The whole world is a setting for art

Goat Palace is an art-documentary project by John Ellison based in Anacortes, Washington. Our mission is to photograph and write about creative humans, to showcase human ideas and their associated objects. We write about what we love (why bother writing about something you don’t like?). We blend the arts whenever possible, which is why you’ll see lots of photos, quotations, and even poetry.

Note to Photographers

We respect the intellectual property rights of all the artists we profile on Goat Palace. Our mission is to provide visibility to every creative we write about, including photographers. The “anchor art,” as well as the art we occasionally use within our stories, generally comes from five primary places: 1) Artists and/or their PR Representatives, 2) Shutterstock & Adobestock (two paid image suppliers), 3) Unsplash (a free-use image supplier), 4) Wiki Commons (a collection of freely usable media, with attribution), and more recently, from Canva (an app we use to generate our social-media materials as well as some of the footer art). For music, album/LP art (and some band photos) usually comes from Bandcamp and the artist’s record listing we’re profiling (always with permission). No photos are ever thoughtlessly taken from the Internet for use in Goat Palace. We also make every good-faith effort to use appropriate sources for our images, and to credit every musician and every photographer whenever possible.

Humanity is in a period of radical change, in our personal lives, in our communities, in our world. It’s important for everyone to know how hard it is for creatives to make their living from their art. It’s important to remain human. Be kind & stay safe.

photo credits
(where not otherwise credited)

“Old post office” / photograph by Tim Evans on Unsplash.com
“johne” / tintype photograph by Meghann Gilligan/The Tin Gypsy Program

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