The Big REVEAL | Red Dot Challenge | Fantasy Art Collecting Game | PILOT

​Rochester Art Collectors partnered with Rochester Contemporary Arts Center to REVEAL a new fantasy art collecting game: the Red Dot Challenge on February 1st. 

This program was held during the Rochester Contemporary Arts Center's annual Members Exhibition.

It should be noted that Rochester Art Collectors had planned to launch a pilot of the Red Dot Challenge in the spring of 2020 but decided not to do so because of the pandemic. So, this program idea had been on hold for four years!

The Sitch:

• A small group of players were each given a fantasy budget of $10,000 to "buy" a fantasy art collection of at least seven works of art between December 1, 2023 and January 31st, 2024.
• On February 1, 2024 players REVEALED their choices and the inspiration behind their collections at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center.

Details about the REVEAL event:

• Bleu Cease, Executive Director/Curator of Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, welcomed the group and kick off the fun.
• Rome Celli from Rochester Art Collectors will gave a brief background about game, highlight the rules and introduce Red Dot Challenge players.
• Then the players talked about their collections, what inspired them, any goals or themes for their collections and how they responded to the game itself.

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The video above was recorded by Mike Molaire at Rochester Contemporary Arts Center on February 1, 2024

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​The Players

• Susan Mandl & Seth Oser played as a team
• Elizabeth Forbes
• Matt Vanderlee

After the presentations a handful of people in the audience volunteered to participate in a "lightening round" of the Red Dot Challenge. 

The group of volunteer players had five minutes to each identify their own mini-collection by placing colored posted notes next to their choices. After making their choices each of the lighting round players talked about the works in their mini-collections and why they chose them.

Rochester Art Collectors anticipates a second round of the game later in 2024 or early in 2025.

If you would like to participate in a future round of the game, please write to [email protected]