Update on the Dollar Project

Sometimes you get an answer when you’re not expecting it. I received an email out of the blue alerting me to the latest with Dean Bracy, the artist who started the Dollar Project, who I wrote about back in 2009. I had asked then if anyone knew more information about the project that he started in 2000, to please let me know. Jim Lovette of The Monarch Watch came across my initial post and emailed with an update. I’m so glad he did.

He said Dean stops by the Monarch Watch’s conservation organization, which tracks monarch butterflies, a few times a year. The monarch butterfly happens to be one of his subjects. (I love butterflies.) He also sent me a website run by Dean’s brother, Where Did the Dollar Go, which gives an update about all the postcards and what was the response as well as the details about how the project was started. Interesting to me that Dean’s inspiration was Chuck Close, who’s work I am also inspired by, so I can relate.

The hope is that one day Dean will be able to display all the years of artwork he had created as a part of what just started with a idea and a dollar. You may be interested in purchasing some of his other artwork to help him out.