Author Archives: artstudio

Tearing it up

Falgout, TASIMJAE 2015 winner, turns paper into artistic gold Avril Falgout sits cross-legged on her dorm room floor, a warm pot of corn starch and water by her side and a pile of torn newspaper on the floor. She picks up a strip of paper, dips it in the mixture and applies it to the leg

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View From The Top

It is always a wonderful time during TASIMJAE, the membership show. Not only do I get to interact with all returning artists bringing work in, but I get to meet the new entrants as well. This year I was impressed by how many new entrants we had and how young some of them are. It

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Listen To Your Mother

Storytelling event set for April 29-30 The third annual Southeast Texas “Listen to Your Mother” show has selected local writers to share their personal stories on stage April 29 and 30, at the Betty Greenberg Center for Performing Arts. “Our production of Listen To Your Mother will feature heartfelt, hilarious, and inspirational live readings from

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Around & About

The Beaumont Art League will host  its 3D, Classic Nude and Portrait show, May 7 through May 21. Winners will be announced at the opening reception, May 13, 7 pm to 9 pm. A maximum of three entries per artist will be accepted  per artist. Entry fee for BAL members is $10 per entry; non-members

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21st-century archetypes

Printmaker Abelman’s project spans media Last December, printmaker Maurice Abelman asked me to put on a swimsuit and be covered with wheatpaste, plastic and paper to try out an idea he had about applying collaged trademarks and brands to the human form. The process took hours and I nearly froze upstairs at The Art Studio.

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Maypole Festival set for May 7

The Moon and Stars Committee, a volunteer of friends to the Beaumont Council of Garden Clubs, has announced their 2016 Beaumont Maypole Festival. The second-annual festival will be held at the Beaumont Botanical Gardens May 7. “The Maypole was constructed in memory of Paula “Torchy” Salter to honor the loving, giving spirit she was and

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Ad Hoc to present ‘Rooster’ play

Ad Hoc Beaumont will present “Year of the Rooster,” a mythical black comedy about love, underdogs and cockfighting, May 20 through June 4. Gil is a loser. He works at McDonald’s, lives with his ailing mother, and hasn’t had a girlfriend since…ever. But that’s all about to change. He’s been secretly training (and drugging) a rooster

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