Blogpost by Lisa Piper (one of the owners of the collection)……. I’ve often wondered where the term Outsider Art begins and where it ends. Can it be used for cooking where food and images collide in experimental new ways? Chefs are not trained as visual artists, but what they come out with is miraculous like this […]
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Objects and Memories, Museums and Inspiration
“The women . . . put different colored bottles, broken glass and sea-shells all around the grave of Aunt Dicey. In that way they showed their love for her.” William Faulkner, The Day When the Animals Talked Even if you don’t call yourself a “collector,” you do inevitably collect things. Often random, everyday things—think of […]
A Newby’s Experience of Clydefest 2015
You don’t have to have lived for a long time in the Triangle area of North Carolina before you see a “critter,” maybe at your favorite restaurant, at the North Carolina Museum of Art, or even in a neighbor’s front yard, and begin to hear parts of the story of Clyde Jones. Clyde, […]
