Category Archives: MIST

Spirituality, science and the interconnection of painting and prayer: Talking with Stephen Rousset about what inspired his work during COVID-19 lockdowns two years ago

By Eleanor Skelton For Stephen Rousset, painting has multiple layers of meaning. He delved deeper into his art during the initial coronavirus quarantine in spring 2020. One of his larger works, a floor-to-ceiling painting with a spike piercing a brain and a hand surrounded by strands of DNA, combines a myriad of possible themes and

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MIST: Miss Sparkle Motion

M.I.S.T. – Made In Southeast TexasA conversation with local drag performer Sparkle Motionby James Allen King Meet Miss Sparkle Motion. If you have been around SETX for a while there is a good chance you had the pleasure of seeing her perform at a cancer fundraiser, maybe drag brunch, or hosting a dance contest at

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“LOOKING UP” by James Blaign Rambo on view now at The Avenue Cafe

Photographs will be on display on the wall of the Cafe throughout the month of September 2022 during regular hours (7am to 7pm each day). Contact The Art Studio, Inc. to purchase works. “The works in this exhibition are digital archival prints captured using a digital rangefinder camera. All images are of the Southeast Texas

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Pub Trivia Roundup!

a special reportby “The Spindletop Kid” Few diversions are sweeter after a day’s worth of trail riding than wetting your dry gullet at some amiable waterin hole, ordering up a mess of viddles and testing your acumen in a friendly game of saloon trivia. But with Pour Brothers cantina vanishing like bison on the plains,

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TASI’s “Pop Up” Gallery is Named in Honor of Texas Artist Maudee Carron

In February 2020, a series of shows began at The Art Studio, Inc. Curated by assistant curator, Michelle Cate, the Pop Up gallery first featured Nathan Yellow-Jones’ exhibit, “Sentiment.” The continued use of this gallery space has doubled the number of shows held at TASI annually, despite the global pandemic. “Pop-Up” might imply the scale

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MIST: Red Rocket

Made In Southeast Texasmovie review by Christopher Dombrosky Our Gulf Coast isn’t known for tornadoes, but production of the Southeast Texas-shot independent motion picture dramedy “Red Rocket” was a whirlwind. When acclaimed multi-hyphenate auteur Sean Baker, maker of 2015’s “Tangerine” and 2017’s “The Florida Project”, found his 2020 work in Canada scuttled by pandemic, he

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