The Dishman Art Museum is hosting MUM: Nancy Newberry, right, through Nov. 9. Today, the homecoming mum ritual has expanded to include elaborate local customs that vary from school to school. Award-winning fine art photographer Nancy Newberry captures this phenomenon in the context of current teenage cultural traditions and rites of passage attached to the
Acting coach and author Chambers Stevens will bring his Hollywood expertise to Beaumont in October with a trio of acting workshops for aspiring young actors. The workshops, hosted by Divergent Theater, are scheduled for Friday, Oct. 19, 4:30-7:30 p.m. for returning students, or Saturday, Oct. 20, 9 a.m.-noon for second through fifth grade, and
Myers, Blanchard to present ‘Morphogenesis’ at TASI Anna Myers and Scarlett Blanchard could be twins. Not because they look anything alike — Myers is dressed head to toe in black save for the ornate silver jewelry, Blanchard is a jeans and T-shirt country girl — but in the way that they communicate with each other.
Annual open house board meeting lays out TASI plans “Recognizing the hard work of our supporters, volunteers and staff is something we can never do enough of,” Greg Busceme, The Art Studio, Inc. founder, said. “And we probably haven’t always done it enough, and we wanted to start our season with a big ‘Thank You’ to
How the Spanish flu pandemic affected the arts In 1918, as most of Western Europe was winding down from the ravages of World War I, a new scourge arrived to attack those who had survived the previous four years of carnage — an epidemic of “Spanish Flu.” The flu pandemic affected more than 500 million people
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The High Street Gallery will host an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Chelsea Tolin and Jill Waldrep, 7-10 p.m., Oct. 13. The gallery is located in Victoria House, 2110 Victoria St. in Beaumont. “I really like what I’ve seen from each of these artists, though their styles are different, and they may not
The day I am writing this marks another dream realized sooner than we expected and later than we wanted. New windows are being installed tomorrow (Sept. 15). As things go, it was planned for next Tuesday, but the company had a cancellation so their top team of installers were idle, and they hoped to keep
Lamar University professor and photographic artist Keith Carter will give a talk on artist Deborah Luster and her exhibition at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas’s fall Taste of the Arts Lecture Series, Oct. 22 at 12:30 p.m. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the galleries with
Beaumont Community Players is calling for artists to create an unusual work of art at their theater. Recently, BCP purchased two box car sized shipping containers with the help of funding obtained from Merrill Lynch of Beaumont. These 40-feet-long containers are being refitted as storage facilities for props and furniture used by the company. The
