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Artists In Cellophane, Vikki Vassar
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ART-O-MAT
ARTOMAT.ORG
What do you do when something ubiquitous
like the cigarette vending machine becomes
illegal for use? For Clark Whittington,
the response was to sell works of art. The
North Carolina-based conceptual artist has
spent 25 years repurposing now-prohibited-
in-the-U.S. vintage cigarette machines
to vend small, handmade creations —
paintings, drawings, sculptures, jewelry,
mini-macramé, and whatever else over 400
contributing artists come up with to stock
170 Art-O-Mat machines nationwide. “Some
are real active, others are there waiting for
the right person to come along,” Whittington ...