Housing Resource Center was a place of Dreams Before it was a Homeless Center

While building doors in the Door Plant, Artchilles was building an art dream. Starting with scrap wood, is passion poured out, as passing train horns, rose above the chop saws, and the call above that.

New Page: Artchilles' Story - "Reaching a Dead End - Stuck Again"

Latest Page of Artchilles' Story - this page delves into the period where it appeared Artchilles' art had reached a dead end, after an intense months long effort to progress by fousing on a subject matter limited to just 2 shapes.  

Artchilles is Back!

Picking things back up with the journey of #KempsvilleBuildingMaterials #machineoperator chasing a dream. Posting a page at a time. 

MOCA Virginia Again Rejects Proposal for Local Artist's Journey from KBM Factory to Harvard Square

Once again MOCA Virginia rejects my 20 plus year art journey from the factory of KBM (Kempsville Building Materials) to Harvard Square. My work begun in the dusty and noisy factory developed into a unique drawing style spawned by the pressures of space and time while eking out drawings in between assembling doors on the line - oh, yes, this is the School of Hard Knocks. Even with the startling relevance of the drawings to the homeless center now being built on the old KBM site - I know what it was like living on the street and drawing in the factory with no studio - my hometown museum MOCA, still turns their noses up to this work of inspiration that could encourage the homeless more than the sterile beds of the new center. It was over 6 months that I proposed the work to the Cultural Center of Virginia Beach - they said their was no place for my art at the center - "Where we gonna put it - in the clinic?" I contacted the Cultural Center over 6 months after they said they would get right back when closer to choosing the artists for the year, and then was told they are booked up till 2020. Days after that, their affiliated museum MOCA, with whom they act as a liaison, and with whom they passed my thumb drives too, (around the same time I sent my rather detailed proposal).