Button King
Dalton Stevens (April 28, 1930 – November 21, 2016), better known as the Button King, was a hobbyist, outsider artist and musician notable for his unusual Button (clothing), button work of art, art and related media appearances. Since 1983, Stevens had painstakingly decorated various objects with thousands of colorful Button (clothing), buttons. These works include the suit (clothing), suits and shoes he wore, the guitar he played, and a 1983 Chevrolet Chevrolet Chevette, Chevette. Stevens had also created and operated a roadside museum in Bishopville, South Carolina which houses his art. Background Dalton Stevens' hobby of sewing buttons onto things began as a reaction to suffering from chronic insomnia for years. "I have insomnia and I would go sometimes four to five days and nights without sleeping," he explains. In 1983, his inability to sleep after television broadcasting ended at 2 am led him to discover that sewing buttons helped him pass the time while his wife Sue sle ...
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Curator
A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular institution and its mission. In recent years the role of curator has evolved alongside the changing role of museums, and the term "curator" may designate the head of any given division. More recently, new kinds of curators have started to emerge: "community curators", "literary curators", " digital curators" and " biocurators". Collections curator A "collections curator", a "museum curator" or a "keeper" of a cultural heritage institution (e.g., gallery, museum, library or archive) is a content specialist charged with an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material including historical artifacts. A collections curator's concern necessarily involves tangible objects of some sort—artwork, c ...
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