Your friendly art251 hosts have been working hard over the last month or so to spread the word about art251 — our cool blue space, our exceptional artists and our great art. We’ve had 3 reporters in art251 recently, and even a magazine photographer who insisted on taking shots of us as aged rock stars might pose for the cover of their latest iTunes download. (While Kim is the photogenic type, I think I may have blown it.)

First, we got a good mention in a September 19 article in the Keller Citizen about Young Artists of Texas (YAT). We’re aiming to start featuring selected works from a different YAT artist each month, starting in October.

Second, came a syndicated September 26 article “Thank you for not smoking” about our art-o-mat machine by Jef Tingley for the Gay List Daily. We’re expecting a longer version of this to show up in THE Magazine’s November edition. By the way, THE Magazine is a great new monthly magazine for the arts in the DFW area.

Third, we’re delighted to see that we made the cover of our local paper on October 3. We’re featured in a lengthy article by Sarah Junek entitled, “Vendor sparks art concepts”.  The focus of Sarah’s story was our beautiful blue art-o-mat art vending machine, and it’s patron saint, Clark Whittington. In addition, some our artists got an honorable mention as well — Lori Love, Seppo Aarnos and Trish Biddle.

Over the coming months we’ll be focusing on publicizing our shows and artists. So, we’re hoping to get some more detailed coverage for all or some of our exceptional artists.