Celebrate the Arts awardees

Page 6 • June 2022 • Golden Gazette

Awardees were recognized for their contributions to the art community during the First Friday Art Trail on May 6.

2022 Celebrate the Arts awardees honored

The Blue Light Live

The Blue Light Live was presented with the LHUCA Catalyst Award.

Since 1999, The Blue Light Live has been host to 1,000’s of local and touring acts from all over the country. The art of songwriting has always been a huge part of the Hub City.

Names like Wade Bowen, Josh Abbott, William Clark Green, Red Shahan, Grady Spencer, Flatland Cavalry, Randall King, Dalton Domino, Brandon Adams, all credit The Bluelight Live for helping them find their feet as songwriters and touring acts.

They embrace songwriters and look forward to seeing the new talent that flows out of West Texas every year.

The Monday Night Songwriter Nights showcase the best songwriters throughout the region on a weekly basis.

Kalypso Clum

Kalypso Clum was presented the Robert Ellis Patterson Art Award given to a high school senior.

This year’s winner of the Patterson Art Award is Kalypso Clum. Within a wide array of submissions by excellent student artists, Kalypso’s work stood out above the other entries.

Her diversity of materials was of particular notice with Kalypso showing her interest and ability to work with a variety of ideas and styles.

The award jurors appreciated her attention to her craft and her ability to use multiple styles within a single work of art.

The jurors were also impressed by her use of language and text within the work to further expand the meaning of the visual art. The combination of materials and the insight that Kalypso used made her a clear choice for the award this year.

Kris Olson

Kris Olson was given the William D. Kerns Award for the Performing Arts.

Kris Olson has been teaching children music and movement for 34 years. She has a master’s in music education with an emphasis in a philosophy called “Orff Schulwerk” which integrates music and dance.

While teaching public school in Minneapolis, Kris trained at Zenon Dance Company.

Since moving to Lubbock in 2009, she has managed to piece together a fulfilling artistic life by combining all the things she loves – children, music, dance, creativity, and community.

Kris teaches parent-child classes to Lubbock’s youngest artists in the community centers and at Ballet Lubbock.

She teaches beginning college dance students at Texas Tech University and dances and choreographs for Flatlands Dance Theatre.

The people at LHUCA know Kris best for her First Friday Art Trail show “Ms. Kris and Friends” where she performs participatory music and dance with specials guests. Kris has even taught elementary students folk dance and bucket drumming in her backyard during the pandemic.

Kris is known outside of Lubbock as a teachereducator and often visits other parts of the country to present workshops and teach summer classes.

Kris and her husband, Richard Murphy, have two sons, Alex,20, and Joseph,18, who share her love of music and in the past could be seen playing in the backup band for the Ms. Kris and Friends show.

Kelly Reyna

Kelly Reyna was awarded the William D. Kerns Award for the Visual Arts.

Born and raised in West Texas, Kelly grew up admiring the works of Frida Kahlo, the Old Masters, and Jose Guadalupe Posadas.

Most of her younger years were spent drawing and sketching portraits, later discovering a love for oil painting.

She pursued the arts through education and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Texas Tech University in 2011.

In 2014 she delved into the art of embroidery while taking part in a year-long residency through Plymouth University/ Transart Institute.

In 2017, Kelly returned to Texas Tech University to obtain a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Drawing.

Kelly is actively involved in local art markets and indulges colorful portraits of Frida Kahlo.

In more professional work, Kelly engages in the meditative techniques of needlework and embroidery, combining those processes to create paintings and drawings. These methods are used to translate the experience of motherhood through the struggles of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Kelly is an adjunct professor at Texas Tech and Lubbock Christian University and owns Grey Edges Studio & Art Gallery in downtown Lubbock.

Seeds of Hope

www.SowerMinistries.org GUIDO EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION

We have been preaching

“Brother,” said St. Francis of Assisi to a young monk who had just entered the monastery, “let’s go to town and preach.”

They left the monastery and walked to the town and did not say a word to each other or the people they passed in the marketplace.

After several hours they retraced their steps and returned to the monastery.

The young monk wondered what was going on and after waiting for what seemed like an eternity, he finally broke his silence and asked, “I thought we were going to town to preach. When are we going to preach?” “We have been preaching,” replied St. Francis. “As we walked, we were observed: people watched our manners, our faces, our behavior, and our clothes, what people thought we stood for. We have been preaching.”

All of us preach all of the time. Our behavior is our message and our places of interest our pulpits.

Our lives become lectures and our pursuits are examples of our priorities. People watch us even as we watch them.

Each time we pass from view our words can no longer be heard, our sermon ends and a decision about the value and importance we place on being like Christ in all we do and whatever we say is made.

The problem we face today is not the quantity of Christians but the quality. And if we want to win more, we must be more.

How different would the world be if when we “declared God’s glory,” we also lived God’s glory. How we live is more important than words.

Trying to get attention

A family purchased a welltrained, expensive guard dog to protect their home.

It brought them great peace and comfort and reduced their fears of someone invading their home.

One evening as the family gathered together to watch their favorite television program the dog began to bark.

“Hush, Sarge,” said the father. But Sarge refused to stop barking and looked anxiously from one family member to another. They refused to be bothered as they watched the show.

Finally, the program was over and the father went upstairs to go to bed.

As he entered his bedroom, he realized the dog had been trying to get their attention.

A thief had carefully and quietly entered their home, opened their safe and stolen their most valuable possessions.

“Today,” (or listen now) warned the Psalmist, “if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts!”

Often God tries to “get our attention” to warn us of impending dangers. He does his best to speak to us through his word or a friend, a verse of scripture or a sermon.

He reaches out in love and compassion - anxious to warn us of the attractiveness of sin, the power of temptation, and the destruction that awaits us. But we are so often too involved in the things of this world to hear his warning.

Golden Gazette • June 2022 • Page 7 Summer Stampede Western

Art & Gear Show

(Continued from Page 3) Western art is on exhibit in the museum galleries throughout the year.

Artists and craftsmen scheduled to exhibit their work include Baru Forell, Ben Tolley, Bev Pettit, Billy Albin, Billy Klapper, Brian Asher, Bruce Greene, Buddy Knight, Cotton Elliott, Edgar Sotelo, Emily McCartney, Garland Weeks, Gary Dunshee, Graeme Quesinberry, Herman Walker, Jerry Lindley, Julie Oriet, Justin Asher, Mary Ross Buchholz, Michael Tittor, Mike Capron, Mikel Donahue, Peter Robbins, Rosie Sandifer, Russell Yates, Shawn Cameron, T.D. Kelsey, Teal Blake, Tyler Crow, Wayne Baize, and Xiang Zhang.

For more information on Summer Stampede, visit summerstampede. com.

“Boots O’Neal – 6666 Cowboy” charcoal and graphite drawing by artist Mary Ross Buchholz will be available at the Western Art & Gear Show.