Cigarbox Art is Smoking Hot!

The Cigar box is one of the most unique forms of packaging.   Perfect for protection, transportation and display of the fine hand rolled tobacco product, then discarded when the job is done. 

Created as an Exhibition of art & fund raiser the Smoking Hot Cigar Box Show at the Merrill Memorial Library is an examination into the minds and creativity of 30 artists.  Each one presented with a discarded cigar box and asked to create their own unique piece of art with it.  No rules,  paint it? deconstruct it? adorn them, reconstruct, reinvent, or reassemble the used box into something new and wonderful.

I was fortunate enough to to be given a box and asked to give her a rebirth!  For me it was a journey in the way back,  that time machine you hop in to transport back to a moment in your history.  I remember assembling a band when I was young, yeah me and me buddies with old cigar boxes broomstick handles and fishing string. I hadn't thought about that in many many years.  As a good Swed I have a workshop packed with many many items, in my mind all useful at some time between now & the future, so a reconstruction of my past takes place with a rebirth of a new 2012 Cigboxitar.  That's just my story there are 29 more waiting to share their experience.  

Lars' 2012 Cigboxitar

The Merrill Memorial Library is located off Route 1 in Yarmouth Maine & the show is open through the end of the Month with a closing party and auction of all the pieces.  O ya I forgot to mention each artist will sell their reinvented cigarbox to benefit the Library's Art Gallery and bolster it's collection of art related books.




Why Go See the Cigarbox show show?
 
Go because you good mind needs good art! 


SURGEON GENERAL WARNING:  Exposure to art has been show to increase brain function in humans and the communities where they reside.  

 

                        

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