“HERE’S THE FUTURE OF THE SINGER-SONGWRITER GENRE.” – TEX RENNER
Nationally touring singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and author Tommy Lewis is considered a Nova Beat, the group of creatives in the same vein as those at the heart of the mid-century cultural revolution. Alongside his sensei Radney Foster, Chad Elliott, Dana Cooper, Rod Picott, and Matt Harlan in the same spirit as Tom Russell, Jason Isbell, and Sturgill Simpson, Tommy is helping to redefine American roots music. www.tommylewis.net
Grifters & Shills
Grifters & Shills at 3pm
His was hard rock and heavy metal. Hers was the classic sound of the East Texas piney woods. Theirs was a fiery collision, bearing forth a sound that was at once novel and instantly familiar–nodding to roots seated deep in high lonesome harmonies and back porch blues, while peering out at a scorched path bound by modern assertions and contemporary commentary.
This two-person, dozen-instrument act provides a show full of sound a fury, punctuated with raw, quiet vulnerability. Come welcome them as they bring you back home. www.griftersandshills.com
Paula Hawkins is a fine artist who combines realism with abstract impressionism to create works that are beautiful and symbolic, capturing color and light, imagination, time and mood while combining art and quantum physics. paulahawkinsart.com? instagram.com/paulahawkins10
I create abstract expressionistic paintings. They are vibrant, energetic and colorful. I create unconsciously, rarely creating with a preset concept or vision for each work of art. Instead, I create from inspiration, emotion, and the subconscious within specific moments in time. At the end, the painting, in many ways are “revealed” to me.
I began painting this way during my first year in law school by accident. Learning the law became my life, day and night, seven days a week. And when I was not achieving the results I desired, I became extremely frustrated. One day, I took all that frustration, seemingly negative energy, and released it onto blank canvases. My evolution as an artist, was conceived in that moment. Finally, I found a “space,” where I could create where there were no rules, no limitations, no judgment, and no fear. My art, is that save place, where I can do anything. There are only infinite possibilities.
I typically use Acrylic paint on canvas as my foundation. However, most of my painting experiment with several different mixed media, such as, candle wax, newspaper, magazine paper, bubble wrap, card stock, mailing labels, painters tape, charcoal, ink, and sharpie markers.
Abiola, is an Italian artist of Nigerian origins. She attended Baylor University on a full basketball scholarship where she received a bachelor’s degree in Spanish, Spanish literature and Culture. After graduating, she started her career as a professional basketball player in Israel, where she played for 3 seasons, then moved to Ibiza Spain, Italy for 4 years and finally in England, where she also pursued her master degree in International Business Management . While in Israel she attended the art workshop of famous Israeli artist Eilat Tzin, and developed her skills further.
Abiola likes to focus her work on the diverse aspects of Black culture and tries to capture the beauty of her people and her culture in the works of art she creates. Her artwork is exciting, bold and expressive. Not only is she fascinated by the human form, but emotions, body language and especially eye expressions. Her style, sense of color is eye catching and being noticed by many.
Amy Lynch Kolflat (also known as the Zebra Realtor) with REMAX Metro Realty supports the 1st Saturday Art Market. Contact her today at www.amyzebra.com or 713-724-4646 for all your Real Estate needs!
On November 3rd, 2017 I will turn 45 and in a whole other way I am really only 5, let me explain.
On November 3rd, 2012 I suffered a stroke while on stage competing in Texas State Natural Bodybuilding & Fitness Championships in Austin, TX. I was given the clot-busting drug TPA and was in ICU for 6 days. One year later I had my second stroke, but only in ICU 4 days. I suffered some Paralysis to my left side, Severe Photophobia, Depression, Memory Loss, Aphasia, Severe Fatigue Syndrome, Anxiety and PTSD. I still battle with some of these invisible limitations but I am not here to play the violin and whip out some wine with my cheese NO MAAM!! NO SIR!!!! I will save THAT for the day I have my own solo show but trading the violin for a guitar!! lol
I am here sharing my story of how I SURVIVED and more important how ART saved my life.
I never took a class or ever really painted before being introduced to Art Therapy. I became the legal guardian of my niece, who I see as my own child, and when she was in college pursuing a psychology degree she suggested Music & Art Therapy in my recovery to help regain the full use of my left hand and arm. I was not having a good experience with the medications I was given at all, in fact, I was in the deepest darkest part of my depression and ready to just give up. I did NOT want to live, I really felt everyone would be better off if I had just not made it and I was scaring myself with my own thoughts.
Happy Birthday Lisa Hilton!
I decided to give Music & Art Therapy a try and after finding out I couldn’t play any instruments we started buying art supplies. My mother, who remains my caretaker, even emptied out an extra room and made it my art room ( Yep, I had to move in with my parents with my two kids).
It took a while to figure out just what type of painting or media I fell into or enjoyed. I finally figured it out when I broke up with a local musician I had been dating and put his CD in the microwave!! (DO NOT DO THAT VER
Y DANGEROUS) BUT I did and at 3 seconds I thought I was gonna blow up my parent’s house so I stopped it and took it out, I looked at the CD and the back looked SOOOO COOL I mean CDs are already so memorizing and I thought ” Hey, I can make something with this…..” I wound up making some Resin coasters and I cut up that CD and that CD Cover along with our favorite momentums and crap only he would get ya know.
Anyway, I basically put all my heart ache my pain and my happy memories in those coasters…….
I FELT SO MUCH BETTER and I gave them to him.
I felt like I literally got rid of all that negative energy and when it left my house it left me. So I started doing that with some songs and they would trigger memories good and bad and BOOM when they were done I was like hey I just made something so cool out of something I thought was so horrible. I am a single mother and decided THIS WAS MY THING , I chose Recycled Art to show my kids that even though something is damaged and not what it once was (LIKE ME POST STROKE) doesn’t mean that someone won’t still find beauty in it and that you can still make something amazing out of it.
BUT I had to purchase a barn and move my workshop down my by parents pond and chickens because of my misuse of the microwave and a couple fires with the blowtorch hahahahaha nothing serious but I was just mastering my craft and resin use. I finish all of my work, which is all recycled broken and unplayable music related items, in Art Resin that’s kinda my niche.
I truly feel that my soul is awake now and I am happier than I have been even when I am sad. I have a great support system of family, amazing fellow artists & good friends. So when I say I am really only 5 years old I mean I feel like I was given a chance to start over and I really feel the need to share how much ART really saved my life.
5 years ago I was going down a path that wasn’t meant for me or my kids.
Today I am working as a full time artist it is my job and I love my job. I am a regular at First Saturday Arts Market, The Market at Sawyer Yards, I am a featured Gallery Artist at Rockstar Gallery and have even shown at The Woodlands Waterway Art Festival. I have many goals and strive to soar to new heights!!!! (Pun totally intended) I have a whole new outlook on life in general. I AM ALIVE AND I AM HAPPY.
Art Therapy & Music Therapy helped bring me back to life.
Music helped bring back some memories and the amazing ability to purge your soul through Art Therapy is better than colonics. Lmao
All of my artwork pieces embrace a story…….. Come out and check it out in person or online on www.facebook,com/LoveCactus88
I was angry and full of so much pain and hurt for so long……. for the past 5 years I have been making art and burning sage and just praying and thanking GOD that I am on this side of the dirt!!!!
RBRW, with the support of First Saturday Arts Market and the Heights Women’s Club Volunteers, is making comfort kit packages for the female victims of Harvey. We have totes and make-up bags donated by Lancôme, which we will be filling with much needed items. This is where you come in!
We are collecting the following items on Saturday, September 2, from 11 AM – 6 PM, at the First Saturday Arts Market in the Heights, located at 540 W. 19th Street, Houston, Texas 77008:Toiletries
Bathroom products such as shampoo, conditioner, shower gel and deodorant are toiletries many of us take for granted. Small bottles save space and make it possible for someone without regular shelter to stay clean while relying on public rest areas for bathing. Just make sure the products you purchase still have an intact seal.
[themify_box style=”yellow, highlight” ]Consider donating: Allergy-friendly brands of soap and deodorant
Toothbrushes and toothpaste for normal and sensitive teeth.[/themify_box]
Feminine Hygiene Products
No one should ever have to worry about access to feminine hygiene.
[themify_box style=”yellow, highlight” ]Consider donating: Pads and tampons for all scenarios and body types. Think heavy, light and moderate needs.[/themify_box]
Beauty Products
These items can help some women feel better about their appearance, and let them feel some kind of normalcy during all of the chaos around them.
[themify_box style=”yellow, highlight” ]Consider donating: Cosmetics & Nail Polish in basic and neutral colors are best. Mascara goes well on everyone. Drug Store brands have really increased in quality the last few years, and you get more bang for your buck, too! Trust us, you can’t go wrong here. It’s all appreciated![/themify_box]
RBRW has always been a 100% volunteer based and has over 10 years in assisting shelters and organizations that directly serve communities, families, and individuals in crisis. We love working with smaller organizations that day in and day out make an impact on people’s lives.
Thank you for all the support.
with love from our team in NY, NJ, LA, and Texas
The older I get the more I realize not only have I always been an artist, I truly love being a carney as well! Its an added extra bonus.
My definition of a Carney is someone who travels from place to place setting up a tent to sell their wares and loves almost everything about this experience.
I recently had a friend send me a shop name to check out on Etsy. He said he thought of me when he saw the site and wanted to share it with me. I promptly looked up that site to find a very one themed adorable line of products. At that very second a light bulb went off, once again, to do this would make me an unhappy being.
The marketing, easy to spot, was perfect, clean and very catchy, after all I have a marketing and business background from my college days. The product was repetitive and trendy. At that second I realized I am not in this to make a hip something that catches on for a little while that I can sell and make money. I am a true maker, which goes hand in hand with being a carney, at least in my eyes. I want to touch each piece I make. I want to know who it goes home with. I need that connection.
My husband is after me all the time, that will sell better make 6, you need to work smarter not harder. Don’t get me wrong, I do not want to sit down and reinvent the wheel. But repetitive non-heart making may as well be a design job that leaves someone else to make it for me. I did not start this journey to be the next James Avery, although when I started this journey, I had no idea of that! … I want to do and be one thing… ME!
I want to hold and create each piece in my hand, I want to set up a tent at an art show meet amazing people and share my heart and art with them. Not everyone likes what I do, I now get that too! But the ones that do, well it is an unexplainable feeling…. to have someone spend their hard working money on a little piece of wearable art that I created is beyond the scope of a humbling experience. To be able to share my story, my self with these people who walk into my booth and talk with me about what I do, well, it has allowed me to meet some of the most sincere and wonderful people. I don’t want it to end!!! EVER!
Vivian Mora, Lauren Luna & Chrissy Doolen
Being a Carney is fun, if you put aside the struggles… to get enough product made in time for your next big show, hauling heavy stuff, long distance driving, staying in cheap motels, suffering in the heat, cold, wind, rain and thunderstorms. Its sort of like being on a hamster wheel, you do it over and over again questioning yourself… why? The truth is it is agony and a rush. Driving to a new place, trying to figure out where your tent will be, setting up ( usually in unbearable heat)… we all love fall! Most of us carneys look forward to doing these things with other carneys. (Misery loves company?, maybe so…) It gives us time away from our normal lives and our studios, gives us time to recharge and be inspired. It gives us time with wonderful friends we have met along our art journey. It is the excitement of getting to share our art with new amazing people…. those people that will humble us by spending their hard earned money on our art. It never gets old.
Purchase Miss Carolyn’s book! Exploring Contemporary Art A formal essay on the exploration of contemporary art by Houston artist Carolyn Bertrand Hodges, with select paintings by the artist.
S E R R A N O G A L L E R Y 2000 Edwards St. Houston, Texas 77007 713 724 0709 www.serranogallery.com
Photos by Cynthia Isakson Photography taken at the “My Pie In The Sky Wish” reception, 8/30/2019 at Serrano Gallery
ARTIST STATEMENT
I wish it to be known why I use the medium of ink to create my art.
For many long years, I painted with oils. Focusing with intent on subject matter with a realism we are all familiar with and relate to in our personal experience. However, now, the pen is more handy for me than painting.
With a pen, there is a flow. With a pen, there is no clean-up as with paint, and there is certainly no tediousness … indeed there is a timelessness. With the fine point of a pen, multi-affects may be visualized. There can be surprise, discovery, and inventiveness. And, in my art, no monotonous design!
Now I approach my art in a different manner than I did in the past. Subject matter, or things which we are all familiar with remain and comes partly from memory.
However, as I draw, in a randomized sort of way, and like in a dream, unforeseen images appear consciously. Dependent on this unconsciousness, as with dreams, or imagination as some people call it, the artist is faced with the unpredictable until an image pops out. That’s it, this is what it means … and after all, much better than I could have thought up, and certainly a lot more fun!
Like in dreams, the images may be a mystery. The whole unconscious is a mystery to most of us. Like the unconscious, we can dream up images with our art. Also, as with meditation, we may transcend beyond the ordinary when we create art … making art as a whole; The great “I am that … I am.”
There is a ceaseless flow of imagery, and with such spirit, things don’t matter, for detail, memory, etc., are part of the whole, and all-embracing.
~ Carolyn Bertrand Hodges
Mitch visits with Miss Carolyn at her art reception in the Heights.
ABOUT
“Miss Carolyn” is a longtime fan of First Saturday Arts Market. A few years ago, I interviewed her and found her personality to be spot on with the other artists at the market. After many conversations and artistic outings, I continue to include her random bits of knowledge in my arts column, Art Valet, in The Leader Newspaper.
My work is inspired by the things that inspire me personally, which are many and varied. As a geoscientist, rocks and stones are almost always my main source of inspiration, especially incredibly well-cut stones from independent lapidary artists.
However, design itself is another influence on my pieces. Bringing shapes, textures, and color together in unexpected ways and the desire to bring jewelry away from the body is, currently, a major influence. In addition to the many things and ideas that inspire me, I want my jewelry to evoke quiet refinement and sophistication while being interesting and wearable. To achieve this, I use minimal styling incorporating clean lines, subtle texturing, and careful attention to finish. My work is set apart by the use of tactile design and 3D elements, like texturing flat silver then manipulating it into domes and folds. It’s comfortable and wearable, but still different enough to incite questions like “Where did you get that?”
Nationally touring singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and author Tommy Lewis is considered a Nova Beat, the group of creatives in the same vein as those at the heart of the mid-century cultural revolution. Alongside his sensei Radney Foster, Chad Elliott, Dana Cooper, Rod Picott, and Matt Harlan in the same spirit as Tom Russell, Jason Isbell, and Sturgill Simpson, Tommy is helping to redefine American roots music. www.tommylewis.net
