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	<description>A Hoedown/Barn Dance of Creative Ideas and Pancake Recipes</description>
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		<title>CERAMIC STUDIO  Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 16 hands Studio tour in Floyd Virginia is  Friday, Sat. and Sunday after Thanksgiving (November 27-29).  It is a unique opportunity to visit artist in their homes/studios.  There is a map that directs you to the studios.   Basically you ride around this lovely rural area and actually go to the artist&#8217;s homes .  This is one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what is art?</title>
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		<title>Tara Donovan article abstract</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal
December 24, 2008
Leisure and Arts, Section J, 1035 words
Title: Art: Magician of Man-Made Materials
Author: Lance Esplund
 This article reviews the 2008 exhibition of works by sculptor Tara Donovan at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts. The author discusses Donovan’s transformations of common materials such as pencils, buttons or Styrofoam cups as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unclelumpy.umwblogs.org/2009/10/20/tara-donovan-article-abstract/</link>
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		<title>The Elsewhere Museum</title>
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The Elsewhere Museum is located in Greensboro, NC, and is not what one would consider a typical museum. The museum is a &#8220;living museum&#8221;, it is created by artists that work from the contents of the original stock surplus store. The &#8220;museum&#8221; holds years of objects, from the former owner and collector Sylvia Gray. Objects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unclelumpy.umwblogs.org/2009/10/19/residency-at-the-elsewhere-museum/</link>
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		<title>The Archie Bray Foundation of Ceramic Arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Archie Bray Foundation of Ceramic Arts is located in Helena, Montana. The artist residencies range from two months to two years. Diversity of the work is extremely important to the Archie Bray Foundation. The Foundation also offers classes to the public, and has several visiting artists periodically visit  for workshops. There is very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unclelumpy.umwblogs.org/2009/10/19/the-archie-bray-foundation-of-ceramic-arts/</link>
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		<title>The Fabric Workshop &amp; Museum</title>
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Tired of seein&#8217; the same ole artwerk over &#38; over agein?  I shure am.  It all made mur sense to lil&#8217; ole me when I founded upon this here Fabric Workshop &#38; Museum.  The FWM (as they calls it) is the only non-profit in Emerica that focuses on new work from new material.  They started [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unclelumpy.umwblogs.org/2009/10/19/the-fabric-workshop-museum/</link>
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		<title>Sacatar Residencies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Instituto Sacatar is located on the Island of Itaparica in the Bay of All Saints, close to Brazil, Salvador, and Bahia. Artists of all types are accepted, but you might have to make some accomodations to your studio and way of life. Sacatar includes a central house with a library, living rooms, a kitchen and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unclelumpy.umwblogs.org/2009/10/19/sacatar-residencies/</link>
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		<title>Interdisciplinary Work at Yaddo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One artist community that caught my eye was Yaddo, a 400-acre facility located in Saratoga Springs, New York. The admissions panel requires artists to be at a &#8220;professional level&#8221; within their chosen field, but I see no problem there&#8211;we&#8217;re all working towards that goal.
In any case. The facility is gorgeous, like something out of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unclelumpy.umwblogs.org/2009/10/19/interdisciplinary-work-at-yaddo/</link>
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		<title>Mattress Magic</title>
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I just like the environment created in these rooms!  I wanna be a part of it!
Look at this!  It looks like something out of the Matrix!  This installation is called Ships, Chips, and the Stack of Documents by the artists Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua.  Man, I bet the creators of Stargate would love to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unclelumpy.umwblogs.org/2009/10/19/mattress-magic/</link>
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		<title>Costa Rica Artists&#8217; Colony for Julia and David</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This artist colony offers residencies from  a few weeks to months.  It is located in Costa Rica in Central America and in the middle of a private seventeen acre rainforest. It is about  a twenty five minute drive to the capital San Jose&#8217;.  The colony was established in 1998 to honor the memory of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://unclelumpy.umwblogs.org/2009/10/19/costa-rica-artists-colony-for-julia-and-david/</link>
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