Velvet art gets a pretty bad rap ... But why—oh why, I ask as I indignantly shake my fist at the sky—is a velvet Elvis not included in the Smithsonian collections? Immortalized in song ...

Art is in the eye of the beholder ... The all-time favorite subject of black velvet artists is Elvis Presley. But any image the human mind can conceive of is likely to end up on black velvet ...

But his background in art is limited — his degree is in American ... and I’d just bought a Velvet Elvis,” he says. “It’s like there is an unseen hand guiding all of this.” ...

because MOST people around here seem to think of art as a picture of Elvis on black velvet or a gazing ball in the front yard, and if it weren’t for them this place would NEVER have a chance of ...

Wabash Ave. The show includes, of course, the requisite portrait of Elvis on black velvet. This particular interpretation measures 8 feet by 8 feet, and was the art show`s inspiration. Buzz Kilman ...

Stephen Harper's view that only popular art deserves to be recognized (The ... would be filled with textured Kiersteads and velvet Elvis paintings. It is worth recalling, for example, that artists ...

Still others will remember Elvis, John Wayne ... velvet painting retrospective traveling around the state. Black Velvet Art, a Rasquache Aesthetic seeks to tell the story of how the art form ...