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What makes "Abundance?"

Dean Millien's lifesize tin foil "Gorilla 1" is one of about 200 works in the American Visionary Art Museum's "Abundance: Too Much, Too Little, Just Right" exhibit. Photo: Dan Meyers
Dan Meyers
Dean Millien's lifesize tin foil "Gorilla 1" is one of about 200 works in the American Visionary Art Museum's "Abundance: Too Much, Too Little, Just Right" exhibit. Photo: Dan Meyers

The sparkly American Visionary Art Museum has a new director: We talk with Jenenne Whitfield about her plans and her ideas for AVAM’s synergy with Baltimore. Plus, Gage Branda, AVAM curator, previews the upcoming exhibit: ‘ABUNDANCE: Too Much, Too Little, Just Right.’

Links: American Visionary Art Museum current exhibit, "Abundance", AVAM Annual Gala.

Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am.
Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'