FIRST EVER GALLERY EXHIBITION TO ACCEPT BITCOIN!

[juliamafalda]

Hey guys!

I would like to inform you of a unique event involving BTCitcoin that is the first of its kind and would appreciate your support and coverage if anyone here publishes  

On Wednesday June 17th, you'll be able to attend the first photo exhibition ever where you will be able to buy physical works using Bitcoin!

Photographer Julia Mafalda (www.juliamafalda.com) will be displaying the first part of her series AMERICA'S BEAUTY, a collection of photographs from the US that have been taken over the past 3 years and will be continued during the coming years.

Julia Mafalda is an artist with personal ties to the Bitcoin and startup world and she felt it was important to publicly push the progress and adoption of what will become a large future form of revenue for all artists. Her husband, an entrepreneur around media and tech, is a co-founder of the secretive Bitcoin startup that's creating the platform and system to allow institutional and mass adoption of Bitcoin.

Together with the support of other co-founders of the startup including a founder of the first Bitcoin Embassy in Europe, Julia Mafalda put together an initiative that somehow has never been done before. With the obvious relationship between the arts and Bitcoin, the exhibition could be the first chip laid down in what could become a revitalizing gift for the entire arts industry.

Works for purchase with Bitcoin will be available in the MW WW Gallery in Warsaw between 17-25th of June, and afterwards will be also available online through the website: www.juliamafalda.com.

You can also tip Julia Mafalda with Bitcoin directly to her BTC account @
1JnJTEzvNUPXpGYjP33KmK7FtNXtoLBz3h

or

through ChangeTip: https://www.changetip.com/tipme/JuliaMafalda.

Help support artists, the arts and the progression and adoption of Bitcoin!

Facebook Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/671997212932562/

[Buttknuckle]

This is great, I hope this exhibition goes well.  This is exactly the sort of thing we need to improve the usefulness of bitcoins.  The best part is that hopefully a certain community, affluent people with spare money to buy things, will be introduced to bitcoins.  Even if none of them actually start to use it at the event, it will put it on their radar for the future.

[BillyBobZorton]

Didn't thought about this before. It's actually an excellent idea to put a QR code next to every picture so people can pay each artist directly without middle men.

[melody82]

Grats Julia!  I hope the exhibition goes well.  Adding bitcoin should increase your audience exposure and draw a crowd that might not otherwise attend art events.

O.k., so next you need to have an exhibit of Warsaw, and make it in the USA somewhere   maybe around the San Francisco area.

[rocoro]

Great idea,  have fun with the exhibition!

[Falconer]

It sounds great, but is the OP not Julia Mafalda since he/her using same username here? I hope the exhibition be success and get interested by other artist or entrepreneur, so they can adopt bitcoin too in their business.

[juliamafalda]

Thanks to everyone for your support and belief that Bitcoin is the future Here you can read some more about my initiative and things related to it:

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/art-exhibition-poland-exclusively-accept-bitcoin-payment/

[IDKwhatimdoing]

woah, nice!!! best of luck to your exibhition!!! i'd totally be there if i could

[Possum577]

Great, great news! IF we want to make bids but can't be at the gallery in Warsaw, can we make bids online? Will their be an auction at all?

Thanks.

[gogxmagog]

that's good but i am surprised there is no mention, or use, of ascribe.io. that the artist accepts btc for her work isn't really any big deal in that it is neither a unique or new event, but also... she could accept anything just as easily... the event suggests a sort of publicity stunt.

i don't want to rain on her parade, but why is the fact she accepts btc any big deal? I've been involved in the arts all my life and seen plenty of barter and trade takes place. many artists prefer to work outside the system. accepting btc is akin to saying "I only accept rupee for my art" it is just one of a panoply of currencies available.

ascribe.io however is a much different thing. ascribe.io is a blockchain based verification of authenticity, provenance and ownership. it is especially useful for selling limited editions, something that is common with photo-work.

i wish the artist luck with her show, and the work is nice too, but i urge her to look into ascribe.io. she wont be the first to sell her work using it but i think she will still be a trailblazer. she isn't the first to offer her work for btc anyway. might as well use the tech to do something fiat cant do.... I'm not affiliated with ascribe.io, but I wholly endorse it and in this case it could be of great benefit to both artist and patron.

check it out at https://www.ascribe.io/

[Amph]

this is a good news, but what if there was a gallery that would accept works of art based on bitcoin, as a painting that quickly picture what is bitcoin and how it work

or a picture of bitcoin instead with all that fancy stuff of a typical work of art
 

[Kprawn]

Art and Bitcoin, is like wine and cheese. 

Let's not fight about who was first and who was last to accept Bitcoin.... Let's rather rejoice about EVERYONE who does.

I checked out the site, and I like what I see. Let's support Bitcoin through Art and then decide what wine will suite the best cheese. 

Do you only accept Bitcoin or other payment methods too?

[juliamafalda]

Thank you very much and I'm actually flying to SF on July 7th and staying there for a while before moving back to L.A. - can you recommend some places or galleries that would be interested in an exhibition with Bitcoin? Not JUST Bitcoin, but as an additional form of payment.

Grats Julia!  I hope the exhibition goes well.  Adding bitcoin should increase your audience exposure and draw a crowd that might not otherwise attend art events.

O.k., so next you need to have an exhibit of Warsaw, and make it in the USA somewhere   maybe around the San Francisco area.

[juliamafalda]

Hello

First off, I'm not saying I'm the only artist who accepts Bitcoin. I'm highlighting the fact that this is the first time that a gallery allows Bitcoin payments through the artist's account (in this case mine) DURING the whole exhibition (together with the opening) - and if I'm wrong - then even better, I'm glad if that's not the first time because it's just so natural for Artists to adopt Bitcoin as a form of payment. You can also TIP me directly by scanning the QR code that will be hanging in the gallery.

Also, Bitcoin is NOT the only currency that the gallery and I accept - it's an additional form of payment for those who have Bitcoins and want to pay with them

My husband is a co-founder of a secretive Bitcoin startup that will influence the digital currency market very fast and I'm just so thrilled I can be a part of the whole process of developing the artistic world and helping to adopt the DC.

If you have any other questions or hesitations, don't wait to email me directly: contact@juliamafalda.com.

I'm happy I could bring up this subject here!

that's good but i am surprised there is no mention, or use, of ascribe.io. that the artist accepts btc for her work isn't really any big deal in that it is neither a unique or new event, but also... she could accept anything just as easily... the event suggests a sort of publicity stunt.

i don't want to rain on her parade, but why is the fact she accepts btc any big deal? I've been involved in the arts all my life and seen plenty of barter and trade takes place. many artists prefer to work outside the system. accepting btc is akin to saying "I only accept rupee for my art" it is just one of a panoply of currencies available.

ascribe.io however is a much different thing. ascribe.io is a blockchain based verification of authenticity, provenance and ownership. it is especially useful for selling limited editions, something that is common with photo-work.

i wish the artist luck with her show, and the work is nice too, but i urge her to look into ascribe.io. she wont be the first to sell her work using it but i think she will still be a trailblazer. she isn't the first to offer her work for btc anyway. might as well use the tech to do something fiat cant do.... I'm not affiliated with ascribe.io, but I wholly endorse it and in this case it could be of great benefit to both artist and patron.

check it out at https://www.ascribe.io/

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Great news, I love hearing/reading about bitcoin reaching different professions & all different walks of life.
So the first day of the gallery is tomorrow, you'll have to let us know how it goes, how many pieces sell & for what price (in bitcoin of course).
Your husband sounds cool, I'm intrigued as to who he is seeing as you mention he's co-owner of a secret bitcoin start up hmmmm, I won't pry though.
Good luck with the exhibition, you will have to let us know how it goes.

[juliamafalda]

Hi

So you can TIP the artist (me;) directly to my Bitcoin account or through ChangeTip, but if you actually want to buy a photograph, then you have to wait this upcoming week until the exhibition ends and then you can purchase them online through my website by contacting me (www.juliamafalda.com). The works will be displayed online until I fix another exhibition in the USA where more works are gonna be presented, also from this year

Great, great news! IF we want to make bids but can't be at the gallery in Warsaw, can we make bids online? Will their be an auction at all?

Thanks.

[Argwai96]

Great to see more artist using Change tip to receive tips, some artist may find tipping in bitcoin a bit difficult in till they see others trying it.