What do you do when someone steals your political yard sign? Get creative.

Don’t forget to vote this upcoming Tuesday!

I was looking through some old photos the other day and found some images that I had completely forgotten about! A few years back, I took a trip to New York City for a jazz music conference. While I was there, I went to get a fix of NY art which, of course, led me to the MOMA, one of the greatest art museums in the world. While I was there, I saw lots of people taking photos of the artwork which was extremely annoying. So many people using flash photography, I couldn’t believe it!

Since you can get beautiful postcards and books with all of the paintings in them, I decided to shoot a handful of photos (without flash!) of people looking at the paintings. It seemed interesting at the time.

Pablo Picasso
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Heather Smith Jones is a Lawrence-based painter and mixed media artist. When I first started doing my studio visit series, her name came up again and again in conversations with other local artists. I had seen some of her work at local gallery shows and we had met a few times through some mutual friends, so when I had the chance to hang out and visit with her in her studio, I jumped at the opportunity! She is an extremely kind and gracious person and allowed me to interrupt her on a recent Saturday morning to give me a tour of her work space.

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This is a collage piece that I recently came up with as a study for a different project. I ended up not using it for the project itself, but I had so much fun doing it, that I’d really like to try and do some more in this style, so stay tuned! A majority of the photographs were taken from the Library of Congress’ public domain archive on Flickr. That place is a treasure chest of interesting images from our nation’s past!

The Barack Obama Campaign has a series of art prints for sale under the name Artists for Obama. The series is comprised of images inspired by the message of the Obama campaign and they’ve had some high powered artists on board already. All money spent on the prints go towards the Obama campaign, so it’s a great way to help support his bid for the presidency!
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