About this project

We are Olivia Pepper and Katie Rose Pipkin. 

We have been fast friends and creative collaborators for four years and show no signs of letting up. An alliance built upon a chance encounter on a sunny day has germinated such lovely seeds as Private Lives Puppet Theatre, The Church of Tesla, and the dangerous fairy tale installation art project that is our home and workspace at The Island.

Our commitment to our community has fueled this project. Wardenclyffe Gallery will serve as a studio space to be shared by many local artists, a puppeteering workshop for Private Lives Puppet Theatre, a homespun gallery for a wide range of local visual artists, a venue for music, theatre, performance, and many many other things.

We have located a perfect space for our gallery, a ramshackle bungalow on Austin's unique and thriving east side. Before this Kickstarter has run its course, we will have the keys, paint, bands booked for our March showcases and artists already using the studio space. All we need now is you.

Your generous contributions will help us cover the costs of gallery quality lights, paint, a P.A., publicity, construction and repair costs, website construction and upkeep, utilities costs, and installation hardware for shows. We are asking for the bare minimum of what we need because this project means so much to us that we are willing to work as hard as it takes to make this project happen. Please help us make Wardenclyffe Gallery a reality. We'll see you there.

About the rewards;

Inaugural Edition Wardenclyffe Zine (Available as digital download $5+, physical copy $20+)

20 pages, screenprinted cover, black and white inside

Featuring art & prose from Vincent Boarini, Kyle Carter, Brent Chesnutt, Beth Cortez-Neavel, Frederick Follmer, Avishai Micaiah, Analy Nakat, Micah Nelson, Tyler Norton, Jes Painter, Olivia Pepper, Cecelia Phillips, Katie Rose Pipkin, Connor Shea, Matt Zito, and others.

Plus a Wardenclyffe Sticker!

CD (Available as digital download $10+, physical copy $50+)

Etched cover! Cryin' Cole Wilson & Those Miserable Cowboys, Cups & Roses, Gashcat, Wave Hands Like Clouds, Les RAV, Particle Kid, Christopher Petkus, Salesman, Pam Shaffer, Tiger Waves, Transmography, Woolly Mammoth and more.

T-shirts ($75+)

Hand-printed t-shirt with the Wardenclyffe Gallery logo or designed by Brent Chesnutt.

Original drawings by Katie Rose Pipkin ($125+)

These are original pen and ink drawings by Katie Rose Pipkin, executed between 2009 and 2011. Each one is unique and signed, and ships mounted on paper. We will contact you via message so you can specify which you would like. (click through the 'available' to see the larger image)

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Tarot Reading ($100, $200+)

Olivia Pepper has over twenty years of experience reading Tarot cards, and has been trained in traditional methods as well as contemporary interpretive styles. This can be done over telephone or in person in the Austin area. The $100 pledge is a 1 hour reading, the $200 pledge is a 2-hour reading.

Commissioned Painting or Drawing (your topic!) by Katie Rose Pipkin ($400+)

Portrait of you or someone you love ($500+)

Done (from right to left) by your choice of Micah Nelson, Katie Rose Pipkin, Connor Shea or Christy Smith

A Private Lives Puppet Theatre show done in the space of your choice, on the theme of your choice. ($500+)

Your kid’s birthday party or your holiday work soiree. On the Crimean War or My Little Pony. At least 1 hour of strange and delightful entertainment!

An event, thrown in your honor, at the space. ($1000+)

A crown constructed by various artists. A showering of gifts and praises. Your name over one of the studios or workrooms. VIP pass for life. We'll make you hella art. I mean, Seriously.