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Erika Nelson

@worldslargest.bsky.social
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Roadside attractions, artin', and rural community building

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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
More stuffed animals and scenics. The older labels mention the artists, which is a nice little posterity nugget.
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Love me some good vintage stuffed animal displays with scenics
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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
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National Council of Nonprofits
The National Council of Nonprofits is a trusted resource and proven advocate for America’s charitable nonprofits.
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
(2/2) "... Beauty escapes in the pursuit of safety, which promotes a simplistic sameness over a varied vitality." -Venturi, Brown, Izenour.
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
(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"
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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.
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This could be why we're all feeling weird today...
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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.
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
February is Lucas month on MdW Atlas, and our first piece is live: mdw.art/atlas/howare...
mdw.art
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...
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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S.P. Dinsmoor's Garden of Eden | Substack
A continuing examination of our historic artist-built environment in Lucas Kansas. Click to read S.P. Dinsmoor's Garden of Eden, a Substack publication. Launched 13 days ago.
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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...
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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'...
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
(Work, not worth, but the other way is true too)
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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.
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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a cartoon character with fxnow written on the bottom of the screen
ALT: a cartoon character with fxnow written on the bottom of the screen
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Happy Kansas Day!
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Happy KS Day to you!!!
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Me too! For us, it was gaining a bigger voice for artist-built environments - there are a lot in this new pool. We will see how what that means in the coming year...
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ugh. I was hoping there was a shift for that empire away from Trump, but evidently that's only for campaigning.
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Thank you Mary! I'm super lucky in that I just transitioned out of a grant-focused org. and can now leverage public/private funds. And the other efforts are more of a cash-in-cash-out for the baselines. It's a shift, but not nearly the horrible shift that it would have been just one iteration ago.
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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...
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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...
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Hop to it!
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than halfway up one you don’t. -Naomi Watts
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time -The Alchemist
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Ugh.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"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
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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:
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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.
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Last nugget from "The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing ": A magical combination of flaws and virtues = artist's personality matrix
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
From Adam Moss' "The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing"
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
There's a great discussion, too, about when artworks are technically "published"
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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....
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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...
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Just published! www.publictransformation.org/blog/intervi...
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Interview with Erika Nelson: Artist and Educator — Department of Public Transformation
Erika Nelson is an independent artist and educator, exploring contemporary art forms in the public realm. She investigates the nooks and crannies of the United States seeking out the odd and unusual, ...
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Still one of the best quotes: Art is for anyone. It's just not for everyone. www.vulture.com/2018/11/jerr...
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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).
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Why do it right when you can do it yourself?
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Not knowing where to start is no excuse for not starting.
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
And more banana news from the art world: Bananas Are Back at Art Basel Miami Beach—But No, Not the $6.2 Million Kind news.artnet.com/market/art-b...
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Bananas Are Back at Art Basel Miami Beach—But Not the $6.2 Million Kind
Chiquita Banana brings free bananas—and a really cool bag—to Art Basel Miami Beach, capitalizing on Sotheby's $6.2 million banana artwork.
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Pantone 17 1230 Mocha Mousse, color of the year for 2025. Thoughts?
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Yet more great insights from Adam Moss's "The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing", from his piece on Gerald Lovell
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
And, I've been sent this post 6 times so far this morning :)
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A very nice #landback development in St Louis - only one pharma company to convince to remarriage a sacred mound back to the Osage! Historic Land Transfer to Osage Nation Facilitated by Arts Group news.artnet.com/art-world/hi...
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Art Group Facilitates Historic Land Transfer to Osage Nation | Artnet News
Osage Nation received the transfer of Sugarloaf Mound on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in St. Louis with help from an arts group.
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Lucy Lippard will always be my favorite art thinker. From art systems to rural environs, tourism and place to inclusion/representation, she's tops. hyperallergic.com/969843/lucy-...
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Lucy Lippard’s Life on the Frontlines of Art
In a rare recorded interview, the feminist writer, critic, and activist tells us what took her from seeing 30 shows a week in New York City to small-town New Mexico.
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
In today's mail! It may just be a small inclusion, but always nice to have the WLCoWSVoWLT show up in books focused on curious museums. It's imported!
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
From Adam Moss's interview with Marc Jacobs in "The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing"
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Erika Nelson @worldslargest.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Appropriate.
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