The Jaguar Athenaeum

In case you haven’t heard…WE ARE ON THE NEWS! Watch The Jaguar Athenaeum’s founder and CEO Lillian Brumback take on a five minute interview on My Carolina, CBS-17 to discuss our first publication launch, the scope of the Athenaeum, how we help, and where we plan to go in the future from here. Want to read the issue? See exclusive behind the scenes footage? What about find local events, nationwide scholarships, and all sorts of other resources? Are you a business that’s looking at hiring teen artists? Check out our website at https://lnkd.in/eEBUiDxQ! Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/ev_qtPgi 

Today was the The Jaguar Athenaeum’s first meeting of the 2024-2025 school year! We welcomed back our senior staff to prepare for new recruits and we inducted our new members who were accepted for their applications during the Issue 01 cycle last year. Beyond housekeeping we are already beginning the process of creating Issue 02 of The Jaguar Athenaeum! (Plus a dance party and cookies because duh!)

We are thrilled to introduce Alys Traylor as the new co-president of The Jaguar Athenaeum. Alys was an amazing VP last year and guided our team greatly through Issue 01. With her thoughtful, caring, and fun personality, we are beyond excited that she will be joining us this year again as our co-president. Along with our founder and president Lillian Brumback, Alys will help manage teams, deadlines, and events, as well as learn her own method of leadership and share her brilliant ingenuity. We’re so glad to have you, Alys! 🥳🥳🎉🎉👏👏

𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝟎𝟏: 𝐒𝐨 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭? 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 is OUT! Featuring a zine style with cut-and-pasted elements done by hand before being scanned in, this issue is ready to go with you everywhere. Our focus was on curating a guidebook about what to do artistically once school is out, and we delivered. For this release we decided to change it up a bit. The digital version won’t be published until we give out, for FREE, the remaining 40+ hard copies. Want your own? Start looking around town to see where they’re hiding… Not in town? Not a problem! The digital version will be available soon. Keep an eye out, and go make some art!

Our website is LIVE. Read the Athenaeum FREE at https://lnkd.in/e26m9vhu

Sorry for the delay everybody! Due to some unforeseen issues, our staff was unable to post the digital version today. Our hope is to have it up by tommorow. We apologize for the inconvenience.

IT’S HERE!!!!!! Special thanks to my mom, Melissa Dewey Brumback for hand delivering the package to school! It looks AMAZING! Now I just have to sit and stare at it until distribution… wish me luck! Those of you awaiting the internet version, the launch time will be this evening.

COVER REVEAL!!! The Jaguar Athenaeum is avalible TOMMOROW, January 11th… If you think our cover looks amazing, comment, like, or repost so aspiring artists can use the Athenaeum to achieve their dreams! Pictured: Lillian Brumback, founder of the Athenaeum holds the sample copy; Lillian Brumback awaits sample print

We are extremely excited to announce the publication of our pilot publication, Issue 00: New Beginnings. Our team has been hard at work building industry-standard publication materials to aid youth artists for their professional careers. Join us in celebration as we release, both online and (for our local Carrboro High students) in-person, this Thursday, January 11th!