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Kismet, located at 71 Fourth St. in Troy, NY (telephone 518-272-1918) is an artist owned gallery and studio space that was The shop showcases a large variety of artistic and artisan work, exhibiting items by over 100 local individuals. The work displayed in Kismet’s 2500 square foot gallery includes: fine art, photography, prints, jewelry, ceramics, glass art, sculpture, fiber arts, and other unique handmade curiosities. Kismet was established in response to the often unfavorable terms provided to artists working under consignment agreements with traditional galleries. Unlike most galleries, Kismet does not charge artists a fee to submit their work for consideration. Further commission on consignment is only 30%, unlike traditional galleries which can take as much as 50% of the retail price. At Kismet, we believe in fair trade and grassroots economics. We believe in ethics over profit, idealism over hype, and values over image.
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small amber production piece
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Emerald and Diamonds I took an old pendant my mom had and some earrings and made this pendant
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GDF Whut Inc. is an artist/worker owned cooperative based out of Upstate NY. Currently we are composed of five contributing artists, and one hustler. We believe in breaking down elitism in the art world by working on our craft collectively and striving to create fine hand-crafted jewelry and art.
We believe that artists and artisans must unite through buying and selling cooperatives in order to maximize their profitability and actually be able to live off their craft. We strive to build and maintain a sense of community and to make our sisters', and brothers' problems, our problems, and seek to solve them together. We believe in collective self-determination by building our own cooperatively owned business and controlling the economics of our communities, sharing in all our communities work and wealth. GDF Whut is our first step on this long path, which seeks to build a new society within the shell of the old.
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These last few months have been both some of the best and worst months. GDF Whut is dead there have been irreconcible differences between the partners as a result of financial mismanagment. Some of the members from GDF WHUT have metamorphized into Kismet Gallery wih a store situated at 71 4th St. Troy NY. 518 272 1918. We have over 80 artists and aritsans there with a wide range of work including: metal, painting, prints, digital, photo, sculpture, fiber arts, ceramics, and mineral specimens. We have over 2,000 square feet of gallery space 2,000 square feet of studio space and offer classes and will have free open studio time for kids in the commmunity. We offer consignment at 30% and will sell art supplies at 30% above wholesale to artists. This will be GDF Whuts last post look for Kismet in the future.
Peace,
Woogie
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This was a custom piece for a friend who was recently killed while driving by someone who was trying to flee from the police. Harry was 18 years old and we gave this piece to his dad which he wears everday. This is a combo bezel set and wire wrapped piece. The piece has a piece of the mirror from Harry's car, a piece of the windshield, and a piece of red plastic. This piece is sterling.
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Hneycomb glass cab my boy Adam Parsley made Kid make the sickest pieces you can check his stuff out on glasspipes.org
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Here some of our new shit been mainly stuck in production for the last year these pieces were done by woogie and christina.
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This is a piece my mom's rocking
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we have to give props to sarah who started this site we have learned a lot from looking at everyone's work on here getting new ideas and styles and what not and seeing peoples progression from one piece to the next it's been really cool. here is some of our new stuff that we have put together in the last couple of weeks
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These is some pics of our newer stuff that we sent done to Langerado. A lot of our new stuff was unfourtantly stolen in two seperate incidents last week and lost about $1,200 worth of wraps and chains.
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This is some of our new stuff for April in June we will be opening a cooperatively owned gallery/store in Troy NY (near Albany) if you make cool stuff jewelry, clothing, art, whatever please hit us up we need all the inventory we can get we have 2,000 sq feet of space to fill also if your from around this area we have about 1,500 sq feet of studio space if anyone needs some.
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I wanted to make a reversible piece this one is out of control it has about a quarter pound of silver in it and mad stones
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Some Shit me Christina and Jacob have thrown together shit been hectic with the gallery. More to come when i get around to taking some more pics.
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woogie
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Some of the sheet metal stuff we have been working on
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I like the way this piece turned out feels good i am currently rocking this one
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Kismet, established June 2006, operates as an artist-owned gallery and studio space. Showcased in Kismet’s 3,000-square-foot gallery is the work of over 125 regional artists and artisans, including fine art, photography, prints, jewelry, ceramics, glass art, sculpture, fiber arts, and other unique handmade curiosities. On the last Friday of the month, we have an opening and reception in conjunction with the Troy Night Out Art Walk.
Kismet Gallery is a new breed of bottom-up retail enterprises where we pride ourselves on doing things differently. Unlike other retailers, we never sell anything made in a sweatshop—just one-of-a-kind handcrafted items which are sustainable and manufactured by our family, friends, and neighbors in our community. At Kismet, we stand for principles over profit; idealism over hype; values over image; and mutual aid over competition. Unlike retailers at the mall, for every dollar spent here at least 70 cents goes back into our community to pay our artists; the rest goes to keep the gallery open.
As owners, we see ourselves primarily as activists fighting back against the corporate takeover running roughshod over our communities. We view the corporate flagpoles dominating our streets and the city outskirts as being representative of conquest, not community. Our once-bustling down towns have been left derelict, once-plentiful resources have been pillaged, and once promised jobs have been axed in favor of sweatshop labor. The time is now to kick the corporations to the curb and to reclaim our communities.
Michael Fiske
71 4th st
Troy NY 12180 US
Phone: 518 272 1918
www.kismetartgallery.com
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Dark Star
Yeah, I remember that. Thanks for showing me the basket weave. Peace
» Posted by
OrganicMechanics
on 3/1/2006 7:37:16 PM.
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yo i really appreciate all the feedback and support youve given me... its definitely been encouraging. i really admire your style and work... wishing you the best with the gallery. definitely like to come by next time im around the area
peace
coffey
» Posted by
Coffey
on 11/12/2006 7:58:15 PM.
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your work us very beutiful, its good to see dead familly represent. check out my page i just put it up, (timmy B) keep up the good work
» Posted by
TimmyB
on 7/31/2007 1:33:42 PM.
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