interview and photos by Meg Baertl Brown If you are familiar with art in Beaumont, you are familiar with Gina Garcia. This bubbly Beaumont artist is also a teacher who loves adventure. Currently, she serves as the Director of AMSET Summer ArtVentures and is a Painting With A Twist artist. Her three favorite things she
a special reportby “The Spindletop Kid” Few diversions are sweeter after a day’s worth of trail riding than wetting your dry gullet at some amiable waterin hole, ordering up a mess of viddles and testing your acumen in a friendly game of saloon trivia. But with Pour Brothers cantina vanishing like bison on the plains,
by Greg Busceme, Sr.Executive Director of The Art Studio, Inc.
Nadia Garza is a visual artist originally from Monterrey, Mexico. Garza has recently moved to Beaumont, Texas and become active with both The Art Studio, Inc. and the Beaumont Art League. The Art Studio, Inc is excited to display Garza’s work and introduce her to the Southeast Texas public through her solo show in our
words and photos by Lige Menard Hi! How are you? I sure hope you’ve been doing well. Me? Well, I’m glad you asked, reckon I’ve been swell. Lemme tell ya about a not secret but felt like a secret show that went down on low-key lo-fi Thursday, Feb. 10th at the Texas Rose Saloon down
Artists Peter Nguyen and Stephen Rousset share a painting studio space at TASI. It seems suitable that they share a show. The two artists are quite prolific and seem to greatly benefit from the camaraderie a shared space can create. Peter Nguyen has been painting for seven years and drawing off and on since grade
In February 2020, a series of shows began at The Art Studio, Inc. Curated by assistant curator, Michelle Cate, the Pop Up gallery first featured Nathan Yellow-Jones’ exhibit, “Sentiment.” The continued use of this gallery space has doubled the number of shows held at TASI annually, despite the global pandemic. “Pop-Up” might imply the scale
photographs by James Blaign Rambo December 25th 2021 brought about the return of our traditional holiday party “XMAS NITE”, a very special edition of Band Nite which instead of being held on the Last Saturday of the month as it is throughout the year, always pops up on Christmas. TASI welcomed home musical artists Chiche
Southern Rock Pep Talks and Yee-Yee Trucks: Beaumont Native Ryan Gist Offers an Authentic Meditation on Aimlessness, Artistic Stagnation, and Creative Perseverance album reviewby Kay-Alana Turner For fans of:The Flies, Soul Asylum, Hootie and the Blowfish, Jimi Hendrix, Gavin Degraw, Matchbox Twenty, Crooked Fingers, Calexico, Psycho Jenni, The Killawatts, The Doobie Brothers, The Band, Guns
Made In Southeast Texasmovie review by Christopher Dombrosky Our Gulf Coast isn’t known for tornadoes, but production of the Southeast Texas-shot independent motion picture dramedy “Red Rocket” was a whirlwind. When acclaimed multi-hyphenate auteur Sean Baker, maker of 2015’s “Tangerine” and 2017’s “The Florida Project”, found his 2020 work in Canada scuttled by pandemic, he
