The Madison Mifflin Card Passing Project

The other day at Mifflin we passed out a bunch of art cards to the randoms walking around. Some people looked confused, some people looked interested, lots of people looked drunk...reeeeeeaaaaaaallllly drunk...but anyways, there's 8 or so ink and pastel drawings floating around somewhere in Madison pockets so keep any eye out...

I think, even more than the art part of this, it was interesting to see people's reactions. I had everything from a girl looking like I had just offered her ether-laced candy out of the back of a tinted-windowed moving van to a guy who actually grabbed the card, let out a big YEEEAHHH and gave me a huge handshake, pulling me into the street as he staggered backward. Even though most of these will probably never make it out of the junk pile on a desk, It at least got some people to take a look. It gave us a minute to show them something they weren't expecting, and in the spirit of Mifflin, gave us a chance to briefly meet some of the passers by.

It's the people who loved them that makes it worth while, and the people who don't even give it a glance that show art has a ways to go before it breaks out of its odd little realm, invisible to most, but completely necessary to the people within. Take a look at the cards below...