Erika Nelson’s Spam Carving Shindig

Create your own roadside attraction for Peabody….made out of SPAM!

Unleash your creative Spam genius by attending Erika Nelson’s Spam Carving Shindig!

Free Spam-Inspired Lunch after featuring Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Potatoes and Green Beans, Kool-Aid, and Hostess Twinkies and Cupcakes.

Cost: Free…but space is limited to 20 cans of spam. Make sure you have a spot get a free ticket at our website, Facebook page, or call or text 316-258-2342.

Renown public works artist Erika Nelson will talk about her Lucas, KS-based exhibit, The World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things, and encourage participants to create their own smallest version of the world’s largest thing. She will bring a cityscape to display and photograph the creation.

Children under 13 will need to share a can with an adult… adults can share with a friend as well! We’ll provide the spam and carving materials. Sign up soon!

This event is funded by the Kansas Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Erika Nelson is an independent artist and educator, exploring contemporary art forms in the public realm.

While living in a vehicle for two years, she explored the nooks and crannies of the United States, seeking out the odd and unusual, gathering stories of people who build Outsider Art Environments, as well as Roadside Vernacular Architecture known as World’s Largest Things.

She developed her own traveling roadside attraction and museum featuring The World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things, settling in Lucas, Kansas in a house adjacent to S.P. Dinsmoor’s visionary folk art site The Garden of Eden.

Her work manifests itself in a series of interesting, innovative, engaging public art projects that incorporate Art into the Everyman’s everyday experience.