What Is Neo-Patronage?
The definition of neo-patronage found at my colleague Kristopher Young’s site, Another Sky Press is so clear, it’s Google’s number one search result for the term. You should check that out, and you should buy books from Another Sky Press. I’m going to lift mightily from what Kris and company have already said, with my own take mixed in: Neo-patronage is the practice of compensating an artist for works they’ve created and works they’ve yet to create. Through direct and easily executed payment methods made possible by PayPal and other systems, it’s simple and affordable for many individuals to contribute small amounts to the support of an artist’s creative endeavors. Unlike the classic one-to-one patronage of the Renaissance, under the neo-patronage many-to-one model patrons do not have control of an artist’s creative direction or the automatic right to ownership of everything the artist creates. I’ve played with this in the past, but soon I’ll be rolling some things out on this site to
