Author Archives: artstudio

American Family Dreams

TASI tenant McLaurin to host ‘Blue and Permanent’ in November It is fairly easy to spot Abigail McLaurin at The Art Studio. She is the slim girl with clothes covered in colored blotches with streaks of charcoal and chalk across her face. She resembles a Dickensian urchin most times, but she isn’t begging for change

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Beyond Bluebonnets

AMSET exhibit highlights Texas Impressionism Impressionism is arguably the most popular art in the world. Impressionist works are pleasing to the eye, romantic and unpretentious. We easily relate to these paintings because they evoke memories that we all have — memories of a sunny day when time stood still and we suddenly became acutely aware of

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Dishman Hosts NOLA Artists

Review Andy Coughlan, ISSUE Contributor New Orleans is a unique place. The Crescent City is a combination of the sacred and the profane — the exact percentages of each seem to vary according to whom is being asked to judge. The Dishman Art Museum on the Lamar University campus, in collaboration with the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery,

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TASI to the MAX

Studio to celebrate 30 years, Nov. 16, 2013 Art exhibitions, poetry, theater space and original music venue, The Art Studio, Inc., has survived the weather, politics and a recession to make it to its 30th birthday. To celebrate this momentous milestone — one that no one was sure would ever be reached — The  Studio

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