talkPOPc
Building Thought Through Conversations

Tax-Deductible Donations

These artworks are legally a part of the nonprofit talkPOPc, Inc.

Buying one of these is a tax-deductible gift, and will further the mission of talkPOPc.

This mission now includes art events at the MDC (Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, New York), wherein inmates are taught drawing and philosophy, and given some of the pleasures of a talkPOPc experience.

For more information on prices, please contact us at talkpopc@gmail.com.

Upon making a charitable donation to talkPOPc, a selection from the following gifts is available. These artworks are legally a part of the nonprofit talkPOPc, Inc.

Charitable donations are tax-deductible and help to further the mission of talkPOPc.

As a product, these “Converse Thoughts” are not just artworks (or decorative baubles that go on the wall or as an asset in a portfolio). They are not mere paintings. Rather, the painting surfaces, which encourage contemplation beyond simple pictorial recognition, serve as a portal into another world: The world of thought.

“Thought” is bundled into the product itself in the form of a separate text (which is sometimes spoken on video by our puppet mascot, Popsey). Upon purchase, private access is provided to the corresponding textual component of the “Converse Thought”.

In addition, talkPOPc supporters become members of the larger conversation that is singularly talkPOPc. It is a membership constituted by those who have gathered to think about, discuss, and come to consensus on a particular topic. It is BuildingThought .

Funds from these donations go to support several different talkPOPc causes. These causes include talkPOPc events at local (e.g., NYC region) venues as well as international (e.g., European) exhibition venues. (See associated archive here.) In addition, donations also fund talkPOPc’s prison project. This mission now includes classes and events at the MDC (Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, New York), wherein inmates are taught both drawing and philosophy, and given some of the pleasures of a talkPOPc experience.

We need your support! To contribute to these important activities, please contact us for more information on the gifts available at different donation levels at talkpopc@gmail.com.

All donations are tax deductible.

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  1. Dena Shottenkirk
    Time in Metropolitan Detention Center, 2024
    graphite on paper
    17 x 11 inches

    Frame included

  2. Dena Shottenkirk
    Vienna Conversations, 2024
    graphite on paper
    11 x 17 inches

    Frame included

  3. Dena Shottenkirk
    Versions, Countdown, 2007

    oil pastel, graphite on paper

    22 x 30 inches
    Frame included

  4. Dena Shottenkirk


    Epistemology, 2008

    oil pastel, gold leaf on paper


    22 x 30 inches

    Frame included

  5. Dena Shottenkirk
    Epistemological Rigor Mortis, 2006

    oil pastel, graphite on paper
    22 x 30 inches
    Frame included

  6. Dena Shottenkirk

    For All the Nazis, 1987

    gold leaf and oil on two canvases

    72 x 72 inches and 6 x 72 inches

    GIFTED

  7. Dena Shottenkirk
    Icons Ideas    , 1999
    Paper, wood, Xerox
    12 x 6 x 6 inches

  8. Dena Shottenkirk
    Perception, c. 1989
    Oil and gold leaf on two canvases
    15 x 72 and 72 x 36 inches

    GIFTED