Artenstein is a filmmaker and professor. He lives in Oceanside. Black velvet paintings put me through film school, along with cowboy jackets and hand tooled leather bags — all hot sellers at my father ...
If you grew up with Mexican relatives, someone in your family likely had a black velvet painting in their house. Maybe it was of a donkey pulling a cart. Maybe it was of Pancho Villa. Still others ...
DETROIT — Velvet painting collector Elena Herrada began her introduction of Black Velvet: A Rasquache Aesthetic to me with a definition of the word “rasquache.” “I had the idea that I wanted to do a ...