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• CRAIG ODLE: Experiments and Evolution

  • Start
    29 Aug 2019
  • End
    17 Nov 2019
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  Craig Odle, I Don't Want No Water Ma!, 2019, mixed media on canvas, 16 x 20 inches 

  CRAIG ODLE

  Experiments and Evolution

  On View August 29 – November 17, 2019

  Reception: Sunday, September 15, 2-4 p.m. 

  Artist Statement

  If we look at life and the world all around us, we can see evolution first hand. I believe that my experience and progression with my passion to create is no different. I had an experience around four years ago that changed my outlook on art and what it would take to move forward with my craft, and since then I have one day at a time moved further away from my comfort zone. Over time I have begun to believe that my art is a living thing - when it is pushed and nourished it evolves like every other living being in the universe. These pieces showcase many of the experiments that took place to help my painting practice grow into what it is currently. Only time, and the evolution that takes place during that time, will tell as to what the future holds for me and the canvases that cross my path.                                                   

  -Craig Odle

  Artist Biography

  Craig Odle was born in Houston, Texas in 1987 and grew up in Beaumont, Texas. He is a pop-surrealist/lowbrow painter who finds inspiration in day-to-day life. The concepts he uses in his paintings come to him from conversations, music, movies, dreams and sometimes just odd thoughts. The titles used for his pieces generally speak to whatever idea that was used in the conception of the piece. Sometimes his pieces have a deep or dark meaning while other times the piece may seem like a riddle or a pun.

  
  

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• Prince Varughese Thomas: The Legacy of Narcissus

  • Start
    21 Sep 2019
  • End
    01 Dec 2019
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  Prince Varughese Thomas: The Legacy of Narcissus

  On view September 24 – December 1, 2019

  Opening Reception: 6:30-8:30 p.m., Friday, October 4, 2019

  This exhibition will feature works by Prince Varughese Thomas, a multidisciplinary artist who is part of what has come to be known as the Indian Diaspora. Thomas is Indian by birth,  naturalized in the US, and raised primarily between India and the United States. His work reflects his sense of the world growing up outside of the dominant culture in which he exists.

  Thomas’s immersive multimedia exhibition will fill the entire gallery space of the museum including brand new works of photography, video, drawings, and three-dimensional installations. The Legacy of Narcissus explores the intersection of Social Media, Art, and Politics that speak about our collective Narcissism as a culture.

  Thomas received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington, and his M.F.A. from the University of Houston. He is currently a professor at Lamar University. He is an Art Prize 7 award recipient in time-based media, and is a Texas Biennial Artist. His work has been included in over 200 solo and group exhibitions at museums, galleries and alternative spaces nationally and internationally.  His most recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition of charcoal drawing at Hooks-Epstein Galleries in Houston, a multimedia exhibition at the Asia Society Texas Center, and video at the CICA Museum in South Korea. He is currently represented by Hooks-Epstein Galleries in Houston, Texas. 

  This exhibition is generously funded in part, by the City of Beaumont, the Wesley W. Washburn M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment fund, the Texas Commission on the Arts and the C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation.

  
  

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• JEROME CABEEN Window to the World: The People & the Places

  • Start
    21 Nov 2019
  • End
    02 Feb 2020
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  Café Arts Presents:
  JEROME CABEEN
  Window to the World: The People & the Places
  
  On View November 21, 2019 – February 2, 2020
  Opening Reception: Sunday, December 8, 2019 from 1-3 p.m.
  
  Artist Statement
  
  I have never encountered an insight about traveling that I felt described my experiences as well as this quote from Maya Angelou:
  “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
  We all tell stories with our lives, whether we realize it or not. That in itself is art. When I stepped foot onto the beautiful soil of Honduras for the first time in September of 2004, my story changed, for the better. I truly believe that the human spirit yearns for wholeness; it thirsts for the sacred knowledge that can only come by the uncomfortable expedition of the heart. I never imagined the impact that my travels would have on me. Now I cannot imagine what my life would be if I had not made these, at times, reluctant journeys. For in them, after all of the fears and trepidation subsided, what I found is when I embraced another person, looked into their eyes, what I saw was me.
  
  Window to the World: The People & the Places is a tribute and celebration of all those that blessed my path with their love, kindness and humanity. They have made my own window by which I see and experience the world that much more robust and sublime. This exhibition is for them.
  
  Grab a camera and tell a story!
  -Jerome Cabeen
  Artist Biography
  
  Jerome Cabeen graduated from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas with a Bachelors of Fine Art in 1990. He taught art for many years at the high school, middle school and elementary school levels in Houston, while painting and drawing on the side. In 2004, Cabeen begin an international journey that would lead to his immersion into photography. From 2004 through 2010, he lived in Honduras, Central America and Liberia, Africa, teaching art and directing Catholic missions.
  
  His experiences in these countries, as well as the 30 others that he has visited, gave him a new window/lens/paradigm in which to see the common thread that connects us all, our humanity. The exhibition Window to the World: The People & the Places is a photo journal of his experiences and interactions with peoples and places from all around the globe.
  
  Image: Broken and Beautiful, The Many Faces of the Buddha, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2018, digital photograph on canvas, 24 x 24 in.
  

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• Holiday Tree Lighting

  • When
    05 Dec 2019
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    4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    500 Main St., downtown Beaumont

  
  

  Bring in the season with AMSET and area museums, attractions, and local businesses at the annual Holiday Tree Lighting. Families and children are invited to join us for an evening of holiday cheer, complete with art activities, pictures with Santa, mailing letters to the North Pole, and of course, the lighting of the tree at 6 p.m. sharp.

  This event is free and open to the public!

  
  

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• Gingerbread House Workshop

  • When
    07 Dec 2019
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    10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  AMSET's Annual Holiday Gingerbread House Workshop

  Saturday, December 7, 2019

  10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

  Circle the date! Clear your calendar! Call your friends! AMSET invites you to join us for our Annual Holiday Gingerbread House Workshop.

  Make plans to join us from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 7th to create your very own gingerbread house to add to your home’s holiday atmosphere.

  Sign up early! Gingerbread is prepared and decorations are purchased especially for this tasty workshop. Because advanced preparation is required, space is limited and registration is required.

  Cost:

  Members: $40 for one house, $60 for 2 houses

  Non-Members: $50 for one house, $70 for 2 houses (Maximum two people per house)

  Registration begins November 4, 2019. Call (409) 832-3432 for more information or to register.

  
  

  
  

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• Emily Peacock: Pure Comedy

  • Start
    14 Dec 2019
  • End
    01 Mar 2020
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  
  

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• David McGee: Black Paintings

  • Start
    14 Dec 2019
  • End
    01 Mar 2020
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  
  

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• Comic Boot Camp: Session 4

  • When
    14 Dec 2019
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  *The workshop series is full. To be put on a waiting list, contact Christle Feagin

  at 409-832-3432.*

  
  

  If you love graphic novels, manga, comic book movies, web comics,

  Sunday cartoon strips or just telling stories visually then this course is for you!

  This four session course will overview how to create an eight page mini-comic, from beginning stages of planning all the way to final printing. We will demonstrate tips and techniques on how to create an eight page mini comic, including drawing, inking and layout. Along the way we will play fun drawing warm-up games, look at cool comic artists for inspiration and have fun creating visual narratives!
  

  Session 1 – September 14th 1-4pm

  Session 2 – October 12th 1-4pm

  Session 3 - November 2nd 1-4pm

  Session 4 - December 14th 1-4pm

  For ages 13 +

  Cost: FREE

  To RSVP, please contact Christle Feagin by calling 409-832-3432. 

  
  

  
  

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• Spring Family Arts Day

  • When
    22 Feb 2020
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    10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Art Museum of Southeast Texas

  

  This FREE day of family fun will give children and their families an opportunity to participate in several hands-on art activities that correlate with AMSET’s current exhibitions. Entertainment, face painting, and refreshments will be provided.

  For more info, visit amset.org or www.facebook.com/amsetx.

  
  

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