2012 BUDGET OUTLINE (Art can exist when time, space and resource meet).

This outline was created to address inquiries about art pricing, general budget and working costs here in SoHo, New York City. Here are some areas these amounts can cover when a work is purchased or a contribution is made towards these specific goals:

$5,000
+ 7-8 week working costs to be focused on general art or a site-specific commission as requested by funder.
+ Host/fund a multiple date tour/performance/exhibiton.
+ Fund the completion and publication of a record project.
+ Co-fund the catalog of all works between 2002-2012.
+ Assist in the development of future projects such as the new studio forum (forum.html)

$2,500
+ 3-4 week working costs or commission within in New York City.
+ Host a performance/exhibit/limited-domestic tour.
+ Assistance in upgrading technical equipment (sound/camera/lighting).
+ Co-fund a recording project.
+ Contribute towards the catalog of all works between 2002-2012.

$1,000
+ 1 week living/working costs.
+ Co-fund a domestic, performance/limited exhibition.
+ Fund basic material budget for fiscal year.
+ Co-fund a recording project.

$500
+ 3 day living/working costs.
+ Contribute towards performance/exhibiton travel logistics.
+ Fund a patent/trademark application.
+ All recordings and silkscreens including a dedicated item.

$250
+ 1 day living/working costs.
+ Contribute towards material costs and administration.
+ All available recordings plus a silkscreen item will be sent to you if choosing this funding level or above.

$100
+ Contribute towards studio/utility materials.
+ All recordings to this point will be sent to you if choosing this general funding this level or above.

Specific portions of time can be available at funders request. Two month maximum. These budget levels are open to the influence of individual interests by active participants as to where and how resources may be allotted towards. Please forward any inquiries to: art@thomaswatkiss.net

You can help by selecting a funding option below:

1. General funding: Assist in levels from material costs to commissions:

The contribution groups or "tier levels" in the scroll option below reflects the outline above. Please forward any questions or specific interests to art@thomasawtkiss.net. Thank you.

2. Completion of the ANCESTOR Double LP + photobook VINYL SETS

All contributions go towards funding an exceptional LP (double vinyl) set with enlarged artwork, hand-numbered jackets and delivered to each person that pre-orders long before the press or any store will get it. Help finish the realization of this project. Either select an support tier, support the released phases of the project or pre-order here.

This goal is 1/3 complete. The project is being finished (sound mastering and digital retouching to art at this time) Methods of support:

3. Publication of works on canvas, photographs and travel based on the "sonic memory"

This will include the 100+ paintings and 1000+ photos narrating over a decade of extensive travel and creative development. The book, ideally a hardcover 12" x 12", will serve as a scrapbook of the years, various global settings, projects and pieces made. What wil make this different from other artist catalogs is that the only narration will take place with what albums I was listening to at the time and how music, music culture and record collecting have been a driving force in my creative pursuits thusfar.

This goal is being sorted out and prepared for publication at this time. Methods of support:

4. A new studio space that will be called "Forum"

Forum: A space to serve as an active studio and meeting space, a place for constructing ideas...think start-up incubator meets art studio. The Forum would serve as a constructive workshop for practitioners and professionals, from demonstrator to day-trader, to build dialogue between social divisions and develop solutions in the setting of an art studio, to potentially being implemented in the form of progressive business plans, social campaigns, etc.

This idea is in absolute infancy. The project is being tested for residency applications at this time.

Thomas Watkiss has been an active multidisciplinary artist for nearly ten years producting visual art and vinyl albums evolving around themes of nature, industrialism and iconography. A new shift in the works on canvas requires larger studio space and greater time and effort to achieve the new portfolio.

You may support this endeavour by purchasing a work on canvas from this brochure here Visit the studio here google+ and the blog