Eastport's Artist in Residence, Art for Art's Sake

Kingston, N.Y. is a scant 6 miles down the road from home; it is what we in Cottekill call the,”big city”. It was also voted in the top five artists communities in some magazine I do not remember the name of, but it was a national. I love meeting artists when I travel and I met a great one recently in Eastport, Maine. Jim Levendosky spends a few months there every year in a rented store front, making and selling his art. It is also his temp home and studio. Lil and I spent some time with Jim and his friend on a foggy evening recently with a big smile and his NPR tee shirt; I knew I would like him straight away. One of Jim’s latest works was a scrimshaw motorcycle gas tank, it was just incredible. One of Jim’s ambitions is to be Jay Leno’s Artist in Residence, Jay would indeed be a lucky man.