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November 2013
Having arrived in North Carolina, Ben is collaborating with championship surfer Pat McManus on a surf art project. Kenny has reached Moab, Utah and his trades are becoming ever more ambitious.
Kenny has traded a painting for a flight across the Grand Canyon and has now made it to Las Vegas. Meanwhile, Ben is in New Jersey playing catch-up. Trailing behind Kenny, the sculptor decides to make one last effort.
Ben and Kenny have just 36 hours to prepare their art trade shows, and two hours to sell everything they can. Only then will they, and we, learn the winner of Art Race.
Ben sets up a studio in a local factory in Georgia and constructs his masterpiece and then attempts to auction it off to the assembled metalworkers. Kenny is in Aspen and has lined up a balloon ride over the Rockies.
A trucker offers Kenny a ride in his sixteen-wheeler and drops the artist in Goodland. Ben learns of a recent art sale by Kenny. Depressed, he escapes the cameras and takes refuge in a local Mississippi strip bar.
Ben is flat broke but puts a haircut and shave before food and accommodation. One of the barber's customers offers a ride. In Kansas City, Missouri, Kenny negotiates an introduction to a local art collector.
Ben arrives in Austin, Texas and has one thing on his mind: nudes. In Russellville a bar owner offers Kenny a room but in return asks for an impossible commission: will Kenny sketch, from a photograph, a deceased baby?
October 2013
Kenny makes it to Indianapolis, and thinks that if people will trade for food and accommodation, will they also trade for clothing and other things? Ben is trying to reach Marfa, Texas, using whatever it takes!
Kenny makes it to Indianapolis, and thinks that if people will trade for food and accommodation, will they also trade for clothing and other things? Ben is trying to reach Marfa, Texas, using whatever it takes!
Kenny bravely decides to explore the art market of rural Missouri. In Texas, Ben's fallen in love with a car. Having traded for a gourmet meal, he's found a cowboy hut to sleep in and a near-derelict Baja Bug to pine after.
Kenny bravely decides to explore the art market of rural Missouri. In Texas, Ben's fallen in love with a car. Having traded for a gourmet meal, he's found a cowboy hut to sleep in and a near-derelict Baja Bug to pine after.
Kenny is in Amish country in Kidron Ohio, and after trading an oil painting with a Mennonite preacher, he gains food and shelter. Meanwhile Ben spends all day perfecting his sculpture in the tiny town of Bisbee in Arizona.
September 2013
Thanks to his chainsaw-art tutorial, Ben has a wooden bear to sell but sadly, the people of Palm Springs have other ideas. In Pennsylvania, Kenny swaps a portrait for a ride on a Harley - but only as far as State College.
Two artists, Ben Sargent and Kenny Harris, set out to cross America surviving only on their art.
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