subject: Huge Hat Accumulating Becomes Art Exhibit [print this page] Cains accumulating includes added than 700 hats.
She has been accession hats back the 1970s. Her aboriginal hat chance occurred if she was in academy and went on a arcade cruise with her attached to a Goodwill store.
We all bought hats and I bethink we absolved home and were getting asinine with the hats, she said.
Since then, Cain has acquired hats, hat stands, hat pins and added accessories from all over. She makes her discoveries at auctions, acreage sales and aged food and receives some from ancestors and friends.
Sometimes humans who are just charwoman out their closet and acquisition hats will alarm me and ask if Im interested, she said.
My admired abode to acquisition hats is at auctions, she said.
Cain sees hats as assuming a altered aspect of specific peoples appearance or a allotment of their appearance signature.
According to Prairie Arts Centers Linda Gustafson, originally hats were acclimated for aegis from the weather.
Cains aesthetic access to her accumulating has afflicted abounding at the Prairie Arts Center.
She is so accomplished artistically, its amazing and we are so animated she was accommodating to allotment them with us, said Gustafson.
Cains appearance has brought a altered angle on art to the Prairie Arts Center. Gustafson said the afflatus for Cains hat appearance came from the abstraction to aggrandize the acceptation of art for the community.
The appearance highlights the art that surrounds us, she said.
One of Cains admired hats can be declared as a amber harbinger hat that includes a velvet, ablaze olive blooming bandage and bobcat willow backcountry angry about the acme of the hat.
It has a best attending and the actuality that it has a lot of address makes it unique, she said.
Its aswell actual comfortable, she continued.
Cain admits she wears a lot of her hats for appropriate occasions.
However I dont abrasion the earlier hats out. Those I like to abrasion about the abode if Im just there arena around, she said.
n Cain affairs to allege about her hat accumulating for those absorbed in her art. The accident is called, Evening with the Fashionista. It will be chargeless to the accessible and will be at 7 p.m. Jan. 19 in Prairie Arts Center gallery.
