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We welcomed 4 Texas Artist to the Cultural Activities Center on January 11 for the first exhibit in 2025. Exhibit will be up until February 28, 2025. 

 

Artist Include:

​​​​​Charlotte Garrrett Cooper: Since 2007, Charlotte Garrett Cooper has dedicated her artistic practice to the art of assemblage, crafting unique 3D pieces that breathe new life into discarded vintage items. Her journey began with a deeply personal project: designing artistic pocket watches as a form of grief therapy. Over time, her practice has evolved to encompass a diverse range of materials and techniques, always guided by her passion for transforming the overlooked and forgotten.

Each of Cooper's creations is a one-of-a-kind work, born from extensive research and meticulous design. She meticulously selects antique items, imbuing them with new purpose and significance. Some projects come together quickly, while others may take years to complete, reflecting the intricate nature of her creative process.

Cooper's pocket watch art has garnered significant recognition, including features on the TV show Texas Country Reporter and in Belle Armoire Jewelry Magazine. Her work has been showcased in numerous newspapers, solo art shows, and juried art exhibitions. Her accolades include a second-place ribbon at the Kansas State Fair (2015) and the prestigious 3D Artist award at the Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit (2024).

 

June Musick: June Musick Paints with a fast hand wrapped up in lots of passion and humor. Her family’s gypsy lifestyle gave her both discouragement and great opportunities. She took it as a challenge for herself to go forth and learn all that she could. It may have kept her from obtaining any long-term formal schooling, but she would jump into books and take classes wherever the family landed and tackle the arts head first to make herself an “artist / painter”. Her education was as eclectic as her style of artwork and she wouldn't change any of it. She teaches art to young and old and holds classes in her own classroom from home . She demos and gives workshops for community functions and for the surrounding art clubs in other cities. She is prolific in all the water soluble -media. In a nutshell …She Loves to paint, anything and everywhere! Art is her life and she lives it to the fullest. Present Memberships: Commanche Art Assoc. , Graham Art Guild, Brownwood Art Association West Texas Watercolor Society, Urban sketchers of Lubbock Olli” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Texas Tech Art League of West Texas, American Watercolor Society, Member Muleshoe Art Association, Western Nevada Watercolor Society , Muralists of Yerington and Director of Fine Arts Department Lyon County Fair , among many other chairs.

 

Phokus: Phokus (African American b. 1972) Is becoming increasingly known for his use of grand scale, symbolism, and narrative laden works that explore esoteric parallels of the human condition. The work is a visceral response to his Southern cultivation as well his investigations of anthropology, metaphysics, historians, music, mythology, and mysticism. Phokus' work addresses a critique on race, alienation and sex. The artist reclaims by collecting and archiving resources of documented images of indigenous tribes, national geographic magazines, narratives, contemporary graphic novels, music text, and materials that are connected throughout his history. The artists resulting aesthetic language is derived of memory and his unique form of myth making, establishing contemporary depth while making social and personal commentary.

 

Rodney D. Butler: Rodney D. Butler is a native Houstonian. While attending James Madison High School he excelled at art, wood shop and drafting. After graduation, he attended Tuskegee University, where he received a Bachelor of Architecture degree. While working for a local architecture firm he realized the industry was headed in a 3D design direction, so he decided to pursue a degree in Computer Animation at the Art Institute of Houston. It was there Rodney realized that he was an artist at heart, which came to no surprise to those who knew him best.
A few years after graduating from the Art Institute, Rodney decided to take a welding class. From there he started building BBQ pits in his spare time and using the scraps to build Sculptures creating a style of art he calls “Green Metal Art”. This style is where he takes scrap metal and other equipment parts deemed unusable and recycle them into art. A few years later after attending a friend’s painting event. He fell in love with painting. Now whether its traditional brushes or Air Brushing, he can now use his skills learned in various schools and workshops to express his inspirations on any painting surfaces he chooses.

Rodney’s work has been featured in various festivals, galleries and museums such as First Saturday Art Festival, Houston Fine Art Festival, The Bayou City Art Festival, Houston Museum of African American Culture Bert Long Jr. Gallery, The Kemp Center for the Arts – Wichita Falls TX, JoMar Visions, Texas Southern University Museum, The Black Cowboy Museum, Buffalo Soldier National Museum, Harambee Art Gallery, 45 & Art, Gallery Baroness, Adam and Madam’s Gallery Bistro Shop, Aurora Studios and Gallery, Hardy & Nance Studios, DuVin Pintor Art Gallery, Le Chateau, BR Vino, Insomnia Gallery, 310 Gallery, Rockstar Gallery, 9th Street Studios – Wichita Falls TX, San Antonio Art League & Museum, Art Machine Gallery, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Breckenridge Fine Arts Center, National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center – Wilberforce OH, Leon County Art Trail-Jewett TX, Gallery Skye, Harris County Cultural Arts Center, Colour Studios – Tulsa OK, Georgetown Sculpture Tour – Georgetown TX, UMLAUF Sculpture Garden + Museum – Austin TX, Cooperstown Art Association & The Smithy – Cooperstown NY, Alpharetta Arts Center – Alpharetta, GA, University of Houston Clearlake Art Gallery – Clearlake TX, Monterroso Gallery at Spring St, Bisong Art Gallery, Irving Art Center – Irving TX, Archway Gallery, In the Eye of The Beholder Art Gallery & Studio – San Antonio TX, Primal Gallery – Dripping Spring TX, and countless underground art shows.

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