(metal clinking) - Oh my gosh, it's so beautiful.

Isn't that gorgeous?

A yellow Spring bird - Art-o-mat is a collaborative art installation project, where we use banned cigarette machines and turning them into functional art delivery devices.

(metal clinking) So people will see this and be like, "Hey, I haven't seen one of those in years."

In many cases, we'll design a machine for venue, we'll work with the interior designers or the architects.

We'll match colors.

We want our machines to be comfortable in a venue.

In each machine, there's anywhere from nine to 22 columns and each artist has their own color.

(metal clinking) - The fun of putting the money in and pulling the knob, it's amazing.

I love seeing the people's reactions and their smile.

(woman gasps) - This thing comes out and lands in someone's hand.

It's a small size that can be carried around.

And I like to feel it's, even though it's a big heavy cold machine, it creates a tangible connection between the artist and the patron.

- It was nice that they took old cigarette machines and turned them into something useful, and then supporting the local art community.

I loved it.

Like I said, this is just amazing that you can do something like this and make us all really, I mean, just such a happy thing.

- Well, this is $5.

So the artist gets 2.50, the host venue gets 1.50, 'cause they usually pay to host a machine, and then our studio gets a dollar.

The money is small, but honestly, once an artist gets into the mix and they figure out how to produce the work, it adds up faster than you would think.

- We have such a wide variety of artists, anything from little kids around seven or eight and all the way up to, probably, gosh, it's probably been about 10 years, but I think our oldest artist we've had was 98.

From people doing this as a fun hobby to professionals, it's amazing to see all the variety, anything you can possibly think of.

Paper mache to jewelry, to paintings, to little 3Ds, where you put your flashlight in.

It's a jellyfish porthole.

This one's a little viewfinder of a little mini drive-in.

This is a artist named Ann Shera.

She makes little clay TVs.

These are little art journals by Debbie Page Harris.

- We have jewelry, paintings, whatever fits in the parameters of our guidelines on our website.

It's got a fit within here.

- I had seen the machine before and I just didn't know anything about it and I thought, I do prints so I can probably do that.

It's a lot of pieces, but that's kind of fun because you can make a lot of different variations of different pieces and do different colors.

And I like whenever somebody tags me online, and you know, it says I got one of your blocks.

The amount that people enjoy it is satisfying.

Just the size of a cigarette pack and you get it out of the machine for five bucks.

And you know, a lot of people keep that as a memento, but some will contact me and they'll, you know, purchase a bigger piece of art.

It's a good way to promote myself.

- It is nice, it's a surprise and a pleasant surprise.

Like I said, this is beautiful.

- Thank you.

- I think it's love gorgeous.

- The artists who become part of this do kind of make it more exciting for me every day because they bring something to the project and make it stronger than what I could have done and I wouldn't want it to be about.

To wrap that up, I just want to work with artists who believe in our concept of people living with affordable art, and then just having fun with it.