September 16th-21st: SSBG To Host the Combat Wounded Veteran Challenge (CWVC) Sailing Challenge 2019. The CWVC Galveston Sail Training and Championship are designed as challenges for those participants interested in sailing training and competition. Together, CWVC staff, SSBG Adaptive Sailing staff, and the Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG) Sailing team will provide a one-week sail training camp that is scheduled to the minute. At this time all Veteran participant spots are filled, but spectators are invited to come, watch, and support the Veterans participating. Please contact David Gaston at (409)572-2560 or for more information.
The 2019 Combat Wounded Veterans Challenge (CWVC) will be returning to Sea Star Base Galveston September 16th through 21st. This event will bring veterans, and their families, from not only the U.S. but two allied countries as well. All of these veterans are from the multi-national coalition which served in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
This is a wonderful opportunity for volunteer hours, especially for our experienced sonar skippers. We will also need additional volunteers to assist with some of the family outing activities. For more information, contact David Gaston at dgaston@ssbgalveston.org or 409-572-2560.
At its strategic perch overlooking Offatts Bayou, Sea Star Base Galveston (SSBG) resembles a five-star hotel beckoning guests to stop in. But looks can be deceiving. Sea Star Base Galveston is a youth based non-profit organization, and its mission is providing outstanding marine and aquatic programs where youth can learn teamwork and leadership skills, self-reliance and confidence, maritime career pathways, and independence of mind, body and spirit.
Please go to ssbgalveston.org/camps for information and registration, or call (409)572-2560. Sea Star Galveston is based at 7509 Broadway, Galveston.
On view through November 17th is Erin Curtis’ “Night and Day.”
Curtis’ exhibition includes recent large-scale paintings that are dense with color and pattern. Her layered, cut-canvas works contain disrupted surfaces and reflect an interest in geometric abstraction and its historical roots in weaving, architecture, nature, and ritual. The paintings in “Night and Day” are nearly overwhelmed by an unreadable chaos that is pulled back to the edge of order by familiar patterns and forms. The exhibition will be on view through November 17th, 2019.
Erin Curtis is an artist living and working in Austin, Texas. Curtis’s work combines utopian ideals of beauty and structure, with process and chance. Primarily working as a painter, she also creates large-scale, site-specific installations and public art projects.
She has received grants from the Dallas Museum of Art, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the City of Austin and the District of Columbia. Curtis has had solo shows at Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX (2017), CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, California (2016), Big Medium Gallery, Austin, Texas (2015) and Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC (2015). She has created commissioned works for the Chicago Transit Authority, the City of Washington D.C., Facebook, Art in Embassies and the City of Austin. In the summer of 2019, a 20- foot tall cut brick mural commissioned by Intelligentsia Coffee will be installed in downtown Austin. Curtis attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2010 and was awarded residencies at Anderson Ranch (2012) and Vermont Studio Center (2014). In 2008-2009, Curtis was a Fulbright Scholar in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Curtis graduated from Williams College with a BA in Liberal Arts in 1999 and received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007.
For more info go to erinelizabethcurtis.com.
In GAC’s second-floor galleries, the exhibition Exchange Rate is on view through October 6th, 2019. The exhibition features artists who incorporate currency in their work as material and subject matter. “Exchange Rate” features work by Corey Ackelmire, Mike Beradino, Rene Cruz, Kevin Curry, Kathy Hall, Mary Jeys, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Ken Little, Deborah Mersky, Phillip Pyle II, Dan Tague, The Art Guys, and Anthony Thompson Shumate.
These exhibitions are supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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 galvestonartscenter.org. The galleries are open to the public Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm, and Sunday 12 noon-5pm. Admission is free at all times.
- Children’s Art Classes ARE BACK!!!!
- Brand New Location
- Brand New BIGGER Classroom
- Teacher: Samitha Edwards, BFA Fine Arts and Art History, Teaching Certification in Art
This is NOT your average kid class….adults enjoy it too and learn something new each time they come
HERE, your children will be learning Art History, Technique, and Elements & Principles of Art from A-Z!
The first 30 minutes of class will be the Art History portion, where your children will get to know all the Masters, as well as the contemporary. We will be going from Primitive Cave art all the way to Andy Warhol.
Your children will leave here with new knowledge of the arts, printed handouts of the day’s lessons, and a completed piece of artwork.
We will go through ALL mediums, some will messier than others, and some will leave permanent stains. I will supply smocks for everyone, but be sure to drop off your kids with play clothes you don’t mind getting dirty, just in case
Classes will be every Friday, 4-7pm, which gives parents a perfect opportunity to take advantage of the shops and restaurants right next door to the gallery :)
Pre-registration is preferred, but we also take walk-ins.
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For more events, go to GalvestonIslandGuide.com!
Join a fun and totally cool tour with Galveston Ghost Tours! Several different tours are available:
Walking Historic Galveston Ghost Tour
This walking tour has been conducted since 2009, and no gravestone has been left unturned to bring Haunted Galveston’s history to you. Meet on the corner of Sealy Ave. and 23rd St.
Ghost Bus Tour – Seawall Departure
This is a 10-mile, approximately 60-minute tour of Galveston! You’ll hear from ghost eyewitnesses in their own words. Galveston is well known for its haunted history, and as you visit the Island, you’ll hear stories of hauntings and paranormal activity at locations nearly everywhere you go. For times, costs and such contact: info@GalvestonExperience.com, call (409)741-340, or go to galvestonexperience.com.
More in-depth stories can be heard on the Galveston Ghost Podcast at GalvestonGhostPodcast.com. The Galveston Ghost podcast brings you firsthand interviews in the words of the ghost eyewitnesses. Be sure to subscribe so you are notified when each new episode is released.
Schedules are available at galvestonexperience.com/calendar/.
The Galveston’s Own Farmers Market is in search of a fresh new local design made by you! The design will be celebrated at their 7th Annual GOFM Birthday (Oct 20), where the public can purchase and wear for years to come. Last day to submit t-shirt designs is September 23. Learn about how to submit a shirt design here.
Plan a private fishing adventure or add to a program already booked at SSBG… Your group, pack, troop or ship is sure to be HOOKED! Capt. Cody Dunn, our Professional Fishing Guide, hosts fishing adventures and workshops on safety and local ecology; so bring your own pole our use one of our generously donated poles! Live bait, cleaning table, nets, life jackets, bottled water and all the catching know-how are included!
September 16th-21st: SSBG To Host the Combat Wounded Veteran Challenge (CWVC) Sailing Challenge 2019. The CWVC Galveston Sail Training and Championship are designed as challenges for those participants interested in sailing training and competition. Together, CWVC staff, SSBG Adaptive Sailing staff, and the Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG) Sailing team will provide a one-week sail training camp that is scheduled to the minute. At this time all Veteran participant spots are filled, but spectators are invited to come, watch, and support the Veterans participating. Please contact David Gaston at (409)572-2560 or for more information.
The 2019 Combat Wounded Veterans Challenge (CWVC) will be returning to Sea Star Base Galveston September 16th through 21st. This event will bring veterans, and their families, from not only the U.S. but two allied countries as well. All of these veterans are from the multi-national coalition which served in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
This is a wonderful opportunity for volunteer hours, especially for our experienced sonar skippers. We will also need additional volunteers to assist with some of the family outing activities. For more information, contact David Gaston at dgaston@ssbgalveston.org or 409-572-2560.
At its strategic perch overlooking Offatts Bayou, Sea Star Base Galveston (SSBG) resembles a five-star hotel beckoning guests to stop in. But looks can be deceiving. Sea Star Base Galveston is a youth based non-profit organization, and its mission is providing outstanding marine and aquatic programs where youth can learn teamwork and leadership skills, self-reliance and confidence, maritime career pathways, and independence of mind, body and spirit.
Please go to ssbgalveston.org/camps for information and registration, or call (409)572-2560. Sea Star Galveston is based at 7509 Broadway, Galveston.
Every Saturday: Youth Sailing Saturdays – The Youth Sailing Program at Sea Star Base Galveston is unlike any other youth program in the country. It is their belief that every child has the ability and should have the opportunity to learn how to sail and become an ambitious, skilled, and active lifetime sailor. Children are taught by the highly skilled staff at this world-class sailing facility, but the benefits do not end there. In the youth sailing program, children learn stewardship of the oceans, coasts, and communities; they are heavily mentored by dedicated volunteers and learn physical and social skills that will carry them throughout life. These classes are open to the public. Beginning Sailors classes are 9am-12 noon. Intermediate Sailors classes are 1-5pm. Non-members can pay the daily rate of $25 per session. Membership is $200 annually for students only.
Hunt for coastal treasures with state park naturalists.
Beach Exploration hikes start at the park’s Day Use Beach boardwalk (adjacent to the restrooms and parking lot.)
Get a close-up look at the many critters and birds that inhabit the sand, surf and seaweed. This Saturday tour includes hands-on seining, searching for ghost crabs and beachcombing under the guidance of Friends of Galveston Island State Park (FoGISP) volunteers.
Favorite reads shared aloud in the Children’s Department on the first Saturday of every month.
This goes to 10:20am.
