverse backgrounds and influences.

Each issue will be curated by Anna Leocha and Holly Copeland -- two great friends, humble art enthusiasts, and New England natives. Anna and Holly have been living in Boston for 1.5 years, beginning their residency in an East Boston basement apartment and currently sharing a space in the canopies of Jamaica Plain. Over the past year and a half, they've met a lot of talented individuals and were inspired to start the journal as a way of compiling, archiving, and sharing the work they loved to look at.

A website has been built to make the journal accesible and easily transmitted across a wide audience. Still, producing a small print run of the journal is essential to their project, both aesthetically and ethically. Duh, paper is expensive. But we are dedicated to the survival of printed matter and to the integrity of the material, tangible journal.

This is where we need your help!!!

We hope to make Hum a quarterly journal and we need to raise money to offset the printing costs of issue (I) and issue (II). The goal is to print at least 300 copies of each issue. We don't have the money to fund this project out of our own pockets, so we're counting on the generosity of others to help make this possible. We plan to be as transparent as possible with the donations we collect so that contributors will know exactly where their money is going.

For now, this is going to be a free publication. For now, we do not want to ask for the support of advertisers.

The goal is to print and distribute Hum by the end of the month of August. We will have a launch party to celebrate & inaugurate the journal, complete with music & dancing & hopefully balloons. We feel we've asked for the bare minimum funding goal, but any extra money we have will go towards subsidizing the costs of the launch party: bands, drinks, cover fees, etc. We'd also like to reimburse our awesome web developer who has put in so much time (unpaid!) over the past couple of months getting the site up!

Check it out: humboston.com

Thanks for visiting our Kickstarter. Your support means the whole wide world to us!

<3 Hum