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your art. Just work on getting good at I could paint them. It got to the point Will you talk about the youth Art has been such a positive influence in toward my interests. My first exhibit was project started at the Experimental
it,” he told me. I decided to start with where people were buying ideas of organization you founded? my life. Through Kindred Spirits, I am with Simmie Knox, which was a great Printmaking Institute on the Lafayette
landscapes. I studied paintings from the paintings in advance. We raised prices After I moved to Indianapolis, I created able to share my experiences with young honor for me. College campus in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Hudson River School (a collective of twice a year by 10-15 percent for six Kindred Spirits in the office complex people. Art education and exposure is
landscape artists in the mid-nineteenth years straight. In less than two years, across the street from our day care. I set not as available or intentional in the In 2014, I was chosen to contribute What do you want to leave as
century). Knox told me, “Until your the gallery was selling my work across up a studio, a gallery space, a picture- public-school system as it was when I a piece of art to the Eskenazi Health your legacy?
work can hang in the same room as the country. And I started getting framing workshop, and commercial was an adolescent. facilities as part of a collection with I want to be a major influence in
theirs, don’t show it.” I practiced for calls from people like Spike Lee and sign equipment. This was all free for seventeen other artists, designed to assisting art education and opportunity,
a year and a half and then started Alonzo Mourning. the kids. They could learn computer What projects have excited you the support the environment of health and I hope to be considered one of the
researching galleries. graphics, Adobe software, fine art, etc. most over your career? and healing. best painters of my time.
Do you experience artist’s block? My wife has a finance background, so Indiana is home to some of the country’s For more info, visit masonarchie.com
What did your first gallery I never experience artist’s block. There she was doing financial literacy with oldest art competitions. Competing Currently, I am traveling the country
experience look like? are so many ideas running through my the kids. Before we knew it, we had sixty in them has been rewarding. The Arts painting the Underground Railroad
I went to a gallery in Louisville and head that I know it may be impossible students. Eli Lilly as well as the Fifth Council of Indianapolis and the Lilly historic sites. I am also working with
showed them my art, and they bought to get them all out. This may be due to a Third Bank also began supporting Endowment granted me a Creative master printmakers Curlee Raven
all of my paintings. They started selling late start with my fine art career. the organization. Renewal Arts Fellowship that allowed Holton and Jase Clark to produce
them at $5,000. They sold faster than me to work on specific paintings tailored etchings and serigraphs. The ongoing

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