Texas Wine & Rogue Art Fest

March 27-28

www.saladowinefestival.com

SALADO, Texas (March 11, 2010) – Salado Wine Seller is hosting the “Texas Wine & Rogue Art Festival” on Saturday, March 27th from 12 -5 pm and Sunday, March 28th from 12-4 pm.

Over 20 Texas wineries will be present to offer their wines for tasting. While some of the wineries are well known to Texas wine lovers, such as Fall Creek and Messina Hof, others are nearly unheard of such as Seifert Winery and Calais Winery. The wineries will be joined by Texas artists who will line the grounds of Salado Wine Seller with beautiful works of oil, acrylics, watercolors, pastels and mixed media including sculpture, jewelry, glassworks, metal work and handmade clothing. Live music is scheduled and food catered by The Range Restaurant will also be a great enhancement to this year’s event. Salado Wine Seller is very “excited for the opportunity to pair talented Texas artists with the best in Texas wines.”

Admission and parking are free. A commemorative wine glass and six tasting tickets will be sold for $10; additional tasting tickets will be sold. Wine lovers can purchase many bottles of their favorite wines to take homw as well. Proper identification will be required. For more information, please call 254.947.8011 or email [email protected].

IF YOU GO

WHAT: Texas Wine & Rogue Art Fest

WHEN: 12-5 p.m. Saturday, 12 p.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, March 27-28, 2010

WHERE: Salado Wine Seller, 841 N. Main Street, Salado, TX 76571

(254) 947-9011, www.saladowinefestival.com

[email protected]

A Few Good Artists

: Your Name HERE

We’re looking for a few more good artists for the Texas Wine & Rogue Art Fest. Are you interested?

We are looking for food, craft, & art vendors who compliment the Texas wines and will reflect the spirit of individuality inspired by the phrase “going rogue”. For 2010, we anticipate 20 TX wineries, 5-10 food vendors, and 20-40 artistic vendors. We truly hope to find high-quality, hard-to-find, or unusual items that are not commercially available.

All the vendors will be listed on the back of these lovely t-shirts. These t-shirts were designed by Herculiz and they will be produced by Salado Creek Outfitters.

But you must pay soon to be listed on the t-shirt! Go to the vendor registration page or send us an email.

If you are an artist and you would like to stay informed about future opportunities for selling art at Salado Winery Company, the sign up for the artists’ list http://eepurl.com/iEA7.

Thanks!

Texas Wine & Rogue Art Fest 2010

: March 27-28

We’re looking for artists to join us for our next festival! http://saladowinefestival.com/vendor-registration/

We’ve got Texas wineries coming to join us, we’ve got music, food and most important, we’ve got ART!

So save the date:

Saturday March 27 & Sunday March 28

For more information: ww.saladowinefestival.com

Romantic Valentine’s Evening for 2!

Saturday, February 13th, 7 pm

Come enjoy a romatic evening with your significant other! You will recieve a basket which includes a bottle of Texas Wine, loaf of bread from Roy T’s Bakery, cheese from The Texas Cheese House, truffles from Wiseman House Chocolates, and fruit. There will be a classical guitarist, Matt Ferguson, playing background music and romantic candle light!

Note: one ticket is for 2 people. Please buy one ticket per couple.

Art Opening Reception, Friday Jan 8, 2010

: John Davis

New Year means New Art Exhibit @ Salado Wine Seller!

Americanography–Mixed Media

Join John Davis, contemporary artist from Salado, on Friday night, January 8th, 6-8 pm for his opening reception. Mr. Davis’s art features common images and logos in a comedic, funky way. He is clearly infuenced by popart and iconography while his works range from an arrangement of goofy cameras to fun collages that beg us to laugh at life.

If you cannot make it to the opening reception, be sure to come by and check out his intriguing artwork. This will be an interesting mixed media show, and one that you will certainly enjoy while sipping a glass of Texas wine. If you’re lucky, John might even stop by, recommend his favorite red wine, and explain what the heck his art means.

Salado Wine Seller Blends Two Great Texas Watercolorists in November

Salado Wine Seller will host Hunter George and Cliff Gillock for an art opening reception on Friday, November 6, 6-9 pm. Their watercolors will be on display through January 3, 2010.

Hunter George

Hunter George has always hungered to capture the natural, as well as, historical renditions in watercolor. He would like to help preserve a cultural history that is quickly fading from our midst. His love of old buildings and landscapes dominate his portfolio, called “Reflections of the Past.” He is a signature member of the Watercolor Art Society – Houston, with his work being featured in three international exhibitions. His award winning works have been represented throughout the state of Texas by galleries in Houston, Galveston, Rockport, San Antonio, Kerrville, Salado, Crawford, Bellville, and Wimberly. His works are showcased in Texas Highways Magazine and The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin.

Hunter George has been honored with numerous graphic design awards from the Art Director’ Clubs of New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Tulsa, and Houston; Communication Arts magazine; Print Magazine; Ad Week Magazine; The Printing Industries of America, and the Dallas/Fort Worth Society of Communication Arts.

He is a past president of the Art Directors’ Club of Houston, and has served on the Texas State Board of American Institute of Graphic Artists.

A Virginia transplant to the state of Texas, Hunter George studied art, design and photography at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. His website is www.watercolorsbyhunter.com

Cliff Gillock

After a 40+ career as a leading creative force in the Houston advertising industry, Cliff Gillock is now a full time studio painter. Cliff has studied art at the The University of Houston, The Glassell School, The Art League of Houston and continues to study and paint in his studio at Winter Street Studios in Houston. His pallet travels as he travels to Galveston, Santa Fe, Cancun, Colorado, Maine, Florida, Louisiana and but most especially to his native state, Texas. His work may be viewed at – www.winterstreetstudios.net

WHAT: Watercolor Art Opening Reception

WHEN: Friday, November 6, 6-9 pm

WHERE: Salado Wine Seller

841 N Main St, Salado – 254.947.8011 – www.saladowinery.com

The artwork will be on display through January 3, 2010

October 2009 Exhibit–Bell County Museum

VINTAGE BELL COUNTY

Salado Wine Seller will host the exhibit, “VINTAGE BELL COUNTY” a collection of photographs that document the history of Salado and Bell County. The exhibit is organized by the Bell County Museum.

An opening night reception will be held on Friday, October 2nd, from 6-8 pm at Salado Wine Seller, 841 N. Main St., Salado, TX. The historical photo exhibit will remain on display until November 2nd and will be part of the events planned for Salado Founders Day on October 23rd- October 25th.

Recognizing that our past profoundly influences our future, the award-winning Bell County Museum collects, preserves and interprets the historical and cultural heritage of the Bell County region, for all citizens. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5 pm. For more information on Bell County Museum, call 254.933.5243 or visit www.bellcountymuseum.org

Salado Founder’s Day is organized by the Village of Salado Board of Tourism and features a cattle drive down Main Street, re-enactments, historical walks and tours, Robertson Plantation tour, concert and a picnic. For more about the Salado Founders Day, please contact tourism at 254.947.8634 or www.saladofoundersday.org

Salado Chicken Art to Roost at Dallas Gallery

Dallas art gallery owner Matthew Abramowitz, left, Dallas businessman Gene Street, center, and Salado artist Lonnie Edwards met at the Wine Seller wine bar in Salado on Wednesday to select canvases of art by chickens for an upcoming exhibit in Dallas in late October. (Harper Scott Clark/Telegram)

TDTNews.com

http://www.tdtnews.com/story/2009/08/27/60221

Salado chicken art to roost at Dallas gallery

by Harper Scott Clark

Published August 27, 2009 SALADO – The hens are cackling in Salado. A passel of pullets that make up the Salado Creek Palette Society will soon have their art and that of their mentor, Lonnie Edwards, on display. The exhibit will be at The 4th Wall Gallery in Dallas in late October.

Dallas restaurateur Gene Street commissioned Edwards in June to produce seven canvases when he read an article about Edwards and chicken art in the Temple Daily Telegram.

Gallery owner Matthew Abramowitz and Street met with Edwards on Wednesday at the Wine Seller wine bar in Salado to discuss the showing. The Wine Seller currently has an exhibit of local artists on display including an Edwards chicken composition.

Edwards applies water-based paints to canvas using a technique first developed by Jackson Pollock in the 1950s. The school of abstract expressionism later became known as action painting because the interaction between the artist and the medium created the feel of movement.

After doing his part, Edwards then set his hens loose on the canvas to hop and prance about in the pigment. The resulting constellation of dots, blips and hen scratches are a sort of pointillism from the neoimpressionist school, Edwards said.

Having come from Los Angeles, Abramowitz said he could appreciate the chicken art for its unique qualities. He said the fact that the chickens were able to get into their artwork with such enthusiasm was a pointillism well taken.

“This is very unusual art,” Abramowitz said. “It’s most interesting and it is definitely Texas art.”

“Abramowitz said it captured a certain Southwest flair. “In the Texas community there are so many great Texas artists who are not being recognized – not getting the support they should.”

Abramowitz said having an exhibit for Edwards would be a wonderful adventure.

“The theme of The 4th Wall Gallery is about artists who break the wall of conformity,” Abramowitz said. “So that certainly meets our criteria. Essentially it’s different from anything else that has ever been displayed at the gallery.”

Could it cause a national stir?

“Anything is possible,” Abramowitz said. “He is a talented artist.”

Abramowitz said he has seen Edwards’ works in metal and wants some of them entered in the October exhibit, too.

Edwards said the hens would be busy in September finishing a large number of canvases for the exhibit.

Abramowitz said he has not announced dates yet but that it will be the latter part of October.

[email protected]

Art Exhibit featuring Ursula Keen September 2009

Art Exhibit by Ursula Keen, Thursday, September 3, 2009 from 6 – 9 pm

Miss Keen could draw and paint before she learned to read, this caused problems, as you can imagine, and she had to repeat the second grade. During her high school years, Miss Keen studied art under Cheryl Dragoo at Reicher Catheolic High School in Waco, Texas. Her freshman year, a charcoal and pencil piece took best in show at the Heart of Texas fair. Then in her senior year, an abstract water color of a nude woman in a chair took fifth in the State of Texas at a competition of private and public schools.

Also, in her senior year Miss Keen sold her first large scale oil painiting to a Baylor law school student. Apparently, the law student bought it becasue while strolling Austin Ave. with his girlfriend, they saw the painting and fell in love with it and each other. The young man purchased the painting, suprised his girlfriend with it, and got down on one knee and proposed to her in front of it. I am happy to report that the couple is still married, the husband works at a firm in Dallas, and the oil painting is in their dining room.

The oil painting was a Christmas mural assignment in her senior art class, and took a month to complete as it was 5 by 8 feet long. Upon completion, all of the Christmas murals from Reicher were on display at the MCC Art building’s windows on 8th Street at Austin Ave, Waco, Texas. The canvas had to be custom built and Ursula had to stand on a ladder to paint parts of it. Miss Keen’s version of Chrismas was of a modern day nativity–of a New York street corner with skyline which included the Christmas star, Mary as a bag lady living in a cardboard box holding the infant Christ, the three wise men were “bums” huddleed around a trash can on fire, a prostittute as an angel, and a faded angel on a soda advertisement on a brick building announced the birth of Christ. Of course, the painting was racy for a Catholic school, and the nuns were quite happy to see it go.

Miss Keen graduated from Baylor School of Law on February 6, 1999. She received her undergraduate degree on May 14, 1995 in Economics from the University of Dallas. During her career, Ms. Keen has drafted an appellate brief to the Fifth Circuit regarding the ADEA. She has also filed cases for federal employees before the MSPB. She has previously practiced employment and family law in a number of counties including Bell, McLennan, Coryell, and Lampasas.

Preparing for Friday’s Art Opening

According to a study by the Texas Cultural Trust, “by 2016, it is projected that 1 in 12 jobs throughout Texas will be creative industry jobs.”

Who will these creative artists be? Come by Salado Wine Seller this Friday, August 14, 5-9 pm and see for yourself!

Denise Nichols – Rockdale

Jennifer Moreman – Tyler

Callie Moore – Austin

Elizabeth Bogard – Dallas

Lonnie Edwards – Salado

Pat Seals – Belton

Bill White – Harker Heights

Betsy Murphy – Leander

Michael Law – Temple

Laura Radiker – Belton

Laura Hughes Clemmer – Austin

Adam Rethlake – Hutto

Robbie Ortiz – Austin

Troy Kelley – Salado

Marianne Sexton – Austin

Beau Winkler – Morgan’s Point Resort

Karen Paul Burges – Thrall

Stephen Hanik – Salado

Caryn Wood – Austin

Elizabeth “Sissy” Bingham – Farmer’s Branch

Victoria Mauldin – Ruidoso, NM

Jill Nonnemacher – Mansfield

Pavel (Paul) Melecky – Arlington

Teresa French – Gun Barrel City

Anita Hale – Hurst

Ashley Czajkowski – Round Rock

Jim Lively – Dallas

Kate Wickham – Arlington

John Hancock – Belton

Joseph Velasquez – Little River

Bob Rynearson – Temple

Hershall Seals – Belton

Katie Seals – Belton

John Davis – Salado

Barabara Jones – Corsicana

Johnny Shipman – Salado

Jill Shipman – Salado

Roxie Nichols – Dallas

Please Come and welcome the Artists at an Opening Reception

at The Salado Wine Seller

841 N. Main- Salado, Texas

Friday August 14 from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm

This is an open invitation, please help us by forwarding this message to

Art and Wine lovers everywhere!

Show will be on display through August 30

Texas Wine & Rogue Art Fest

A Few Good Artists

Texas Wine & Rogue Art Fest 2010

Romantic Valentine’s Evening for 2!