KCMO Up Next!

We are thrilled to announce the selection of Kansas City, MO as the subject for Outpost #3!! Help support and pre-order the issue here: kck.st/outpostKCMO

Many thanks to our local partners, including: The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, The Studios Inc., William T. Kemper Foundation - Commerce Bank, Trustee, The Convention and Visitors Association of Kansas City, The Municipal Art Commission of Kansas City, Suzie Aron & The Crossroads Community Association, Colby Smith and James Reed, and Rachael Cozad Fine Art.

About Outpost

Outpost Journal is an annual, non-profit print publication on innovative art, design and community action from cities (or cities within cities) that have been traditionally underexposed beyond their local contexts. Each lovingly produced issue of Outpost focuses on illuminating a hyper-local arts ecology via photography, design and creative additions (such as limited edition screen prints and special inserts) that vary by issue, as well as a guide to where to find the best art in town and where to eat and drink while you’re at it. In each issue, we’ll take you on a journey into the creative heart of a place, exposing the various ways in which unique local communities arise through creative collaboration and production. Where you live shouldn't have to determine whether your work is relevant to an (inter)-national audience. Via features like Secretly Famous, engagements with tourist attractions, historical explorations, mapping projects, and deep dives into artist collectives and
organizations, Outpost plans to do its part to expose less widely known creative culture.

Outpost reaches its intentionally diverse group of readers with stories of underexposed culture through word of mouth, social media, and strategic distribution at independent bookstores and museum shops nationwide (and a few overseas). If you or your organization want to get involved by helping to sponsor our project, please send us a note and we'll get you a sponsorship kit.

Email: info@outpostjournal.org

Write: Outpost Journal
532 Kinsley Avenue, Unit 501
Providence RI 02909

Selected Outpost Mentions

(Or download a selection of full articles from our Press Pack)

"Although the focus is hyper-local, we believe the appeal is unquestionably universal."
— Kickstarter

“We love New York, London and Paris as much as the next big city slicker, but the 20th time you read an article about a new bakery on Ludlow Street, it can start to feel like the smaller cities are being overlooked.... Outpost Journal hopes to right this wrong.... They don't cover everything you'd expect but instead dig up great local stories you'd never imagine.”
— Smith Journal, Austrailian Men's Magazine

"It's a maximalist, more-is-more approach that's refreshing when compared with the slew of pared-down titles on the market....It all gives the impression of a journal bursting with content and ideas, conferring the same energy on the under-rated cities Outpost Journal explores"
— The British Journal of Photography, Selected Outpost as one of four "Best New Magazines" in 2012

“It’s a cracking idea... each issue focuses on the community-based creativity taking place in an otherwise-overlooked city in the USA. There is, it turns out, life beyond Brooklyn and San Francisco.”
— Magtastic Blogsplosion

Selected Press For Mr. Rogers Project:

“It’s a bit warm for sweaters, but last weekend the Mr. Rogers statue along the North Shore suited up in new red cardigan, courtesy of a brand new cultural magazine called Outpost Journal.....The sweater was placed on the commemorative statue of Fred Rogers, near Heinz Field, on Saturday July 16.....The giant red cardigan was crocheted by local crafter Alicia Kachmar, who wrote on her blog that she was “pretty much born” to make a larger-than-life sweater for Mr. Rogers.”
— The Northside Chronicle, Pittsburgh PA

“Some of the best yarn bombs I’ve seen recently”
— Groupon UK

Outpost Store

Issue #1 (Pittsburgh), Issue #2 (Baltimore), totes, beer kozies and screen prints.

Outpost is also available for sale at the following locations (click below to scroll through):

ARIZONA
Crescent Tobacco Shop, Tucson

CALIFORNIA
Newsbeat, Davis
Daily Planet Books, Hollywood
Opening Ceremony, Los Angeles
Family, Los Angeles
LACMA, Los Angeles
Otherwild, Los Angeles
Farley's East, Oakland
Issues Shop, Oakland
Newsbeat, Sacramento
Paras News, San Diego
Aardvark Books, San Francisco
Farley's West, San Francisco
RVCA/Family Books, San Francisco
Press: Works on Paper, San Francisco
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco

COLORADO
Tattered Cover Books, Denver
Magpies Newsstand Cafe, Durango

CONNECTICUT
News Haven, New Haven
The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield

FLORIDA
Bob's News & Books, Fort Lauderdale

ILLINOIS
Book Corner, Bloomington
Chicago City Newsstand, Chicago
Quimby's Books, Chicago
Chicago-Main Newsstand, Evanston
Prairie Lights, Iowa City

MAINE
The Portland Museum of Art Shop, Portland

MARYLAND
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Normal's, Baltimore
Atomic Books, Baltimore

MASSACHUSETTS
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Red Lion Smoke Shop, Salem
Newsbreak, Swansea

NORTH CAROLINA
Downtown Books & News, Asheville
Regular Bookshop, Durham

NEW MEXICO
Page One, Albuquerque

NEW YORK
ASH Home, Brooklyn
Bedford Exotics, Brooklyn
BookCourt, Brooklyn
Desert Island, Brooklyn
Marlow & Sons, Brooklyn
Pratt Institute Store, Brooklyn
The Homefront Gallery, Long Island City
MoMA PS1, Long Island City
Amigo Mini Mart, NYC
Around the World, NYC
B&B News, NYC
BJ Magazines, NYC
Bluestockings, NYC
Bookculture, NYC
First Choice News, NYC
Global News., NYC
Hudson Square News, NYC
Lafayette Smoke Shop, NYC
Magazine Cafe, NYC
McNally Jackson Books, NYC
Other Music, NYC
Opening Ceremony, NYC
Opening Ceremony at The Ace Hotel, NYC
Printed Matter, NYC
Shami Smoke & Magazine, NYC
Soho News International, NYC
St. Marks Bookshop, NYC
Times Square News, NYC
Union Square Magazine Shop, NYC

OHIO
Little Professor Books, Athens
Cincinnati Fountain Square News, Cincinnati
Bank News, Cleveland

OREGON
Reading Frenzy, Portland

PENNSYLVANIA
The Mattress Factory Shop, Pittsburgh
The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
WildCard, Pittsburgh
Avril So, Philadelphia
Chester County Book, West Chester

RHODE ISLAND
Milk and Cookies Gallery, Providence
The RISD Store, Providence
ADA Books, Providence

TEXAS
AAA News Inc, Austin

WASHINGTON DC
Capital News Room

WISCONSIN
University Book Store, Madison

ONTARIO, CANADA
Mags & Fags, Ottawa

ARGENTINA
Pan Libros, Buenos Aires

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
Mag Nation Stores—Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland

THE INTERNET
Textfield
Tiny Showcase
American Design Club
Mag Nation

Outpost Donations

Outpost is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. We are in need of support for operational expenses, printing costs and to help fund unique site-specific installations for each issue. To make a tax-deductible donation, please make out a check to Outpost Journal and send via post, or donate online via the Paypal button below.

Or send a check to us via snail mail at:

Outpost Journal
532 Kinsley Avenue, Unit 501
Providence, RI 02909