Tuesdays, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Instructor: Robert Ruhmann
Monthly tuition: $60 for BAL members, $75 for non-members
Come learn about watercolor landscapes and seascapes from this award-winning artist with more than 25 years of experience. Robert loves to paint landscapes, rock formations and seascapes. This class is open to all levels of students.
Tuesdays, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Instructor: Robert Ruhmann
Monthly tuition: $60 for BAL members, $75 for non-members
Come learn about watercolor landscapes and seascapes from this award-winning artist with more than 25 years of experience. Robert loves to paint landscapes, rock formations and seascapes. This class is open to all levels of students.
Brazosport Art League opens a new exhibit, Women of the West in the gallery this week, featuring fiber art including art quilts, art dolls and beadwork by female artists Ginny Eckley, Susan Ennis, Janet Bodin, Kim Ritter and Kay Hendricks.
An opening reception for the artists, their families & friends and the community is slated for Friday, September 16 from 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM in the gallery. Come see the art and meet the artists!
About the artists:
Ginny Eckley and Susan Ennis had successfully created several collaborative art quilts which were shown in numerous art and quilt venues. When brainstorming about their next project, they decided to ask Kim Ritter to collaborate with them.
After many false starts, they decided to create work in the western theme that Kim was already working on, and to experiment with some of the digital printing options Kim had been using since 2004. Ginny and Susan added their own spin by painting and silk-screening over the digitally printed fabrics.
Janet Bodin joined the group a year later, creating 7 art dolls. She constructed the dolls down to the tiniest details such as handmade boots, beaded moccasins and lace stockings.
Kim Ritter then realized her quilts would look great with some hand beading. She asked her mother Kay Hendricks to add beadwork to her quilts. Kay has been making and collecting western beadwork for 40 years. She has a world-class collection of Native American art, jewelry and beadwork.
The exhibition was selected by the International Quilt Festival for its show in Houston in 2019.
Women of the West runs through Saturday, October 15. Tickets to the gallery are free, but reservations are required and can be made when you arrive or in advance. Hours of operation are 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Tuesday through Saturday.
Brazosport Art League’s always-popular People’s Choice show is kicking off this week in the gallery, featuring artwork in various mediums by BAL members. The exhibit runs Tuesday, April 12 through Saturday, May 7, so make plans to stop by in the next month to vote on your two favorite pieces of art!
Voting is open through April 29. BAL is also hosting a reception that day from 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM to celebrate the show and announce this year’s winners.
Tickets to visit the gallery are free, but reservations are required and can be made in advance online or when you arrive. Hours of operation are 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Tuesday through Saturday.
The Facts featured Brazosport Art League’s upcoming People’s Choice exhibit in the weekend edition (4/9) of the paper in “People’s Choice returns at Brazosport Art League Gallery”. An annual show featuring art by BAL members in various mediums, this year’s exhibit opens Tuesday, April 12 and runs through Saturday, May 7.
Read the article online and then make plans to swing by the gallery soon to check out the new exhibit!
(Above photo: The six pieces included in the show from BHS senior Aretzie Baeza, pictured at right.)
One senior from Brazosport Christian School and six from Brazoswood High School submitted their art for inclusion in this year’s Brazosport Art League Bruce Good Scholarship Show, which takes place every spring. BHS senior Aretzie Baeza was selected as the winner of the 2022 scholarship, a $1,000 award given by the league on Sunday, April 3 at the closing reception.
The Facts interviewed BAL chair Ron White, Brazoswood art teacher Emily Espeche and Baeza for the story, which was published on The Facts’ website today (4/4).
Congratulations to Aretzie and all the artists on a job well done!
Brazosport Art League’s current exhibit, the Bruce Good Scholarship Show, is featured on the front page of today’s (3/30) newspaper. The Facts interviewed BAL’s Teen Studio Time instructors Linda Strickland and Mark Cameron for the article, “Art students paint for college”. The duo talked about the importance of the exhibit and the role it plays in creating a space for high school art students.
The two-week exhibit closes this week, but can be seen today through Saturday, April 2, from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. A closing reception and scholarship award ceremony will take place on Sunday, April 3 at 2:00 PM in the gallery.
Brazoswood High School and homeschool seniors are displaying their art for the 16th year in a row in Brazosport Art League gallery during the Bruce Good Scholarship Show, which opens Tuesday, March 22. Exclusively featuring art by 12th grade students, the two-week exhibit allows the young artists to display the work that best represents their artistic journeys and compete for a $1,000 scholarship.
Through the duration of the show, Brazosport Art League members vote to select the recipient of the Bruce Good Scholarship, a memorial award named after the longtime Brazosport High School art teacher and ceramist. One student will be honored with the scholarship at the exhibit’s closing reception, slated for Sunday, April 3 from 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
Don’t miss out on seeing the art of these talented students! The exhibit runs through Saturday, April 2.
Tickets to visit the gallery are free, but reservations are required and may be made online in advance or when you arrive. Hours of operation are 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Tuesday through Saturday.
The Facts featured Brazosport Art League’s newest gallery exhibit, “Animalia: Beyond the Jungle”, and the show’s contributing artists Doug Hiser and Jim Phillips in Wednesday’s (2/23) paper. The article, “Long-time friends collaborate on art show”, includes interviews with both artists about their work and several photos from the artists’ opening week reception, held last Friday, February 18.
Read the story and see photos on The Facts’ website, and then make reservations to visit the BAL gallery to see the exhibit for yourself! Hours of operation are 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Tuesday through Saturday.
(Photo by Jeremy Hill.)
Brazosport Art League opens a new exhibit, “Animalia: Beyond the Jungle”, this week in the gallery, featuring more than 100 paintings in various mediums by artist Doug Hiser and more than 20 large wooden carvings by artist Jim Phillips. The show opens Tuesday, February 15 and runs through Saturday, March 19. An opening week reception will be held in the gallery on Friday, February 18 from 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
The majority of Hiser’s art, created with acrylic and watercolor paint, ink and scratchboard, features wildlife from all over the world. From African big cats and elephants to birds and reptiles, Hiser presents his subjects in both bold colors and black and white. The exception to his large collection of animal art is a small corner of colorful superheroes, torn straight from the pages of comic books.
A signature member of Artists for Conservation, Hiser travels the globe seeking inspiration for his craft. He also teaches art, judges art shows, has written 25 books and paints murals, including the Santa Fe Indians Ten Feathers mural at City Hall commemorating the people who lost their lives in the tragic 2018 event.
Hiser’s public art also includes the Silent Skies mural of endangered birds, The Houston Audubon 50-foot bird mural, the Houston Rodeo Boot, “Rodeo Bulls” displayed at NRG stadium, Galveston’s three turtle sculptures, Brazoria Nature Center murals, mermaid sculptures in San Marcos, Wimberley boot public art and the herons of Dickinson Bayou sculptures.
Wood sculptor Jim Phillips initially discovered his love for carving in 2005 after he cut a tree down in his yard and used a chainsaw to create a pelican. The next year, he began selling his carved wood pieces in an art gallery in Galveston, which was destroyed in 2008 by Hurricane Ike. In 2009, he started carving the first of many trees for the Galveston Tree Sculpture project, which created art from trees lost in Ike’s storm surge.
As opportunities to carve continued to increase, Phillips gave up his day job as an industrial equipment salesman in 2013 and started carving wood art full-time. Since then, he has carved hundreds of trees in more than 40 Texas cities and created countless studio pieces sold in the René Wiley Gallery in Galveston.
Tickets to visit the BAL gallery are free, but reservations are required and can be made online at bcfas.org/visit or when you arrive. Hours of operation are 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Tuesday through Saturday.