About this project
Attitude is everything, they say.
We think it is more important than that. Join acclaimed artist Barb Choit and Dumbo Arts Center in cultivating the ideal collection of in-your-face, personality-enhancing, attitude-defining products for a once in a lifetime event at the NADA Miami Art Fair.
DAC will be presenting Choit's superlative new project I Heart My Attitude Collection: The Store at the New Art Dealer's Alliance art fair in Miami Beach from December 1 - December 4, 2011. We were given this amazing opportunity to present at this year's fair. However, it happened outside of our planned budgeting, so we are turning to you, our fans, friends and well-wishers to make this project a reality. Please help us do it!
I Heart My Attitude Collection: The Store deals with mass-produced objects that have been specifically merchandised to reflect the “attitude” of their owners. We will be converting a standard art fair display booth into a boutique-like store in which we sell objects such as t-shirts, tote bags, mugs and key chains that are printed with such classic phrases as:
- “Lithuanian with an Attitude"
- “If you don’t like my Brooklyn attitude, quit talking to me,"
- and "I don't have an attitude problem, you have a being an asshole problem."
Plus, there's more! Choit will produce a limited edition of "I Heart My Attitude Problem" artworks to be available only at the fair. These items include a fill-in-the-blank occupation "_____ with an attitude " tote bag and an artist-personalized "I Don't Have an Attitude Problem, You Have a Perception Problem" print. These works position the artist, the venue and the audience squarely in the midst of the struggle to maintain authenticity and individuality in the ever-increasingly homogenized mass-culture marketplace.
By supporting our Kickstarter campaign, you will help us to realize this brash, dashing new work. Your contribution will enable us to continue to expand The Collection of attitude-defining goods, produce the very limited edition artworks, and realize our booth at NADA Miami in high style. Your support will also enable us to get to Miami and procure lodging. We simply can't do it without you. In return, you will be entitled to works only available to our Kickstarter supportors, incredibly great deals on the artworks being produced for the fair, and an indelible aura of the artist's attitude problem.
Since Dumbo Arts Center is a not-for-profit organization, your contribution is tax-deductible to the fullest extant allowable by tax laws. After we subtract the value of the goodies you choose to receive, of course.
Be part of it today. Exact change, please.
About Barb Choit
Barb Choit received a Master of Fine Arts in photography from The
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA,
and a Master of Arts in Modern Art and Curatorial Studies from
Columbia University, New York, NY. Collecting and
archiving, and the relationship of these acts to photography, informs
her current work. In addition to making art
works to be shown in museums and galleries she has been running a,
sometimes physical, sometimes theoretical,
institution, the Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware, since
2007. Choit’s work has been exhibited
internationally in such venues as Presentation House Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada; The Swiss Institute New York, NY
and Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany. Her work has been reviewed in
the New York Times, Art in America,
and www.artforum.com. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include
such venues as Rachel Uffner Gallery, New
York, NY; Blanket Contemporary Art Inc., Vancouver, Canada; and Forever & Today, New York, NY. She hearts her cattitude.
FAQ
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Yes.
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It has bean a lean year for DAC, with many changes and transitions. We've been working on a very minimal budget that didn't have a lot of wiggle room. We were recently offered the chance to bring a project to NADA Miami Beach. At the same time, Barb Choit shared her I Heart My Attitude Problem: The Collection project with us. It was a natural fit to bring this great project to NADA. We just need to fund it...
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Not at all! Part of point I Heart My Attitude Problem: The Store is to look at how we define ourselves, what options we have for such definitions and the over-bearing role mass-produced consumer culture plays in this definition. Some people define themselves with a t-shirt emphatically stating their ethnically-derived attitude, others do it with a Rothko over the mantel. We want to get them in the same room.
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The booth at NADA Miami Beach, airfare and accommodations, production materials like display racks and canvas and some promo materials. Plus, we will be expanding the already large collection.
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As a contemporary art venue who's mission is to introduce emerging artists to the world, we couldn't think of a better place to do this at than one of the most popular art fairs in the world. More exposure for DAC means more exposure for the artists we represent. It is a global world, baby!
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None, really, she is sweet as pie.
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Warning: Irish/Swede who gets bent out of shape at joggers in the bike lane.
Have a question? If the info above doesn't help, you can ask the project creator directly.
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Artist Barb Choit will share her attitude problem with you.
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All of the above plus... A limited edition "I DON'T HAVE AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM YOU HAVE A PERCEPTION PROBLEM" button!
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All of the above PLUS... A customized tote bag with a hole in it!
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All of the above PLUS... A limited edition, 10 x 10 in. "(your occupation) WITH AN ATTITUDE" print on museum-quality rag paper. The artist herself will fill in the blank for you!
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A limited edition 18 x18 in. "(your occupation) WITH AN ATTITUDE" print on canvas. The artist herself will fill in the blank for you! Plus, the button, the bag, Barb Choit and Karl Erickson's attitudes!
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By popular demand!!! A 12" x 12" limited edition "I DON'T HAVE AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM, YOU HAVE A PERCEPTION PROBLEM," op-art inspired print on museum-quality rag paper. Edition of 50 signed and dated by the artist, available only during the Kickstarter campaign. ... there are three different prints to choose from... take your pick!!! (Plus, the button, the bag and the attitudes!)
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O.M.G. The first five people to pledge $200 will get a suite of of ALL THREE 12" x 12" "I DON'T HAVE AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM, YOU HAVE A PERCEPTION PROBLEM" prints... After that they are $101 each!!! (Also, you get all that other stuff.)
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Whoa! All of the above (the attitudes, the button, the bag, the prints!) PLUS... an invitation to the opening reception to NADA Miami art fair on December 1st, 2011, and a private champagne toast with the artist at the DAC booth.
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Oh my gosh! All of the above (the attitudes, the button, the bag, the prints, the reception, the champagne!) PLUS... A 24" x 24," limited edition "I DON'T HAVE AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM, YOU HAVE A PERCEPTION PROBLEM," op-art inspired print on museum-quality rag paper. Edition of 10, signed and dated by the artist, available only during the Kickstarter campaign. There are three to choose from ... add $100 to get the entire suite!!!
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Seriously! All of the above (the attitudes, the button, the bag, the prints, the bag, the reception, the champagne!) PLUS... an artist's proof from Barb Choit's "I DON'T HAVE AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM, YOU HAVE A PERCEPTION PROBLEM," series. Each 36" x 36" op-art inspired print on stretched canvas is signed and dated by the artist. These prints are part of an edition that will be sold at the NADA art fair for approximately double the price! Only five are available here to the first five $1000 donors.
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W.T.F! All of the above (the attitudes, the button, the bag, the prints, the reception, the champagne, the artist's proof!) PLUS... You get to hang out in the booth with us, wear a uniform, enforce our "exact change only" policy, and help us count out pennies!
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