The Corpus Christi Caller-Times ran a story in the Thursday April 24 Arts Section highlighting Rockport's recent honor of being named a "Top 10 Coastal Art Colony" by Coastal Living Magazine.
Nanci Barnes, ceramic artist and 2007 Rockport Art Festival Poster Artist, will exhibit in the 2008 Craft Texas at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft May 24-August 17, 2008. See full story for details!
Winslow Homer: Society and Solitude, a new, feature-length documentary film on the great American artist will screen Friday, April 25, at 7:00 pm at Texas A&M CC. Filmmaker Steven John Ross will be present.
On April 12, RCA Dedicated its newest sculpture into the Sculpture Garden, "Return of Ancient Wisdom." On another exceptional weekend for the Art Center, several honored guests spoke to the crowd and gave special significance to the event.
Saturday April 5, 2008 will be remembered fondly, as Texas State Artist Dalhart Windberg and emerging Texas artist Kyle Polzin spent the day with local patrons, artists, and Art Center members.
April's Coastal Living names Rockport a "coastal haven" of creativity, and one of its top 10 coastal art communities. See full story to link to Coastal Living!
On Tuesday April 1, an RCA Members' Preview of the Windberg/Polzin exhibition will take place from 2-4 pm. Artworks will be viewable online immediately following. See full story for more details.
"Lord of the Wind," a life-size bronze of a peregrine falcon by Austin, TX sculptor Bob Coffee, was installed and dedicated at the Chisos Mountains Visitor Center in Big Bend National Park on February 16, 2008.
The Art Center of Corpus Christi is holding a juried exhibition of the Watercolor Society of South Texas through March 27. See full story for winners, which include some of our member artists!
"The complex division of space within a single strong shape draws you to this painting by Forsythe. Color, while secondary, adds a sense of mystery." -anonymous Board member
Michael Atkinson's "Man's Best Friend," donated to the Art Center in 1999, received a fresh bronze finish with new patina colors. The Art Center thanks Muralist and Sculptor Alberto Saucedo from San Antonio who came to refinish the piece.
In its first addition since 2002, the Art Center's Sculpture Garden welcomes its newest work of art - "Return of Ancient Wisdom" is sculptor Leo Osborne's rendition of the Kemp's ridley turtle.
Lola L. Bonner, three-term president of the Board of Directors for Rockport Center for the Arts and a Trustee of the Margaret Sue Rust Foundation, passed away on February 8, 2008.
