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GDF WHUT INC

Posted by Kismet Gallery on 2/2/2006

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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gdf almostthere logo 624 x 768 px (160 KB) 0 Comments		IMG 1039.JPG collabaration with prism glass dichromatic bead 576 x 768 px (138 KB) 0 Comments
IMG 1085.JPG spectrolite cuff bracelt with facet grade aquamarine from afghaistan 1024 x 768 px (201 KB) 0 Comments	christina's fir first attempt at a bracelet. "mullers glass" (opal "potch") 600 x 450 px (65 KB) 0 Comments	ammonite heamta hematitized ammonite, vera cruz amethyst, rubbelitte, and 5 carat faceted goshenite (clear Beryl) 576 x 768 px (130 KB) 0 Comments
Jerry Hand opalized ammonite vera cruz amethyst peridot danburite spirt quartz and a arkansas phantom quartz 1024 x 768 px (239 KB) 0 Comments	Steal Your Face Silver steal your face with green kyanite tourmaline quartz moldavite lapis lazui hematite kunzaite and paua shell back of stealie is a locket you can put shit in 600 x 450 px (36 KB) 0 Comments	IMG 0532.JPG back of stealie locket 1024 x 768 px (129 KB) 0 Comments
bubbler inside out bubbler with dichormatic marble has quartz, danburite, kunzite, amethyst, facet grade apatite, facet grade orange tourmaline, spectrolite, meteroite, .4 carart yellow faceted diamond, and a siver poker with amethyst on it 504 x 672 px (59 KB) 0 Comments	bubler side wit 504 x 672 px (71 KB) 0 Comments	DT Quartz moons Double Terminated Quartz with Rainbow Monnstone 1024 x 768 px (116 KB) 0 Comments
tibetan phantom DT Tibetan Phantom with hematite 1024 x 768 px (101 KB) 0 Comments	Spectrolite Spectrolite with hematite and tigers eye beads 600 x 450 px (33 KB) 0 Comments	Calcite Green Calcite with Opal Turqousie paua shell and a herkimer diamond the bassit from the wailers has this piece 600 x 450 px (30 KB) 0 Comments
Paua Shell Paua Shell with green tourmaline labdorite rhotochorsite slive and kyanite 511 x 768 px (89 KB) 0 Comments	IMG 0836.JPG aquamarine and tigers eye 1024 x 768 px (213 KB) 0 Comments	IMG 0841.JPG quartz tigers eye hematite 1024 x 768 px (134 KB) 0 Comments
ring aquamarine watermelon tourmaline slice 450 x 600 px (40 KB) 0 Comments	amber Huge like baseball sized piece of Amber 600 x 450 px (38 KB) 0 Comments	aphoylite apophyllite cluster 600 x 450 px (29 KB) 0 Comments
IMG 0969.JPG yellow piece of glass ground scored herkimer diamond watermelon tourmaline fresh water pearls 1024 x 768 px (201 KB) 0 Comments	IMG 0973.JPG arkansas quartz cluster, emerald, amethyst, rainbow moonstone, silver effused quartz this piece is all beat up i wear it like everyday 1024 x 768 px (209 KB) 0 Comments	IMG 0975.JPG bat with silver poker, peridot, arkansas quartz 1024 x 768 px (208 KB) 0 Comments
jade slice jade slice with hematite star beads 600 x 450 px (41 KB) 0 Comments	gdfwhutinc logo 1024 x 880 px (134 KB) 0 Comments

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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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well put
QuantumPhlux: Love your blurb about GDF Whut, Inc.-- y'all got the right idea. Much respect.
Be good, be well, be loved, and keep doin what you do.
10/3/2007 2:00 AM

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