FREELANCE COPYWRITER, ART & CULTURE
Friendly, MD (Remote)
Posted 3 weeks ago
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Job Summary
Own end-to-end copy for art and culture projects across social, web, and email, guiding tone, editorial input, and brand voice while coordinating with remote teams.
- Develop storyboards and copy for social, web, email, and exhibitions;
- Collaborate with account managers, designers, and editors;
- Ensure brand voice and cultural fluency across channels.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Write and refine storyboards and copy for organic and paid social media, web pages, email newsletters, artist profiles, exhibition descriptions, and digital ads, including shortform video.
- Adapt tone and style across institutional, editorial, and social contexts for a range of art and culture clients.
- Support editorial production, including contributing to article drafts, interview edits, and feature writing as needed.
- Incorporate feedback from account managers, designers, and clients efficiently through multiple revision rounds.
- Maintain brand voice consistency and uphold high standards for clarity, accuracy, and cultural fluency.
- Assist with CMS publishing and quality control as needed.
Requirements
- 2+ years of professional copywriting experience, with a portfolio demonstrating art, culture, or related field work.
- Deep familiarity with contemporary art and cultural discourse; comfortable writing for both specialist and general audiences.
- Experience writing for digital channels including social, email, and web.
- Strong editing skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to work quickly, manage deadlines, and communicate proactively with a remote team.
- Familiarity with Figma, Google Presentation, Claude, CMS platforms, Notion, or Basecamp a plus.
Digital Counsel
Digital Counsel is a New York creative agency founded by experts in the fields of contemporary art and media. We provide advertising by artists. Our services encompass digital marketing strategy, content creation, including editorial and artist commissions, social media management, paid media advertising, and guerilla marketing. We also offer branding, website design, and full stack development. Select clients include Hyundai Artlab, Rockefeller Center, Harmony Korine’s EDGLRD, The Armory Show, Aspen Ideas: Climate, a partnership between the City of Miami Beach and the Aspen Institute, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA).We are the first official affiliate of Cultural Counsel, the “big tent” (Vanity Fair) communications firm that provides media strategy for the world’s top institutions, art organizations, and brands, including A24, Mellon Foundation, and Times Square Arts. Together, our sister companies bring an innate understanding of trends and cultural themes sharpened by decades of working in the art world.As a social-first firm led by artists, we understand the nuanced distinctions within the contemporary art world—as well as an instinctual plan to communicate key narratives to the wider public. We deliver premium services designed to amplify earned media, as well as a full suite of advertising and digital marketing tools.
