asheville to miami mural project

we're having a fundraiser for the asheville to miami mural project where i'll be raffling off the original of the illustration above, and i'll have super-cheap prints for sale ($5). dustin spagnola, alli good, and peter parpan will also have pieces in the raffle, as well as local businesses like ox & rabbit, diamond thieves, and eno. there will be music from andy herod of the electric owls, brindle, and mermaids (from atlanta.) and there will be beer.

when: sunday, nov. 21, 7 PM

where: 474 haywood road, asheville NC

how (much): $5 to get in, $10 for a raffle ticket

also, i am so excited that my amazing friend corinne longman is coming to miami for art basel!!! follow her charming and highly-addictive blog, a bright bite.

barry mcgee

barry mcgee is one of my favorite artists, and i'll finally get to see his work in miami later this month as part of the wynwood walls project:

his installations are my favorite--somehow even though his work is really graphic, the way it's arranged is so sensitive and fluid:

faith 47

south african female artist, faith 47--she has a really great blog here.

chadwick and spector's "museum anatomy"

from the wooster collective site. (click here for more)

nail art

carl sandburg

Cripple

Once when I saw a cripple

Gasping slowly his last days with the white plague,

Looking from hollow eyes, calling for air,

Desperately gesturing with wasted hands

In the dark and dust of a house down in a slum,

I said to myself

I would rather have been a tall sunflower

Living in a country garden

Lifting a golden-brown face to the summer,

Rain-washed and dew-misted,

Mixed with the poppies and ranking hollyhocks,

And wonderingly watching night after night

The clear silent processionals of stars.

support public art!

a video message from asheville artist dustin spagnola:

donate to this project if you can--it's a really great way for asheville to be a part of the larger contemporary art scene and for local artists to collaborate across disciplines/backgrounds/statelines.