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Hello to all my fellow waymarkers.

We recently posted our third Art*O*Mat, and since only 25 have been found, I figured I'd post where there others to be found. This list is from http://www.artomat.org/machinesbystate.php. Of the 25 that have been waymarked, it appears that 6 may have been relocated.

CALIFORNIA
Costa Mesa - The Living Room Salon and Gallery
Los Angeles - Reform School
Los Angeles - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Oceanside - Clients & Profits, Inc. WAYMARKED
Sacramento - Crocker Art Museum
San Francisco - Rayko Photo Center WAYMARKED

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington - Whole Foods Market - Tenley Town WAYMARKED

FLORIDA
Boca Raton - Boca Raton Museum of Art
Key West - The Studios of Key West
Lakeland - Polk Museum of Art
Miami - Lowe Art Museum - University of Miami
Miami - Miami Art Museum

GEORGIA
Atlanta - Wonder Root

HAWAII
Honolulu - The Contemporary Museum Honolulu

IDAHO
Boise - Flying M Coffee House WAYMARKED

ILLINOIS
Chicago - The Chicago Cultural Center WAYMARKED
Crystal Lake - McHenry County College
Malta - Kishwaukee College
University Park - Governor\'s State University

INDIANA
Goshen - Accents Design
Indianapolis - Eiteljorg Museum

KENTUCKY
Lexington - The Kentucky Theatre
Louisville - The Kentucky Center WAYMARKED

LOUISIANA
Alexandria - River Oaks Art Center
New Orleans - Contemporary Art Center New Orleans

MAINE
Portland - SPACE WAYMARKED

MASSACHUSETTS
Northhampton - Faces

MICHIGAN
Detroit - Detroit Community Machine WAYMARKED
Ferndale - Detroit Comics WAYMARKED

MINNESOTA
Minneapolis - CHAMBERS, The Luxury Art Hotel of Minneapolis WAYMARKED

MISSOURI
Kansas City - Pi Gallery
St. Louis - COCA WAYMARKED

NEBRASKA
Lincoln - University of Nebraska, Lincoln

NEW YORK
Cortland - SUNY Cortland
New York - NYC Community Machine
New York - Whitney Museum of American Art
Rochester - Rochester Contemporary

NORTH CAROLINA
- available
Asheville - The Asheville Art Museum
Boone - Gamekeeper Restaurant
Boone - Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Carrboro - Carrburritos
Foscoe - Purveyors  WAYMARKED
Greenville - Emerge Gallery
Manteo - Dare County Arts Council
Raleigh - Whole Foods Market
Rocky Mount - Rocky Mount Arts Center
Winston-Salem - Marys of Course Cafe
Winston-Salem - Wake Forest University - Benson University Center
Winston-Salem - Krankies Coffee
Winston-Salem - available
Winston-Salem - Urban Artware

OHIO
Cincinnati - Artworks
Upper Arlington - Ursus Gallery WAYMARKED

OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma - Christian Keesee Collection

OREGON
Eugene - Lane Community College WAYMARKED
Forest Grove - Pacific University

PENNSYLVANIA
Bethlehem - Monsoon
Doylestown - Bucks County Free Library
Erie - Erie Art Museum
New Hope - Monkey Hill
Quakertown - Bucks County Free Library

RHODE ISLAND
Providence - OOP!!
Wakefield - Argentum

SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston - William Halsey Gallery

TENNESSEE
Chattanooga - Create Here

TEXAS
Amarillo - Amarillo Museum of Art
Austin - Mercury Design Studio
Houston - Diverseworks!
Keller - ART251 WAYMARKED
San Antonio - Southwest School of Art and Crafts

VIRGINIA
Farmville - Longwood Center for the Arts
Lorton - Workhouse Arts Center
Richmond - Visual Arts Center of Richmond
Suffolk - Suffolk Museum

WASHINGTON
Seattle - Venue
Tacoma - BKB & Company WAYMARKED

WISCONSIN
Madison - Pop Deluxe WAYMARKED
Milwaukee - Beans and Barley WAYMARKED
Sheboygan - Mead County Library WAYMARKED

QUEBEC
Sherbrooke - Madame Pickwick

Vienna, Austria - UNVERKAEUFLICH

Where is the Ann Arbor Art*o*mat? I thought it was on this list?

i viisited one in atlanta, it isnt on your list....
just missed the one in orlando--been closed for 30 mins....
ill see if i can hit the lakeland one soon....
dont even remember the name of that place in key west...

I've had the Costa Mesa CA Art O Mat in my unfinished folder forever. I need to get my photos off another computer, but this is just the incentive to get it posted...and work on some of my backlog. Don't you hate it when life gets in the way of Waymarking?

yea, what happened to the one in ATL i visited?

gt.us:

Where is the Ann Arbor Art*o*mat? I thought it was on this list?

It's incorrectly listed as the one in Detroit. The link takes you too the owners MySpace page. The other is still in Ferndale. That link goes to the comic book store's site. The third MI machine is not yet listed.

chapterhouseinc:

i visited one in atlanta, it isnt on your list.... just missed the one in orlando--been closed for 30 mins.... ill see if i can hit the lakeland one soon.... dont even remember the name of that place in key west...

It looks like it's in Amarillo. Apparently, some of them get moved. However, this doesn't seem to happen often. The on in Boise looks a lot like the one you visited in ATL, but it's orange not yellow.

This link http://www.artomat.org/locations.php# shows the machines and there current locations. Most places that get one tend to hang on to them. Others like the one currently in Ann Arbor have an owner, but not a permanent location. The one in Ferndale, MI is owned by the same person, but the location intends to let her keep it there as long as she wishes. They're heavy and no fun to move around.

I'm not sure how the group handles the category as far as whether a waymark gets archived if a machine gets moved. Hopefully an update will be sufficient, but if a machine should travel farther than the proximity alert, a new waymark looks to be a possibility.

On a personal note, when we first looked into the category, we found the one now in Ann Arbor. It was in Berkeley, MI. It had been waymarked, so we went to check it out. We got to talk to the owner for a bit and have since become friends. When we got home, instead of writing up a visit, I wrote a new waymark. The original's coordinates were about a block and a half off, and lacked a decent description.

I got the proximity alert and went ahead anyway. It got approved, although it shouldn't have. TPTB got wind and wanted the group to archive it, but by then the owner of the machine and Art*O*Mat's founder had joined the group and liked my write up better, so both remained.

Since becoming friends with the owner, we've been able to keep track of the two relocations of her first machine, by attending opening night (with GPS in hand, thank you very much). Her second machine, like I said doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.

We went with her to opening night of MI's 3rd machine in Kalamazoo and got to meet Clark Whittington, founder.

Any other questions, just let me know.

Great story.

The Art*O*Mat I located moves too but just a bit. They move it from floor to floor in the building that it is located in on the college campus.

well, were off to lakeland, but the museum isnt open today...

Thanks to DopeyDuck for finding the one at The Living Room - Costa Mesa, CA.

The one in Lakeland was waymarked when it was located in Orlando.

Following the rules, I'm pretty sure it can be a separate waymark, there shouldn't be any proximity alert when trying to post. As far as the waymark in Orlando goes, it really can't be updated until someone tries to visit it and finds it gone.

what Orlando? the sam flax one? we got there 30 mins after closing a month or so ago. glad we were able to DNF it, thatd be more maddening.

The SPACE one in Portland, ME, is still there.  I'll be logging my visit and posting photos soon!

Very cool! This is the coolest looking one out of the bunch, as far as I'm concerned. One of the contributing artists makes miniature Art*O*Mat machines out of Legos, and the Space one is considered to be rare. My wife was totaly geeked when we got one.

chapterhouseinc:

what Orlando? the sam flax one? we got there 30 mins after closing a month or so ago. glad we were able to DNF it, thatd be more maddening.

Yes, unless I'm mistaken, (and I never am. Yeah OKAY...)
If you look at the Sam Flax Waymark and compare it to the Art*O*Mat website. Click on machines and the page shows pix of all of them. Click on a machine and it shows a larger image with its location below.

I went to find the Art-O-Mat at OOP!! in Providence, RI, because it was on the way.  Lo-and-Behold! I find it!  I get my item, I take pictures and talk with the sales person there.

I go back home to log it in.  First, I am having trouble with filling in the fields, since the art-o-mat web site doesn't have the details when you click the icon.  I try to go through the blog, but it's not keyword searchable that I can see, and I was getting frustrated.

I then go to Google and make a random search for Art-o-mat OOP Providence and, Lo-and-Behold! I find a waymark entry for an Art-O-Mat for OOP - much to my disappointment.  It has been archived, done by BlackstoneVal.  Here is some info since that posting.  The store has moved some.  As reported in the archived waymark, it was on Thayer Street in College Hill, on the north side of Brown University.  Where I found it is at the corner of Eddy and Westminster Street, near the Providence City Hall, and somewhat near the Dunkin Donuts Center.  Another thing is that the Art-o-mat is differently decorated, so I don't know if this is a re-re-furbishment of the original, or a replacement of the original one. 

So, my questions is:  is this a new waymark or a ressurection of the old one?

New waymark.

The other is archived so it is fair game in my opinion.

I am not a member of the group so cannot speak definitively but I would submit it and see what happens.

norstar:

I went to find the Art-O-Mat at OOP!! in Providence, RI, because it was on the way.  Lo-and-Behold! I find it!  I get my item, I take pictures and talk with the sales person there.

I go back home to log it in.  First, I am having trouble with filling in the fields, since the art-o-mat web site doesn't have the details when you click the icon.  I try to go through the blog, but it's not keyword searchable that I can see, and I was getting frustrated.

I then go to Google and make a random search for Art-o-mat OOP Providence and, Lo-and-Behold! I find a waymark entry for an Art-O-Mat for OOP - much to my disappointment.  It has been archived, done by BlackstoneVal.  Here is some info since that posting.  The store has moved some.  As reported in the archived waymark, it was on Thayer Street in College Hill, on the north side of Brown University.  Where I found it is at the corner of Eddy and Westminster Street, near the Providence City Hall, and somewhat near the Dunkin Donuts Center.  Another thing is that the Art-o-mat is differently decorated, so I don't know if this is a re-re-furbishment of the original, or a replacement of the original one. 

So, my questions is:  is this a new waymark or a ressurection of the old one?

Like the Bean says, It's a new waymark as far as I can tell. Let me know what fields you are having issues with, I might be able to help.

norstar:

I went to find the Art-O-Mat at OOP!! in Providence, RI, because it was on the way.  Lo-and-Behold! I find it!  I get my item, I take pictures and talk with the sales person there.

I go back home to log it in.  First, I am having trouble with filling in the fields, since the art-o-mat web site doesn't have the details when you click the icon.  I try to go through the blog, but it's not keyword searchable that I can see, and I was getting frustrated.

I then go to Google and make a random search for Art-o-mat OOP Providence and, Lo-and-Behold! I find a waymark entry for an Art-O-Mat for OOP - much to my disappointment.  It has been archived, done by BlackstoneVal.  Here is some info since that posting.  The store has moved some.  As reported in the archived waymark, it was on Thayer Street in College Hill, on the north side of Brown University.  Where I found it is at the corner of Eddy and Westminster Street, near the Providence City Hall, and somewhat near the Dunkin Donuts Center.  Another thing is that the Art-o-mat is differently decorated, so I don't know if this is a re-re-furbishment of the original, or a replacement of the original one. 

So, my questions is:  is this a new waymark or a ressurection of the old one?

Like the Bean says, It's a new waymark as far as I can tell. Let me know what fields you are having issues with, I might be able to help.

OK, Thanks!

Reviewing the fields, I think that I can make a reasonable guess on the artists and the kinds of art that can be purchased from my pictures.  But I didn't see the name of the person who refurbished the machine and whether this machine is the same that was found, previously.

norstar:

OK, Thanks!

Reviewing the fields, I think that I can make a reasonable guess on the artists and the kinds of art that can be purchased from my pictures.  But I didn't see the name of the person who refurbished the machine and whether this machine is the same that was found, previously.

You can also try to contact the place you found it and ask them whos stuff they got in their machine. Or just pick some names from this page. http://www.artomat.org/artomat_artists.php
I don't think it really matters. It would have been refurbished by Clark Whittington. As far as I can tell there are no others posted in RI. and can't tell if there ever were. There's nothing in the one page of past history. So post that puppy!

So now I have a question.

I just found a non Art-o-Mat, art-o-mat. I was picing something up at the University of Oregon and there it was. Excitement ensued followed by disappointment  when I realized it wasn't a real, original Art-o-Mat. The Machine Project is a local endeavor featuring University of Oregon students art.

Then while I was trying to research it for this thread I ran across this link for another type of art vending machine.

Then this independent Art-o-Mat style vending machine. 

And this piece of art about the real deal Art-o-Mats that I thought you might like.

So to my question. Should the category be expanded to accept all types of the vending art phenomenon or a new category be explored?

Oh and there is a  new Art-o-Mat in Chandler AZ that was unveiled this week. Someone needs to waymark it.

But the above article indicated that the creator of the Art-o-Mat is thinking of stopping the project at 100 machines. Currently there are 80 out there including one in Austria and only 28 have been waymarked.

i am for some expansion for 'nonofficial' vending machines....