Painters Alicia Armstrong and Jeremy Russell bet on themselves in downtown's crowded gallery scene - a podcast by Blue Ridge Public Radio - BPR Arts & Performance

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Alicia Armstrong can't count how many times she has turned down Jeremy Russell . "When he would come to me with the ideas, I would say 'Dude, that is f***d up," Armstrong said. "'I don't have time for that.'" There was the time Russell wanted partners to go in on a bowling alley or perhaps an abandoned Kmart and turn it into an "art experience." For years, he hit up friends to join him in buying a warehouse and renting studios to other artists. "Jeremy comes in hot and I'm used to it because I

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