Erika Nelson
@worldslargest.bsky.social
Roadside attractions, artin', and rural community building
More stuffed animals and scenics. The older labels mention the artists, which is a nice little posterity nugget.
May 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
More stuffed animals and scenics. The older labels mention the artists, which is a nice little posterity nugget.
Love me some good vintage stuffed animal displays with scenics
May 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Love me some good vintage stuffed animal displays with scenics
How do we in the Arts and Culture sector keep up with our massively turbulent landscape? Americans for the Arts Action Fund is holding bi-weekly office hours for updates. Timely, direct, and good resources to take advantage of RIGHT NOW: artsactionfund.org/office-hours-our-arts-advocacy-team
April 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
How do we in the Arts and Culture sector keep up with our massively turbulent landscape? Americans for the Arts Action Fund is holding bi-weekly office hours for updates. Timely, direct, and good resources to take advantage of RIGHT NOW: artsactionfund.org/office-hours-our-arts-advocacy-team
Nonprofits are, by design, non-partisan. The National Council of Nonprofits has been advocating and fighting to keep it that way, and fighting EOs that target our collective work. Check out their recent press releases and advocacy summations to see what's going on: www.councilofnonprofits.org
National Council of Nonprofits
The National Council of Nonprofits is a trusted resource and proven advocate for America’s charitable nonprofits.
www.councilofnonprofits.org
April 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Nonprofits are, by design, non-partisan. The National Council of Nonprofits has been advocating and fighting to keep it that way, and fighting EOs that target our collective work. Check out their recent press releases and advocacy summations to see what's going on: www.councilofnonprofits.org
(2/2) "... Beauty escapes in the pursuit of safety, which promotes a simplistic sameness over a varied vitality."
-Venturi, Brown, Izenour.
-Venturi, Brown, Izenour.
April 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
(2/2) "... Beauty escapes in the pursuit of safety, which promotes a simplistic sameness over a varied vitality."
-Venturi, Brown, Izenour.
-Venturi, Brown, Izenour.
(1/2) "Any artist could have told the lawmaker that you cannot legislate beauty and that attempts to do so by the use of experts will result not only in gross injustice but an ugly deafness in the environment..."
"Learning from Las Vegas"
"Learning from Las Vegas"
April 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
(1/2) "Any artist could have told the lawmaker that you cannot legislate beauty and that attempts to do so by the use of experts will result not only in gross injustice but an ugly deafness in the environment..."
"Learning from Las Vegas"
"Learning from Las Vegas"
It was a cozy 6 hrs without electricity, in a dramatic blizzard event that sent temps tumbling and snow sideways. Not too many limbs down, but the roof leak patch at the Expo is no longer holding. Spring work list is building itself! On the up-side, there are new shelves full of books at Woodpecker.
March 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
It was a cozy 6 hrs without electricity, in a dramatic blizzard event that sent temps tumbling and snow sideways. Not too many limbs down, but the roof leak patch at the Expo is no longer holding. Spring work list is building itself! On the up-side, there are new shelves full of books at Woodpecker.
This could be why we're all feeling weird today...
March 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This could be why we're all feeling weird today...
Just got an email from Government Bookstore about the new prez and VP portraits available for pre-order, so I clicked through and ordered a big ol' Obama official portrait poster.
March 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Just got an email from Government Bookstore about the new prez and VP portraits available for pre-order, so I clicked through and ordered a big ol' Obama official portrait poster.
February is Lucas month on MdW Atlas, and our first piece is live: mdw.art/atlas/howare...
How are you, Lucas? A chat with Kansas’ favorite rural art town. — MDW
“ I’ve got high speed digital highways, I’ve got affordable spaces, I’ve got good roads. I’m mostly starving for access to other things, like vegetables. Or healthcare. Or meeting spaces that aren’t...
mdw.art
February 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
February is Lucas month on MdW Atlas, and our first piece is live: mdw.art/atlas/howare...
In figuring out new socials, I've started two Substacks - one for Worlds Largest Things, home of the World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Version of the World's Largest Things, and one for the Garden of Eden artist-built environment
open.substack.com/pub/worldsla...
open.substack.com/pub/worldsla...
World's Largest Things' Substack | Erika Nelson | Substack
A Substack celebrating Roadside Vernacular Architecture known as World's Largest Things, and the continuing development of the World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World'...
open.substack.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In figuring out new socials, I've started two Substacks - one for Worlds Largest Things, home of the World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Version of the World's Largest Things, and one for the Garden of Eden artist-built environment
open.substack.com/pub/worldsla...
open.substack.com/pub/worldsla...
Faith Ringgold "The Flag is Bleeding"
Last year, my sister and I got to see a giant retrospective of Faith Ringgold's work in Chicago, and a few years earlier, I got to hear her talk about her worth during a textiles symposium in Kansas. Powerful work, that I'm hoping inspires me to keep going.
Last year, my sister and I got to see a giant retrospective of Faith Ringgold's work in Chicago, and a few years earlier, I got to hear her talk about her worth during a textiles symposium in Kansas. Powerful work, that I'm hoping inspires me to keep going.
February 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Faith Ringgold "The Flag is Bleeding"
Last year, my sister and I got to see a giant retrospective of Faith Ringgold's work in Chicago, and a few years earlier, I got to hear her talk about her worth during a textiles symposium in Kansas. Powerful work, that I'm hoping inspires me to keep going.
Last year, my sister and I got to see a giant retrospective of Faith Ringgold's work in Chicago, and a few years earlier, I got to hear her talk about her worth during a textiles symposium in Kansas. Powerful work, that I'm hoping inspires me to keep going.
Happy Kansas Day!
January 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Happy Kansas Day!
Exciting news from Lucas' Garden of Eden art site! They've been accepted into the National Trust's Historic Artists Homes and Studios affiliate program: savingplaces.org/press-center...
National Trust Announces Major Expansion of Historic Artists' Homes and Studios Program | National Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Trust announced today the addition of 19 new affiliate sites to its prestigious Historic Artists' Homes and Studios (HAHS) membership network, representing the largest expansion of the pr...
savingplaces.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Exciting news from Lucas' Garden of Eden art site! They've been accepted into the National Trust's Historic Artists Homes and Studios affiliate program: savingplaces.org/press-center...
It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than halfway up one you don’t. -Naomi Watts
January 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than halfway up one you don’t. -Naomi Watts
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time
-The Alchemist
-The Alchemist
January 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time
-The Alchemist
-The Alchemist
Reposted by Erika Nelson
"One day we must ask the question, 'Why are there forty million poor people in America?' ... When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy."
-MLK,
speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1967
#MLKDay
#IHaveADream
-MLK,
speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1967
#MLKDay
#IHaveADream
January 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"One day we must ask the question, 'Why are there forty million poor people in America?' ... When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy."
-MLK,
speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1967
#MLKDay
#IHaveADream
-MLK,
speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1967
#MLKDay
#IHaveADream
I know going to the Post Office is a daily ritual for many rural folks (Here in Lucas, if you live within 2 blocks of the building you don't get home delivery and get a free PO Box, which is pretty much everyone...). Here's a nice piece by a good buddy Mary Welcome on rural POs:
How Rural Post Offices Sustain Community
The rural postal network serves as a living map of relationships and historical narratives, a legacy under threat by new austerity measures.
barnraisingmedia.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I know going to the Post Office is a daily ritual for many rural folks (Here in Lucas, if you live within 2 blocks of the building you don't get home delivery and get a free PO Box, which is pretty much everyone...). Here's a nice piece by a good buddy Mary Welcome on rural POs:
Last nugget from "The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing ": A magical combination of flaws and virtues = artist's personality matrix
December 29, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Last nugget from "The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing ": A magical combination of flaws and virtues = artist's personality matrix
From Adam Moss' "The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing"
December 22, 2024 at 6:34 PM
From Adam Moss' "The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing"
We're gonna have some great Popyeye and Tintin artwork coming up in 2025! 1929 works coming out of copyright: web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd....
Public Domain Day 2025 | Duke University School of Law
Tweet January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle Directors, Duke Center for the Study of the Public D...
web.law.duke.edu
December 16, 2024 at 9:36 PM
We're gonna have some great Popyeye and Tintin artwork coming up in 2025! 1929 works coming out of copyright: web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd....
Still one of the best quotes: Art is for anyone. It's just not for everyone.
www.vulture.com/2018/11/jerr...
www.vulture.com/2018/11/jerr...
Jerry Saltz’s 33 Rules for Being an Artist
How to go from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least live life a little more creatively).
www.vulture.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Still one of the best quotes: Art is for anyone. It's just not for everyone.
www.vulture.com/2018/11/jerr...
www.vulture.com/2018/11/jerr...
Why do it right when you can do it yourself?
December 12, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Why do it right when you can do it yourself?
Not knowing where to start is no excuse for not starting.
December 12, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Not knowing where to start is no excuse for not starting.