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Consisting of Joey Mansfield, Reed Barrow, and Walt Creel, Quaint was a collective intent on blending its work with the viewer, blurring art and entertainment, and combining rural southern culture with a healthy dose of the color pink, cute animals, grandma's house.

Every major project Quaint did was elaborate and consisted of installation, displayed works, and audience participation.

At Space One Eleven in Birmingham, Alabama, Quaint created installations in the gallery windows and, in the tradition of every tourist attraction, routed patrons to a set where they would have their picture taken with a Shih Tzu. They were not given the keepsake without paying $3.00.

In the exhibition Taxidermy and Video, at the University of Montevallo, Quaint transformed the art gallery into a large and a small wood paneled room. In the large room, patrons found themselves in a southern home environment, including taxidermy based art and a large wood-grained TV showing strange characters. As the patrons explored their environment and found levers and ropes to manipulate, they discovered their actions produced results on the television. Quaint was locked in the small room, subjected to the actions of the patrons. Likewise, Quaint had levers and ropes in the small room to trigger actions in the large room.

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Montevallo Video Document
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