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Communication graduate and artist\u00a0Keith Jensen doesn’t like the business side of art, so he wanted to find a way to keep it fun.\u00a0The\u00a0solution: Give away his creations \u2013 well, just for the next year, anyway.<\/p>\n

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The UCF graduate and former communication adjunct now lives in\u00a0New York City, but is the creative art director for a Florida company, which brings him back to\u00a0Orlando each month.\u00a0He recently started leaving original pieces of artwork around New York for people to find. Signs attached to the canvases say: “Free art. If having this art will make your day better, then it’s yours.”<\/p>\n

At UCF, Jensen earned a\u00a0bachelor’s\u00a0degree in business and a master’s in mass communication. In 2004, he started teaching classes in public speaking, and later in advertising and public relations for a few years.\u00a0He was always interested in the creative aspects of advertising and doodling, but wasn’t serious about art until last year when a friend asked him to use paint pens to give his Jet Ski some more flair.\u00a0Jensen said he discovered his long-dormant skill and started painting on other\u00a0vehicles and canvases.<\/p>\n

“It was something I had never tapped into earlier,” he said. “Now it’s a fun thing for me. People offered to buy them, but it was always an awkward situation to come up with a price. So I decided to give away the paintings.”<\/p>\n

So far he has set out a handful of paintings of celebrities, which he said were picked up by people within a couple minutes after seeing the “Free Art” sign on them.\u00a0He said he plans to leave one or two paintings each week around New York, and will set out a couple in Orlando when he visits next time. The artist said he also drops hints on his Twitter\u00a0account about where the paintings are hidden.<\/p>\n

“For such a creative and light-hearted industry, art catches a stuffy stigma,” Jensen said. “Art should be about making people feel something when they see it on their wall \u2013 and what better feeling is there than getting something valuable for free.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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