31/07/2024
Dear Friends, after two years of being part of the Ardmore Art Walk, I'm wait-listed for this year's sale. Selling ByrdieArt at this wonderful event is the single most lucrative source of funding for The Little Pet Chapel Project as well as for tracking equipment and community outreach, including helping under-served populations meet their veterinary needs.
The AAW footprint is smaller this year which means there are not as many yards available to host artists, so fewer artists have been accepted. It was a juried event this year as well, so maybe there wasn't as much room for outsider art like mine.
The way it works is that artists who live in Ardmore are the first to be accepted, then those who have lived there in the past are given second priority. Those who have no connection are third to the well. At least that's the way I remember it stated on the application. Same as always.
My Ardmore resume looks like this:
We moved a lot when I was a kid, including out of state a couple of times under cover of darkness. I attended five elementary schools between first and sixth grades, including Moore, Ardmore, and Latham in Winston Salem. I lived in nine different Ardmore houses with my family, and the first house I bought as an adult was on Madison Avenue.
I skint knees and elbows flying down Sunset on my Rat Fink skateboard, kissed my first boy on the bleachers behind Ardmore School, smoked my first cigarette and my first joint in backyards on Hawthorne, learned how to swan dive off the high board at Sherwood Pool, and received my first dog bite on Ardsley across from the little pink store. I felt so bad about shoplifting an Archie and Betty comic book from Andrews that I took it back and turned myself in.
I'm an old Ardmore brat.
My art is well-received.
I'm asking those of you who live in Ardmore and are within the AAW footprint to please open up your yards for the local artists who depend on this show to get things done.
Perhaps this show can be expanded if you do.
