Author Archives: artstudio

View from the Top

Personal Community. I see it as a collective of like-minded people, or people together in close proximity. Usually we think of a town or a neighborhood as a community. It can also mean a club, an association, a guild or a church or like churches and arts organizations, each having their own particular focus but

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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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