We're very, very pleased to present Obsessive Consumption by Kate Bingaman-Burt this July! Ms. Bingaman-Burt will practically be creating a store within a store with not just an exhibit, but window displays, bins filled with dozens of original drawings, 40 issues of her beautifully produced What Did You Buy Today zines, and other objects and oddities relating to personal consumption! We can't wait!

Kate Bingaman-Burt is an illustrator, designer, writer and founder of Obsessive Consumption. She also is an assistant professor of graphic design at Portland State University.

For the last four years, she has produced drawings inspired from her daily purchases, no matter how mundane. Bingaman-Burt's work explores the relationship between people and their possessions as was as the consumer culture.

Her work about personal consumerism has appeared in installations and exhibitions across the country as well as in multiple media outlets such as New York Times Magazine, How, Print, Art News and National Public Radio. Princeton Architectural Press is publishing her first book: Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today? which contains containing 650 of her Daily Purchase Drawings, patterns and credit card statements in March of 2010.

She is active in the indie craft and craftivism movements and provided all of the illustrations for the book Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft and Design as well as the promotions for the companion documentary of the same name. Some of the other people she happily draws for are IDEO, Madewell, Ready-Made Magazine, The New York Times and Wieden + Kennedy.

Kate also travels to schools and conducts zine workshops and spreads the craftivism word. She will be conducting her first international zine workshop for the American University in Cairo, Egypt in 2010.

This event is free. The exhibit will run through the month of July.