Mimbres School

Fundraiser Open; Patreon phasing out

Hi everyoneAs you know we are intending to phase out Patreon access to our course content at the end of 2025.To that end, we would love it if you would make the leap over to our new payments system at https://mimbres.study.garden/If you make an annual subscription pledge before the end of January, y...

Patreon costs us way too much - please consider switching

Dear supporters of Mimbres SchoolThanks so much to everyone who has supported us on Patreon over the years. I am currently doing the IRS statement for Mimbres School for 2023, and it is a little shocking how much money Patreon charges us to take money from all of you. We did 250% growth on Patreon l...

Spring 2024 Registration

[Reminder that this Patreon page has been closed to new subscriptions; Subscriptions to our archive are now available at https://mimbres.study.garden Existing Patreon subscriptions can be kept through the end of 2025, but we encourage you to switch bfore the end of January and get your donation for ...

501(c)(3) Status Officially Established

Hi EveryoneI'm thrilled to announce that we have received our confirmation letter from the IRS and are now officially a 501(c)(3) public charity. There is still time to make a tax deductible donation with full assurances before the end of 2023!Get in touch at themimbresschool@gmail.com or on Dis...

Patreon closed; Fundraiser open!

Patreon is now closed to new subscriptions: you will no longer be able to purchase access to content through this site.The annual fundraiser is open at https://mimbres.study.garden/If you already have a subscription on Patreon, you may keep it through the end of 2025. However, if you switch to our n...

Pre-registration 2024 now open

if you would like to pre-register for a course in 2024, you may do so using this form. Pre-registration costs $50 per course, and entitles you to a $25 discount on the total tuition ($250 per class) when it is due. We will send you an invoice via Stripe shortly after you pre-register: pay the invoic...

Fundraiser Prices; Matching Donation!

We are still putting the final touches on our new Patreon-replacement system and hope to have it open very soon, along with pre-registration for all of our 2024 courses, which begin in early February.In the meantime, I want to announce our new pricing structure for 2024, along with the very exciting...

State of the School FY 2023

Please enjoy this year's State of the School address in which I go over the numbers. This has been a huge growth year for us and our revenues are up over 100 percent. We've also expanded the payroll and our activities greatly. 501c3 (pending) status is coming very soon along with our first a...

Course Calendar 2024

Attached is the Mimbres School Course Calendar for 2024 as of 11-20-23.This is subject to revision, and there will be some additional reading groups scheduled on an ad hoc basis throughout the year, but this will give you a pretty good idea of exactly what's going on when over the next year. Spr...

Patreon will be sunsetting

Mimbres School has outgrown Patreon. This site has never worked all that well or been a good place to generate engagement, so we have mostly just been using it as a payment processing service. It's now gotten to a point at which Patreon's cut of our revenues is big enough to make it worthwhi...

Please Sign up for Time Zones

Hi folksMimbres School is growing rapidly and we have a lot of exciting things to announce over the next couple of months. Right now, one of the biggest constraints on what we are able to offer is limited calendar space for our weekend slots. We also know that there is some unmet demand for Mimbres ...

Fall 2023 Signups now open

Course signups are now open at https://mimbres.study.gardenOn offer this time we have:Modern Revolutions with Jared BaxterPunic Wars with Colin DrummHuman Origins with Jules DelisleWe look forward to seeing you in a class!In other news: now that the new website is up, we hope to restore off-discord ...

Announcing Foundations Certificate

Hi everyone. We're very excited to announce that applications for the inaugural cohort of our Foundations certificate are now open, for the program beginning this fall. Tuition for the first cohort is discounted from $4,000 to $2,500, and spots will be limited to 3 or 4 students (depending on th...

Study Garden errors

Hi all, and welcome new patrons. We're aware of the errors being thrown up by the Study Garden site. However, there is really no need for you to access that site at all, since all the course content is available on Discord with Patreon integration. I've changed some text on Patreon to reflec...

What I'm Doing With Your Money (FY 2022)

tax time!

Summer Course Signups

Hi all,Course signups for Summer 2023 are now live at https://mimbres.study.garden. We're excited to offer three courses: "What is Blackness?" w/ Taija, "On Horses" w/ Joy, and "Hobbes' Leviathan" w/ Colin.All courses have a tuition of $250, with the option of a $15 r...

course content now available on discord

Thanks to everyone who newly signed up and/or upgraded their tier on patreon. We are feeling a big wave of support for the Mimbres School project.At some point, there will be a Study Garden 0.2 version that will hopefully be more user friendly. In the meantime I'm happy to say that you can now g...

welcome new patrons (etc)

Hi everyone. Thanks and welcome to the new patrons, we're excited to have you here at the Mimbres School. Please remember that if you need to get a hold of me (Colin) please email me at colindrumm@gmail.com, on Discord, or DM me on twitter, as these are much faster ways of reaching me than the P...

New "Patron" tier; patreon overhaul

Hi everyone. As you know, this Patreon page is no longer supporting just my (Colin's) work, but is funding the creation of something we are calling "The Mimbres School." So I've renamed the page and changed the URL: patreon.com/mimbresschoolThis has been a big year of growth for the ...

happy/office/hours this wednesday

Hey everyoneJade and I are going to be holding the first of our weekly "happy/office/hours" this wednesday (nov 2) at 5:30 pm new mexico time. This is a drop-in session where you are welcome to come swing by at any time between around 5:30 to 7:30 and chat with me and Jade about anything rel...

Fall course offerings + website updates

Hello loyal subscribers. I'm really excited to bring you the Fall 2022 Mimbres School curriculum: Political Theology (Colin), Reproduction and Control (Jade), The Early Marx (Jared), and Roman Political Economy: Punic Wars (Colin). All classes are $250 up front, with a $15/class attendance rebat...

thoughts on core curriculum

sharing some thoughts on the future of the mimbres schooljoin the discord to discuss:https://discord.gg/DxxXH4GX

What I'm Doing With Your Money (New Website!!)

In which I hold myself accountable to you, my loyal subscribers.Check out our new website!Study GardenJoin the discord!https://discord.gg/vGVDsgme

Forum registration back up

Hi folks (and especially new subscribers). the registration for the forum was broken but it's now back up: forum.uwuni.com. This forum will soon be obsolete because we are working on a new and shiny website! But we are not expert web devs over here so it will be a little slow going. For now, the...

Spinoza, the Mint, and other updates

Here's the first session of the Spinoza course!Future sessions will all be up on the forum here: forum.uwuni.com. Register a student account to access the content.Other updates:The Shakespeare course has been cancelled for lack of interest -- I'm going to reframe the course and offer it agai...

Spring 2022 and Accessing Content

Hi Dear PatronsIn case you haven't seen in other venues, we have a number of course offerings for Spring 2022. Here are some links to sign up for these classes. All course recordings will be available for patrons!Remember that you can access all the content on our forum, here: https://forum.uwun...

Alliance Affinity and Interdependence

Hi everyoneOur new website is achingly close to being done. But not quite. For now, the first two sessions of our current class, "Alliance Affinity and Interdependence" are up on the forum. Log in here to access this (and other) content.https://forum.uwuni.com/index.phpI'm currently comp...

Race and Finance Sessions 1-3

SESSION 1:Buck-Morss, Susan. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.Miller, Joseph C. “The Problem of Slavery as History.” In The Problem of Slavery as History. Yale University Press, 2012.Johnson, Walter. “The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking th...

New BB forum for patrons

Hi everyoneMore content and updates will be coming here in the new year. I hired a web assistant to help me keep this organized. In the meantime, please come join my new forum for Patrons, where you can access all my content in a more easily accessible and organized place!https://forum.uwuni.com/ind...

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