I Love Topeka's John Ary Takes Art Out On The Town

Have you discovered John Ary's website called "I Love Topeka"? SouthWind Gallery and Framewoods staff has enjoyed John's whitty and informative videos about Topeka for the past few months. John's positive approach to getting the word out about our home town is engaging and entertaining. Going to his website, you will find, he touches subjects from the work of non-profit organizations such as the Cat Association of Topeka and the Gage Bark Park to the Capital City Crushers (a women's roller derby team), and even positive picketing! He says "The key to enjoying this town is simple: open your eyes." We we have to agree.



Life long Topekan, John has dedicated a website that feature video shorts about all the great things to be found in our fair city. He says, "Topeka is diverse with a ton of great cultural events, a thriving art scene, and young people who are constantly looking towards the future. My goal with this project is to help Topekans see the wonderful opportunities that are already here and experience the unique people, local events and great places this city has to offer."


He graciously accepts suggestions from fans for his video subjects and we sent him an email asking him to consider participating in our "Take Art on Vacation" project. He enthusiastically took on the challenge and brought his own spin to highlight the various cultural art opportunities there are in Topeka and did a great job introducing our new spokesman Art. We had a lot of fun working with John and we are very pleased with his Art Adventures and Art loved getting out of the gallery for a while and to fufill Art's mission to incourage exploring the arts. (Like John said, that's a lot of art!)


We would like to invite you to take Art with you to any local cultural event or on vacation, take a pic or a video, and Framewoods will give you a free custom 8x10 frame. Go to http://www.framewoods.com for more information. (Hurry, the deadline for submission to Take Art on Vacation is August 15th!)

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