optimism MetroCard by Reed Seifer. Artwork commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit, 2009. Photo: Michael Valičić.
optimism buttons, LA edition, 2022.
optimism , 1995. Part of my senior thesis in at Clark University.
optimism buttons and magnets 1995–2019.
On the cover of the Metro section of the New York Times , November 19, 2009. Photo: Tanya Braganti.
On the homepage of the New York Times, November 19, 2009.
weathered optimism, 2015.
optimism t-shirt (2020) modeled by yours truly. Manhattan Beach, California, 2022.
As part of the exhibition Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York at the Museum of the City of New York admission stickers were swapped out for optimism, 2018. Photo: Julie Mente.
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Gold optimism buttons, 2017. Photo: Tanya Braganti.
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original optimism button, 1995.
Original optimism stickers, 1995. Thank you to all the people who have contributed to this project. Special thanks to Clark University professors Sarah Buie, Elli Crocker, and Sarah Walker for their early support; Kaarin Lemstrom-Sheedy, who in
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