Texas Hill Country Art Guide 2024

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Kerrville's Colorist

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Scene and Herd The Art of Ray Hadaway

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here’s a movement in art away from classic landscapes of bluebonnets and wildflowers (though we still love them) and cowboys gallivanting plains and gullies.

For decades now, artists and gallerists in Fredericksburg and the Hill Country have been a part of the narrative and style flip of traditional western art.

At Insight Gallery, the local painter Nancy Bush dips into the abstract with her subtle landscapes of storms rolling over land. She says it’s impossible to recreate nature, so instead focuses on the feeling.

On the opposite side of the pendulum is Billy Schenck, who’s been creating “Pop Western” art since the 1970s. His bold and cartoon-like paintings at Insight feel similar to frames from dramatic spaghetti westerns.

Although they deal with more classic subjects, his painting style is anything but “classic.”

Silhouettes of cowboys and horses fall on clouds and perspectives are exaggerated.

Brenham-based abstract portraitist Ray Hadaway, whose works have been collected across the globe, depict cowgirls rather than only cowboys of Texas in dreamscapes, but their hat brims are always upturned and the same stars twinkle above.

Several artists, living and taking temporary residence in Central Texas, invert the traditional by using elements of the region as their medium, including charcoal from burn piles and cochineal insects from cacti for crimson dyes.

Artists throughout the expanse of the West today seem to be straying away from the mythology of their western past and are looking to its present and future.

“The End” of the West is not coming. It’s merely evolving, artist Dana Younger said.

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Kerrville's Colorist Joleen Franklin paints Kerrville's true colors

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errville native Joleen Franklin knew from a young age she was destined to be an artist. “My Mom says it has always been there, that there’s never been a day I haven’t had some kind of crayon or pencil in my hand,” she said. Growing up an only child, art became her passion. “I remember telling my Mom, ‘I’m different, I’m going to travel, and I’m going to do art.’”

After graduating from Tivy High School in 1992 and attending junior college for a brief stint, she did just that, spending the next few years backpacking across Europe and tapping into various artistic interests, from leather work to painting and drawing. “It was kind of vagabond,” she said. “We stayed in an abandoned castle, in caves in Granada… That’s what opened me up.”

She later spent time exploring Ghana and Mexico, where she pursued everything from farming to jewelry design, and running an art gallery in San Miguel de Allende. South America became another home-away-from-home for the artist, who gave birth to her daughter, Trinidad, in Brazil in 2004. Together, they lived in São Paulo and Buenos Aires, where Franklin became initiated into the world of street art. “I started going out onto the streets with the older, artsy people down there,” she said. “I think it developed into something as I was traveling. I was picking up things that were happening around me.”

Today, Franklin’s many gifts as an artist, a painter, and a muralist specifically are evidenced across Kerrville, where she’s been living and working since 2012. At the River Hills Mall, her two murals reading “Hill Country Kindness” and “Kerrville Strong” have been beacons of hope throughout the pandemic.

Her largest wall to date, a 30-by-25-foot artwork, colors the back of Central Texas Gun & Pawn. “I like the challenge of bigger and bigger walls,” she explained. With larger commissions, the artist enlists the help of a trusted group of girlfriends to help her through 12

Art Guide 2024 the process. “When I have big walls like that, I call the girls in.

They come hang out with me and love me … They’re a part of it.”

Without question, the many years of traveling and living abroad have directly influenced Franklin’s style and her appreciation for originality. “I came back to Kerrville and find myself painting bluebonnets and deer which I never thought I’d do, but I’m painting them in my way,” she said. “For me it’s medicinal, it’s sacred, it heals me. I know that flow goes through me as I’m doing my work.”

While Franklin eschews routine for a more free-flowing process, she admits preparation is key. “I prepare myself for a mural. I don’t just go in and say this is what I’m doing,” she explained. “I actually go in and map it out. It helps me a lot.” Meditation and a mix of musical genres, like reggae and techno, also play into her process.

These days, the artist is managing her own company, Aurora Joleen Designs, where her offerings range from painting to woodwork, stonework, metal art and jewelry-making. “I feel like if you’re going to be an artist these days, being multi-faceted is important,” she said.

She also participates in events like the Kerrville Chalk Festival and the city’s Folk Festival, leaving her mark with her signature color.

Regardless of the project or subject matter at hand, be it psychedelic skunks, colorful coyotes, or hummingbirds pausing at a bristling flower, she brings love and intention to every brushstroke.

“Everybody has to have that creative outlet. I feel like I knew that from a really early age,” she shared. “It hasn’t always been the most successful road but it has definitely been a happy one.”

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Art from Nature Amy Tucker opens Art Ranch in Fredericksbrug

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he art Amy Tucker creates comes from her environment, on her ranch outside Fredericksburg. She is like artists of old, making beauty from whatever is at hand. The final product she creates may take many forms, but it begins with gathering leaves, flowers, bark, onion skins, eucalyptus, even cochineal insects.

“It’s the only non-vegan item I used to make dyes. It makes a vibrant pink, and it’s a more durable color because of the protein in the bug,” she said. “I like additive processes — growing the plants, gathering the material, making the dye, testing it, making art.”

Tucker’s art encompasses assemblage, collage, jewelry, and often, textiles. She keeps a textile log, where she records what natural dyes she used and where they were gathered, along with notes on the process and samples.

“I’ll try anything,” she said. “I’m always wondering what would happen if I mix this with that?”

Tucker is from New York and moved to the Texas Hill Country full time in 2019. She went to school at Skidmore College, then spent her career in fashion — working with Calvin Klein, Coach, Liz Claiborne, Tumi, Sharif, and Swatch. She specialized in high-end leather goods. As she moved up the corporate ladder, she thrived in an environment where she could apply her analytical skills. But she missed creating.

“I wasn’t doing what I wanted to do to be thriving in my life,” Tucker said.

She had already started a jewelry collection, Black Swallow, but she wanted to explore other mediums — textile art, fine art, art that experiments.

“I do paint, but I rip it up and cut it up. Or I paint a base and do things on it. I like putting things together,” she said. “Everything I do is art. It may be wearable. It may be commercial. I want people to 18

Art Guide 2024 be able to see things as both. I don’t define it. I’m dabbling in gray spaces.” Tucker has loved clothes since she was a little girl and her doll, Betsy, had to go to a doll hospital after having all her hair loved off. She filled the doll’s crib with dress-up clothes, and her creativity with textiles took off.

“I began to see getting dressed each day as a way to create a visual statement. I love to create a story with clothes,” she said.

Since clothes touch our skin, Tucker says it matters how they are made.

“Skin’s the biggest organ on the body. It can absorb chemicals in dyes or pesticides in cotton,” she said.

All her dyes are natural and handmade. She gathers information about how to dye from historical sources, including old Shaker texts and Native American writings. Her counters are covered with plastic boxes containing flowers, leaves, bark — things that can become other things. Which is how artists around the world have worked for centuries.

In her international travels with the fashion industry, she developed a passion for indigenous crafts, noticing the throughlines that cut across cultures: shibori, from Japan; batik, from Indonesia; resist dyeing techniques throughout Africa; tie-dye in the USA — they’re all similar processes.

“Every culture has very similar types of crafts that inform the functionality and natural beauty of everyday life. They’re all related, but different,” she said. “I really enjoy seeing that we are all the same. The variety is driven by the cultural iconography, but also by the native plants and minerals available to achieve those techniques.”

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“I had a professor who told me I ‘understood spatially.’

One of my strengths is being able to say, ‘This looks good on you because it has harmonious proportions,’” she said. “I don’t want to sell to anyone what’s not right for them. I’m not a salesperson, but an aesthetics person.”

It’s important to Tucker that her textiles are made with a light environmental footprint.

That means using organic linens, cottons, and silks and also practicing what she calls “mindful consumption.”

“I use all the plant I can and use it as much as I can,” she said.

Tucker loves to hike, to kayak, to forage. On her birthday, she invited artist friends for a week of what she called “immersion and observation.” Each person received a gift of a paint kit, a sketchbook, and a sealed tin to collect treasures, along with a printed guide inviting her friends to observe the environment at different times of day, using all their senses.

She created the kind of experience she’d like to expand as she opens Art Ranch.

“It will be a creative space for people. We can do workshops. We can do experiences. We can do artist residencies here. We just completed our artist casitas — each one is a small gallery,” Tucker said. “The long-term plan is not just for me and my art, but all different kinds of artists, including writers, poets, painters. They will come and see the environment in a new way.”

And that’s just the beginning of the type of artist collaboration Tucker hopes to foster.

“I’m looking to create an arts month in the Hill Country, involving different towns, to embrace the creativity of the people here,” she said. “What can we do to work together as an artist community? How can we reach more people? More age groups?”

Tucker has a history of bringing people together and empowering them. In 2021 she started WIN, Women’s Innovation Network, connecting entrepreneurial women in the Texas Hill Country. In 2024 programing will focus on issues of sustainability that impact the region.

Because in order to create art and encourage creativity in other artists, the land needs to be healthy and vibrant. Tucker is working holistically, gathering people along with plants.

“All my art is inspired by nature,” she said. “I’m very intentional in everything I do.”

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Scene and Herd The Art of Ray Hadaway

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aintings by Ray Hadaway prod at the classic image of ranching culture in technicolor, with abstract portraits that unfurl handsome cowboy tales.

Hadaway plays the jester while creating his cowboys and cowgirls (which, his wife Meredith says, are more popular). They have rouged cheeks, bright lips and wide, ringed eyes, sometimes shaped as squares or hexagons.

Hadaway describes his work as “light-hearted and not overly serious. People can relate to that.” He’s serious in practice, but not necessarily in subject.

Other works in his debut Vaudeville Gallery show, “Scene and Herd,” are a tangle of longhorns or jackrabbits filling a canvas.

They’re inexact, without their bodies fully visible, and tags dangle from their ears like earrings.

All the eyes are on the individual paintings of cows, much like the attention given in a pageant or fashion show, Hadaway said. “Bonnie,” and “Clyde,” are the main characters and hosts of the show, he said, the groups of donkeys and longhorns onlookers.

“That’s how I imagined it in my head,” Hadaway said about capturing the feeling of Fredericksburg and Vaudeville’s Gallery space.

But even being a show, his characters have no semblance of grace.

They’re all merely characters in the painter’s satire, with inexact proportions and vibrant coloring.

The Brenham-based artist is a part of what he calls “contemporary folk fusion,” which modernizes traditional western subjects. He juxtaposes classic and current western culture in his works, just as he has seen every day in Texas, growing up in ranching communities across the state.

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His earliest works had no human presence and were filled to their borders with replications of jackrabbits, burrows, longhorns, or any other wildlife you may find on the range. He most recently painted a collection of goats for a goat breeder.

In the last several months, he’s worked on commissions of turkeys, goats, rabbits, and dogs — all his imaginations of his clients’ animals.

He said every animal featured in a painting is one he’s come across on a ranch, out on the planes or belong to his clients.

His styles are crude, and his graffiti elements are plainly influenced

by Jean-Michel Basquiat and neo-expressionism. The animals wear three-pointed crowns as they’re the kings of the land and dictate what so much of what Texas stands for.

For a punch of fun, the steers sometimes have long eyelashes — but only on one side.

“I keep everything super-positive, super-high energy and charged that way,” he said. “I feel like I’m somehow charging the painting with that emotion.”

Hadaway’s recent shift into portraiture focuses more on culture and people of the area, rather than merely its industry.

In these newer works, he makes playful prods at materialism, envisioning pageantry in ranching.

Hadaway layers canvases with remnants of designer labels, paints logos on bandanas and stamps five-digit price tags in backgrounds.

He said he envisioned the works for “Scene and Herd” as a fashion show of sorts: the paintings of all cows the audience, the cowboys on the runway.

It’s more than a jest about the differences between cowboying and the fashion world, though: His late summer 2023 exhibition, “Scene & Herd,” is meditation on the people behind the herds. Unlike traditional western art, these people are not merely a part of a stereotyped scene.

He says he’s sticking with the same themes of the cows and the donkeys and the cowboys for the foreseeable future but will continue to tweak the worlds in which he presents them.

“I’ve always done similar subject matter, but I always come up with new twist for it,” he said. “You’re always taking chances with art, and that’s part of the fun.”

Hadaway’s wife, Meredith Hadaway, is a sculptor of similar subjects: jackrabbits, chickens and cattle have been a few of her collections.

“She’s my ultimate critic. Before it leaves the house, I ask, ‘what are your thoughts,’” he said. “If I feel like she doesn’t like it, then it’s not going out the door.”

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Texas Hill Country His first painting of a person was of Meredith. After showing it to her, the two wrapped it up and it’s been in storage since. After his portrait of Meredith, none of his subjects have been specific people.

Even though they are distinct characters, they’re amalgamations of people he’s come across in life. “I just wanted them in contemplation of thought,” he said about their placid faces.

They’re very direct, and with that, quietly expressive. They don’t necessarily hold a lot of emotion: the feeling is in the works themselves through color and his countless layers.

There are hot punches of color but he now uses more muted and shaded colors than his previous works. The portraits, although multimedia, come across less experimental and more stylized.

They’re studies of cowboys and cowgirls and how they exist in their environment, the way Hadaway sees them. Their hat brims are always upturned and buckles oversized. The landscape of Texas changing, Main Streets changing, small towns changing, comes through his abstractions.

“Scene and Herd,” pulls from the typical Fredericksburg crowd on a weekend, he and Meredith said. You see ranchers and look-a-like ranchers with “all hat and no cattle.”

“There’s couture that comes through, then you see the guy in boots with Spurs,” Meredith said.

“It’s starting to reach out there and just connect with all kinds of people,” Hadaway said. “That’s what I enjoy about it — making connections with people I’ve never met before.”

His portraits are more than about stylistic aesthetic — they underscore the increasingly foreign look of cowboys in their own communities. But in their arms, the characters all hold miniature animals he’s always painted.

The backgrounds are deep blues, reds and greens with words, numbers, and tessellated patterns of diamonds and stars in the foregrounds.

“I kind of felt jazzy, like a South Texas kind of a country feeling.

Then a New Orleans jazz,” he said about his process.

He uses music to connect to thoughts, “and that’s how it comes

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“I felt like a conduit to the painting — a connection to them,” he said about the process of making the artworks.

Elements are rolled on, pressed, dripped with wet paints and streaked with dry brushes.

“I like a lot of heavy brushstrokes. I like incorporating the mixed media aspect,” Hadaway said, mentioning his sketches, and using old newspaper and wallpaper. “When you have that piece on your wall, you could sit and be entertained by it.”

Hadaway and Meredith said collectors get a sense of comfort from his work, even if they’re in a metropolitan high-rise apartment.

“There’s always something new, but having art on your wall is still tangible,” he said about incorporating so many media.

His works have gone to homes in London on the Thames, Chile

and the Netherlands. They’re in an orthopedic surgeon’s office, even, he said astounded.

“Everybody has a different connection. I find that it means something personal to them that I had never imagined when I painted it,” Hadaway said. “I’m just doing what comes to me naturally, and somehow it’s making a connection with other people. We’re having that kind of connection together.”

“I’ve been in rough situations, I’ve been in bad situations, and I don’t want to bring that kind of energy into the art.”

A combat veteran, people ask Hadaway if he’d ever make art reflecting on his experiences. But he says he wants to focus on love and joy — paintings that make people happy.

“I want to keep art alive. I have had that negativity in my life,” he said, mentioning the devastation of war he experienced and saw. “I tried to steer away from that and tried to bring positivity.

“I tried to focus on and bring love back in because there’s enough hate in the world.”

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oshitomo Nara’s “Miss Forest,” an almost 4,500-pound sculpture of a girl with a 25-foot tree atop her head, greets visitors from the Center Point Art sculpture garden. Sara Story, interior designer and director of Center Point Art, says it’s for the children, to let them dream big, but all can breathe in her wonder.

“The world is a magical place,” she said.

An unincorporated town of just over 4,000 residents between Kerrville and Comfort, Center Point is steadily revitalizing. And Center Point Art (CPA) has quickly become a modern cultural cornerstone for the town, defining its art aesthetic.

“Miss Forest’s” eyes are closed in a dream-like state. She’s made of bronze, and fingerprints of her sculptor are still evident, similar to a clay or plaster sculpture class project, and a reminder that art, even from the most widely-known artists, is still imaginative and full of playful innocence.

Story, born in Nara’s Japan, selected “Miss Forest” as the first sculpture in the garden because it resonates with her love of his whimsical work — something she intends to continue sharing with Center Point residents.

“It’s just happiness. It’s not serious,” she said. “It’s bringing that to a community,” Story said about selecting artists and artwork for CPA that inspire.

She plans to grow the sculpture garden, visible from the gallery and street. She’s also filled the gallery with works of Donald Judd, Haas Brothers and Harold Ancart. Story has anointed Center Point with an art scene.

“I see how interesting sculptures can open the door and start a dialogue in a community,” she said. “I want people to see how art creates beautiful things — I want that for center point.”

Story envisions “rigorous art and culture,” to help the community.

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“I’d like to foster a community that has a shared interest in providing the best education, culture and opportunity to the community,” she said. “We are here to support.”

The New York-based interior designer was raised in Houston, but has roots in Center Point on the Guadalupe River, where she has visited her family ranch all her life. “Center Point and the community are close to our hearts.”

The CPA building was left neglected for many years before reopening in 2023, long after its initial 1859 opening as the town bank. Story keeps the integrity of the historical building, still using the bank vault, for example, as gallery space, where Donald Judd’s (1928-1994) Front Shelf Chair No. 84 in black sits centered against a brick wall.

Story believes strongly in historical restoration merged with contemporary art and design as a transformative aesthetic and educational experience.

Like in West Texas’ Marfa, she’s placing forward-thinking artists in this sparsely populated town. A residency program, with living quarters above the gallery, commissions international contemporary artists to live and work in town.

They’re “really engaging with the town,” Story said. “That makes it more interesting than just having a show every quarter or so.”

Artists bring their culture to the town in addition to their work, she said, while they get a sense of what Texas is. The program gives them a piece of Texas, “so when they go home, it’s also creating dialogue of an interchange of ideas and influences.”

Their stay concludes with an exhibition of their works, with accompanying pieces curated by Story, including Andro Wekua’s Pink Wave, 2011, oil on canvas, for Matt Tumlinson’s “Limestone Muse.” The day after Thanksgiving, the works of Tumlinson went on view, and will stay for three months.

Joseph Awuah-Darko, a Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 artist, will share his African contemporary work April 8.

The art exhibitions at CPA will always be open to the community. Adjacent to the building, visitors can walk through the sculpture garden and congregate in open seating.

Story says she wants to use the exhibition space and outdoor sculptures to bring Donald Judd’s (1928-1994) Front Shelf Chair No. 84 unprecedented installations in black

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CPA is cultivating dialogue in the Central Texas region, she said, bringing both locals and residents to a focal point for cultural interaction. “It has been wonderful to get to know so many people in the community through the gallery,” Story said.

Sarah Rothstein, by way of meeting the Story family at a restaurant down the street, began working in the gallery in the fall of 2023.

After moving to Texas from Minnesota to start a business, she quickly became enmeshed in the social scene through a locally focused market a few doors down.

CPA uses art, a building block for community, to connect residents and foster more revitalization.

“Art has always been part of my psyche and heart,” Sara said. “My mom always exposed me to the beauty in art in various forms. I want to share that with center point.”

Story’s mother was a contemporary art museum curator in Houston, so growing up surrounded by art, she says it brings her immense inspiration and joy. In refreshing the town, she would like to provide similar art and unique experiences to residents. “I want the community to have opportunities to flourish, however that translates to the individuals in Center Point.”

Taking ones’self out of the familiar is important to that, she said.

In all her interior design projects, featured in Architectural Digest and the New York Times, artworks are always clearly the focal points.

In Center Point, she’s again using art as a focal point. She says she is beginning conversation on art, firstly with the sculpture garden, which people can circle on the property, or see from a car window.

“I’m always pushing myself to learn more and discover more,” Story said about finding art and muses. “Traveling is one of the components that really helps me do that.”

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Story is a featured Architectural Digest designer who divides her time between New York and Center Point. Opening this was always something she wanted to do. “I love learning about other cultures and finding the beauty in our similarities and differences,” she said.

She studies artists and architects — some she may collaborate with on projects in Texas. “It’s always all continuous and all together — just moving forward, learning more.”

Beginning with Judd in the 1970s, Marfa’s storied history became an international destination for art — something Story is curating for Central Texas.

“I love meeting the artists and discussing their process, Story said.

“Each one is so different which makes it very interesting.”

San Antonian Matt Tumlinson was the artist in residence at CPA to round out 2023. “Limestone Muse,” which opened Nov. 24, 2023, incorporates elements of the land including charcoal and cochineal (an insect which lives on prickly pear cacti that create a deep crimson dye) in paintings and drawings, and found logs as plinths for wire sculptures of longhorns and armadillo.

Small paintings hang from the metal beams of the arched ceiling on one side, and Andro Wekua’s “Pink Wave,” two large, joined

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The 2023 Center Point Artist (CPA) in residence Matt Tumlinson's found log sculpture of a longhorn is displayed in the CPA gallery.

panels, stretch the entire opposite wall.

Tumlinson began as a muralist painting portraits of Texas legends Willie Nelson and Matthew McConaughey as David Wooderson in “Dazed and Confused” — “Alright, alright, alright.” His current works are of fewer portraits in live scenes in common westerninspired scenes and are now representative of the land.

On a long brick wall, are near-black paintings with red specks: the night drive in West Texas, outside of Lubbock, where you watch red lights on windmills flash for miles; streaks of colors you see speeding past desert land during pastel dawn or dusk; and a scene of colorful boxcars snaking along the foot of a desert mountain range.

Story’s favorite pieces from his collection are tin can boxes that lay open on the windowsills. One side as is used as a palette, the other a landscape painted en plein air.

He ties in elements from the earth: charcoal from a burn pile and cochineal, used almost like a paint.

The gallery will next host Ghanian artist Joseph Awuah-Darko, also known as Okuntakinte, in March. He runs the “Dear Artists” platform, a community to celebrate and encourage artists. “He creates sublime sculptural works,” Story said.

“I also want to work with the local schools to facilitate higher education in colleges or trade schools for local young people who want to pursue that.” She plans to bring programs to the community, including opportunities to further education and at the local high 41

Texas Hill Country school, “…be that through a four-year university or through a trade school.” She and her husband are organizing scholarships.

“The goals for the educational programs are to let the young people growing up in Center Point to know, ‘I see you and I want to show you the incredible world out there through the lenses of diverse artists from around the world.’”

“I think that’s the best way to give back,” she said. “Center Point, Texas is my childhood home, my second home and my family.”

The Story family renovated several landmark buildings in town, and nearby Comfort, spurring a significant revitalization. Her family renovated a train station original to Center Point at its height. Several Texas Ranger houses have also been restored.

Established in 1859, Center Point is one of the oldest settlements in Central Texas and was initially a “center point” for trade. But in the 1920s and following Great Depression, the town suffered. The population dwelled in the hundreds for several decades during the 20th century.

“I have worked on a few projects in Texas, starting with my ranch which really captures Texas architecture and design,” she said, “using the natural material from Texas, limestone, oaks.

“We were really cognizant of making the architecture, the interior, anything we do, representative of Texas,” she said, “and what Texas brings to the table is the landscape. It’s all very genuine and authentic.”

She recently finished a home in Austin. “It’s quite groovy and fun,” she said.

She calls her home state loving, free-spirited and enthusiastic.

“Texans are not afraid to have a loud laugh, have joy in our life!”

“There’s more on the horizon, for sure,” Story said about Center Point.

Visit their website at centerpoint-art.com

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Tumlinson's cochineal from Prickly Pear cacti used as red pigment along with journal notes.

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Artist Index A listing of artists from featured local gallieries

InSight Gallery InSight Gallery represents a select group of today’s finest painters and sculptors.

The 60 nationally recognized, award-winning artists are American Impressionist Society Masters, Cowboy Artists of America, Master Oil Painters of America and Pastel Society of America Masters. These artists are invited to participate in prestigious national museum shows, including Prix de West, Autry/Masters of the American West, Briscoe Museum’s “Night of Artists” and Eiteljorg Museum’s “Quest for the West.”

“Amid such esteemed artists, we strive to provide a welcoming and hospitable environment so that art collectors, art lovers and art novices alike can come and enjoy the experience,” said Elizabeth Harris, who has owned and operated the gallery with her husband, Stephen, since 2015.

The gallery is located in the 1907 Schwarz building, which was restored in 2010.

InSight Gallery staff shows everyone who walks in the door Fredericksburg hospitality.

“We realize how fortunate we are to have this location — 8,000 square feet of open show space — tall ceilings, lots of natural light, original pine floors, original rock walls. It was an immaculate restoration,” she said.

For First Friday Art Walk, InSight Gallery remains open until 7:30 p.m.

Cyrus Asfary

Daniel F. Gerhartz

George Northup

Roy Andersen

Pat Green

Joan Potter

Carolyn Anderson

Bruce Greene

Tony Pro

Duke Beardsley

David Griffin

Robert Pummill

Dan Bodelson

Brian Grimm

R. E. Reynolds

Phil Bob Borman

Abigail Gutting

Laura Robb

Jeremy Browne

Eldridge Hardie

James Robinson

Tom Browning

G. Harvey

Rachel Brownlee

Mark Haworth

Mary Ross Buchholz

Qiang Huang

Gladys Roldan-deMoras Stefan Savides

George Bumann

Julee Hutchison

Scott Burdick

Oreland C Joe, Sr.

Nancy Bush

Francois Koch

Jill Carver

Damian Lechoszest

Cheri Christensen

David A Leffel

Douglas Clark

Jhenna Quinn Lewis

John Coleman

Calvin Liang

Nicholas Coleman

Richard Loffler

Mick Doellinger

Susan Lyon

Mikel Donahue

Kyle Ma

Tom Dorr

Sherrie McGraw

C. Michael Dudash

Herb Mignery

Michelle Dunaway

Robert Moore

Teresa Elliott

James Morgan

Jim Eppler

Tibor Nagy

John Fawcett

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Die Künstler von Fredericksburg Die Künstler von Fredericksburg means “The Artists of Fredericksburg,” but most people refer to the group as DK. Founded in 1991, DK’s club membership includes about 100 artists. The club also provides scholarships to several high school students who participate in its annual shows.

DK’s purpose is to promote art appreciation and education in Fredericksburg and the Texas Hill Country for artists at every level of experience. The group meets at 6:30 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month at Gillespie County Historical Society, 312 West San Antonio Street. Meetings are free and open to the public and include live demonstrations by noted artists.

DK’s Spring Fling Art Sale, featuring original art and prints by local artists, will be held April 6 at historic Marktplatz. On November 8-10th, DK will mark its 31st annual Fine Art Show and Sale at St. Joseph’s Halle, 212 West San Antonio Street.

KayLee Adams

Janet Justice

Chris Reese

Mara Allison

Sheila Kale

Marsha Reeves

Kristin Ashman

Sophia Kalish

Martha Roland

Ann Baltzer

Trevor Kramer

Laura Ronstadt

Jan Banfield

Donna Lafferty

Jeanne Rothberg

Robert Behan

Marc Land

Anne Sanchez

Jason Behrends

Bridget Langdale

Clara Sanchez

Linda Blalock

CJ Latta

Tony Sauer

Vee Ann Brodnax

Mary Lee

Lee Sausley

Molly Burnette

Marion Loucks

Ruby Lee Clark

Leisa Luis-Grill

Mary Kaye SawyerMorse

Daneshu Clarke

Kathy Lux

Nancy Coon

Joyce Malatek

Becky Copeland

Areille Masin

Caroline Dechert

Catherine Massaro

Maryneil Dance

Barbara Mauldin

Virginia deWolf

Susanne McComack

Dura Dittmar

Pam Medlin Henke

Ann Douzat

Cherryl Meggs

Frieda Duggan

Pat Miller

Jane Drynan

Jan Miller

Jan Foerster

Tom Miller

Dalton Fromme

Elizabeth Mims

Linda Hall

Sherwood Moffett

Truby Hardin

Suzanne Morhart

Nancy Hardison

Louise Murphy

Nan Henke

Nancy Natho

Susan Henrichson

Christelle Nordmeyer

Brenda Hild

Karen Oldham

Svetlana Hipsky

Casey O'Connor

Virginia Howell

Edyth O’Neill

Beth Hughes

Melissa Opio

Mary Helen Johnson

Cathy Pankratz Marsha Pape

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Fredericksburg Art Guild & Gallery Fredericksburg Art Guild is a nonprofit organization founded more than 50 years ago by artist John McClusky to support the arts in the Texas Hill Country. All members are Texas artists. Featured shows rotate between the members each month.

Adult oil painting classes are offered throughout the year by Truby Hardin, and Nan Henke teaches watercolor. Most students participate in a juried show in February. A professionally juried show takes place in May for artists in and around Gillespie County. During Memorial Day weekend the guild hosts a weekend Art Fest on the grounds, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., to celebrate art and those who have served our country.

Courtesy of Pedernales Creative Arts Alliance (PCAA), the guild is represented in a large tent at Oktoberfest. Support for the guild is provided by PCAA and the City of Fredericksburg’s Hotel Occupancy Tax. During First Friday Art Walk the gallery stays open until 8 p.m. Visitors interact with the guild’s artists while enjoying fine art and local wine in a historic building.

Stay updated on upcoming events through the guild’s website.

Cathy Pankratz

Lee Wilson

Patrick Boppel

Chris Johnson

Marion Loucks

Peggy Joyce

Donna Roche

Mary Lee

Ruby Annette

Gayle Wilson

Melissa Starry

Suzanne Morhart

Jan Miller

Michael McAleer

Svetlana Hipsky

Jean Northington

Molly Burnette

Teri Green

Joyce Malatek

Nan Henke

Tom Miller

Judy Earls

Nancy Hardinson

Truby Hardin

Kristine Ziems

Nancy Skoog

Rivers Edge Gallery Debbie and Mike Wilson own Rivers Edge, “The Jewel of Kerrville.” The 20,000-square-foot gallery also offers fine art printing and custom framing. The Wilsons can make copies of photographs or paintings and print them on fine art canvas or paper. They also clean and repair oil paintings.

“I’m not trying to be an upper-end gallery. I want to be a middle-class gallery, where they walk in and the artwork is affordable,” Debbie Wilson said. “We’re the best-kept secret in Kerrville.”

Rivers Edge represents over 20 artists, including painters, sculptors and jewelrymakers. The gallery’s eclectic offerings include traditional and contemporary works.

Wilson specializes in conservation of family heirlooms, priceless art and vintage photographs.

“I do 3-D objects, like flags, Army uniforms. My favorite one was a CIA agent’s guns and handcuffs and badges,” Wilson said. “I do a lot of things that other frame shops have no idea how to do. When I frame it, you can’t even tell how it’s attached.”

She loves hearing the stories customers bring with their valued heirlooms and the trust they place in Rivers Edge to preserve their treasures. “We try to save our customers as much money as possible but give them the art they deserve,” Wilson said.

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Mary Shepard

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Bob O'Connor

James Snuffer

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Monica Pate

Dyana Walker

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Maren Phillips

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