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AcquisitionArt.com

Helping artists survive by providing many critical services when they need them.

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AcquisitionArt.com

AcquisitionArt.com

AcquisitionArt.com

AcquisitionArt.com

AcquisitionArt.com

Helping artists survive by providing many critical services when they need them.

Helping artists survive by providing many critical services when they need them.

Helping artists survive by providing many critical services when they need them.

Helping artists survive by providing many critical services when they need them.

Joseph Kinnebrew
Joseph Kinnebrew
Joseph Kinnebrew
Joseph Kinnebrew
1 Campaign |
Lake Geneva, United States
$325 USD 4 backers
4% of $7,500 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Our Story

 

 

I am asking you to help artists everywhere create more work.  

 

I am Joseph Kinnebrew (http://www.josephkinnebrew.com).  I created an idea that would offer a variety of options to serve artists and others who were passionate about art.

 

I am very committed to helping others and for 2 years have personally financed the building of this idea.  It is AcquisitionArt.com.  It is about artists flourishing by using their special form of creativity and while much of this starts and depends upon selling their work I can assure you after 45 years of surviving as an artist it is about a lot more than just selling work.

 

We are much more than an on line gallery.  The idea of AcquisitionArt.com is evolving into a multilayered web based service business.  We are still in the early stages but our idea is functional(ing) and has been in beta test since February.  There are many things we would like to share with you.  When you visit the site you can read more about how we pursue our unique mission.  This goes far beyond the usual approach to selling art.  This is an artist's idea about what artists need to work effectively.

 

The cornerstone of our idea is that it is uncommonly personal and very flexible. When offering art for sale we create a one on one conversation between the owner of the art and an interested buyer. When artists tell their story they are far more apt to sell their work.  I started with what I know to be true from years of experience.  Stories create provenance.  Provenance instills pride of ownership and that builds collections.

 

We want to reach out everywhere the Internet does.  Yes, we want to converse with the world and yes we believe this is a 3rd new way to sell art. 

 

We have devoted months of research to the many things we can offer to help artists survive by reflecting their highly individual needs.   We also include others who simply own art and want to sell it.  On our functioning prototype website (new design coming soon) you can read about many of these services and we are deeply involved in developing others, particularly in the areas of higher education, webcasts with information on demand, logistical support and corporate sponsorship.

 

It is just all this important because history teaches us that:          

 

With no art there will be no memory of us.

 

The Impact

We are past the idea stage with a small team and have over 25 prototype artist participants, 7 distinguished advisory professionals (you can read about them on line) and 3 art advisors.  We have been live on the web testing our idea since February.


This is an evolving project and like many it moves in fits and starts as we gain expertise, insight, funding and develop new partnerships and relationships.  It is well known that getting artists to act on their own behalf is difficult.  We have many aspects of AqA to fund in the months ahead but specifically at this stage and in this project we are seeking funding to reach out to artists virtually everywhere and have them present their work in one of our categories to sell it.  These  categories can be seen in the sections on line which are currently limited to "The Collection" and The MarketPlace" but more have been programed such as photography, prints, student work  and ceramics.  They are ready as soon as we have listings.  Our initial goal is to have 2500 works of art and fine crafts offered for sale.  Before we can invite (actively solicit) buyers we must have a sufficient number of art objects for them to look at, or in other words, have and exciting collection!


We have concluded from the initial prototype that in this next stage, offering an incentive to existing sellers to bring other sellers to the project, is a realistic and accelerated way to grow.  The object of having many new works is to create sales which establishes credibility and creates it's own momentum.


There are many aspects of survival that we will address, but we believe that selling work is the most important place to start.  Once we can point to sales many other things will follow.

 

What We Need & What You Get

 

We are seeking $7,500 for a reward program.   We will use any and all of these funds to administer and offer $2.50 to a current project participant for every accepted listed item by a new artist they bring to AcquisitionArt.com.  This will help us "stock our shelves with inventory" (listed items are listed for 6 months at no charge).


I feel the time has come to reach out to others for funding.  To date I have funded this project personally. This includes site design (which needs to be redone), programing, web site, administrative, office, salary and marketing expenses.  I have done this for nearly 2 years because I think it is important.


All of us here know how to say thanks and share.


For all our benefactors pledging over $25 we waive the 15% admin fee for purchases (see below) and say thank you.  We also offer gifts for various levels of contribution... thank you.


I am and we are volunteers with a passion and know the most important thing you get is more art in your life and that of others.  That is our mission and you can join us.  In this economy and in these times of turbulent change artists have traditionally brought forth the gifts of insight into things up close and far away.  We need more art and we should not have to subject it to only the uncertainly of generosity and  charity.


We are anxious to tell you more about our vision and what we have done.

 

Other Ways You Can Help

 

AcquisitionArt is not a charity or non-profit. We act and operate as a business that looks to the future.  I know from years of personal experience the art business needs affordable, easily accessible and centralized services.   To date we cannot find such encompassing and often critical services elsewhere. 

There are many projects for us to undertake and we hope you will want to hear more from us about these as we get to know each other.  This is a wonderful and eminently worthy journey.  We want to bring greater dignity and opportunity to artists.  We hope that fewer of them won't have to have second and third jobs that they use to support a few stolen moments in the studio to share and create works for everyone.

On the web site http://www.acquisitionart.com there is an important menu item referring to partnerships.  Please read this as it can be very useful to various cultural institutions, which you may have an interest in.  We believe by sharing there will be more art.  

..and you can help with your ideas and suggestions... we can all share in many ways

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waive the admin fee of 15%

$25 USD
When a work sells from one of the categories on the web site (www.acquisitionart.com) there is a 15% admin fee charged which is usually added to the cost of the work by the seller. Because you are our benefactor we will waive this for 1 purchase from our listed artists work within the next 6 months. You can view the work on our site in The Collection or The MarketPlace.
1 out of 200 of claimed

waive fee + signed giclee

$50 USD
Beau Rouge (ret value $22) by Joseph Kinnebrew 4" x4" signed and numbered printed by Staples Fine Art http://www.josephkinnebrew.com/prints/prints_product_pgs/2022_prod/beaurouge_prod_pg.html
0 out of 100 of claimed

waive fee + signed giclee

$100 USD
Beau Rouge (ret value $150) by Joseph Kinnebrew 7.5" x 7.5" signed and numbered printed by Staples Fine Art http://www.josephkinnebrew.com/prints/prints_product_pgs/2022_prod/beaurouge_prod_pg.html
1 out of 50 of claimed

waive fee + signed giclee

$750 USD
Perk #2 +Toby Orders Up Christmas (retail value $200) by Joseph Kinnebrew 10" x 10" signed and numbered printed by Staples Fine Art http://www.josephkinnebrew.com/prints/prints_product_pgs/2022_prod/tobyxmas_prod_pg.html
0 out of 25 of claimed

waive fee + bronze sculpture

$3,000 USD
"Just Us" retail value $5500, Joseph Kinnebrew signed and numbered, 11" wide x 13" ht x 8" deep (request photograph)
0 out of 2 of claimed
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