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Penetrating Perception

Ah Hoc theater to offer challenging experience Oct. 10, 11, 12 and 19 at 7:30 p.m. In the middle of what seems to be a surging theater scene in Southeast Texas, one company is setting out to confront audiences’ perceptions of what theater can be by offering challenging subject matter in unconventional settings. Beaumont’s Ad Hoc

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The Tenants Show!

Come see what the TASI tenants have been up to in the last 12 months. Their work will be displayed at the Tenants Show, September 7 – 27, 2013 with an opening reception at The Studio, Sept. 7th,  from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.  Come see it and buy something. Read more in the September ISSUE!

BCP Opener all ‘Business’

Beaumont Community Players will begin the 2013-2014 season with the classic musical “How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” Director Keith Cockrell said there is one simple reason to see the show — it’s hilarious. “It’s one of the funniest scripts ever written, and the music is really good,” he said. “(Composer) Frank Loesser

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Displaced Souls

Tallent’s BAL nude art show focuses on dimensions in space The human body is difficult to photograph in terms of physical presence. Photographs are flat. Everyone knows that. But Richard Tallent isn’t a run-of-the-mill photographer, and he does anything but take traditional, two-dimensional photographs. President of the Beaumont Art League board of directors, Tallent’s new

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Art on the (fore) Edge

Stark Museum of Art reveals hidden treasures in rare books The special exhibition “Tales and Travels” at the Stark Museum of Art takes visitors on a journey through time and space. At the center of the show are rare books presented in the context of paintings, prints, letters and other documents which illustrate real and

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Picturing Words

Artists of all types have long toyed with incorporating typography into their work. From the illuminated manuscript to Islamic calligraphy, words have mingled with the visual to enhance meaning or simply attract attention. In the manuscripts, the images, while incorporating letters within the image, illustrate, often literally, the story they precede. The text itself flows

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ISSUE WINS PRESS CLUB AWARDS

ISSUE, TASI win nine awards at Press Club

ISSUE magazine, the arts magazine of The Art Studio, Inc., won nine awards at The Press Club of Southeast Texas Excellence in Media Awards banquet, held June 7 in the reception center of Gray Library at Lamar University. The ISSUE won second place in the Special Section/Tabloid category. “The ISSUE is run on an entirely

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