Joe Vithayathil from On The Go With Joe from Fox News Good Day Oregon will be stopping by on Tuesday morning for some live coverage of the Velveteria, so tune in 6am – 9am on Tuesday Jan 5th, 2010.

Also check out today’s Oregonian, Jan 4th, for an article on Velveteria called, “It’s curtains for the Velveteria velvet painting museum” by Kristi Turnquist.

SFBG - San Francisco Bay Guardian Online

111 Minna Gallery presents “Black Velvet Masterpieces”

Wednesday August 13, 2008 – Kat Renz, from the San Francisco Bay Guardian,  wrote a preview article about our book signing event at San Francisco’s 111 Minna Gallery.


Here are some of the excerpts:
Carl Baldwin and Caren Anderson leading authorities on black velvet paintings (BVPs) opened the Velveteria, a Portland, Ore., museum housing results of their decade-long scouring of thrift stores, estate sales, flea markets and antique malls. The couple have yet to hoard all the world’s BVPs, but they average about five new additions to their collection per week.

Baldwin and Anderson have compiled Black Velvet Masterpieces (Chronicle Books), 192 pages highlighting 275 works, including the obligatory weepy clowns, poker dogs, and celebrities from John Wayne to Snoop Dogg. Celebrate the release of the book, resist art snobbery, and start a BVP religion simultaneously.

San Francisco's 111 Minna Gallery

Powell's Books showcases Velveteria

Velveteria took over Powell’s Books for the month of May 2008. A visual treat sure to please your campy, polyester-wearing soul.


Offered a wondrous eyeful of, well, pretty much what you might expect from a collection of velvet paintings–unicorns, naked ladies, Skinny Elvis, Fat Elvis, sad clowns, sad Jesus–it was all there, waiting to be loved, laughed at, idolized, lusted after.


On Thursday, May 1st, Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin signed copies of their book, “Black Velvet Masterpieces: Highlights from the Collection of the Velveteria Museum“.

Velveteria Takes Over Powell's Books