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Conniff’s artwork covers nearly every inch of his home. The eccentric mixed media pieces number in the hundreds, and his granddaughter Clare Conniff is seeking to restore and catalog the images. She’s funding the project through Kickstarter, but as of press time is a few thousand dollars short of the amount she says she needs to restore the images, catalog them, self-publish a book and conduct a professional interview with her grandfather about his work. “I never thought of any of this stuff as art,” Conniff says. “I did it because I wanted to do it, I felt like doing it and it was gratifying to accomplish it.” The Accidental Artist: Granddaughter Seeks To Save 91-Year-Old’s Jim Conniff’s Art

Conniff’s artwork covers nearly every inch of his home. The eccentric mixed media pieces number in the hundreds, and his granddaughter Clare Conniff is seeking to restore and catalog the images. She’s funding the project through Kickstarter, but as of press time is a few thousand dollars short of the amount she says she needs to restore the images, catalog them, self-publish a book and conduct a professional interview with her grandfather about his work.

“I never thought of any of this stuff as art,” Conniff says. “I did it because I wanted to do it, I felt like doing it and it was gratifying to accomplish it.”

The Accidental Artist: Granddaughter Seeks To Save 91-Year-Old’s Jim Conniff’s Art

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