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| Art-o-Mat at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Photo via Facebook |
Over 400 different artists now participate in the Art-O-Mat project. On a recent trip to Northern California I had the opportunity to spend a a couple of hours at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. I spied the Art-o-Mat machine near the gift shop on the first floor when I first entered the museum:
A closer look at the contents:
I had planned to purchase the origami pack and visit the museum gift shop after visiting the exhbits but I completely ran out of time (I had a plane to catch). So I went hunting on the web for some of the art and artists in the different machines. This textile design by Aimee Alexander is pretty cool:
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| via the Art-O-Mat website |
I also like this pinhole camera and print set by Rebecca Sexton Larson:
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| via the Art-O-Mat website |
The restored machines are works of art themselves. Here are a couple of my favorites:
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| At the Emerge Gallery in North Carolina photo via the Art-O-Mat website |
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| At the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, NC photo via the Art-O-Mat website |
Find out more about the Art-O-Mat project at their website. I think it's a fun way to discover new artists and collect original art, and I hope to visit more of them in the future.
That is seriously cool! I love that the original integrity of the machines are preserved (in the sense that one can still very much tell what they were back in their former lives). How fun that you got to see one of these awesome pieces in person.
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I thought it was cool too! And a really wonderful and fun way to promote art in unexpected places (some of the machines are at everyday places like grocery stores).
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