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January 7, 2017 Hightlights
January 7, 2017
Exercise * Eat Right * Buy Art!
Welcome to 2017! Woo Hoo! Hello, this is Mitch, I am the founder and manage First Saturday Arts Market. Thank you for checking this page out.
I’m going to give you a little tour of what you can expect to find at the market Saturday, from walking in, around and out!
GETTING HERE & PARKING
This part is easy, you drive and park all the time! We have directions and a parking map here on
our Location page. We’re hard to miss if you come from the west, first check for parking in the big lot to our east. See that big truck? That’s Luv Me Tenders they have fabulous chicken tenders but this Saturday, you might want to try their legendary Shorty Mac! Why short ribs on a chicken menu? Well, it’s a blast from the past – come ask me at market.
SHOUT OUT to our Title Sponsor: Memorial Hermann Greater Heights! You’ll see their banner at the bottom of each page.
UP FRONT
In front of the former Gen’s Antiques (now open at 373 W. 19th) you’ll find Texas Beer Bus, and they do exactly what their name implies, takes you on tours of breweries, wineries and distilleries.You can buy tickets right here and get your questions answered. They are always super cool and fun people! From their website –
Texas Beer Bus Tours are a fun and safe way to experience craft beer breweries, whiskey/vodka/rum distilleries, and wineries. We love craft beer and want to teach the world about it while exploring different breweries in a fun and safe way.
GOT WINE? We do!
That’s Edie with the big laugh and Jon to her right motioning me to put the camera away. (I really have no idea, but it looks that way!)
They own Water 2 Wine, a winery here in town, and though they have many fine selections they can only legally sample and sell wine made from Texas grown grapes. That’s how they can be in our little dry section of the city. My fav is the port, that’ll keep you warm while you shop! By the glass or take home a bottle or 6! Find out more on their website: www.water2wine.com
MUSIC!
Under the bright yellow tent at 2pm – The Tomes will perform! Their style is best described as a combo of acoustic, soul and rock. The members are all professional musicians and work for organizations like the Houston Symphony and Rice Orchestra. Now that is cool – and if you hadn’t guessed by their name, their lyrics might be on the weighty side. (I’m crack myself up LOL). Head over to our music page here, to preview their music.
BullsEye Storage is our music sponsor. Got stuff? Let them keep it out of the way for ya!
TIP: bring a lawn chair.
BABY, WE HAVE ART!
Original, fresh, modern, hip, cool, amazing, spiritual, life changing and most importantly collectable!
EVERY artist is posted on The Artist Roster each month. When you get to the page you’ll see a featured image and the artist’s name (or their business name) under it. Click either and you’ll go directly to that artist’s page and where there are MORE photos, a description of the work, bio on some and web and contact info. Below is a random sampling of this months show.
WALKING IN …
When you get to the back … (continue below video)
You will see this tent – THAT is an empty tent – but as you approach it Saturday, you will see a friendly person, talking about beer and handing out small samples. They are delicious.
MeetTown in City Brewing Company!
In fact, you should head over to the brewery after the market! Get directions via their Facebook page here.
NEXT Friday the 13th at this very brewery, Town in City Brewing Company will host First 
Saturday Arts Market artist Nancy Adams of The Tin Armadillo, for an artists reception. YOU ARE INVITED! RSVP at the event page.
If you haven’t seen Nancy’s art, she creates amazing decorative and functional art out of tin cans. For this art show at Town in City, she has created a fabulous collection of animal head trophies! They are hilarious! Here is a pic I snapped at a recent visit. The brewery taproom is open Wed-Sunday.
Friday, January 13 at 7 PM – 9 PM
Town in City Brewing Company
1125 W Cavalcade St, Houston Heights, Texas 77009
December 17, 2016 Highlights
This is an archived Market Highlights page.
December 17, 2016
Exercise * Eat Right * Buy Art! YES you can do all three at this Saturday’s final show of 2016! Yes, we’ll be back in 3 weeks for our January show.
The Holiday Shopping Season is here! We’re just going to quietly do our thing but know, that shopping local means a lot to us! Just read what artist Steve Sellers has to say about shopping local in our new blog section here: What shopping local means to us.
THE ARTIST ROSTER
All art, all the time, right? Every month, the artists attending the market are posted on the artist roster. Preview their work, follow them on their websites … sit on the fence too long and now you want to buy that “piece?” No problem, just look them up in the archive. If you cannot find someone just ask Mitch, the market manager. It’s been said he never forgets anyone!
This month we feature new artist, Dar Schafer, click her image to visit this month’s Artist Roster!
MUSIC!
Just like the art, all original by the musicians! 1:00 pm
Grifters & Shills is high-energy roots music, featuring vocal harmonies, guitar, banjo, percussion, harmonica, and bass. They write and perform timeless music with deep ties to the past and a very assertive outlook on the present. Their music and their shows are high-energy, down-to-earth journeys through songs and stories, celebrating and touching lives wherever they go. griftersandshills.com
FOOD & DRINK
Delicious, local and baby you bet it’s original! From the ice cream, Arepa’s, wine and beer!
Luv Me Tenders
Water 2 Wine Houston
Town in City Brewing Company
Memorial Hermann Greater Heights
Meet our Title Sponsor and find out what’s going on!
TRAFFIC ALERT!
TxDOT will be closing portions of IH-45 during the next few weekends to complete work on the West Dallas Street bridge.
IH-45 WILL BE CLOSED FROM IH-10 TO US-59 FROM 9:00 P.M. UNTIL 5:00 A.M. ON THE FOLLOWING WEEKENDS:
November 4 – 7
November 18 – 21
December 2 – 5
December 9 – 15
If possible, motorists are asked to use Allen Parkway, Memorial Drive or US-59 to enter downtown during the times listed above.
Brain Candy Art
by Maura Lucchese
Like Pop Rocks for the soul. The art of Maura. Recycled magazines on gallery wrapped canvas.
www.facebook.com/BrainCandyArt
A third generation artist, Maura has shown, produced, and taught her unique, gentle, and energetic perspective on the internal human condition via portraiture, abstractions, figure studies, and metaphor throughout the entire world. Using recycled magazines, in an effort to encourage good stewardship of our planet, Maura intends to bring to life the emotions and expressions of loved ones who touched her life. She conveys the sweetness, intimacy, and nostalgia largely through feminine imagery, recognize that her female mind and perspective are the natural conduit through which her images are channelled. Ms. Lucchese emphatically states, “From discarded refuse, torn to bits, I lead you into knowing the human imagination is sufficient to invent new ways to affirm life, support it, and to move others into action by the passion of it’s viewing.”
Grey World Xpressions
by Richard Torres
The intricate detail of my work comes from countless hours hunched over a nightlight, pencil in hand. A mixture of damp concrete walls and thoughts of loved ones fed my sentiments and made my way. rictorlee.com
fab.weld.wood
by Steve Ulrich
Handmade studio furniture using wood and metal. Welded structures provide function while their patinations add to the aesthetic appeal. Rich exotic woods (padauk, mahogany, lacewood, purpleheart, walnut) bring warmth to the steel structure. Styles range from modern to my interpretation on mid-century modern. facebook.com/fab.weld.wood
Penny Rae Robinson Images
I create images of the wilderness embedded in our urban metroplex, letting light and shadow define my subjects. My photos document my walking journey, where I have slowed my pace to really look at my neighborhood in inner loop Houston and to capture moments of beauty that stir the soul.www.pennyraerobinson.com
My new book!
The Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary is a 17.5-acre wildlife preserve in west Houston, Texas. The sanctuary photographs, taken over a seven-month span, feature native birds and wildlife, and display colorful southern seasons. The pictures are accompanied by some of Edith’s writings selected from her small diary. Edith’s words describe her life in the woods, the land that she loved, and her log cabin home.
A look inside:
Bio:
I grew up in a neighborhood that had been eked out of prairie grasslands in North Dakota. Dramatic seasonal changes impacted all my senses, from brilliant sun-sparkles on crisply drifted snow, to the soft sound of undulating prairie grasses in the evening breezes; from the bitter taste of red rhubarb plucked from our garden to the breathtakingly sharp smell of twenty below zero. I have touched the wind and felt the immensity of the sky unrestricted by all except puffy white clouds in azure summer skies and grey-blue bleary smudges of winter’s early evenings. There is my heart home.
I have been away from home for over three decades now. The gentler Houston winters provide grounds for lush gardens; the soft springs invite long walks and camping trips; the intensely humid summers force air conditioned hibernation from the oppressive heat, and the autumns may revive us again with the brilliant foliage of native trees if we are blessed with a cold kiss from the north. These southern charms have lodged also in my heart.
It is in the four seasons where I begin to see the eternal creative thought of God. Days and weeks pass by, each one revealing new aspects of God’s wisdom, glory and love. No matter where I find my lodging, I will keep seeking the trails of His beauty to capture expressions of His likeness.
Kathryne Lieser
Paintings – Acrylic. On canvas, wood and small wooden boxes. Various sizes. All original, done by me. Email
Jackie Haliburton
Acrylic paintings on canvas. Paintings of rural country scenes similarly Grandma Moses.
Mitch Cohen
I run the show, yes, but I got started in all this because I am an artist. I rarely bring my art to the market though and when I do bring it, I’m as surprised as anyone else!
Currently, I’m a board member at Art Colony Association, producers of Houston’s Bayou City Art Festival. I write a weekly column about the Houston art scene called ArtValet in a local newspaper The Leader and I contribute a cultural arts article to the Heights Pages Magazine, quarterly. Check them out!
Visit my website or view my portfolio on Facebook.
If you can’t find me at the market when visiting, just ask around or call me at 832-273-4798, the show can keep me pretty busy!
