Local artist Grace Megnet will be the Contemporary Local Artist Show Series featured artist at Finder’s Fayre Art and Antiques Gallery, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dec. 6.
Megnet’s show Just Because will exhibit her latest works, with many created especially for this event, as part of the ongoing C.L.A.S.S. series featuring local artists.
Finder’s Fayre is located at 1485 Calder Ave. in Beaumont.
For more information, call 409-833-7000.
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The Lamar University department of art will host “Spectrum,” the fall 2018 Senior Thesis Show, in the Dishman Art Museum, Nov. 30-Dec. 15.
“Spectrum” will feature works from students Rebecca Broussard, Cristina Cabrera, James Holt, Andy Ramos, Edgar Sanchez and Becca Jo Stephens.
“Feelings” by Becca Jo Stephens
Projects include a fashion brand, a typeface that creates an illusion, digital photographs addressing the metaphorical meanings of nightmares, sci-fi illustrations and a cinemograph series.
The senior thesis exhibition is the final requirement of art majors before being rewarded the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in studio art or graphic design.
Prince Thomas, LU professor of photography, said the thesis program is unique to Lamar’s art program due to its similarity to what higher level art students will experience.
“It is unique in the sense that most university art programs do not require a thesis from their undergraduate students,” he said. “You simply take the required courses and the student graduates. Whereas at Lamar, we require our students to go through a formal thesis process very similar to what students have to do to get their Master of Fine Arts degree in art.
The opening reception for “Spectrum” will be Nov. 30 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. The Dishman Art Museum is located on the corner of MLK Parkway and East Lavaca.
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The Stark Museum of Art celebrates the holiday season with an encore exhibit of Spirit of Bethlehem: The Boehm Porcelain Nativity. The exhibit will be on view in the museum’s lobby through Jan. 5.
Spirit of Bethlehem tells the Christmas story through the figures of a 16-piece Nativity scene in white bisque porcelain. Boehm Porcelain (founded in 1950) produced the set of figurines in the years 1979-1983. Centuries of tradition inspired the artisans of the Boehm studios. They followed the Biblical accounts enriched by medieval stories in designing the porcelain sculptures.
The set includes the Christian holy family and those gathered at the manger such as angels, shepherds, kings, townspeople and animals. The works of Edward Marshall Boehm (1913-1969), founder of Boehm Porcelain, also gave inspiration to the project. Boehm established the firm’s identity with his naturalistically modeled birds in porcelain, but he also made works with religious subjects.
Spirit of Bethlehem is a gift to the Stark Museum from the estates of David and Sara Lindsey.
Stark Museum of Art is located at 712 Green Ave.
in Orange.
For more, visit starkmuseum.org.