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Folk Art Festival

by Amanda on February 25, 2009

Obama folk art


I was in Carrboro, North Carolina last weekend for the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, where my group JINX was performing, and was giddy to discover that there was a folk art festival happening one town over. I dragged my improv troupe-mates …

Obama folk art

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This weekend I took myself to the American Visionary Arts Museum (AVAM) in Baltimore, which I’ve been dying to visit – I knew I’d love it, and I did. (If you aren’t sure what “visionary arts” means, read this.)The main exhibit right now is All Faiths Beautiful (through August ’08) and includes postcards from the PostSecret project on which a self-proclaimed atheist confesses to secretly …

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His Duckiness

by Amanda on August 29, 2007

HIS DUCKINESS by Harold Whitlow

I came across this painting – “His Duckiness,” by Harold Whitlow – on the Art Enables* website and fell in love. It’s been sold, but there are a bunch of other paintings for sale, with a 10-50% discount available (depending on the piece) through September 4. …

HIS DUCKINESS by Harold Whitlow

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Art Enables II

by Amanda on January 2, 2007

RHODA, by Art Enables artist Eileen Schofield

‘Gotta give another shout-out to Art Enables, an organization that gives mentally and developmentally disabled artists studio space and helps them sell their art. I’ve written about them once before, but had a personal interaction with them over the holidays and wanted to share …

RHODA, by Art Enables artist Eileen Schofield

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Outsider Art, Inside the Beltway

by Amanda on November 29, 2006

Art Enables: Raise the Rent and the Roof, Sunday, December 3, 2006

Art Enables presents:…a Housewarming and Holiday party, from 2-6 p.m. at the Art Enables studio. Get more event details.I just learned …

Art Enables: Raise the Rent and the Roof, Sunday, December 3, 2006

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