Posts Tagged ‘art museum’

Portland’s Velvet Art Museum in VIA magazine

Portland’s Velvet Art Museum: Velveteria. Photo by Susan Seubert


The offbeat museum, which recently moved to a bigger and better location at 2448 E Burnside St, houses close to 2,000 velvet paintings, some 340 of which are on display at any time. The pièce de résistance is a … Continue


Velveteria on Newsweek.com

Velveteria in Newsweek, photo by Alan Borrud


Kitsch or Art? Museum Fuzzes the Line

Some black velvet paintings are worth upward of $10,000, and some just pull down a few bucks at a garage sale. There are abundant Elvises and poker dogs that reinforce the… Continue