A Sold-Out Bigfoot Art Show

Office conceived, curated and designed "I Don't Believe in You Either," a Bigfoot-inspired art exhibition benefitting 826 Valencia (home of the Pirate Supply Store) and 826 Boston (home of the Bigfoot Research Center), the world's most inspiring nonprofit writing and tutoring centers for kids. Inspired by 826 Boston's storefront, we nailed down the theme immediately after a stop by the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in the Santa Cruz mountains.

After searching Gold Country, Reno and San Francisco's Mission District for amazingly awful old landscape paintings, we created and painted new Bigfoot-inspired art over them, hoping to make the pieces as covetable as they were in their wood-paneled family room heyday. This resulted in a collection of 38 original, framed paintings and 100 vintage postcards, as well as a limited-edition show poster.

We also invited a bunch of local artist friends, including Lisa Congdon, Dave Eggers, Jessica Hische, Eric Marinovich, to reimagine Northern California tree stumps, based on their own interpretations of Bigfoot.

We worked with kids in 826 Valencia's programs to write descriptions of each art piece in their own (awesome) words. Then we featured them in the sold-out show, giving attendees a sense of what their contributions were supporting.