Milestone 2016
AVAM’s SideShow Gift Shop begins carrying original Sesow paintings and “Join Hands” documentary
AVAM's SideShow Gift Shop begins carrying original Sesow paintings and "Join Hands" documentary — ongoing representation that continues to the present day
Where this record comes from
- history.sesow.com (live, 2026-10-03)
Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “AVAM’s SideShow Gift Shop begins carrying original Sesow paintings and ‘Join Hands’ documentary.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2016. history.sesow.com/e/2016-avam-sideshow-gift-shop-begins.html. Accessed [date].
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Also in 2016
- Exhibition “Matt Sesow: Shock and Awe,” American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore
- Milestone AVAM solo exhibition “Shock and Awe” runs for over a year
- Exhibition “Divide and Conquer / Rise Above,” VSA Colorado / Access Gallery, Denver, CO
- Milestone Four solo exhibitions in a single year
- Press Westword — Denver
- Press Baltimore Style magazine — mention of the upcoming AVAM solo exhibition
- Press “Art in the City,” Capital Community News
- Exhibition “Matt Sesow: Politicized,” Gallery 1515, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Exhibition “Politicized 2,” Gallery 1515, Vancouver, Canada
- Exhibition Paintings at “Une Vision Singulière,” a gallery in Saint Brieuc, northwest France
- Exhibition Paintings at Tieken Studio and Gallery, Paradise Valley, AZ
- Exhibition “Landscapes of the Collector”
- Exhibition Transformer Gallery 13th Annual Silent Auction & Benefit, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
- Press AP News / AP Travel — feature mention of AVAM solo exhibition
- Press Folk Art Society of America — AVAM exhibition featured
- Press Raw Vision Magazine — feature
- Press BmoreArt — review of “Shock and Awe” solo exhibition at AVAM
- Press Baltimore Magazine — AVAM solo exhibition listed as “must see”
- Press Columbia Daily Tribune — Missouri
- Milestone Open call to DC-area collectors to lend their Sesow paintings to the AVAM show
- Media “Heads and Tails” — Орёл и решка, the Russian/Ukrainian TV travel show
- Exhibition “Matt Sesow: Shock and Awe” — AVAM members' opening reception and artist talk
- Award “Join Hands: The Life and Art of Matt Sesow” wins third place, Best Documentary Feature Film, Down East Flick…
- Press BmoreArt review by DC writer Brendan Smith, “Shock and Awe Hits the American Visionary Art Museum”
- Press NYU School of Medicine, Medical Humanities database
- Press Professional Artist magazine
- Media Monthly Saturday gallery talks at AVAM throughout “Shock and Awe”
- Exhibition Group show with Dana Ellyn, AMP: Art Market Provincetown, MA
- Media Artist talk for the Pratt Contemporaries at AVAM’s “Black and White Reveal Party,” Baltimore
- Exhibition “Co_works” — exhibition of collaborative works with Norbert Guthier, G Gallery, Houston, TX
- Exhibition Open house and show with Dana Ellyn, 44 R Street NE, Washington, DC
- Press Brut Force — “The Art of Shock and Awe,” feature on the AVAM exhibition
- Press Library Journal reviews “Join Hands” (2016)
- Press “Photos: Matt Sesow at the American Visionary Art Museum” — City Paper, 2016
- Press City Paper links the Post’s “one-handed artist” feature (2016)
- Exhibition Two-Person Show — with Dana Ellyn