Our new show will be up starting Thursday July 9th, 2009.

“BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL” has been on our minds since we opened the museum in 2005. We will be showing history and popular culture on velvet. From Malcolm X to Jimi Hendrix, Martin Luther King to James Brown and a special memorial area to Michael Jackson. And so much more. Come see this show.

We also have started our SUMMER hours: Thursday – Sunday Noon till 5pm.

Travel Portland Magazine 2009-'10

Unique Works of Art Hang at a Wacky, Wonderful Museum.

By Deborah Wakefield
In Travel Portland Magazine’s 2009-’10 edition, Deborah writes: At most museums, restoration is a paintstaking process requiring special training and a delicate touch. But at the Velveteria: The Museum of Vevet Paintings, all that’s needed are a few swipes with a lint roller and – voila! – each piece looks just as it did the day it was painted.
Owners Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin have wielded the rollers since 2005, when a personal passion led them to open their museum on Portland’s eastside. “We saw our first velvet painting and were intrigued,” Anderson recalls. “Pretty soon we had 10 paintings, and before long we had 100. It just kept going.”
Pick up a copy of Travel Portland Magazine to read more.

Book review in Penthouse Magazine June 2008

June, 2008 – In Penthouse Magazine’s Full Frontal Reads section there is a review on, “Black Velvet Masterpieces: Highlights from the Collection of the Velveteria Museum” by Peter Bloch.
Peter writes: If, when you think of black velvet paintings (if you think of them at all), the first words that come to mind are “weird” and “tacky,” you’re not alone. But, as the authors of this unique volume (covered, appropriately, in black velvet) discover, there’s a lot more to the high art of American pop culture – including genuine humor, sometimes surprising beauty, and tongue-in-cheek irony. Baldwin and Anderson’s personal story of traveling down the “Velvet Trail” (the publisher calls them “the world’s leading authorities on this underappreciated art”) is a perfect complement to the almost 300 velveteen masterworks in this little treasure of a book.