Art Museum of Southeast Texas 500 Main Spring 2021 CURRENT EXHIBITION March 13 - May 23, 2021 Free Outdoor Family Arts Day: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, Saturday, May 15, 2021 The Art Museum of 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, as we Southeast Texas is currently highlight art-making activities exhibiting Delita Martin: centered upon Martin’s Conjure as its spring 2021 artwork. exhibition. Conjure debuts over 20 large-scale, mixed Exciting virtual experiences media monoprints by related to Delita Martin’s Houston-based artist Delita exhibition include: Martin and spans five gallery spaces. Martin’s work Virtual Opening Reception explores the reconstruction Virtual Panel Discussion of the identity of Black women through the use of Both available on AMSET's YouTube channel, signs, symbols, and language youtube.com/AMSETx500Main associated with everyday life. Delita Martin is an artist currently based in Huffman, Texas. She received a Delita Martin, Spirit and Self, 2020, relief printing, charcoal, gelatin printing, acrylic, liquid gold leaf, decorative papers, hand stitching, Interested in a catalog or 72 x 51.5 in., image courtesy of the artist BFA in drawing from Texas memento from the show? Southern University and an MFA studio, Black Box Press. Martin’s Contact Caitlin Clay, Curator of in printmaking from Purdue work has been exhibited both Exhibitions, about purchasing University. Formerly a member of nationally and internationally. a custom coffee mug made for the fine arts faculty at UA Little Please join AMSET staff on the exhibition or an exhibition Rock in Arkansas, Martin currently Saturday, May 15th for a free catalog at [email protected] or at works as a full-time artist in her Family Arts Day outside from 409-832-3432. This exhibitions is generously funded, in part, by the Edaren Foundation, Humanities Texas, Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, Rob Clark and Jerry Thacker, Tootsie Crutchfield, Caitlin Duerler, LeeAnn and Terry Garth, the City of Beaumont, the Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment Fund, the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation, and the members of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. The panel discussion was made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov. UPCOMING EXHIBITION June 5, 2021 – September 12, 2021 his summer, AMSET’s Join us for the exciting upcoming T whimsy, viewers will have a main galleries will feature a solo programming of The Lighter chance to see sculptures from the exhibition of sculptor David Side, including a soft opening on permanent collection of the Art Cargill. David lives and works Thursday, June 3rd during First Museum of Southeast Texas, as in Beaumont, and his work Thursday. The event will include well as loans from the artist and is recognized in local, state, a chance to walk through the private collections in Texas. The and national exhibitions and exhibition two days early, as well Lighter Side will also include a new collections. Working mainly in as performances by local dance documentary created by Ronald bronze, stone, wood and ceramic, troupe AIMED Dance (http://www. Jones showcasing David in his Cargill has created well-known aimeddance.org/). Beaumont studio, as well as a small large scale sculptures for churches, exhibition in the Conn Gallery universities, commercial buildings, Want to meet the artist? Consider explaining the bronze-making and private collectors. The Lighter joining us for the opening reception process David uses for many of his Side will explore the boundless on Friday, June 11th. The event works. imagination of the artist, who is RSVP only and limited to manipulates different materials 75 people; contact Caitlin Clay, to create sculptures that seem to Curator of Exhibitions, at move, twist and breathe. Focusing [email protected] if you would like on themes of love, laughter and to attend. David Cargill, The Rockettes, n.d., bronze, Image courtesy of the artist and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas This exhibition is generously funded, in part, by the Edaren Foundation, the N