Senior member of 36 Arts Shoshi Altman said for the club’s goals, the magazine format has become obsolete and proved difficult to manage in past years.

“We’re a club that’s a literary club magazine, but in years past we’ve had to spend a lot of money on making the magazine part of the club. Every year we’ve had to apply to scholarships and we never wanted to charge money for the magazines, so we’d always lose money making them,” Altman said.

36 Arts adviser Christoph Nordmark said the magazine alone was not worth the cost.

“The physical copy just wasn’t sustainable. It was very expensive, and we dried up our funds very quickly,” Nordmark said.

Altman said the idea of a website has been in the works for years. She said the new format will enhance 36 Arts in many ways.

“A few years ago we had the idea to make a website,” Altman said. “It’s a lot cheaper, we can put a lot more material on it, that way we don’t have to limit people to a short story because there’s infinite space. We don’t have to pay as much, so it seems like a win-win in that way.”

Senior Katie Steiner said the new website should be able to make the entire process easier for both 36 Arts’ readers and art providers.

“The website this year is going to be replacement for what we’ve done in years past which is the selling of the full (magazine) at the end of the year,” Steiner said. “With the website, instead of sending it directly to us, (participants) will be able to upload their art to the website so anyone can see what’s been uploaded.”

Steiner said the process of making the website is happening little by little.

“We meet every Thursday morning and we kind of put together bits and pieces so each one of us during the week will come up with new ideas, bring it to the group and discuss,” Steiner said.

Nordmark said he encourages students to stay up-to-date with submitted art once the club has completely transferred over to the website.

“It’ll be easier to create and to access for sure and it’ll allow us to have more art up there and to be able to publish in real time rather than just the end of the year,” Nordmark said. “So as we get stuff we can put it up real quickly, versus years past where someone would give us something in the fall and we don’t publish it until may.”

Steiner said the easier access to 36 Arts will allow for people to be more open with their art, even if that is out of their comfort zone.

“I hope that people who are usually not artsy people, who have thought ‘oh I’m not good at art,’ will actually try and put themselves out there will try and get some good feedback actually think ‘I’m actually good at this’,” Steiner said.

36 Arts meets from 8:10 to 8:35  Thurs. mornings in C367.