Carnegie's Community Sourced Art Portfolio

This past spring, I agreed to be one of the artists chosen for inclusion in The Carnegie's first CSA portfolio. The idea is that the selected artists make pieces that will fit into a 11x17" box and collectors from the community purchase the portfolio sight unseen for a really reasonable $350 and get (in this case) 9 pieces of art. There are 50 portfolios in the offering so it's a really great way to get collectors who have never seen or never purchased your work to begin to grow their collection. This has been done in Minneapolis, Cincinnati and other arts conscious cities. I loved the idea and agreed to put work in the portfolio. The portfolio is curated by Carnegie's Matt Distel.

An artist can do 50 distinctly original pieces or one piece 50 times. I chose to do 2 pieces 25 times each and sign them as part of this portfolio. The date for delivery is July 1st,  I believe. I was going to post my pieces here but that would be a little premature. So come back in July to see what I offered in the portfolio.

I was asked if it was a bad deal for artists and replied NO since, it's an opportunity to have my work in 50 new collections with little effort on my part and I see it as a way to have people who might not know my work to become familiar with some of it. I was happy to be a part of this first portfolio and hope at another time to be a part of other ones.

Mine are all printed and delivered. I was anxious to get it done not knowing what this summer has in store for us.

Since I cannot show what I put in, I can show work from the same series that is not in the portfolio.