YWCA Beaumont will present a four-part film series dedicated to bringing awareness to issues aligning with the YWCA national agenda for domestic violence and violence against women, women’s health, and racial justice issues affecting the community. A different community host will screen each film with a panel discussion following. YWCA Beaumont will kick off The
BEAUMONT — Riah Lee, 2014 winner of The Art Studio, Inc. Member Jurored Art Exhibition (TASIMJAE), will show her recent work, May 2-23, at The Art Studio, 720 Franklin in downtown Beaumont. The show opens with a free reception, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., May 2. The show will feature a series of works painted
Annual show highlights work of Studio members David Cargill, renowned Beaumont sculptor, has been named juror of The Art Studio, Inc. Member Jurored Art Exhibition (TASIMJAE), which opens with a free reception, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. April 4. Riah Lee won last year’s show, jurored by Megan Young, and will be the exhibiting artist
Two doves, inspecting the painting, planting, cleaning, nod approvingly. Andy Coughlan ISSUE Magazine April 2015
At His solstice, among the wood and stone, with silent windows whose holy art could not sing from mere candle-points of light both billions of miles and billions of years away, it was neither love nor fear but Majesty that swept me up, only to have me kneel. That unclouded and knowing night I recall
Egyptian copper, salt, and kohl, twisted rope to trade. Tombs to find to hide our dead and tell the future well of what we were today. Jesse Doiron ISSUE Magazine April 2015
The message is among the notes Syncopated notes, Major, minor notes Weave in and out seductively beautiful and carry the message into the next stanza Weaving a story through each fret On and on into the horizon Memories lie between the notes, The said ones, the felt ones The brush of music between the Frets,
The High Street Gallery will host an exhibition of woodblock prints by Maurice Abelman, 7-10 p.m., April 17. The gallery is located in Victoria House, 2110 Victoria St. in Beaumont. Lamar graduate Abelman’s work is influenced by street artists like Shepard Fairey, Banksy, and Swoon. “I’ve been influence by various contemporary printmakers from the Dirty
“The world of high principles and intense feelings that he [Rubens] creates is so well forgotten, so complete, so definitive, that it takes on the aura of the canonical… It is Rubens’ pictorial language that seduces us.” — Alejandro Vergara, senior curator of Flemish and Northern European paintings, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. They fly,
In a small town acting class, the drama and humor of everyday life takes center stage. Beaumont Community Players’ production of “Circle Mirror Transformation,” by Annie Baker, will run for three weekends beginning April 10. “Circle Mirror Transformation” explores the lives of four souls who enroll in Marty’s six-week-long, community center drama class. As the
