Author Archives: artstudio

Excavating patterns in chaos

Pitak explores push, pull of artistic process in October exhibition “What I love is the physicality, the memory of movement. Making a mark, with a paintbrush or charcoal, whatever, it’s your movement. It’s your breath. It’s how you feel at that moment.” Neal Anthony Pitak is all about process — recycling, regurgitation, expulsion. The results

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Monster Mashup

BCP, Ad-Hoc use ’90s gaming to explore deep issues Dealing with loss, mourning, family issues, and overall geekdom in a setting of a parallel universe sliding between fantasy and reality, “She Kills Monsters” strives to be something other than a traditional, run-of-the-mill community production for its run Oct. 14-29 at the Betty Greenberg Center for Performing

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Around & About

Lamar University will welcome world-renowned classical musician Itzhak Perlman as the 12th speaker in the Judge Joe J. Fisher Distinguished Lecture Series, Oct. 6, from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Montagne Center. The free public lecture is titled “a moderated presentation featuring Itzhak Perlman’s violin to demonstrate the power of music to emotionally

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A View From The Top

Hope all have had a wonderful summer. The Studio has been hopping this summer with a variety of activities, one being the Summer ArtSkool. It was well attended and we thank the artist-instructors for their expertise and enthusiasm during the two-week program. Joe Winston, photography; Neal Pitak, printmaking; Sheila Busceme, painting and drawing; Paisley Polk

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