It is in my blood to create
You decide who will appear in Artforum Magazine, take home $25,000, and display their work at The Art of Elysium's Salon!
Really hard to say as I get involved in a vision and things that are laying around. Or perhaps a thought that has no media just a desired outcome. My imagination just needs an outlet.
Where do you find inspiration?My inspiration is all around me. I went to New Orleans Center of Creative Arts in 1975- 1976 for visual arts. I learned to lay bricks, do ceramic arts, wall murals, natural fabric dyes, weaving everything you would think a 70's progressive art school in New Orleans would be and all the teachers were practicing artists. I painted the drive in front of the New Orleans Museum of Arts for the King Tutt tour along with my class with New Orleans Muralist Emery Clark
What would you do with $25,000?Not really thinking about the money, but maybe I would try to make a space for folks to learn paper Mache and other hands on art stuff. I remember when I was very young there was a small shed at the local park that some teenage girls were teaching art to the kids that visited the park. Just a thought but not unlike a food truck park, it would be a portable library, portable art studio, portable science lab- all the stuff that is losing funding but is so necessary.
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