Events & News |
APT Launch Party!
Join us at Rafa's Cafe to celebrate the joy of APT art and our public launch! Bring a guest!
Saturday February 25th
5 - 7pm
5617 W. Lover's Ln, in Highland Park, across from Inwood Theatre.
 
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Kittrell Riffkind
Art Glass Galleryspan>
February 4th - March 3rd
19th Annual Scent Bottle Invitational featuring fabulous perfume bottles from over 60 contemporary glass artists. 972.239.7957
5100 Beltline Rd #820, Dallas, TX 75254
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Q. What's the most original gift you could give your valentine?
A. Your torso cast in bronze!
Just ask George.
Learn how, or hire him.
Sculpting Classes to study the human figure. The Studio 972.437.3250
13602 Floyd Circle, Dallas 75243
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New member Terry Jones' sculpture has been chosen for the James Surles Sculpture Dedication, to be on view in Malakoff Texas this Spring. Congrats Terry!
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Saturday, February 4 - March 3rd
18th Annual El Corazón exhibition features diverse creations inspired by the heart (El Corazón), an important symbol in Mexican and Latin American art, and a significant theme in western culture.
Bath House Cultural Center
521 E. Lawther Drive, Dallas TX 75218 / 214.670.8749
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Janette Kennedy Gallery
at South Side On Lamar Lofts
1409 S. Lamar in Dallas, Texas
Works of Jason LaJudice on view at this annual event - the biggest, loudest, freshest show produced annually by ArtLoveMagic. Performance artists and visual artists create live interactive and collaborative works of art.
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A major art event, the Austin Studio Tour changes location, in a bid for more artists. Read about this upcoming event and how you can be a part of it.
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Houston Fine Art Fair (HFAF) and the Texas Contemporary Art Fair will return to Houston in 2012, both with some major changes.
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Workshops & Shows
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presents
Polishing Your Presentation
~ Tips for the artist
Saturday March 10th, 1 - 3pm
$25 admission for Non-members
$15 admission to APT Members
Free to 2011 core members,
but limited attendance due to space. Please RSVP by March 3rd!
Part I, 1 - 2 pm
Appeal to Your Market
through Website Design
Capture the interest of your viewer and make your website appeal specifically to the people you want to reach.
See your website through the viewer's eyes. Learn What to do and what to avoid in the design and fine tuning of your website. Presented by APT Creative Designer Lois Weaver.
Take Professional Art Photos
in your garage!
Taking great photos is an art in itself. Just ask any photographer! The next best thing to hiring a pro... Learn from Jamie Pink Weisbrod,
how to shoot your work with ideal lighting on a shoestring budget, and still produce amazing photos!
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Deadline: February 22, 2012
The Bath House Cultural Center is seeking artwork for the exhibition, Antifaz, a show about masks, disguises, and secret identities. March 17 - April 21, 2012. 3-D artwork only, judged on originality, creativity. Prospectus PDF File
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The PAA presents their 2012
Cash Awards ~ 1st, 2nd, 3rd, &
$1,000 Grand Prize
in ea category - 2D, 3D, Print/Photography
Deadline February 12, 2012
Must live within 125 miles of Plano Texas. Artist may submit up to 3 works online.
125 Show Application.
planoartassoc@gmail.com
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City of Austin
Art In Public Places Program
$166,000 Budget
Deadline Monday, Feb 13th
Artwork should create a dynamic exterior piece to engage children and families. 512.974.7852, susan.lambe@austintexas.gov
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TSOS 2012 Sculpture Show
L. A. Thompson Gallery
in Austin
Deadline March 9th, 2012
March 31 - May 25, 2012
TSOS membership not required,
3 entries indoor/outdoor sculpture.
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Show Artists -
Exhibit your work in Dallas and receive a $6,000 international PR package - international press release, email blast to 23,000 + art galleries, art curators and artists, a live link to the Artist's own website on ShowArtists.com and feature article in ShowArt Magazine.
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Dear Fan of the Arts,
Our February newsletter honors Valentine's day and your love of art...
Please attend the Launch Party this month, and our first workshop March 10th!
Click on all underlined links in this newsletter for more information. Next month you will hear more about upcoming shows, seminars, and artful events throughout Texas. Keep checking the APT website to see who our newest members are!
Sincerely,
Cassandra Fink, APT President
Art Professionals of Texas
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Inspiration |
Agápe
"Classical Greek: ἀγάπη, agápē; love of one's fellow man. Divine, unconditional, self-sacrificing, thoughtful love of friends or family. Affection for a particular activity."
I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind".
Nietzsche observed in his 1878 book,
Human, All Too Human:
"Artists have a vested interest in our believing in the flash of revelation, the so-called inspiration... shining down from heavens as a ray of grace. In reality, the imagination of the good artist or thinker produces continuously good, mediocre or bad things, but his judgment, trained and sharpened to a fine point, rejects, selects, connects.... All great artists and thinkers are great workers, indefatigable not only in inventing, but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering."
Henry Miller's Guide to Creative Productivity
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Art of Noise - "Moments in love"
Loving Beauty |
Eros"In Ancient Greek Mythology, ɛrɒs, was the Greek god of romantic love and desire".
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"The Lady of Shalott"
In Celebration of the Romantic Era Painters |
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Featured Artist
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Atrium Gallery - and its art-loving owners
We visit our artist members on occasion to report firsthand on how they create their work. For Valentine's Day, we present an artist couple. Nestled among the natural beauty of fragrant pine trees in East Texas is a gem called Atrium Gallery...
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"Dolphin Games" by Al Moore |
APT Featured Artist, Al Moore, and his wife Georgia, (owners of Atrium Gallery) host fundraising dinners in a perfect setting of elegant fine art to raise money for the arts in East Texas. As fortunate guests, we can tell you that if you're ever traveling out that way, Bent Pine Studios and Atrium Gallery is well worth stopping in to see! Opened in 2006, it's filled not only with Al and Georgia's work, but art they've collected from the far ends of the earth. Learn about Bent Pine Studios and see more of Al's award winning stone sculptures and featured article on our website.
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| Bonehead Duet by Georgia Moore |
Co-owner of the gallery Georgia, works primarily in clay and ceramics. Her work ranges from the representational to more playful work, much like the artist herself. Voted "Best Artist of the Upper East Region of Texas" in County Line Magazine, Georgia studied sculpture under Octavio Medallin, with work showing at museums in Pittsburgh and Mount Vernon. She's taught art classes for some time, and in 2006, married her best student, Al.
Georgia is most inspired by the changing patterns around her in the wild. Curious by nature, she refers to her designs as "gifts from the earth," even so far as making a mold of a dead snake in order to duplicate it in her tile/plate nature series.
At the Atrium Gallery, Georgia's creative talents extend not only to the kiln, but the kitchen oven. We sampled her exquisite petite high heeled shoe cookies that she painstakingly paints by hand with a paintbrush dipped into a multitude of edible glazes. She recently completed 36 white glazed, hand formed lilies, created to hold fresh lemon sorbet for their fundraisers. You can see more of Georgia's work in our online APT Gallery. |
Contact Us |
APT
P.O. Box 720603
Dallas, Texas 75372
214-327-2436
Art Professionals of Texas
email
APT is a group of artists and business people dedicated to helping artists who either live or sell their work in Texas, providing exposure, innovative exhibitions, lucrative opportunities for artists, seminars, art outings, and avenues to help artists refine their presentation. We celebrate creative innovators, and foster a relationship with professionals and patrons interested in great art.
This is your art organization, so APT wants to hear about any new trails you are blazing in the art world, and what YOU want to see more of - how can we assist you as an artist?
Have a creative Valentine's Day
and Sadie Hawkins' Day on February 29th,
this Leap Year!
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