Today's Clarion Ledger has an article about our upcoming show. Read it online here.

An art show benefiting artists from the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina will open September 30 at Vicksburg's Attic Gallery. Lesley Silver, owner of the Attic, explained that they had been planning their annual celebration of the anniversary of the gallery with a show featuring work by old and new artists, but events of the last few weeks seemed to demand something more. "This storm has blown away and damaged the homes of so many of the artists we represent, and it has blown those artists all over the country. The artists who were planning to participate in the opening want to help their fellow artists; so, they are designating some of their new work to be sold to go into a fund for them. And we thought we could also put the spotlight on existing work by those evacuees, because creating this art is their job, and if people will buy their art, it supports them directly." "Katrina has caused so much damage and loss, it is too big for us to understand. The artists w

Attic Gallery owner, Lesley Silver is featured as "Soul Model" in the Sept/Oct issue of Deep Magazine (Southern Women, Real Life). The issue is designated as the "Beauty" issue and the table of contents declares that Lesley, "takes us inside outsider art to unearth a new standard of beauty." The article outlines the beginnings of the Attic and how folk and outsider art came to play an important role in the flavor of the gallery. Today, the Attic Gallery is widely credited with giving respect to Southern outsider artists. "We give people permission to like and to do art," explains Lesley. " We hang trained and untrained artists' work side by side." The Attic is a place of refuge and comfort for locals and international art lovers alike. One can easily spend a day among its treasures and not see them all. "You meet people from all walks of life in here. We give Vicksburg another dimension besides the antebellum homes. You can gl

Missing New Orleans artist Dr. Bob has been sighted right here at the Attic Gallery today. He rode out the storm at his home in the Bywater and had a few too many adventures in the week following. As usual, he could neither be nice or leave. He cut his leg pretty badly and belately received medical attention for his wound. His spirit is strong...

Roy Blount, Jr . wrote a beautiful valentine to the city of New Orleans. It was in USA Today earlier this week and you can read it here. In the article Roy says, "I wonder about Doctor Bob, the self-taught artist who cuts Catahoula hounds out of roofing tin and surrounds them with root-beer caps, in a ramshackle studio that sprawls along Chartres Street close to the block between cross-streets called Piety and Desire. Many a New Orleans bar and restaurant displays the signs he paints with the slogan, "Be Nice or Leave." Has Doctor Bob left?" Dr. Bob is one of our artists from the Crescent City and we have been wondering about Bob and so many of our artists who are from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Many have lost their homes and possibly their jobs. We are going to be putting the spotlight on them and hoping people will support them directly by purchasing their art. For these artists their art sales represents a sizeable percentage of their income, and being abl