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Welcome to Fort Worth Scene
Founded in June 2000, Fort Worth Scene is a leading provider of
community information for art, entertainment, restaurants and theatre in Fort
Worth, Texas. Our mission is to provide complete, up-to-date
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OPEN CALL FOR TEXAS ARTISTS AT ARTSPACE111
Artspace111 is pleased to announce an open call for submissions for the 8th annual
Artspace111 Texas Juried Exhibition, juried by Caleb Bell, Curator at the Tyler Museum
of Art. The competition includes eligibility for 2D and 3D artwork. The exhibition will
be open July 10th through August 28th with an opening reception on the evening of July 17th.
Due date for entries is Monday, May 24th. Contemporary 2D and 3D works that follow the
requirements detailed in the prospectus are eligible for acceptance, artwork selected by
the juror from the eligible submissions will be included in the Texas Juried Exhibition
at Artspace111 and are eligible for cash awards. A total of $5000 will be awarded to the
best works in show, and the first prize will include the opportunity to exhibit at
Artspace111 in a separate solo or group exhibition in 2021-2022.
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Ken O'Toole - Inklings
Another of Ken O'Toole's wonderful newsletters arrived with a story of his new art
works he calls "Inklings". Great idea and also good encouragement for our times. Ken's
newsletters are always gratifying to read and you will not regret spending the short time
to do so. See the MORE ARTICLE INFO page for the whole newsletter if you didn't get
one!'. Ken also reminds us that: This coming Saturday (3-27) is Spring Gallery Night in
Fort Worth. Be sure to stop in and see all the AMAZING art at Rebecca Low Sculpture Gallery.
Thanks again. - Ken
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Keith Thomson - Artist - Potter
The first time I touched clay at art school, I was drawn to its unlimited potential of
design and workability in realizing my creative ideas. Clay from the earth, water, air
and fire are the essential elements which must be harmonized to create a ceramic form.
Whether it is a functional bowl, made on the wheel, an abstract sculpture using
extrusions, hand built with slabs or cast in a mold, all the basic elements are the
same. The clay needs water to make it workable, air for drying and fire to make it
permanent. After that, the limitations are only out with your creative imagination. My
studio is always open. You can come watch me work or get your hands in some clay.
Experienced or beginner, young or old, anyone can come to The Firehouse Pottery and
experience the creative and magical powers of clay.
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Olivia Saldívar - Artist - Printmaker - Painter
I carve prints which portray the ennui and mystery of the southwestern landscape. Carving
relief prints and painting offers a textural immediacy to the known and the unknown of
our land. It is vital to document these mysteries and offer context as to what it means
to live in the borderlands of the west in our day and age. Documenting the quiet beauty
of the southwestern landscape has long been a theme in my work as stories and shapes
unfold and transform in the bright sun. Sometimes resulting in minimalist landscapes.
Other times resulting in portraiture. People are constructed within the frame, looking
out, watching and waiting to discover their next course of action. This individualization
within the tableau gives pause to and silence from one to another. In the end there is
hope in the silence and in that contemplation.
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Jennifer Stufflebeam - Artist, Gallery Manager
Jennifer lives and maintains an art studio in Parker County, Texas. She studied art in
high school and Tarrant County College Northeast, along with an occasional workshop in
Fort Worth. Her medium of choice is acrylic with oil stick on canvas, but also enjoys
working in oils, watercolors and pencil and pastels on paper and canvas. She is
represented by Art on the Boulevard in Fort Worth, Texas. Art on the Boulevard is
an artists' co-operative located in west Fort Worth at 4919 Camp Bowie Boulevard, Suite B.
We are 2 blocks east of the Merrick Street and Camp Bowie
Boulevard intersection. Our goal is to furnish a place where the artist can be free to
express themselves with few boundaries, and maximum support. Most of our artists work
in 2- dimensional media. Our hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday 12-5:30
PM and Friday 12-4PM, or by private appointment.
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Robert L Berry - Jazz Art Boutique
I have always dreamed of being a professional artist and I began expressing myself through
drawings at an early age. The teachers would let me draw the display for Christmas on the
blackboard. I never lost my passion for art. My work is rich, colorful, and has bold
textures. I believe that in the quest for individuality, art is the highest expression
of "Human Victory". In the final analysis, it does not matter how the world perceives
your art, it only matters how your art perceives the world. I paint using acrylic paint
and cerne relief outliner paint on canvas and bisque ceramic tiles. My creations are a
combination of Jazz and Art in an "Improvisational Contemporary Style". Journey with me
through a "Rainbow of Explicit Color on Canvas". The Creations contained on the site are
all originals using acrylic and cerne relief outliner paint on canvas and ceramic tiles,
and paper.
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Stormie Parker - Windstorm Studio
Windstorm studio is located in the heart of the Fort Worth Nature Center. Home of Wendell
and Stormie Parker who have encompassed a creative ceramic center where Stormie makes
sculpture with personality and purpose within an enchanting garden. They invite each
guest to step into a world that embraces the abundance of the earth. Wine grapes encompass
a courtyard leading up through herb gardens intermingle with a bounty of bright flowers.
Walk through the orchard of fruit trees, with blackberries boarding the fence. Vegetables
grow season round in raised beds with xeriscaping techniques conserving water while
creating a beautiful place to live and create.
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Rebecca Low - She Creates What She Sees
Rebecca's art is very diverse. She creates what she sees. When Rebecca looks at, what
many people call junk, she may see all kinds of things - it's very much like seeing
faces or objects or landscapes in the clouds. Empty space is filled when Rebecca sees
it. Then she either takes found objects, or raw metal, or both and often combines them
with paint, water, rock, glass, fire or any other material to help her create her
vision. Rebecca's attempt is not to try and control - but to let the visions and
materials control themselves, her work and her. Most of Rebecca's art is just for fun and
rarely philosophical. It tends to either appear off balance (a little like the artist) or
it has motion or both. Rebecca will often use wind, water and/or fire to enhance her
sculptures.
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Julie Lazarus - Acqua Alta
Most of my new work is a result of my travels to Italy over the past seven years. My
observations of the amazing light reflected off the water and buildings of Venice and
Murano has been an inspiration for my work. My newest works, however, are inspired by
the intriguing floral growth of the trumpet vines and the grapevines that grow in
abundance throughout Venice, and by the tree limbs that appear to frame the vistas
of the landscape. During my visits to the Veneto, I sit beneath the arbors, surrounded
by the flowering vines and sketch my surroundings. These influences become the shapes
and colors for my paintings and for my blown glass produced during my visits to Murano.
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Sharon Grimes - Consciousness
Sharon Grimes of Longview, TX, is a self-taught contemporary abstract artist whose art is
expressed with vivid colors and vibrant energy in all of its textures and layers.
The thoughts and awarenesses that I have while working are always interesting to me.
Sometimes the act of painting reaches deep into my soul and prompts me to think of things
that I wouldn't normally give a lot of thought. As I worked on this piece I started to
feel enveloped and warmed by it. I used the lines to indicate different levels of awareness,
building up to a crescendo of light. When I started to become conscious of the light, I
wondered if the awarenesses that I develop are limited to humans or if the earth itself
is aware, in much the same way that we are.
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Ariel Davis - Artist, Gallery Manager, Arts Organizer, And Curator
Ariel Davis is an artist living and working in Fort Worth, Texas. Her work reflects on
humanity, relationships, and time, in the form of stylized figurative paintings. In her
work you can find the idea of relationships at the core, that play with symbolism in
telling a story. In preparation of creating a painting, she employs the process of
photography, collage, and digital manipulation to create a unique source image, or she
works from life. Many times she will engage individuals in the community to collaborate
with her as subjects in her work. Capturing and portraying the energy and mood of a scene,
group or individual is more important then the details, which is defined by her loose
style and use of bold color.
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Gwen Meharg - Marking Time Series
Exhibition on Display: 2019- 2020
Nine Marking Time paintings can be seen at Crittenden the Studio 299-101 St. Louis Ave.,
Fort Worth, Texas, 76104 Due to CV19 complications call the gallerist, George Crittenden,
at 917-514-9715 to ask when you can see the art. Call me at 817 832 6952 and I will meet
you there if I can. Do artist brains work differently? I don't think so, but I one have
experience with the one brain. A psychiatrist friend of mine disagrees. She tells me I
see the world in a unique way. As an experiment, join me for a walk through of the
coalescence of my painting series, Marking Time.
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