Saturday, April 05, 2008 – Jason Croft did a radio interview with Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin of Velveteria on Sidetrack, a monthly magazine broadcast on WILL AM 580, a public broadcasting service of the University of Illinois.
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Velvet paintings sold cheap from vans at roadside stands across the country are now achieving loftier status. There’s a new coffee-table book and a museum — the Velveteria — in Portland, Oregon, featuring the fuzzy velvet art.
Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin serve as curators for the 300 velvet museum pieces, which include paintings of Rambo, Bruce Lee and the rock band KISS as well as luminescent unicorns and fluorescent matadors. Baldwin says contrary to what people might think, in the world of velvet, Elvis is not…
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