Who is Jane Plain?

Art Lovers Trading Company, 201 E. Main St. Carbondale, is proud to present "Jane Plain" Eclectic Accessories to wear with blue jeans and boots. Jewelry, hand bags, and clothing for any ho who dares to design their own style.

Jewelry is created by using silver, natural stone and beads. Clothing and purses are made with natural fabrics.

Who is Jane Plain? Here's a clue: Jane attended school in Silverton, Oregon and is a self-taught artist.

Jane says "if you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

What's New?

Some new items were added to the Art Lovers inventory today. To the left, Fran Jaffe's gourd masks; in the middle tapestry by Sue Spurlock, and some audacious female dolls. Also, some ceramic pieces by Dan Johnson, on view at Dan's Art Lovers' web page.

Poster post

Art Lovers is pleased to announce the additon of Poster artist Robert Hunter. You can view Robert's work posted on his Art Lovers' artist page.

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Greetings, Art Lovers.

As you can see, the Art Lovers Trading Company web site has been developing slowly . . . like a masterpiece created by one of you! -- except in a different medium. Thanks to Patrick Barnes at MidnighTech for slowly but surely making the desires of Art Lover #1 a reality. Currently, a new home page is being developed by web mistress Martha Worrell to make it even warmer and friendlier than it already is.!

Why the Google Ads, you ask? Just another service to our readers and patrons . . . an opportunity to shop outside the confines of Art Lovers' walls and windows.

Artists Christa Barnell and Larry Bernstein join sand painter Victor DeGraff at Art Lovers on the First Friday of April. Bernstein, former chairman of the SIUC Art Department, is himself scheduled to be a First Friday artist, as is Barnell. 

Boy sticks gum on valuable painting - Yahoo! News

Boy sticks gum on valuable painting - Yahoo! News: "DETROIT (Reuters) - Painter Helen Frankenthaler's landmark abstract work 'The Bay' just got a little more abstract. . . . A 12-year-old boy visiting the Detroit Institute of Arts with his school group on Friday stuck a wad of chewing gum on the painting, which is worth an estimated $1.5 million, the Detroit Free Press said."