Spring Time at First Saturday Arts Market!
First Saturday Arts Market returns this Saturday with dozens of artists coming from Houston, Austin, La Grange and even Memphis, Tennessee. Back by demand (and very nearly threats on the organizers life) is H-townStrEATs, a chef driven gourmet truck. Also this month, the nonprofit US Military K-9 will be on site with possibly one or two retired military dogs.
This is the eighth year the art market has been in operation, its truly a hidden Houston gem in Houston, mostly grown by grassroots efforts from the artists and organizer. If you haven’t been, stop by in April or May, the last daytime shows before the market returns to evening hours for Houston’s hot summers.
This is a quote “lifted” from a local couple’s newsletter circulating about a recent trip to the art market.
“What was most appealing, was these artists were for the most part as friendly as neighbors, people you would like to know. No sales pitch, other than smiles or offers to explain what we were seeing.”
Saturday April 7, 2012 * 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
548 W. 19th Street, Houston, TX 77008
On the parking lot between Gen’s Antiques and Wind Water Gallery
11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Sean Walters followed by Harold Muther of Friends of Rock ‘n Roll
3 – 6 p.m. Featured: Myrna Sanders Band
Food Truck
H-town StrEATs– a chef driven food truck serving soul satisfying, globally inspired street food will be on site till 4:30 or they sell out.
Featured Nonprofit
US Military K-9 Fund They prepare and send Care Packages to the military working dogs deployed with our soldiers. Like their handlers, they need extra goodies from home. http://www.usmilitaryk-9fund.org/
Featured Artists
Anne-Joëlle Galley ~ painter / printmaker
Anne-Joëlle Galley, a painter and printmaker is a featured artist at the April 7 First Saturday Arts Market. Galley, born in Mexico and formerly a resident of New York City, has worked in Houston for several years now. She has won international acclaim for her paintings, mono-types and prints with their signature bold colors. Galley?s colorful paintings, monotypes and prints—characterized by strong, bold colors—have been exhibited in Switzerland, England, Mexico, Italy, Romania, New York and Houston. Full press release
Eugene John Hughes ~ Painter, abstracted realism
“My artwork derives from an overwhelming need to visually translate what I have seen or read, experienced or witnessed over a complex lifetime to date. Emotion. Religion. Family. Friends. Past, present, estranged or already gone.” Hughes says of his painting. “Today I see with a clean internal eye. A soul. I see purple in nearly everything. I understand. For the first time, all is finally out of myself and into a tangible visual, hold it in my hand form. Using color and texture, paint and canvas, and other elements, I can clearly execute and therefore share my experience.”
