Celebrate Wabi-Sabi with 7 on the Edge
Exhibition October 3-29, 2011
Reception Thursday, October 6, 5-8 pm
Wabi-Sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty and profundity in the natural cycle of aging.
Paula Joyce, Cynthia Schneidler, Robin Sacks, Barbara Nehman, Judie Meetal, Susan Kandell, and Veronique Jonas.
The Paper Chase will showcase art made of paper or on paper. Re-cycle, re-use, re-purpose. Get you thinking caps on and your scrap paper out. Put that trash to good use. 2-D or 3-D. Any size, any media.
Two month exhibit: the Paper Chase shows at TVAA Downtown Gallery during November, and then will move to ArtReach Gallery in Lovers Lane Methodist Church for the month of December.
Deadline, October 24
Curator, Liz Netherland
liznart@tx.rr.com
Wildlife & Nature show award winners:
Best of Show – Carmen Lax
First Place – Barbara Mason
Honorable Mention – Sandra Freeman
Second Place – Helen Bailey
Third Place – Junko Otsu
Honorable Mention – Weeda Hamdan
Honorable Mention – Steve Ng
We live in a three-dimensional world. Everything we can see or touch can be measured by length, width and depth (height). I am looking for art works that are three-dimensional and that are representations of three-dimensional on a two-dimensional medium. The following media will be considered for acceptance: sculpture, mixed media, pottery, jewelry, mosaic, photography, painting, drawing, assemblage and glass.
Curator, Katrina Doran
Deadline July 22, 2011
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Photography & Digital Art
May 2 – 31, 2011
Reception: May 15, 2 – 4 pm
Curator: Gabrielle Castenada Pruitt
The invention of the camera ushered in a new genre of art that was primarily documentary in nature. Some images have been so powerful that they have come to define the era or moment in history they depict.
As photographers began to broaden their perspective and concentrate not just on the documentation of events, the genre of fine art photography was born.
In recent years the development of digital technology has created an exciting new genre of artistic expression. Artists are now using digital technology to produce entirely computer-generated paintings. Others are creating work from digitally manipulated photographs or scanned drawings.
This show offers photographers and digital artists an opportunity to share their most diverse and creative artistic endeavors, produced by whatever photographic or digital means they prefer.
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TVAA Downtown Gallery
Plaza of the Americas
701 N Pearl, Suite G-207
972-951-7879
tvaagallery@sbcglobal.net
Gabrielle Pruitt, Photography and Digital Art Show curator
Photagraphy and Digital Art Show award winners with Gaby Pruitt
Photagraphy and Digital Art Show artists
Wildlife and Nature Exhibition
July 1 – 29, 2011
Reception: July 10, 2 – 4 pm
Traveling to Bonham in August
Curator: Shari Hornish
“We need the tonic of wildlife…We can never have enough of nature.”
If Henry David Thoreau felt like that in the 19th century, how much greater would his appreciation be in the 21st century? We will honor all that is part of the natural world with this show, a broad spectrum of artwork stretching from the traditional oil landscape to whimsical animal sculpture, and everything in between. We’ll feature the flora and the fauna, the rare and the commonplace, the existing and the extinct.
In August, the exhibit will be at the Creative Arts Center in Bonham, Texas. Visit the center’s website for more information.
Download a prospectus PDF / Word doc
TVAA Downtown Gallery
Plaza of the Americas
701 N Pearl, Suite G-207
972-951-7879
tvaagallery@sbcglobal.net
Bonham Wildlife and Nature traveling show card
Wildlife and Nature Exhibition was on loan at the Creative Arts Center, Bonham, Texas. August 5 – 26, 2011, Reception Friday, August 5th, 6-8 pm.
Comics, once thought as fare for kids, have matured with the readers who bought and read them as children. Due to the maturity of the subject matter and technologies the medium has changed to branch off into new venues such as graphic novels and “anime”.
Now, movies, television, and animation has been so effected that many of the properties in Comics are now considered as story lines attracting larger audiences. The old comic books have come into their own as an art form beyond the pop culture use by such artists as Roy Lichtenstein in the 60’s to the original artwork becoming highly collectible.
For this exhibition I am looking for entries of comic book, graphic novel, anime, and cartoons of all kinds and genres; art in all type of medium in 2D, sculpture and 3D, digital, and even comic books and graphic novels themselves. Show us your art, your stories, your passion.
Graphic Novels, Comics, Anime, & Toons: Art As Story
June 1 – 30
Reception: June 5, 2 – 4 pm
Curator: Zane Steadman
Digital entry deadline: May 5
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TVAA Downtown Gallery
Plaza of the Americas
701 N Pearl, Suite G-207
972-951-7879
tvaagallery@sbcglobal.net
Texas goes to France, with artists Diana Moya and DK Richardson. Exhibit dates, April 4 to 30. Reception, April 7, 7 to 9 pm at the TVAA Downtown Gallery.
Invited by the oldest Pastel Society in the world, founded in 1885 by masters like Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt among other talents, a delegation of Master pastelistes from Texas, led by Diana Moya, traveled to Europe last summer to exhibit their artwork representing the USA in two of the most beautiful international exhibitions dedicated to the art of pastel in the cities of Feytiat and Saint Florent le-Vieil.
Diana Moya is currently the Ambassador in America for the Societe des Pastellistes de France. D.K. Richardson stated, ”Words donʼt quite convey the awe of seeing your paintings hanging among the works of other master pastelists from Europe.”
Paris, Texas? or Paris, France? Both artists start by interpreting the similarities of what they know using a familiar icon, as they document their exciting travels in France with paintings, photographs and videos.
The Texas goes to France touring exhibit was displayed in the Frisco Art Gallery of the Discovery Center November, 2010 to January 2011 and will continue on to the Arlington Museum of Art in the month of May.
Diana Moya and D.K. Richardson will conduct sessions of 4-Day workshops at the Downtown Gallery in April that will include guided visits to the Dallas Museum of Art. They will share not only technique but also professional experiences in traveling exhibits, competitions, exhibitions abroad, and the Dallas art scene. To register visit www.DianaMoya.com or call D.K. Richardson at (830) 928 -3393.
D.K. Richardson & Diana Moya
