New York Times Arts Beat: As States Struggle, How Much For the Arts?

Erika Nelson, an artist from Lucas, Kan., drives The World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things, her mobile art museum.

 

Should state governments be in the business of funding the arts, particularly in hard times when they are struggling to fill potholes?

Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas has answered this question loud and clear. In May, he vetoed the legislature's $689,000 appropriation for the state arts commission, thus eliminating the state's funding for culture in one fell swoop.

Read the rest of the story on the NYT Arts Beat blog:  http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/as-states-struggle-how-much-for-the-arts/

Hand-Drawn Book Project showing in Winter Park, FL!

As a part of this year's Sketchbook Project from ArtHouse CoOp, our latest hand-drawn book can be checked out and perused at the show opening tomorrow at the Full Sail University, Winter Park FL.

Show runs July 29 - 31, if you want to see it in person, or you can browse through our latest line drawings from the road online: http://www.arthousecoop.com/submissions/43207-if-you-lived-by-youd-be-home-by-now

Orange you glad I didn't say Banana?

-Erika Nelson, Director

WLT Inc.

Hand-Drawn Book Project showing in Chicago IL!

As a part of this year's Sketchbook Project from ArtHouse CoOp, our latest hand-drawn book can be checked out and perused at the show opening tomorrow at the Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago IL.

Show runs July 14 - 17, if you want to see it in person, or you can browse through our latest line drawings from the road online: http://www.arthousecoop.com/submissions/43207-if-you-lived-by-youd-be-home-by-now

Have a Chicago Dog for me! With the works, please...

-Erika Nelson, Director

WLT Inc.

Seguin (Texas) retaking the pecan crown

 

Nut will be the 'world's largest.'

By Claire Cardona

SEGUIN— It took a while, but this city is back on top.

This Fourth of July, the city of about 25,000 people will reclaim its long-held title as the site of the world's largest pecan, showcasing a 2,300-pound nut measuring 16 feet long and 8 feet wide at its downtown parade.

While it's important to note the pecan is fake — made of tubing, chicken wire and fiberglass — residents are more interested in restoring a tradition that had been cracked away from them by a farm in Brunswick, Mo.

"I think Seguin should regain its bragging rights, take back the fame," said John Pape, the manager at Pape Pecan House who helped fabricate the new pecan.

For a long time, Seguin had the biggest pecan in the country. But by the time Pape built an even bigger one in 2002 to replace the original world's largest pecan, which was constructed 40 years earlier in front of the Guadalupe County Courthouse, that claim had been lost.

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/community/article/Seguin-retaking-the-pecan-crown-1450043.php#ixzz1Qz8dWG00