Arts
26th Annual Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering to kick off next Thursday at Sul Ross
February 16th, 2012
ALPINE – The 26th Annual Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering opens Friday, February 24 at 10 a.m. in Marshall Auditorium on the campus of Sul Ross State University.
Headliners for this year’s Gathering include poets, musicians and storytellers who were here early in the event’s history and some that have participated beginning in the last few years. …
Schonzeit exhibit set for Valentine’s Day
February 9th, 2012
MARFA – Local celebrity, Sam Schonzeit provides a seasonal, unsentimental and perhaps unseemly harmonization with Valentine’s day this coming Tuesday, February 14 (the year that the world would end) at Eugene Binder’s gallery at 218 South Highland Avenue in Marfa.
Beverages and a video piece will be provided for the public’s enjoyment and refreshment from 6- …
Big Bend Jazz Consort debut Saturday
February 9th, 2012
ALPINE – At 7:30pm on Saturday, February 11, the Big Bend Jazz Consort, sponsored by the Big Bend Arts Council, will present its debut concert at the newly completed event center next to the Blue Water Natural Food Store south of Alpine on Highway 118.
The concert is free, with voluntary donations accepted in benefit of …
Sul Ross student printmaking exhibition through March 2
February 9th, 2012
ALPINE – A student printmaking exhibition of the “Print Exchange” and selected works will be on display through March 2 at Sul Ross State University.
Works will be exhibited in the Main Gallery, Francois Fine Arts Building. Gallery hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. A reception for the artists will be held Thursday, Feb. 16, 5-6 …
Art exhibit opens Friday at Marfa Country Clinic
February 2nd, 2012
MARFA – Marfa Country Clinic is pleased to present Untitled, a solo exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by Andrea Claire.
A reception for Claire, a former Chinati Foundation artist in residence in 2000, is from 5-7pm Friday at the clinic, 105 East Oak Street, near the post office.
Believing that abstraction is a mirror for the …
Lannan writer reading is Saturday at MBC
February 2nd, 2012
MARFA – Lannan Foundation Marfa writer in residence Judith E. Stein will read from her work at 6pm Saturday, February 4 at the Marfa Book Co.’
The Philadelphia-based Stein is a writer, art historian, and independent curator. Her biography-in-progress of the art dealer Richard Hu Bellamy earned a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant in 2008.
Among …
Snake Bite Saloon opens in Marathon
February 2nd, 2012
By BARBARA NOVOVITCH
MARATHON – Dark wood all around, peanut shells underfoot, gleaming longhorns over the mirror behind an extended, two-level bar that reaches almost to the player-piano topped with a bicycle dating from the early 20th century. Bright lights over a pool table beyond the bar, and to the right, more tables where a large …
Ballroom Marfa receives Artistic Innovation and Collaboration grant
February 2nd, 2012
NEW YORK – The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is pleased to announce that Ballroom Marfa is one of the recipients of its new Artistic Innovation and Collaboration grant program (AIC) to advance the values promoted by artist and activist Robert Rauschenberg during his lifetime and career.
The grant will support “Carbon 13,” a multi-disciplinary artistic investigation of …
Earles headline Sul Ross guest artist series\concert tonight
January 26th, 2012
ALPINE – The Fine Arts and Communication Department at Sul Ross State University begins its spring semester guest artist concerts with Shannon Marie Earle, soprano, and Keith Earle, tenor, at 7:30pm on January 26 in Marshall Auditorium on the Sul Ross campus.
Lana Potts, lecturer in piano at Sul Ross, is the accompanist.
The Earles are native …
Terlingua WordOff is Saturday at Starlight
January 26th, 2012
TERLINGUA – This Saturday night at 7:30pm at the Starlight theater and restaurant, the current edition of the annual community reading will reel itself off on the main stage. It’s the +20th Terlingua WordOff.
This year spotlights storytelling, but of course, poetry, fiction, memoir, stand-up comedy, performance art, or some mashup of a mix are accepted. …
