It has been a dream of writer Jean Bartlett and pianist-composer Seth Montfort to be part of a solution to offer talented artists and creative thinkers a forum for their voices.  This inspired website, which includes nine Web magazines, is the result of that dream.  Jean’s Magazines is devoted to providing the creative individual with the media attention needed to open the gates to deserved financial success.

The home page has:
 
         Ink Notes ~ reviews of artists performing primarily in Pacifica, CA.
      
        
BAASO (Bay Area Artists Sing Out) ~ interviews with San Francisco Bay Area musicians, painters, sculptors, photographers, poets, comics; essentially interviews with individuals who excel in their field(s) of art.  The purpose of these interviews is to allow the public and the owners of theaters, galleries and stages – a visible source to become acquainted with incredibly gifted artists. (This is a fee-based part of the website and it is by recommendation via your work samples, Ms. Bartlett’s familiarity with your work and/or by other artist recommendation.  Ms. Bartlett can be contacted at: editor@jeansmagazines.org.)
    
 
        
VISIONARY ~ interviews with architects, scientists, physicians, environmentalists, business men and women who see a world enriched by the powerful pursuit of a dream.  (This is a fee-based part of the website and it is by recommendation via your work samples, Ms. Bartlett’s familiarity with your work and/or by other visionary recommendation.  Ms. Bartlett can be contacted at: editor@jeansmagazines.org.)
    
 
Then, the link More... on the side bar leads to:
 
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Six online magazines offer serious, thoughtful reviews to artists performing in Bay Area venues.
 
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Aliens Made Me Play Gershwin ~ Concert pianist Seth Montfort writes witty, giddy, always brilliant and as necessary outrageous personal essays on just what are people thinking, or not, regarding classical musicians and/or the arts.


Jean Bartlett is the Arts Correspondent for the Pacifica Tribune.  Since 2000, Jean has written over 600 articles for this weekly paper and has had the good fortune to review and/or interview hundreds of locally and internationally famous and diverse artists, inventors and in all cases, creative thinkers.

Bartlett is also a produced playwright (American Conservatory Theater’s Young Conservatory, Barefoot Play Readers Repertory Theater, Richard’s Backyard Theater), an award winning children’s book author (IndiAsia And The Dragon), has written for Hallmark Cards, Inc., the Pacifica School District and has worked as a Bay Area lyricist/melody writer. In addition, she is a regular contributor to the San Mateo County Times, the Oakland Tribune and Bay Area Business Woman News Magazine.  She also works as a private biographer.

A long-time advocate for the arts, Ms. Bartlett thoroughly understands how difficult it is for an artist to receive press coverage.  Newspapers can only devote so much space to so few concerts and/or artists.  Audience size does not reflect the skills of the performer.  Seth Montfort, the founder and artistic director of The San Francisco Concerto Orchestra and International Competitions for Musicians, http://www.sfconcerto.org/, has made it his personal mission to share the joy of beautiful music with anyone willing to listen.

We hope that as you scroll through the pages of our website you will discover a treasure of significant artist and visionary voices; including your own.