BAD JPEGs NFT

BAD JPEGS This isn’t what art is supposed to look like.

The Fellowship Patron Pass was an annual membership central to our mission to build a program based on research, thoughtful curation, and guidance for artists. After they expired, in June 2024, all Fellowship Patron Passes were replaced with the BAD JPEGS collection as a gift to say thank you to our loyal supporters.

BAD JPEGS are ugly pictures, art in reverse. Art is supposed to be beautiful. It’s supposed to be escapist, a place of refuge or paradise. Such expectations beg the question of how art can ever properly confront the uncomfortable realities of our world.

Sometimes art must stand up and embrace being uncomfortable itself. And when artists become unburdened from requirements of beauty, they become freer to do the necessary dirty work that helps us see particular realities that otherwise would go ignored.