Beaux Arts Ball Now Seeking Sponsors
The Art Studio, Inc. is celebrating its Ruby Anniversary with a glamorous Beaux Arts Ball on January 21, 2023! We are thrilled to have Jackie Simien as this year’s honorary chairperson.
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TASI Partnering with United Way for “Empty Bowls” Project
The Art Studio, Inc. has the distinct honor of participating in a program with United Way to benefit the Food Bank called Empty Bowls. Empty Bowls is a program that began in 1990 at a Michigan high school to draw attention to the plight of the hungry.
INK ON INC. – November 2022
The Art Studio will be forty years old in a few months and in forty years so much has changed through technology and social and cultural developments. We work very hard to keep our finger on the pulse of our arts community, but (and this is a good thing) that pulse has grown exponentially. I
INK ON INC. – October 2022 “New Brushes”
Change is good. Change is inevitable. Do the same thing day after day and that activity will evolve, seemingly on its own. The same for your art. We all strive to advance our skills and abilities and even though it seems like there is no change, the more you do the better the art becomes.
TASI director Greg Busceme honored at AMSET Gala
On September 23, 2022, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas honored the founder and executive director of The Art Studio, Inc. at their annual gala. The following is the speech he wrote to give at the event. To Lynn Castle, who made AMSET a world class facility and a place that is available to everyone:
INK ON INC. – September 2022 “Where We Are”
Our first step in TASI’s long journey was taken in 1983. Looking back, it was the right time and the right place. Reagan won a second term, and we knew right then that it would be a rough ride ahead. Because of the NEA controversies of 1986 with Mapplethorpe’s homoerotic art and Serrano’s, Piss Christ
Gumbo Clayfest: Can you eat it?
by Greg Busceme, Sr.Executive Director at The Art Studio, Inc. A little history of TASI may be in order to explain the significance of the name “Gumbo Clayfest“. To begin with, most of “the locals” are familiar with Gumbo but for those who are not, it is a creole roux-based soup with onions, celery and green
INK ON INC. – June 2022
by Greg Busceme, Sr.Executive Director of The Art Studio, Inc. This month is a more practical approach to my musings. We have so many things happening – good and not-so-good. Let’s go to the not-so-good first. A few weeks ago, I walked into the Studio to a dystopian scene where lights were dim and the
INK ON INC. – May 2022
Art is a lifelong happy struggle. We absolutely complicate our lives in the pursuit of our passion that only comes when we make work. I think it’s better to keep thinking of yourself as a student of art and see each piece you create as another step toward the greater works you will make as your journey continues. We can so easily simply stop making art, making music, writing, acting and everything will be …simpler! You could just skip the mental struggle that keeps you up at night trying to create what’s in your heart. All I can say is in 47 years of sculpting and potting my worst years were when I couldn’t make art except in my mind. I cannot imagine living without clay stuck under my fingernails and smudging my clothes.
INK ON INC. – April 2022
by TASI Executive DirectorGreg Busceme, Sr. I am writing about an event that will happen before this is published. It is called NCECA and I haven’t been to it in 20 years. NCECA is the National Council on the Education of Ceramic Arts and for twenty years I would not miss it. Life changes and