The Moon and Stars Committee, a volunteer of friends to the Beaumont Council of Garden Clubs, has announced their 2016 Beaumont Maypole Festival. The second-annual festival will be held at the Beaumont Botanical Gardens May 7. “The Maypole was constructed in memory of Paula “Torchy” Salter to honor the loving, giving spirit she was and
Ad Hoc Beaumont will present “Year of the Rooster,” a mythical black comedy about love, underdogs and cockfighting, May 20 through June 4. Gil is a loser. He works at McDonald’s, lives with his ailing mother, and hasn’t had a girlfriend since…ever. But that’s all about to change. He’s been secretly training (and drugging) a rooster
The High Street Gallery will host an exhibition of oil paintings by Elizabeth Fontenot, beginning 7-10 p.m., May 13. Fontenot is a native of Beaumont. She holds a BFA from Louisiana State University and an MFA from Lamar University. The artist currently works in Beaumont, and focuses on painting and printmaking media. The exhibition is
‘William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY’ at Menil “My life is a quest for the ridiculous image. The visual pun is the golden nugget that we seek.” — William N. Copley A little boy is standing in a room – a typical bourgeois interior, with checkered blue and brown carpeting, cushy furniture and large
BEAUMONT — Hollywood-based acting coach and author Chambers Stevens will return to Beaumont at the end of April for small-group intensive acting workshops, April 25-27, for adults and older teens. He will also teach a Disney 101 workshop for children and pre-teens and a 21st-Century Acting workshop for adults and teens on April 30. The
Of all the qualities that are important to succeeding as an artist (or an arts administrator), perseverance stands out as the mortar that holds together the bricks of administrative skills — diplomacy, financial skills, good reasoning skills and empathy, to name a few — that build the walls of a successful organization. No skill is
Ad Hoc Beaumont will bring the first mobile pop-up art show to Beaumont. Inspired by the success of food trucks, Ad Hoc Beaumont is taking art out of the galleries and into the streets on April 7 with Beaumont’s first mobile pop-up show. “We want to help people think about art in different ways and
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Call for entries for TASIMJAE (The Art Studio, Inc. Member Jurored Art Exhibition) CALENDAR Entry dates March 22-26 Notification by mail March 28 Pick-up works not accepted April 1 by 5 p.m. Opening/awards reception April 2, 7-10 p.m. Pick up exhibited work April 27 Eligibility Open to all members in good standing of The Art
Carlo Busceme IV to unveil fruits of artistic compulsion at TASI Vibrant, complex and subtle. For an artist who sometimes finds it difficult to talk about his art, Carlo Busceme IV’s show, “Relentless,” is an exhibition that he hopes speaks for itself. “I don’t talk about my art. It’s hard for me, sometimes, to put
