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Art From the Streets

This year's Art From the Streets sale, showing artwork by some of our city's gifted but homeless creators, boasts 2,300 works of art

By Robert Faires, Fri., Nov. 12, 2004

This is the week of the annual Art From the Streets sale, in which artwork by some of our city's gifted but homeless creators is offered for sale. This year's AFTS show, which boasts 2,300 works of art ranging in price from $30 to $350, is Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 13-14, noon-5pm, at the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless, 500 E. Seventh. As always, all proceeds go directly to the artist. Diana Welch provides more information in "Naked City," p.26.

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Art From the Streets, Austin Resource Center for the Homeless