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Two Fort Bend artists featured in national art exhibitions in their respective
genres of wildlife art and wood sculpture juried into the Bayou City Art
Festival Downtown on Oct. 10-11. Jim Offeman of Missouri City and James Keller
of Richmond are among the 300
“best of the best” artists selected for the festival from the record-breaking number of 850
applicants from throughout the U.S. and Canada.
”These two artists, who exhibit in galleries, museums and juried exhibitions
around the country, represent the quality of the field. They all truly
transform downtown Houston into one-of-a-kind outdoor gallery,
” said Kim Stoilis, executive director of the Art Colony Association, the
nonprofit festival presenter.
Bayou City Art Festival Downtown, which recently earned eight Texas Festivals & Events Association awards—including six first-place honors, was ranked the No. 3 art festival in the U.S.
by the readers of
AmericanStyle Magazine (February 2009.
Keller, 65, was a career civil engineer who turned to wood sculpting in his
retirement. This year he juried into
“Turned to the Future: a Fresh Look at Wood Art” exhibition held at the Grovewood Gallery in Ashville, N. C. Keller’s entry was from his Bugatti “Evolution of the Wheel” series. He was also among 30 select artists who juried into the “Spindle” Exhibit and Auction sponsored by the American Woodturners Association at its
annual symposium in Albuquerque. Keller showcased
Metamorphosis, fashioned from a walnut tree felled by Hurricane Ike. His piece was auctioned
off to support the organization
’s Professional Outreach
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Program and benefited AWA’s Educational Opportunity Grant (EOG) Program. The Houston Center for
Contemporary Craft is a previous EOG grant recipient.
Offeman uses pastels to create life-life images of birds. His piece Avocet was selected through an international competition for the “Birds in Art” exhibition at the Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wis. The Quail Valley resident’s Great Egret is in the museum’s permanent collection. Offeman’s Yellow-throat, also selected as the result of an international competition, is on display at
the
“Art and The Animal” traveling exhibition at the Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure Museum in Salina,
Kan.
Bayou City Art Festival Downtown, framed by Houston’s world-class skyline, boasts a highly acclaimed mix of visual, performing,
culinary and interactive arts, including the Capital One Bank Creative Zone for
children and families.
Tickets are $10 for adults and free for children 12 and under.
The City of Houston and Houston Parks & Recreation Department, Budweiser, Capital One Bank, KTRK-TV, Houston Chronicle, Legacy at Memorial high-rise apartments, Houstonian Lite and Texas Monthly magazine are among the festival sponsors. The festival is funded in part by
grants from the city of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
Over the past 37 years, the Art Colony Association has raised more than $2.5
million for local nonprofit organizations.
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