“To lure collectors, states issued a lot more stamps than they had hunters or anglers. A stamp glut compounded the print glut. The revenue stamps often cost more to print than they raised in revenue. As a result, Mr. Dumaine now counts 15 states that have eliminated duck stamps, on top of the 16 that have dropped their trout stamps.”

“Figurative in any medium. I’ve always been drawn (pardon the pun) to the human figure and the challenge of capturing personalities since I started doing caricatures in high school. I’ve been very fortunate that my destiny as an artist has always been evident to me.”

“There are decks with laminated collages of famous punk rockers, decks adorned with mosaics of colored glass and found objects, decks in silkscreen and bamboo, and a deck where a steel stencil was used and an image burned into the wood,” writes Julian Guthrie of The San Francisco Chronicle.

“‘We want to show that art is not limited to people who consider themselves artists, and it’s not limited to a canvas or a certain shape,’ said Anna-Lisa Stardust Van der Valk, the curator and producer of ‘Skate This Art.’ ‘We have decks from professional artists, from children, from the elderly, from the disabled.’”