The Herald News of Monterey Bay California reports that John Wiseman will be closing Art Max due to lawsuits and claims filed by his son and ex-daughter-in-law. It makes for quite a sad and sordid story and proves that Murphy’s law is alive and well in family businesses. Read the whole story here: Art Max to close.
“The Science and Spiritual Resonance of Paint” What a great title that would have been for an article and Pete Cole reports the National Endowment for the Arts is featuring Gamblin this month in their magazine and online. The article is available online so check it out: Painting the Town Napthol Red.
Check out the commercial some very creative customers made for Raw Materials in downtown Los Angeles. Say hi to the store’s mascot Wonton! httpv://youtu.be/0okLLy7NV44
There’s a amazing new smart phone app called Art Around Town: It tracks street art and fosters community. It’s a community-generated map, tagged with the locations of publically accessible art, including murals, sculptures and, yes, even graffiti. It already features hundreds of pieces of public art in Washington, San Francisco, New York and Oakland, Calif., and it’s growing – a street in Spokane, Wash., already features seven tags. Check out a PBS article with lots more details. Art Around Town on PBS
Consumers respond to well laid out stores that make finding what they need and want easy and alluring. Now is a perfect time to tune up merchandising and NAMTA has a great how-to guide for members buried in their resource library. It’s entitled Visual Merchandising 101; How to Increase Your “Shelf Esteem!” If you are a member or would just like to join this trade association go to NAMTA
Mele Murals is a youth development, arts education, cultural preservation, and community-building project. Over a five-year period, starting in late 2013, local artists, youth, and other members of communities spanning the eight major islands of Hawai`i will create a series of large-scale outdoor murals focusing on Hawaiian lyrics (mele) that explore mo`olelo `aina (stories of place) and cultural and historical heritage. Montana Cans and Art Alternatives have partnered with the Estria Foundation to help sponsor the initial murals of the project.
The project has just kicked off with the first mural in the series and is already receiving great media attention!
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