The Museum of Velvet Paintings
See Tiki Wonderland Now!
Velveteria is proud to unveil its new show Tiki Wonderland, Featuring the Art of Edgar Leeteg, Burke Tyree, Charles McPhee, Bill Erwin, And Cecelia Rodriguez.
Opens June 12, 2008 Aloha!
- We are on the Newsweek website, it's a photo slide show with our voice overs called "Black Velvet, If You Please - Kitsch or Art? Museum Fuzzes the Line".
- June 29th we will be on CBS Sunday Morning, with reporter Bill Geist, check your listings for time and channel.
- We are featured in an article about black velvet painting in UK's NUDE Magazine, Spring 2008 issue.
- Also in the news, Velveteria would like to thank Greg Gutfeld of Fox New's #1 show, Red Eye, for sporting the Unicorn Combover T-shirt on his show.
- And last but not least check out the Associated Press article written by Joseph B. Frazier called "The chi of Portland: High weirdness in Nirvana".
Welcome to the Velveteria, world famous museum of velvet paintings and epicenter of art. There will be around 300 paintings and a brand new blacklight room, lovely ladies, banditos, wahines, and all your favorites. Plus a very special shrine to the Virgin Mary. And the Showstopper UNICORNUCOPIA!!! You will never be the same after a visit to the Velveteria.
Breaking News
Velveteria proudly announces the unveiling of the Greatest Book on Art, "BLACK VELVET MASTERPIECES: Highlights from the Collection of the Velveteria Museum". Highlights from the Collection of the Velveteria Museum, by Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin. Wrap yourself in velvet, ride the velvet trail, hear the tales, meet the artists and see these mind blowing masterpieces with your own eyes. You will never be the same again after opening this book. Pre-order a copy of our book today at www.chroniclebooks.com.
Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach" is a new book with Velveteria on page 196. Thanks Tony!
Velveteria congratulates Inara Verzemnieks on being a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for her feature writing for the Oregonian, her story on the museum was one of stories in the portfolio she sent. Inara you rock! Velveteria is in a new book, Oregon Curiosities by Harriet Baskas. It is about quirky characters and roadside oddities. See the Velveteria on Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" (Cool guy, cool show!), season three, look for the show on the Pacific Northwest, with Portland's author Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the famed book "Fight Club" among others (It will rerun again see his site).
Check out their visit here!
More cool stuff! The Shins new album comes out Jan 23rd it's called Wincing the Night Away. These great guys did a photo shoot at the Velveteria for their upcoming article in Rolling Stone in January. Get their music and look for the article.