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Posted May 2013
May is a busy month in Downtown Alexandria, especially at River Oaks. The weekend after Alex River Fete, the thirteenth Annual Men Who Cook & Men Who Mix will be held on Saturday, May 18th from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. Notable men of the community will prepare their favorite food and drink recipes for tasting. Food, [...]
Continue ReadingPosted April 2013
River Oaks artists and patrons are ready to listen and learn as a unique lineup of classes, exhibits and lectures come to River Oaks in April. The way Scott Lykens sees it, a teacher teaches, but a professor instructs. An art professor at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, Lykens currently teaches sculpture and [...]
Continue ReadingPosted April 2013
This semester, my Art Structure (Design) class has been working on several art projects. One of these involves fabric art in the form of a floor covering. Fabric art combines the fine arts with applied art in a total unity. In teaching fabric art, we explore the masters of the technique from early times to [...]
Continue ReadingPosted March 2013
For more than four decades, the Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival has offered a variety of exhibits and programs in Central Louisiana, including the first juried exhibit in the area. The 47th annual Festival is no exception. The competitive exhibit showcases more than 70 works from regional artists. The opening reception on April 12th features [...]
Continue ReadingPosted March 2013
Classes at LSUA are almost at the mid-semester point. For the first time in a number of years, I am again teaching an art structure class. We used to call this class Design, but now it has a fancier title. The purpose of the class is still the same, though—to teach students the various art [...]
Continue ReadingPosted February 2013
Ross Jahnke has been influenced by artists like Jim Dine, Jacob Eli and June Wayne, but for his exhibit entitled Fast Food, it is probably most appropriate to quote artist Wayne Thiebaud: “Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.” In his latest exhibit, Jahnke presents the [...]
Continue ReadingPosted February 2013
When I was growing up, we celebrated Washington’s birthday on February 22nd. No longer a national holiday, we now observe Presidents’ Day on the 3rd Monday of February. This year, it will fall on Monday, February 18th. In addition to George Washington’s (February 22nd) and Abraham Lincoln’s (February 12th) birthdays, William Henry Harrison was born [...]
Continue ReadingPosted January 2013
The term putto (pl. putti) comes from the Latin putus, meaning “little man”. Putti are the chubby male children, usually nude and sometimes winged, that are used as figures in art. These figures are not to be mistaken with angelic babies—they are not human and they are not innocent! In fact, babies were never considered [...]
Continue ReadingPosted December 2012
Hank Prats was an extraordinary contemporary artist who was born in 1957 in Alexandria, and spent most of his adult life living and working here in Cenla. Some of his greatest and most creative works are about the people and places that made up his experiences during his time at this place he called home. [...]
Continue ReadingPosted December 2012
When people travel the country, they sometimes run into old friends in faraway places. When Kimberly Brannon travels, she runs into her own art on occasion—and not just where one expects to find art, like the permanent collections of The Des Moines Metro Opera or the Newson Art College. Her work can be found in [...]
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