Paste Announces Denison Witmer's Asthmatic Kitty Debut

"Denison Witmer is set to make his Asthmatic Kitty debut with his ninth album, titled The Ones Who Wait, on March 6. It was originally released in a limited quantity on Mono vs. Stereo last year, but Asthmatic Kitty took over the wide-release for the album." Read the full preview on Paste.

The Huffington Post Reviews MAKE

"The poignancy of the brilliantly paced, nearly 70-minute Make comes from its unwavering focus on the individual creator's connection to his or her creation. The resulting implication is that the ultimate value of art has little to do with the completed object that others admire. Rather, the real beauty of art is in the process, and in the conception and development of visions." Read the complete review of MAKE on The Huffington Post.

Download Sufjan Stevens' "Get Real, Get Right" in celebration of the release of MAKE!

To celebrate the release of MAKE, the inspiration behind Sufjan Stevens’ The Age of Adz, Asthmatic Kitty is offering up a free download of "Get Real, Get Right" off of the much celebrated album! The film is a wonderfully intimate journey into the lives of four American self-taught artists: Prophet Royal Robertson, Hawkins Bolden, Judith Scott and Ike Morgan. Isolated and struggling with the disabilities life has dealt them, these artists all find their most powerful voice through art.

Download and share "Get Real, Get Right" with your readership - http://music.sufjan.com/track/get-real-get-right-2

Early press:

"Transforming the quotidian into the sublime is no small task, but for the four artists featured in MAKE--a new film by local documentarians Scott Ogden and Malcolm Hearn--it's been their life’s work.MAKE is a love letter to the artistic process in its purest form, at a time when we are becoming increasingly estranged from examining the elusive origins of creative impulse." Ready Made

"Isolated by their disabilities, they find a voice and try to make sense of a world that shuns them, through incredible works of art." IFC

"Here, art is totally divorced from commerce and created without regard to an audience. It’s art at its most viscerally personal — a live-saving lifeline even more than a form of personal expression." BlogCritics

"Make is a truly moving testament to the perseverance of man’s bond with art and the innate force that drives us to create in order to be fulfilled." The Vinyl District

MAKE gets a tip of the hat from Ready Made Magazine!

"Transforming the quotidian into the sublime is no small task, but for the four artists featured in MAKE--a new film by local documentarians Scott Ogden and Malcolm Hearn--it's been their life’s work.MAKE is a love letter to the artistic process in its purest form, at a time when we are becoming increasingly estranged from examining the elusive origins of creative impulse." Read the rest at Ready Made!

IFC has the exclusive premiere: Sneak Preview Of "MAKE"

Read up on the film at IFC.com!

Introducing MAKE: the documentary that inspired Sufjan Stevens' The Age of Adz.