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500 MAIN SUMMER 2017 CURRENT EXHIBITION SHERRY OWENS THE FABRIC OF LIFE On Opening Featured View Reception Speaker June 10 through Friday, Artist September 10, June 16 Sherry 2017 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Owens ative Texan and Dallas artist Sherry Owens is renowned for her N sculpture made of crepe myrtle tree pieces, simultaneously evoking both the natural and other worldly elements of the tree in her sculptures and site-specific installations. This exhibition features recent and earlier works, exhibiting Owens ingenious use of the crepe myrtle throughout her oeuvre. Owens often states that she is a recycle artist and fills her studio with branches that would otherwise be discarded. The meticulous quality of her work, which emphasizes the luscious capabilities of line and form as her pieces of crepe myrtle intersect and build, weaving together and activating space, call to mind the artist’s early formative years as a weaver. Founded in nature, her artwork stems from the natural world giving second life to found media and pushing our preconceived understanding of the boundaries of wood and form. Although Sherry Owens (use for Owens Main Gallery exhibition), Mother Nature Throwing Up Her Hands, 2017, crepe myrtle, bailing wire, paint, Owens has exhibited with AMSET in the dye, wax, 77 ¼ x 43 ¾ x 23 inches, Loan Courtesy of the Artist, Photography by Harrison Evans Photography, Dallas, Texas past in group shows, this is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the museum. Owens received her BFA from Southern Methodist University in 1972, and is a former president of the Texas Sculpture Association. The artist will be present at the opening and will give an artist talk in the gallery with her work. The exhibition is accompanied by a free gallery guide including an artist biography, images and critical essay about Owens and her art written by Bradley Sumrall, Curator of the Collection at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans. This exhibition is generously funded, in part, by Kim and Roy Steinhagen, the City of Beaumont, the Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment Fund, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation. CURRENT EXHIBITION FRESH RECENT ACQUISITIONS On view June 10 – September 10, 2017 Opening Reception: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Friday, June 16, 2017 his exhibition features recent acquisitions from T AMSET’s growing permanent collection. As stated in our institutional mission, we strive to provide education, inspiration and creative vision throughout Southeast Texas through our unique collections, exhibitions and public programs. Over the years, AMSET’s permanent collection has grown from 200 to approximately 1,600 objects, focusing our collections on contemporary and historic Texas artists, as well as regional folk art. It is through Billy Hassell, The Red Boat, 1987, oil on canvas, 60 x 72 inches, generous donations of our Gift of the Krawitz Family Collection, PC 2016.04.01 museum patrons, collectors and artists that we are able to continuously strengthen and build our permanent collection. Each year, we present an exhibition of works solely from the permanent collection, giving Southeast Texas Mark Messersmith (use for FRESH Main Gallery exhibition), Summer Kites, 2015, mixed audiences the opportunity to see media and oil on canvas, 82 x 65 inches, Gift of the Artist, PC 2016.03.06 the works that are now part of their museum. This exhibition includes recent acquisitions, featuring artists: Helen Altman, Jesse Amado, Linnis Blanton, Clyde Connell, Lester Davis, Orna Feinstein, Roy Fridge, Billy Hassell, Clarice Holloway, Mark Messersmith, Richard Neidhardt, Gary Parker, Ann Stautberg, Joan Steinman, Casey Williams, Dee Wolff and Sydney Yeager. This exhibition is generously funded, in part, by the City of Beaumont, the Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment Fund, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation. CAFÉ ARTS DJ KAVA A STROLL ALONG THE COAST On view May 25 - August 13, 2017 outheast Texas native, DJ Kava, worked as a weather technician at S the Jefferson County Airport and Hudson Motor Car historian before turning to photography and artistic explorations of the Bolivar Peninsula. Kava incorporated photography into his auto history stories and has exhibited his photography and other artworks in various exhibitions throughout the area. Inspired by the DJ Kava (use for DJ Kava Café Arts Series for Local Artists exhibition) coastal landscape and vibrant flora and Birds on the Sticks, 2017, digital photograph, 10 x 14 inches, Loan Courtesy of the Artist fauna of Southeast Texas, Kava’s artwork visually depicts the diversity and brilliance of his homeland. In addition to photography, he creates jewelry, paintings, sculpture and mixed media works appropriating found objects. He is a longtime supporter of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas and devoted volunteer at our quarterly Family Arts Days. UPCOMING EXHIBITION Sense of Home The Art of Richard Stout On view September 23 through November 26, 2017 Opening Reception: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Friday, September 22, 2017 Featured Speaker: Artist Richard Stout his exhibition celebrates the abstract expressionist paintings and sculptures of T Houston artist Richard Stout (born in Beaumont, Texas, 1934). Stout is an renowned artist with a significant following in Texas and international accolades. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1957) and his MFA from the Richard Stout (use for Stout upcoming Main Gallery exhibition) University of Texas at Austin (1969). His artwork is The Library at Alexandria, 1999, bronze, 11 x 17 ½ x 6 inches widely exhibited with critical acclaim, and he was Collection of the Artist named the Texas State Artist of the Year in 2004. In addition to establishing himself as one of the leading modernist artists in Texas, Stout also served as an art instructor, teaching at the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and serving on the faculty at the University of Houston for thirty years. Stout lives in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston, where he continues to produce expressionist paintings of abstract coastal motifs, lighted interiors and cave-like atmospheres. This exhibition features paintings and sculpture from the 1950s through present day, attesting to the artist’s prolific career. A monograph published by Texas A&M University Press will be available for sale in the gift shop. Following the debut at AMSET, the exhibition will travel to the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi and the University of Houston – Downtown, Houston. This exhibition is generously funded, in part, by the Houston Artists Fund, the City of Beaumont, the Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment Fund, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation. EVENTS 30th Anniversary Gala A P EARLESCENT E VENING ome celebrate AMSET’s 30th C anniversary, the year of the pearl! A signature black tie & white pearl gala will be held at the Event Centre, Friday night, September 8th. During this event, we will honor well-known Texas artist and Beaumont native, Richard Stout, who will have a major retrospective at AMSET, showing September 23 20th Anniversary Gala, Night Blooming, September 9, 2007 through November 26, 2017. For this iridescent evening, we kindly request your pearls of wisdom, and your participation in fundraising for AMSET’s exhibition and educational programming. Please call (409) 832-3432 for more information and watch for your luminous “save the date” in the mail... and remember, September 8th will be time to don your best string of pearls and polish your pearly whites! MSET owes a big thank you to William Henges for implementing and A completing a grounds improvement project in the front of the museum. Henges, a Boy Scout from troop 601, is an incoming junior at West Brook High School. On April 22, 2017 he and other volunteers from his troop cleaned out the garden bed sitting just beyond the south side of the porte-cochere. This bed was infested with vines, stickers, and weeds and was very unattractive. After cleaning out the bed, the Scouts laid new turf. The timing could not have been better. Springtime is the busiest tour season when AMSET sees attendance William Henges spike. Attractive grounds at the entryway is a great way to welcome museum visitors. Also, the coming summer months will bring many out of town visitors, art campers and special events. Congratulations William for earning Life Rank for this project, one step below Eagle Scout! EDUCATION ODOM JUNIOR DOCENTS 2016-2017 eaumont Independent School District’s Odom Academy and the Art Museum of B Southeast Texas had a wonderful 2016– 2017 school year collaborating on the Odom Junior Docent program. The Odom Junior Docents are eighth grade, advanced art students that spend the school year learning museum practices, and interacting with AMSET staff, exhibits and exhibiting artists. Through a series of museum visits and multi-faceted presentations, the OJDs gain the knowledge and visual vocabulary to give tours of AMSET’s exhibits to all the sixth graders at their school. This school year, 18 junior docents successfully hosted nearly 200 Odom Academy sixth graders, faculty and staff. This program also fosters an understanding of OJD Tour introduction, 2017 the need for volunteers in our community. Odom Junior Docents are encouraged to volunteer at AMSET for Family Arts Days and for Summer ArtVentures. Throughout the 2016-2017 school year, the OJDs performed 124 volunteer hours at AMSET. It is our hope that these students continue to be an active part of our cultural community and give their time freely to AMSET or other organizations of their choice.