ISSUE June 2018
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A View From The Top
It must be summer. I’m starting to sweat when I bend over, and we were visited by the annual termite invasion during the exhibition opening of Travis Walthall, our winner from last year’s TASIMJAE show. Fans were blowing even as a relatively mild evening temperature graced us for this time of year. Along with the fantastic
ISSUE May 2018
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(Self) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Walthall, TASIMJAE 2017 winner, offers Surreal introspection Travis Walthall is tall and languid, with an easy demeanor that’s a cross between a lonesome cowboy and “The Dude,” as he waxes lyrical about his art — occasionally tweaking his waxed, Dali-esque mustache. A large self-portrait leans against the wall of the Lamar University art studio as
TASIMJAE 2018 Recap
Annual show highlights members’ best TASIMJAE, The Art Studio, Inc. Annual Member Jurored Art Exhibition, drew 85 entries from 55 different artists, with 50 works by 30 artists making it onto the walls for exhibition, which opened April 7. “It was very difficult to make selections for this exhibition as well as select works to
Exploring Hopi Visions
Dallas Museum of Art spotlights Native American spiritual journey Seeing the mural “Journey of the Human Spirit” reminded me of some of my most indelible childhood memories when my brother, sister and I would get shipped off every summer to our Aunt Jeanette’s in Arizona. The six-paneled mural is 5 feet high and 48 feet
Guns, Gators & Gals
Shaun Roberts’ AMSET exhibit merges High Renaissance with Texas flair Artist Shaun Roberts takes High Renaissance and Baroque influences and techniques and applies them in his paintings and drawings, transporting the viewer to an East Texas setting that could have been painted by the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens. “Rebels and Renegades,” an exhibition of
Fourth Annual Maypole Festival set for May 12
The Moon and Stars organization, in conjunction with the Beaumont Council of Garden Clubs, will present the fourth annual Maypole Festival, May 12, at the Tyrrell Park Garden Center, located at 6088 Babe Zaharias Drive in Beaumont. “Everyone should attend,” Sandra Hammerling, Maypole Festival co-founder, said. “The games, performers and vendors are fun for the
Around & About
The Beaumont Art League will host the “3D/ Nude/Portraiture Exhibition,” May 12-26. The opening reception will be 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., May 12. Prizes will be announced at the opening reception. Monetary awards will be given to first place, second place and third place winners. Honorable mention ribbons will be awarded as determined by
A View From The Top
Went to a wonderful show earlier this month at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. It was not in the main galleries, where so much amazing work is brought to us in the way only AMSET can do. This was a more intimate exhibition on a Sunday afternoon in the Sue Mann Weisenfelder Gallery. It