Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A new museum exhibit at the Library of Michigan is putting Chicano and Latino history in the spotlight ...

"Please don't bother with submitting any of my work to art societies or museums as I hold them long-haired bastards in contempt since I know a lot about how they operate." The words "velvet painting," ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Entrepreneur: Jennifer Kenworth, aka Juanita, the velvet painter. “AHA” Moment: In 1999, when Kenworth did a ceramics residency at a ...

Our love for science fiction is so vivid and soars so far into space, regular art just won’t convey it. To display our favorite science-fiction characters and creatures properly, you need something ...

Artenstein is a filmmaker and professor. He lives in Oceanside. Black velvet paintings put me through film school, along with cowboy jackets and hand tooled leather bags — all hot sellers at my father ...

When Diane Shilkitus was younger, she had a giant black velvet painting of a matador in her house. “I used to stare at it,” she says. “I think it just got into my subconscious, and when I got older, I ...

It is the Rodney Dangerfield genre of the art world: demeaned, dismissed and definitely not getting any respect with subject matter like crying Elvises, fang-bearing jungle panthers, Jesus with ...

Kyle Kulakowski is a Tucson artist whose subject is contemporary and retro video games. While video-game-inspired art has recently become something of a popular trend, Kulakowski's original medium, ...

A Victorian-era quilt is already chockablock with many different rich fabrics. Look closer and see more layers of decoration. There are embroidered booties, birds, flowers, anchors, bucks and a spider ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A new museum exhibit at the Library of Michigan is putting Chicano and Latino history in the spotlight through a vivid, often-overlooked medium: black velvet painting. “Black ...