Performance artist Alton Doolaney might as well have art as his middle name.

As public art program director and curator for all of Houston, Texas airports, Alton chooses

how to allocate the city's substantial budget for displaying amazing works of art.

As the best and only world's greatest gift-wrapped artist, Alton leveraged his success into the Great Gift Exchange,

an interview-style how-to show that ran on YouTube for the holiday season in 2020.

Also, in our formative younger years, Alton and I helped to create Peach, the Performance

Art Church, a performance art collective in the early 90s in Austin, Texas that cause mayhem

and chaos and sublime experiences in the music and theater venues across the South.

Today, artist, curator, and the world's greatest gift wrap artist,

Alton Doolaney, joins us to talk about showcasing the best art in Houston's airports,

and coming up with exhibits that appeal to a wide range of people and political persuasions.

Plus, if anything can be art, what happens when AI computers get into the game?

I'm Fausto Furnos.

I'm Mark Filian.

And this is Feast of Fun.

Houston, we don't have a problem.

Our guest today is artist and curator Alton Doolaney,

who's best known around the world as the world's most famous gift wrap artists,

host of the YouTube series The Great Gift Exchange,

and curator of public art Houston airports in the great state of Texas.

But here at Feast of Fun, we considered Alton Family as we share an extensive history together as performance art pioneers in the early 90s in Austin, Texas, with the creation of Peach, an acronym that spells out

performance art church. Welcome back to Feast of Fun, Alton. Thank you, Faustomar. Good to see you both

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