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Big, beautiful Texas landscapes and seascapes by Jeanetta Brewster. Come meet this Summa Cum Laude fine art graduate of Sam Houston. Enjoy her art. Take one home for your home.
Come enjoy an ART EXHIBIT with the Houston Wells Pony Express & the Mustangs
Hosted by Artist Sandy Wells, (713) 562-5684
% of proceeds donated to Gulf Coast Epilepsy Alliance (GCEA)
GCEA’s mission is committed to working for and meeting the needs of people with epilepsy, their families and their caretakers in the Gulf Coast areas of Texas.
To learn more, visit www.gceatx.org
Join us for the opening of our featured artist, Meighgan Gladden!
Meighgan creates beautiful works of art with glitter, sequins, and hand punched paper holes. Each piece is custom made by hand gluing individual sequins and hand punched holes to create unique works with brilliant colors!
Opening January 18, 2020 at Galveston Arts Center and on view January 18 – April 12, 2020.
Opening Reception Saturday, January 18, 2020: 6-9pm, Artist talks at 6:30pm
Brown Foundation Gallery: Britt Thomas Indian Spirit
1878 Gallery & Vault: Amada Miller But then (again)
Continuing through February 23, 2020 in the Main Gallery: Amber Eagle Nap Dreams
Galveston Arts Center (GAC) presents two new exhibitions opening Saturday, January 18, 2020 from 6 to 9 PM in conjunction with Galveston ArtWalk. Artist talks will begin at 6:30 PM. Britt Thomas’ photography exhibition Indian Spirit documents the Port Neches-Groves Indians high school football traditions and community who keep those traditions alive. Amada Miller’s exhibition But then (again) includes photographic and video work focusing on the celestial bodies that make seasonal appearances near our planet. These exhibitions will remain on view through April 12, 2020.
Amber Eagle’s exhibition Nap Dreams will continue through February 23, 2020 in GAC’s main gallery.
These exhibitions are supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
About the Exhibitions:
Britt Thomas’ exhibition, Indian Spirit, documents the Port Neches-Groves Indians high school football traditions and the community who keeps those traditions alive. The photographs take an observational approach to PN-G’s unique fusion of Texas football customs and Native American cultural appropriation that has existed in this community since 1925. The title, Indian Spirit, emerges from the name of PN-G’s mascot and reflects the community’s intense commitment to their motto of ‘Honor, Pride, Tradition.”
But then (again) is an exhibition of photographic and video work focusing on the celestial bodies that make seasonal appearances near our planet by San Antonio-based artist Amada Miller. Astronomers and scientists have spent centuries probing these mysterious portents, claiming everything from life-bearing origins to humanity’s destruction. Focusing on comets and meteor showers, the works in this exhibition are comprised of a record made of ice that plays the sound of a comet flying through space (recording acquired by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission) and long exposure photographs of the night sky as the Quadrantids and Ursids meteor showers pass by. These images are recorded and obscured by a handmade glass lens made from tektites, a type of glass that is formed from the heat of a meteor impact.
About GAC: GAC is the organizer of ArtWalk, which takes place every six weeks in downtown Galveston. The ArtWalk brochure, which lists participating venues, hours, information, and map can be downloaded at www.galvestonartscenter.org.
Galveston Arts Center is located at 2127 Strand St. in Downtown Galveston. The galleries are open to the public Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm, and Sunday 12 noon-5pm. Admission is free at all times.
Friendswood artist Janie O’Farrell is the Galveston Art League’s Featured Artist for March. Her detailed paintings – many of them executed on salvaged building materials – will hang in the league’s gallery, 2117A Postoffice St. in Galveston, from Feb. 27-March 29.
Gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 6-9 p.m. during ArtWalk on March 7.
O’Farrell, who holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Baylor University, taught drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture at Glassell Junior School for about 20 years. She also has taught outreach classes at various hospitals and senior centers in Houston. Several Friendswood-area schools and restaurants feature murals that she painted.
She likes using acrylic paints to create images on salvaged ceiling tiles, roof tiles and wood. “The most challenging thing to me about painting is when I paint on reclaimed wood or tin is deciding what to paint,” O’Farrell says. “I have to live with the vintage object awhile until I can envision my subject matter.” Her aim is to capture the essence of a landscape or object in her paintings.
O’Farrell sells through the Galveston Art League Gallery and is a professional member of the league. To find out more about the league and its memberships, please visit www.GalvestonArtLeague.com and click on “Join.”
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