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Quit Smoking, buy art

4/17/2013

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Introducing, The Art - o - Mat

Art comes in all shapes and sizes- And sometimes in the shape of a cigarette box. If you are an artist looking for a fun project, an extra marketing opportunity or an art lover on a budget - look no further. Clark Whittington has come up with the idea to recycle old cigarette vending machines and turn them into original art dispensors.
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    Blair's AIC collection above
In June 1997, Clark was set to have a solo art show at a local cafe, Penny Universitie in Winston-Salem, N.C. He used a recently-banned cigarette machine to create the first Art-o-mat®. The machine sold Clark’s black & white photographs mounted on blocks. 

The show was scheduled to be dismantled in July 1997. However, the owner loved the machine and asked that it stay permanently. At that point, it was clear that involvement of other artists was needed if the project was going to continue. The owner introduced Clark to a handful of other local artists and the group Artists in Cellophane (AIC) was formed.
Now there are over 100 locations in the country and over 400 participating Artists. To find a location or find out how to submit your work....OR HOW TO GET ONE, visit:
 
http://www.artomat.org/ 

So the next time you run into one of these non-cancer-causing-art-machine's - buy a pack of Blair Barbour's.
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