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This project successfully raised its funding goal on March 1, 2010.
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MUSEUM DONOR: Your name will be listed on the back of the Museum Proper cart, which is wheeled around the festival grounds by the protagonist for the entire length of the performance - this will be a permanent addition to the prop, and so your name will be presented as such in future performances.
Pledge $30 or more
HONORED DONOR: Your name will be listed on the back of the Museum Proper cart. Dax will also collect some choice scraps of leftover puppet material from the workshop floor (cardboard with drops of paint on it, torn cloth, bent wire, stripped screws), and make a one-of-a-kind commemorative 6x9 collage, mailed to you, signed by the artist, and labeled "from the Museum Proper." (International donors, consider donating with shipping costs in mind).
Pledge $70 or more
MUSEUM BENEFACTOR: Your name will be listed on the back of the Museum Proper cart. We will also tear a page from the Museum Proper pre-production sketchbook (concept doodles, prototype sketches, mechanism diagrams), and mail this one-of-a-kind piece of puppetry history directly to you (note: there will be a drawing on both sides of the paper!). Drawings by Dax.
Pledge $150 or more
MUSEUM SPONSOR: Your name will be listed on the back of the Museum Proper cart, in large type. We will also send you one of the original inked panels from the Museum Proper storyboards (not pictured on Kickstarter), signed by Dax.
Pledge $500 or more
DIRECTOR'S CIRCLE: Your name will be listed on the back of the Museum Proper cart, in especially large type. We will also mail you one of the ORIGINAL full-page Museum Proper watercolored concept illustrations (the Bandersnatch, the Creatures, or the Festival Scene). Paintings by Dax.
Pledge $1,000 or more
PATRON: Your name will be listed on the back of the Museum Proper cart. Dax will provide you with your choice of one ORIGINAL watercolor painting from his most recent series - see examples at http://dax.imagekind.com/paintings (the artist retains the right to run open-ended editions of giclée prints of the image).
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"As with his songs, there is no showmanship, legerdemain, pretense or fanfare in the presentation of this non-traditional puppetry. On stage, Dax has a deceptively casual manner - meanwhile, glowing stars pop out of suitcases of their own accord, and apparitions rise out of heaps of cardboard and collapse just as quickly. Nothing is hidden in the straight-forward construction of the puppets and apparatuses, and yet each piece unfolds a moment of magic that is as moving as it was direct. These shows cleverly present the fascination that has been lost to us since childhood, though you wouldn't imagine how simply it was achieved."
Blair Thomas - Artistic Director of Blair Thomas & Co. Chamber Puppet Theater, founder of Redmoon Theater, Chicago, IL.
In July of 2007 I ran across puppeteer Blair Thomas at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Without warning or apology, puppets immediately took over my artistic practice. I apprenticed with the Blair Thomas & Co. from 2007-2008, building and performing in many grand projects that presented at venues from the Storefront Theater to the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and even the Pritzker Pavillion in Millenium Park. At the end of the 2008, I left my position as Shop Foreman with Blair to begin my own puppetry career. My deepest thanks to everyone in the Chicago puppetry community who has helped me find this medium. I hope to do you all proud some day.
In the Autumn of 2009, I conducted my first national solo tour to present three of these shows in their completed form, alongside original songs performed with accordions and wine glasses. Returning to my home town in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010, I am founding my very own puppet company, who's first full-scale production is the Kickstarter project, "The Museum Proper."
[Dax holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the California College of Arts and Crafts, and an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.]
Hey man! Read up about your project cause a friend of mine backed it. Looks like really great stuff man, congratulations!
I wanted to ask you how you went about promoting your kickstarter and how you got so many people to donate? We're doing pretty well so far but if you had any creative or really effective ideas for networking/advertising that you wouldn't mind shooting our way it'd be greatly appreciated mate! Thanks so much!
Here's to doing everything you can to become a Full Time Artist! =]
Project looks great please send me your website and contact - love to follow your work.
Dax, I only wish I could be there to see it; you have my donation (and backing), and I hope that this goes extremely well for you!
Ben: There's a lot of creative people involved in The Museum Proper, so the list of our projects are fairly diverse. I'll list a few URLs where you can find other projects by the various contributors to The Museum Proper. If you're looking for puppetry work, specifically, I'm hoping to have a dedicated website up before the June premier... you will certainly be notified ;) Thanks again!
http://www.norestforthewicked.biz
http://qarly.com/
http://www.onefleacircus.com
http://www.corpus.cc
http://www.chicag0.org
This looks amazing. How do I follow everything you guys are doing?
dax tran-caffee, i am jealous that i don't have the wherewithall to do such a thing as this . . .but am happy to know that somebody does, and would be delighted to see it (although the chances of that are not likely). you have a very graceful way of marketing yourself as well. so, great job at being a professional artist -- best of luck and have fun with the project!
-theleaningtowers
Thanks everyone for so much support so far! It makes me giddy thinking about moving forward with this project.
I also forgot to mention in the appeal that, since we are really raising this money for materials, in-kind donations are just as useful to the project as anything else. If you don't have cash to spare, but are sitting on a pile of good construction materials somewhere in the SF Bay Area, please let me know! We can certainly use extra lumber, hardwood scraps, pink insulation foam, and upholstery-weight fabrics. And if you live in the SF area, are a puppet builder, puppeteer, or work in costume-crafts, and you'd like to lend a hand, we'd love to get to know you!
Dax
Congrats DaX & good luck. I sent my friend Anja to you thru FB - she's a great puppeteer too :)
btw: we'd like to be listed as L. Ruby & Beauregard Cash Sage on the monster :):)