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ISSUE Vol. 11, No. 6 Publisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Art Studio, Inc. Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andy Coughlan Contributing Writers . . . . . . . . . . Amanda Rowell, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jesse Doiron, Mike Tobias Contributing Photographers . . . . . Amanda Rowell . . . . . . . . . . . . Trish Coughlan, Mike Tobias Cartoonist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andy Coughlan The Art Studio, Inc. Board of Directors President Ex-Officio . . . . . . . . . . . . Greg Busceme Vice-President. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angela Busceme Chairperson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stephan Malick Members At Large . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ren Brumfield, . . . . . . . . . Andy Coughlan, Maribeth Jones, . . . . . . . . . . Beth Gallaspy, Gena Wilkinson, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom Wright

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Regular features include local artists of note and reputation who are not currently exhibiting at TASI; artists currently or soon to be exhibiting at TASI; Instructional articles for artists; news stories regarding the state of TASI’s organization; and arts news features dealing with general philosophical issues of interest to artists.

Contents Benefit For Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 4 Mom, Goya and Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 5 Around & About. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 6 Multidimensionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 7 The ‘Hole’ Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 8 Troubling Times for TAMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 10 Above Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 11 Thoughtcrime. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 13 Community Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 14 Cartoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 15 Cover Photo: Greg Busceme

By Andy Coughlan

IN ART THERE ARE PRETTY PICTURES and then there are not pretty pictures. Both have their particular emotional thrust.

Metaphorically, I paint a rosey picture of the state of The Studio — hope springing eternal — because who wants to hear doom and gloom all the time?

The Studio should be an escape for people, not another burden.

Unfortunately the philanthropic generosity of the foundations in our country is under seige, and even programs for the most needy in our world are having bake sales and car washes to make ends meet.

Our solution is to establish services within The Studio that will provide income for the organization and the people who run it.

We have lots of ceramic molds to produce bisqueware and a fledgling foundry that needs developing. We have a complete T-Shirt shop for inhouse events and shows, and a good line of art supplies for drawing and painting.

Bringing these programs up to

speed, along with the existing dark room and ceramic facility already in place, will take us a long way to self sustainability.

At this point The Studio is over 50 percent earned income coming from some 28 different sources.

These are our bake sales and car washes!

The Studio is far better off to rule its own destiny than wait for a benevolent gift that never comes.

We need your support, your expertise and your understanding.

That The Studio exists at all is a marvel. That it has lived for 21 years is equally amazing.

It exists because people believe in it. However, like Tinkerbell, if you don’t believe then it will fade away.

These are tough times for every nonprofit organization in America.

The mounting needs of our community and the world has tapped many foundations dry.

As government backs off helping

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Benefit for Art Annual fund-raiser slated for April 7 at Beaumont Club TIRED OF SITTING AROUND on a Thursday evening with only “The Apprentice” for entertainment?

Well, fire that TV remote and make plans to attend The Art Studio, Inc.’s 8th Annual Benefit for Art on Thursday, April 7th at the Beaumont Club in downtown Beaumont.

This year’s event will once again feature a musical and theatrical performance by the ACME Players.

“Last year’s ACME performance was a resounding success and we thought we’d give it another shot,” TASI board member Andy Coughlan said. “The players were really overwhelmed by the audience response.”

The Art Studio board, who organize the event, hope that this year’s benefit will supplement The Studio’s working budget which has been affected, like all arts organizations, by the downturn in philanthropic donations in the country.

“We have seen the problems at TAMS and other arts groups and The Studio is also struggling to make ends meet,” Coughlan said. “The monies raised through the benefit go a long way to helping us meet day-to-day expenses, as well as helping with projects like the Summer ArtSkool.”

The money raised is discretionary money, meaning it can be used for anything from mail-outs to simply keeping the lights on.

Aside from the ACME Players’ performance, titled “ACME 2.0,” the event features a silent auction featuring a variety of pieces by local artists.

“We hope to increase the variety of pieces in the auction,” Coughlan said. “We are also looking to local businesses who may want to donate goods and services.”

Dinner is included in the ticket price, which this year is $75.

Unlike previous years, ticket price for the benefit includes an open bar.

Tickets for the benefit may be purchased at The Art Studio, Inc., located at 720 Franklin in downtown Beaumont.

For more information, call 409-838-5393.

The silent auction, above, is a highlight of The Art Studio’s Benefit For Art. TASI founder and director Greg Busceme, left, poses with his daughter Olivia.

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Mom, Goya & Me

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Discovering beauty and greatness in the pages of an art book

By JESSE DOIRON ISSUE Contributor MOM WAS AN “ARTISTIC” PARENT – not an artist but definitely “artistic”. Here’s what I mean. We had a library that dominated the living room. At nine, I was under the impression that everyone had read everything in it and felt I had to catch up.

One day, exploring the louvered cabinets below the bookshelves, I came across a collection of “Art Books” documenting Western Civilization. Unlike Will and Ariel Durant’s multi-volume history that lived high above, seven shelves up from the cabinets, the “Art Books” had pictures. But because the “Art Books” were too big to fit anywhere else, they ended up hidden away from view. There, oddly in the dark, was the most colorful vision of the whole

world from Thrace to our place.

Illustrated!

One afternoon, I settled into a corner with some soft-stroked paintings that looked like reflected light in a garden.

Next thing I knew I was looking at pictures of naked women with men at a picnic, and naked girls washing their feet, and naked ladies combing their — when in walked Mom. Curious, she asked what I was up to.

And I was honest. I told her I was looking at pictures of naked girls in the “Art Books”. I expected her to say something harsh when she asked, “Who’s the painter?” I said I couldn’t pronounce the guy’s name, and she helped me say it.

Then she said she really liked that kind of painting too and that I should try looking at some other guy’s work; I couldn’t pronounce his name either. He was good, though, and he had a lot of naked girls in lush tropical scenes, so I

liked him. And then she said I’d enjoy some little French fellow’s work, which I did. And another one who had a lot of ballet dancers practicing. Mom’s suggestions seemed endless. Her sense of what I would like was great.

We spent the whole afternoon looking at stuff I had really expected her to get mad at me about. I mean, when she caught me looking at my brother’s closet stash of girlie mags, she made me take the whole box of color-glossies out on the driveway and burn them — with gasoline. My brother was mad as hell. I was humiliated. Mom even told me I had to go to confession — just for looking.

Art was different. Art was realer than real. Art was great.

A week or so after I discovered the World of Western Art, I found myself studying an interesting contrastive treatment of the female form by Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes — “Las Majas:

Vestida y Desnuda” — two stunning portraits of a dark-haired woman, barely smiling as she reclined in apparently equal comfort whether dressed or not.

Below each of the reproductions was an ever-so-appealing anecdote relating how Goya, having been commissioned by the Duke of Alba to paint his wife’s portrait, seduced the Duchess while executing his contract. The portraits were supposedly the result of his lustful talent: La Maja Desnuda, made lovingly and carefully during the months before the Duke grew suspicious; La Maja Vestida, slapped together to cover up the affair.

Good story, maybe even true.

As art, Goya was a bit more than I could understand at the time.

It would be years later, when I lived in Madrid, Spain, that I found myself again studying Goya’s most famous paintings. At the Museo del Prado, the “Duchess” reclined, full-size, naked and dressed, each version on a 3x6-foot canvas. They hung side by side with just a velvet rope separating me from my memory.

I must have looked funny to the other museum-goers. The Spaniards actually said that I looked funny, in Spanish. They probably thought I couldn’t understand.

Of course, I could finally understand; this time I saw the Maja exactly as Goya did, naked and dressed, comfortably so. Her subtle smile, much larger now than in the reproductions I remembered, was still subtle. Her belly had dark, womanly hair running up from her nether parts to her navel. Her breasts were artistically rendered. And they were great.

Goya was great. Goya was real.

Goya was different.

Mom never got to see Goya the way I did.

But, thank God, she did see “art” the way he did.

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Around & About If you come across any interesting exhibitions, museums or other places on your travels, share them with us. Call 409-838-5393, or contact us through our web site at www.artstudio.org. Be sure to include the location and dates of the subject, as well as any costs.

Photographs by JOHN FULBRIGHT will be on display through April 10 at Easy’s, located at 2325 Calder in Beaumont.

The exhibit, titled “HIPSHOT: 40 ODD PRINTS BY JOHN FULBRIGHT,” features “a 40 piece series of photos I’ve done over the last year with my beloved Lomo LCA camera,” Fulbright said.

The photos are 12” x 18” and framed, he said, “and are all priced at $100 — hey, even I could afford that!”

Images from the show are available for viewing online at www.lomohomes.com/jfulbright.

–––––––––– TEXAS ARTISTS MUSEUM presents the works of the members of the PORT ARTHUR ART ASSOCIATION as the featured exhibit in the Main Gallery and the photography of the BEAUMONT CAMERA CLUB in the Holloway Gallery March 1-31.

The Port Arthur Art Association was founded in the 1940s by a group of artists interested in promoting the arts and artists in the area and is the founding group responsible for Texas Artists Museum. This organization was formed exclusively for education purposes: specifically, to promote and encourage the study and appreciation of art in its various forms, for its members and the general public.

This diverse group of painters meets every Friday at TAMS for lessons from 1 to 3 p.m., September to November and January to May. Instructors change monthly; lessons are $4 per week. Individual annual memberships are $15 per

year, $20 for couples. Students can join for $5.

TAMS is located at 3501 Cultural Center Drive in Port Arthur.

For more information, call 409-983-4881.

–––––––––– The ART MUSEUM OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS presents “THE ART OF THE CUE” featuring handcrafted sticks by RICHARD BLACK, March 18 to June 5.

When most people think of billiards, many things come to mind: smoky pool halls, the clack of the cue ball striking the rack. Very few would think of museums, let alone the Smithsonian Institution. But the Smithsonian has in its collection one of the many pool cues of artist Richard Black.

This exhibition is comprised of over 30 intricate, hand-crafted cue sticks made by Black, a master craftsman from Humble, Texas.

Although Black is well known in the pool cue world, this is his first solo art museum exhibition.

Black’s art form is surprising to the unsuspecting museum visitor because his cues magically elevate the level of a common everyday object to highly individualized and creative, yet functional, work of art.

Black will deliver an artist’s gallery tour on March 18 at 7 p.m. followed immediately by an opening reception at AMSET. For more information on this exhibit, call 409832-3432. For more information about the works of Richard Black, log on to www.blackcues.com.

Winners of the 2005 DISHMAN ART COMPETITION were announced at a reception Feb. 4 at the Dishman Art Museum on the Lamar campus. First place was awarded to KURT DYRHAUG. Andrea Karnes, associate curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, right, was on hand to discuss the works chosen, including this piece by Brian Row, titled, “It Was A White Tie Affair.”

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Multidimensionality Jones’ use of media reflects creative inquisitiveness

By AMANDA ROWELL ISSUE Contributor ART CAN TAKE MANY FORMS and can be produced by several mediums. Many artists find a certain medium they connect with and stick with it, whether it be painting, drawing, sculpting, or even using watercolors. And then there are some artists who step back and decide their piece will have it all.

This is multimedia art and it is the medium of choice for local artist Nathan Jones.

Jones, who is currently preparing for his first show at The Art Studio on March 5, says that his creativity is not new-found.

“I was very fond of paintings growing up,” he said. “My grandparent’s house was filled with artwork that had been done by my Grandfather’s best friend, my aunt and my mother. I can remember staring at those paintings for hours, amazed with the whole idea of it, and I always wished that I could be like that one day.”

Jones’ interest led him to the creation of his very first piece…and a slight punishment.

“I think my very first piece was done in marker on my mother’s Armoire when I was very little,” he said. “I got into some trouble over that one. From time to time they still talk about it.”

As a child, Jones said he was very creative, illustrating books and building things like clubhouses and boats.

“I would take boats that I made down to the beach and get very disappointed when they didn’t float and I would make clubhouses out of anything I could find,” he said. “There were a lot of those over the years.”

He worked with his grandfather on paintings, starting many and finishing few.

“I found a painting the other day in the garage,” he said. “It was one that my grandfather helped me on when I was little, doing a lot of the drawing. It was a seascape painting done in acrylic and it was actually pretty good.”

He also discovered sculpture at a young age and found a cheap homemade recipe to make his many pieces.

“I wish I still had one of those sculptures,” he said. “They were made of clay that I dug out of the pond and dried in the sun. Not really made to last.”

Upon entering junior high school, Jones said something happened and his eyes were opened to a whole new world of art, thanks to Mrs. Door, whom he refers to as his “really amazing art teacher.”

“I think that was when I got serious about my art,” he said. “I knew I wanted to be an artist. In high school I had Mrs. Biehle, who was also wonderful. She encouraged me to do independent studies and encouraged me to do my own thing.

“Then I had Ms. Gill and I was taught about sculpture and got to use some of the real clay that we glazed and fired.”

After finding a passion for sculpture and pencil and ink drawings, Jones took his time with painting, not getting serious about it until up to four years ago.

“Honestly, I wasn’t even sure I could paint,” he said. “Then one Christmas my best friend gave me two canvases, some brushes and some paint. That is what did it. I guess I was finally ready for paint.”

Jones says after he completed those first two canvases, he began searching for new surfaces to paint on, settling on silk screens his boss donated to him because they were too old or torn to use anymore. He began stretching his favorite

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THE ‘HOLE’ STORY Torus helps Busceme come around to universal themes in ceramics

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quick glimpse at Greg Busceme’s ceramics reveals a body of work that is full of holes — literally.

This is not to denigrate the work. Busceme is an accomplished technician. It’s just that holes and their surrounds fascinate him.

“Right now, my big thing is fat doughnuts,” he said. “I’m trying to create the kind of form that is lovely and bulbous but has a hole through the center.

“There are certain qualities in that that I find very exciting and enjoyable — like a giant energy.”

Busceme said the “torus,” (the name for the doughnut shape) and parabolic curves form the central focus of his work.

“I’m playing with those relationships,” he

Greg Busceme mimics the pose, right, in a picture of St. Justa, the patron saint of ceramicists, which he keeps in his workspace at The Art Studio, Inc.

said.

Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines torus as “a doughnut-shaped surface generated by a circle rotated about an axis in its plane that does not intersect the circle.” It also describes a “smooth-rounded anatomical protuberance.”

Busceme’s interest in the torus stems from a dream he once had.

“This is going to sound weird,” he said, “but I had a dream a long time ago that I swallowed a tractor tire. And when I find things overwhelmingly wonderful or overwhelmingly terrible, I get the same feeling I had in the dream when I swallowed the tractor tire.”

Busceme said he only had the dream once, but he is able to reconnect with

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the feeling he had in the dream.

“I woke up with this massive start,” he said, “with this strange electric feeling around me.

“And I get the same feeling I had from that dream — and dreams are a place you can do that.”

Busceme said he really doesn’t know why he has such an affection for the “torus,” other than he considers it “the perfect shape.”

“It’s kind of the shape of the universe,” he said. “It has a real strong intrinsic value to me that exans have their “Twang,” the disway.” tinctivehis vocal style that distinBusceme will display recent guishes them from creations at the Megnet Gallery in people from other states. “Twang” also refers to March. the guitar sounds of Texas R&B This is Busceme’s first solo and country. show in Beaumont since the “heart ArtatMuseum of attack show,” in 2000 At (histhe show Southeast Texas, The Art Studio, Inc. referenced his “Twang” is a group show of contemporary experiences following a heart Texas sculpture attack). However, as he quickly featuring work by a dozen points out, he has not beenartists. idle. He Texas is both Western and has participated in several group Southern, cotton and cowboys, and shows including the Tenants Shows a multitude at TASI and the faculty shows of at clashing cultures. If there is one thing that defines Lamar.

Texas, it is its Busceme said his latest workindefinability. is “Twang,” an offshoot of the themes in his like last the state that links these artists, incorporates a show. plethora of styles and Busceme said thatforms. the shapes Among strongest pieces keep offeringthe new challenges andon display is “LoveJoey,” a study of friendship, loneliness and loss by ideas.

Michael Powers.

“Why change them when they keep evolving on their own,” he said. “At this point, I started out Among the works with small fetishes, and they’ve featured enlarged to aindegree, and I’ve taken “TWANG: some of the interest in those.”

Contemporary Busceme said that clay is a Sculpturethat fromlends itself to simplifymedium Texas,” ing things. on display “In a lot of ways, I like to limit through Sept. 26he said. “What I have my choices,” at the Art been doing lately is taking the torusMuseum of and making them all es themselves Southeast Texas, the parts I can use. So I’m really are, clockwise playing with concepts of limitations left,work with and that of whatfrom I can “E.B.” forces me tobylook at things a differErick Swenson, ent way.

“Museum “It’sBench” just a fertile field for me to by Chris play withSauter, and focus on.”

“Two Paintingssaid he expects to Busceme on have 15-20 pieces in the Megnet a Rock” show.

by BillVisitor’s Davenportto Busceme’s exhibiand Me to see his familiar tion can“Sell expect Something themes, but he doesn’t think that Brown” means the work isn’t new. by Franco “I don’t think I ever stop doing theMondini-Ruiz. exact same piece all the time,” he said. “But it’s always coming out a little different.”

“Recent Work by Greg Busceme” opens with a free reception on March 12, 6-9 p.m.

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Andy Gallery hours are by appointCoughlan ment. Call 409-835-1222.

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machine that fires a series of balls (each labeled “Joey”) against a wall on which is a large Argyle pattern that may or may not be a net. The machine is labeled “Playmate” and the balls are fired with monotonous regularity, with the gallery walls echoing a repetitive thud thud thud, like the Dada soundtracks of Kurt Schwitters.

The “Joey” of the title refers to Joey Mussacchio, a childhood friend of the artist who is now dead.

Does the lifeless “Playmate” long for someone with whom to play? It seems to connect with the quintessentially American past-time — a simple game of catch.

Visitors to the opening witnessed the balls bouncing off two walls and back into the machine, completing a never-ending solitary game of catch.

The piece had a melancholy quality that reflected both the loss of a childhood friend and of childhood itself.

However, visitors at a later date may have seen

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the balls hit the wall and bounce randomly away as a museum guard chased after them. This viewing emphasized a sense of “play,” with the machine, like a rambunctious child, teasing its reluctant “playmate.”

The same piece, but two games and, therefore, two different pieces.

Even though the “Playmate” is inanimate, Powers has created a performance piece reminiscent of the 1960s Fluxus group, whose creations existed in the reactions of the viewer.

Powers plays with our emotions and delicately balances the the joys of childhood with the loss of innocence.

Another piece that demands viewer participation is Justin Kidd’s “In and Out Box.” Consisting of a crudely constructed mailbox hanging on the wall, visitors to the exhibit are invited to “mail” a postcard from the Czech Republic

See TWANG on page 11

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TAMS facing uncertain future due to financial constraints

By MIKE TOBIAS ISSUE Contributor Tucked away behind a cluster of brick buildings on Port Arthur’s 9th Avenue lies the Texas Artists Museum, known to many simply as TAMS. For years, the non-profit organization has provided many local artists and art students a safe haven for producing shows and offering classes of all levels.

However, a recent decline of financial backing has left many local art organizations fending for themselves in a turbulent economy. TAMS has followed suit, announcing last December that without a change of course, the museum would have to close at the end of March.

According to TAMS director Faith Sauerwein, TAMS’ course is running along the same path as many non-profit organizations these days, with memberships not keeping up with the cost of running its programs.

“We are struggling financially right now,” Sauerwein said. “But we’re hoping the community will rally around us. We have several promises coming from the business community that we are hoping will take place. What we don’t need are one-time deals; we need lifetime commitments to ensure TAMS will stay open and active to serve our community.”

TAMS is open year-round, offering free or lowcost programs and activities, including exhibits that change monthly, a special program called Second Sunday at the Museum which is a free music-based

program/performance, a very popular kids summer program called ArtsMart Summer Art Camp, plus classes for all ages and year-round art activities.

Sauerwein remains positive in the museum’s existence, and has stated that it is “our dream” that more donations will come forth and the museum will

be operational for the next 100 years.

“It will be a crime to lose this place,” Sauerwein said. “We bring a lot to offer the area. We book shows about two years ahead of time and until we are completely shut down, I will continue to do so.

“We haven’t thrown in the towel.”

CALL FOR ENTRIES

TASIMJAE THE ART STUDIO, INC. MEMBER JURORED ART EXHIBITION IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN.

Entries for TASIMJAE will be accepted at The Art Studio March 15-19, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This year’s juror is Lisa Reinauer, a past winner of TASIMJAE and department head of visual design at McNeese State University.

Entry is open to all Art Studio members. If you are not a member, don’t worry. You may purchase your membership when you submit your entry. Entry to the the show is free with membership.

Look for your prospectus in the mail or pick one up at The Art Studio, Inc., located at 720 Franklin in downtown Beaumont.

For more information, call 409-838-5393

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The more things change…

Above Board Stephan Malick, TASI Board Chairperson

“A CYNIC IS A PERSON WHO know the price of everything and the value of nothing,” Oscar Wilde once said.

Is America the most cynical place on Earth?

I regret to say it is. Cynicism has become the end result of a society that refuses to be accountable for it’s actions.

Examples are shown to us every day and it seems to me to be overwhelming.

Like many people, I’ve been following the corporate scandals racking our economy for most of my adult life. I can’t understand what’s going on. My first adult memories of these come from the ’80s when the military was spending money on $400 toilet seats and Star Wars (Wait! That one has come back from the dead! Ooops!). When I was in the Army, I never got to use that one.

My second was the taxpayer bailout in the mid-80s savings and loan scandal that, according the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, will have cost something in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars.

We’re still paying for that one. My Mom was a bank teller and used to talk about it.

Certainly these are big ticket items, but they have a trickle down effect to society.

If the rich and powerful don’t have to be accountable, then the rest of society feels it

doesn’t have to either. Take your pick from business, professional sports and celebrities, no matter what they do, they won’t be held responsible for their actions the way you or I would.

This trouble is not because it is not only wrong and unfair, but because of the sad example it sets for people in our society. If a pop celebrity or athlete gets busted for drugs or takes performance enhancing substances, nothing really happens to them. If I were to be pulled over and drugs were found in my car I would go to jail. So would you.

This is particularly worrisome because American children are learning these moral failings as a standard order for the way we live in this country.

Because I am a teacher, I see public schools as a microcosm of our world at large. Public schools have been under fire because our students aren’t competing as well as some other students from around the globe. This is in part due to cynicism: we have low expectations, therefore students have low expectations. I hear almost daily from parents, friends and students teachers that are incompetent. Certainly some are, but what I see is that any teacher who makes students work and expects them to learn something can qualify for

that label.

Administrators and lawmakers make things worse by forcing more paperwork or testing. ironically, this past year Texas lawmakers passed a law to reduce paperwork.

Ask any teacher in the state if their paperwork was reduced.

So how can teachers, parents and students take education seriously? What happens is cynicism sets in and we’re left with our current situation.

Students are more affected by the latest Gucci or Fendi handbag, who has the coolest cell phone and who got easy ride without really having to work at it than having to do hard work and pay their dues to succeed.

Socially, this cynicism has festered as well. Apathetic, rude and disrespectful children become apathetic, rude, disrespectful adults.

Some of these adults connive their way into power and fleece companies of their money and retirees of their pensions. And then the taxpayers are forced to bail them out. To add insult to injury most of these “white-collar criminals” get a rather paltry punishment and get to keep money they

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JONES from page 7

product of my environment and this show deals with issues relating to love, friendship, loss, deceit, anger and sadness…all of the essentials that make life so interesting.

“There will be a lot of self-reflection and abstract representation in the show — a little something for everybody.”

After this show, Jones says that he is interested in doing some group shows and that he wants to study with other artists as well, learning as much as he possibly can.

He also has a strong desire to work with clay again and “play around with some watercolors.” He plans on going back to school for museum sciences and hopes to one day have his own gallery.

“Who knows what the future will bring,” he said.

“One thing is for sure, though, I am going to continue doing whatever it takes to get myself wherever I need to be.”

With so many creative outlets already in one man, Jones says he will continue to explore other types of art and learn as he goes.

“My work is ever-changing, growing from the knowledge gained from previous works,” he said.

“Thanks to my exploratory nature, my work continues to evolve.”

“I enjoy finding parts of myself that I did now know existed. My life without a creative outlet would be meaningless.”

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fabrics over the silk-screen frames and would paint on those.

Making his own frames now, Jones stretches them himself and says everything seen in his art is built from the ground up.

A few years after beginning to paint, he was given the chance to hang some of his artwork at a friend’s birthday party, so he could gauge the response he was given on each piece.

“As far as I could tell, my paintings sparked a lot of interest,” he said. “People were asking me if I was selling them and I had honestly never really thought about it. I consider that to be my first show.”

Immediately after the party, his friend convinced Jones to check out The Art Studio and about two months later, he brought his paintings to The Studio for the Holiday Shop-O-Rama.

“I wasn’t really sure how to price them, so Greg Busceme helped me figure all of that out,” he said. “I have since entered several juried competitions and a couple of shows.”

His upcoming show is titled “Yellow 5: In Theory.”

Why, you might ask?

Well, his artist’s statement lays it out like this: YELLOW 5- (1) A dye used in artificial food coloring, resembling the color of ripe lemons found in almost everything commercially produced. (2) Nathan Jones.

THE-O-RY (1) a. Systematically organized knowledge applicable in a relatively wide variety of circumstances, esp. a system of assumptions, accepted principles, and rules of procedure devised to analyze, predict,

or otherwise explain a specified set of phenomena. b. Such knowledge, or such a system distinguished from experiment or practice.

(2) Abstract reasoning speculation. (3) Broadly, hypothesis or supposition.

“The reason I paint is to release thought and emotion that I cannot verbally express,” he said. “I enjoy finding parts of myself that I did now know existed.

My life without a creative outlet would be meaningless.”

Jones says that his creative process begins simply with a mood, some music and the desire to create. He finds things that interest him to produce his images.

“The evolution from an idea into a reality is fascinating to me,” he said. “I also enjoy selecting colors, textures and composition, then mixing them all together to generate an emotive response, or bring a concept to life.”

Jones says that this show is going to be one of a different breed, showcasing a variety of styles, techniques and themes.

He says that “Yellow 5” is his art product and this show is a visual depiction of events that have occurred throughout his life, whether real of imagined.

“So, in theory, it somewhat gives you an idea of who I am as a person and as an artist,” he said. “I am a

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Thoughtcrime: The Reading

September March 2005 2004ISSUE ISSUE • 513

Distinctly Diverse

Held the third Thursday of the month at The Art Studio beginning at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and the format varies with open mic, guest readers or both.

Thoughtcrime

Submission Guidelines and Disclaimer ISSUE 720 Franklin, Beaumont, TX 77701 ISSUE solicits and publishes the work of local authors. Poetry, short fiction, scholarly works and opinion or e-mail: pieces may be submitted for review. All works must be artstudio@artstudio.org. typed or submitted on a disk (using approved word processing software), or may be sent to TASI by e-mail. All Authors must submit a daytime telephone number along with all submissions. Pen names are acceptable, works are subject for review by our editor, and may be rejected or edited on the basis of grammar, spelling or but authors must supply real names for verification. All content. The opinions expressed in “Thoughtcrime” do submitted works become property of TASI, and whether not necessarily reflect the opinions of TASI, its Board of rejected or accepted, are not returned to the author. ISSUE Directors, ISSUE’s editorial staff,the or donors to TASI. Send wall doesand not notify of rejection by mail or telephone.

The piece consists of an automatic tennis serve balls hit the bounce randomly away as a typed works to: machine that fires a series of balls (each labeled museum guard chased after them. This viewing

If you are interested in being a featured reader for Thoughtcrime: The Reading, simply write an email with a sample of your poetry to artstudio@artstudio.org.

Thoughtcrime: The reading offers a forum for any poet who wishes to present their original have their “Twang,” the diswork in a nurturing exans environment. tinctive vocal style that distin“Joey”) against a wall on which is a large Argyle patguishes them from people from other states. “Twang” also refers to tern that may or may not be a net. The machine is Metaphor For Manthe guitar sounds of Texas R&B Dialogue a house and the balls are fired with labeled in “Playmate” monotonous regularity, with the gallery walls echoand country.

There is a river whereAt I go In ing theacommon room repetitive thud thud thud, like the Dada soundthe Art Museum of with my father. It is not thetracks conversation is heavy of Kurt Schwitters.

Southeast Texas, “Twang” is a exactly clear the meaning words The shooting outof the title refers to Joey “Joey” group show of contemporary of the walk together at any and forth a childhood friend of the artist who is Mussacchio, Texas sculpture featuring work by back dusk. Four legs more, “Dude you need to dump her.” now dead. a dozen artists. “why?”Does the lifeless “Playmate” long for someone four feet step too many Texas is both Western and she'stonot good for you.” times to count. I choose with whom play?

It seems to connect with the Southern, cotton and cowboys, and “Because, we move to the kitchenpast-time — a simple to entertain myselfa multitude of clashing cultures. If Then quintessentially American a refrigerator door stands open with the first journey game of catch. there is one thing that defines “Your mother of ours so necesaryTexas, it is its indefinability.

Visitors is tohilarious.” the opening witnessed the balls “Oh please, you don't hafta live with her.” for our sanity after my “Twang,” like the state that bouncing off two walls and back into the machine, Then by the computer mother was transfigured completing a never-ending solitary game of catch. links these artists, incorporates a two conversations simultaneously as a mother goddess plethora of styles and forms.

The piece had a occurr melancholy quality that reflected “Seriously, type that to her.” for the thousands that gathered Among the strongest pieces on display is “Love- both the loss of a childhood friend and of childhood “Oh my god, you’re so nuts.” at water’s edge hope Joey,” a study ofinfriendship, loneliness and loss by itself.

In one of the bedrooms of heaven strirring However, visitors at a later date may have seen Michael Powers. the conversation is heavier the river where the “God. I’m such a stupid little girl.” the multitude would “No you're not, don’t ever say that.” bathe the forworks healing.

Among and after a while featured in only a few are left More “TWANG: kind news and the conversations join together from my father. He Contemporary and move to IHOP. has been afrom success Sculpture “Man, if I was Michael Jackson’s friend on a new frontier.

Texas,” and I saw him climb that tree, He opened the clouds on display it’d be fucking over.” for me Sept. to see through 26 light asatlight the Art Jeff Dixon can only serve Museum of to include me Southeast Texas, as are, light as well. clockwise Future from left, Here, on the soil, I never “E.B.” by I couldn’t help but to wonder why things change correctly understood Erick Swenson, To remember why, the presence of this pain… madness nor its part “Museum Bench” Caught up in the middle of this inbyaChris drama subtracted Sauter, My thoughts and yours from the anvient “Two Paintings Of what is fake and what can’t be real? grateful. on Is any of it real? a Rock” To know what’s absurd or I’m just insane Everything is explained

by Bill Davenport To want to feel nothing at all presently with my and “Sell Me And if we’re all the same fatherSomething standing at my Where everyone finds this place to go side Brown” We seek and hide and it’s far away wherebythe air Franco And we always talked of going there one day divides rain and light.

Mondini-Ruiz.

Where you and me blame and everyone sins The two of us as But I couldn’t help but to wonder why we play I see have Get caught up in the pressure of this game a way of being Why everyone’s a hazard and we’re all stained ourselves as is read Depressed and you saw me, I stood in the shade a scroll concerning Stood there dressed in leaves in all my shame the gospel of manhood Review and But I couldn’t rest, I can barely move in which our names photos by Without a breath I just stood there watching you now plainly appear.

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emphasized a sense of “play,” with the machine, like a rambunctious child, teasing its reluctant “playmate.” The Ides of March The same piece, but two games and, therefore, The lastpieces. flayed day of winter’s come. two different Don’t ask or how Iisknow this.

Even thoughme thewhy “Playmate” inanimate, Sometimes you just know these things.

Powers has created a performance piece reminiscent It seems, almost, as if you wake up — of the 1960s Fluxus group, whose creations existed in knowing. You know. And that’s all the reactions of can the say. viewer. that you You travel off to work, Powers plays with ourbecause emotions and delicately a bit much earlier, you know, balances the the joys of childhood with the what with the weather being bad andloss all, of innocence. that someone must fill in — that someone Another pieceIt’s that demands viewer participabeing you. things like that — you just tion is know Justin before Kidd’s they “In and Out Box.” really are.

Like the way Consisting of a crudely I know about the cat.constructed The old graymailbox tab that to nap its last the morning hanging on came the wall, visitors to under the exhibit are invitpaper awhile the coffee wasCzech still dripping. ed to “mail” postcard from the Republic His castrate eyes opaque with age told me perfectly what I already knew. Tonight, he’ll slip away — to wherever cats that See TWANG on page 11 do this go — and I will never have him shed again his warm old fur on winter’s favorite trousers. He’ll go tonight. And tomorrow, I will wake up in the spring-beginning, expecting him to still be here; although, I know he’s gone for good. And I know I’ll never understand just how and why I know.

Jesse Doiron

Drunken Stuper #17 Do you often feel alone/ That there’s no one on the other side?

That one day you may talk to find That no one is actually listening?

That perhaps while you were on some Self-serving mission and you missed the boat That everyone else seemed to be on?

That because of your constant need to seek Refuge in your own self-pity, you let the world Slip on by without looking up to see What was right in front of you?

I often feel this way.

It’s a sickness and it’s my own fault.

Sometimes to get away is not the answer, But convincing myself that this is the case Is a matter for another day.

I look up, every once in a while.

Everyone seems to have their own agenda.

How do they know it’s the right one?

Why do they feel the need to have one?

In a perfect world I’d have all of time, The then, the now, the time that will be.

I’d have them all at the palm of my hands.

I would never be late again.

MAKING AN EXHIBITION OF THEMSELVES PAGE 7

Andy Coughlan George Wentz

Cody Pastorella

INSIDE: LISA REINAUER: JUDGE AND JURY, HOT PIG, AND MORE Mike Tobias

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Please take a moment to complete this short survey to tell us your interests, help us better meet the needs of our community, attract more members, and determine the effectiveness of our programming and services. In order to make this survey reflective of the entire community, we’ll need a high level of participation. Please feel free to photocopy or request extra copies. And please be honest or even blunt! Your identity is not required, and we need to know your true feelings in order to remain viable.

You may either submit your answers by e-mail to tracyd@artstudio.org or return a paper copy to The Art Studio, Inc., Attention: Surveys, 720 Franklin Street, Beaumont, TX 77701-4424. Please don’t hesitate to call if you have any questions, (409) 838-5393.

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3. Current income range: ____Under 11K/yr ____11K-24K/year ____24K-40K/yr ____40K-60K/yr ____60K-100K/yr ____100K+ 4. Highest level of education completed: ____High School ____Associates degree ____Bachelor’s degree ____Master’s degree ____Doctoral degree 5. Are you an artist? ____Yes ____No If yes, medium ____________________________ 6. How did you find out about TASI? ____Word of mouth ____Website ____Direct mail ____The ISSUE ____Media advertisement ____Other:_________________________ __________________________________ 7. Please indicate what types of activities you/your family have attended or participated in at TASI: ____Classes or Workshops ____Exhibitions ____Band Night ____Other: _____________________

8. Rank our activities,from 1 to 6, 1 being most beneficial to the community, 6 being least beneficial. ___Classes, Workshops ___Band Night ___Exhibitions ___The ISSUE ___Sales Gallery ___Affordable studio space __________________________________ __________________________________ 9. What activities or services would you like at TASI that we don’t have now? __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ 10. Is there anything at TASI that you feel is not beneficial to our community ? If so, what? __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ II: Membership 11. Are you currently a member of TASI? ____Yes ____No 12. If Yes, what caused you to become a member? ____To enter our Membership Exhibition (TASIMJAE) ____Attended an Adult Clay Class ____To sell your artwork in our Sales Gallery ____To receive our monthly arts magzine, The ISSUE ____Because you feel TASI is beneficial to your community ____Other : ________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________

13. If not, what might motivate you to become a member? ____To enter our Membership Exhibition ____Attending a Class ____To sell your artwork in our Gallery ____To receive our monthly arts magazine, The ISSUE ____Because you feel TASI is beneficial to your community ____Other : ________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ 14. In the future, which of the following TASI activities will you be most likely to participate in? ____Classes or Workshops ____Band Night ____The ISSUE ____Exhibitions ____Sales Gallery ____Studio space ____Other: __________________________________ III: Education 15. How many classes have you attended at TASI? __________________________________ 16. What classes would you like to see offered at TASI? __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________

Mission Statement Founded in 1983, The Art Studio, Inc. is devoted to: providing opportunities for interaction between the public and the Southeast Texas community of artists; furnishing affordable studio space to originating artists of every medium; promoting cultural growth and diversity of all art forms in Southeast Texas; and providing art educational opportunities to everyone, of every age, regardless of income level, race, national origin, sex or religion.

PURPOSE The purpose of The Art Studio, Inc. is to (1) provide educational opportunities between the general public and the community of artists and (2) to offer sustained support for the artist by operating a non-profit cooperative to provide studio space and exhibition space to working artists and crafts people, and to provide an area for group work sessions for those artists and crafts people to jointly offer their labor, ideas, and enthusiasm to each other.

GOALS 1.

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For information on TASI classes, call 409-838-5393 or visit us on the web at www.artstudio.org

To present public exhibitions To provide educational opportunities To provide accessible equipment for artists To provide peer feedback through association with other artists and crafts people

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To present 10 art exhibitions per year To maintain equipment for artists in a safe working environment To provide better access to artists for the public To offer regularly scheduled adult and children’s classes To develop and maintain public activities with all sectors of the community To develop and maintain equipment to aid artists in their work To provide a display retail outlet for artists To expand programming and activities with increased facility space

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programs that provide living assistance, child development, housing assistance, education opportunities and job placement, our non profits are the ones to take up where the budget crunches left off — i.e., in social programs that were never meant to be shouldered by the pri-

ABOVE from page 11 stole. Except if you are Martha Stewart. I don’t condone what she did, but the government went after her like a buzzard after a gut wagon while the Enron, Worldcom and Tyco cases went along at their leisurely paces.

These failings, unfortunately, in our world can be fixed only over a long term.

These problems are a regular occurrence, but if we spend time with our children and truly teach them right from wrong, it will help.

Public schools can help. School-age

vate sector.

It’s a matter of what is important in the quality of our lives.

Extra cash in your pocket (which really doesn’t exist after increases in fees, insurance, utilities and tax bases), or a home where each of us can look at the other and know that we are all in this together.

Let’s join together and paint a pretty picture.

The Günderssens

by Andy Coughlan

John Stuart Mill, in his theory of Utilitariansim wrote that,“Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness.” And last night’s “action” with Fernando certainly promoted Genevieve’s happiness.

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children spend more time interacting at school than the do anywhere else.

Schools have to get past the politics of politics. They need to be funded appropriately, a diverse, broad and challenging national curriculum needs to be established with matching annual standardized testing, and scientific evaluation needs to be implemented.

What policies are established, need to be followed and not applied to only the squeaky wheels.

If young people went through this we would have fewer Enrons, fewer Iraqs, more positive citizens to follow and an overall better quality of life.

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Studio, Inc. There are a few changes to a George Wentz will be teaching Make sure you pay attention to some of the familiar classes. Salsa another acrylic painting class. Grace the ISSUE, your e-mail, and fliers at INSIDE night is now on Wednesdays. Life Megnet is coming back in October the Studio for updates as we add • ‘YELLOW 5: IN THEORY BY NATHAN JONES drawing has not been attracting the to do bookbinding. No photography even more classes to the list.

• THOUGHTCRIME: FROM session,AREA but lookPOETS for it to return numbers it used to, so weMUSINGS will now this hold it every other week. in the future.

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EARLY BIRD CAFE 5955 PHELAN 2. To maintain equipment for artists in a Trishell Joffrion, GUITAR & BANJO STUDIO 4381 CALDER Wednesdays, 7:30-9 p.m.

Dates to be announced KRISTY’S KORNER CALDER safe working environment 4285 Maribeth Jones, LOGON CAFE 3805 CALDER Sept. 8-Oct. 13 $100 (80 for members) THE MASSAGE INSTITUTE 2855 EASTEX FRWY, 3. To provide better access to artists SUITE for the1 D.J.InKava, (@ DELAWARE) this two-day workshop, you will design $10 per session ($5 LU students) NOVROZSKY’S public 4230 CALDER Stephan Malick, THE OPEN BOOK 4245 CALDER and cast your original artwork in aluminum. Salsa, Merengue, Cha-Cha, Cumbia, 4.

To offer regularly scheduled adult and RED B4 BOOKS 3875 CALDER @ 23RD Marianna Measells, Your membership enables you REED’S LAUNDRY 6025A PHELAN @ PEYTON Ages 15 and older. Limited to six partici- Rhumba. children’s classes THE ROYAL STOP MAJOR DRIVE @ GLADYS Sheila Molandes, to enter your artwork in this pants. Instructed by Rhonda McNally.

PARKDALE 5.NOBLE To develop and maintain public BARNES & 4153activities DOWLEN Elizabeth Pearson, RAO’S BAKERY 4440 DOWLEN prestigious competition with all sectors of the community Tim Postlewait, MID/SOUTH COUNTY LAMAR STATE COLLEGE, PORT ARTHUR 6. To develop and maintain equipment to aid Clint Ray, MUSEUM OF THE GULF COAST 700 PROCTER PATSY’S HEMP CREATIONS 1221 NEDERLAND AVE artists in their work Katheryn Rogers, JASPER GALLERY7.

SQUARE LAMAR To provide a display retail outlet126for artists Jackie Stubblefield, For more information on TASI classes, call 409-838-5393 or visit us on the web at www.artstudio.org ORANGE LAMAR STATE COLLEGE, ORANGE 8.

To expand programming and activities with Gena Wilkinson, increased facility space Tom Wright.

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REGISTER EARLY AS CLASS SIZES ARE LIMITED See page 10 for details.

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