Port Aransas Coastal Paint Out 2009
3rd Annual PA Art About
Oct 15 - 17

Mark your calendars now to attend Port Aransas’ biggest fall art event!  From Oct 15 - 17 ‘performing’ artists will wander Mustang Island with brushes in hand, capturing our captivating town and environs on canvas.   The Port Aransas 2009 Coastal Paint Out brings Chase Almond, LaNell Arndt, Dave Bates, Carolyn Cobb, Lynn Dickey, Rusty Jones, Christy Kidwell and Roy Murray together for 3 days of painting, including the 2-hour Quick Draw Saturday morning.  The event wraps up Saturday evening with a show and reception when you can purchase some ‘fresh’ art and vote on who best paints Port A.  This will be in conjunction with the city-wide 3rd Annual PA Art About.  Join us as the town comes alive with music & parties at various venues throughout the afternoon & evening, Oct 17.

Dave Bates captures the
good life during the
2008 Coastal Paint-Out

Our award winning artists will be showing at many of the top national exhibitions this fall.  The prestigious American Women Artists Nat’l Juried Competition in Easton, MD (Oct 9-Nov 8) features work by three of our artists: Plein Air painter LaNell Arndt, sculptor Eva Stanley with her piece Ocean Treasures, and animal artist Debbie Stevens.  LaNell will also be participating in the American Impressionist Show opening Oct 23 in Denver.  Debbie & Eva share the limelight twice more at the Society Of Animal Artists Small Works-Big Impressions show (Parker, CO Nov 7-Jan 3) and the Society of Animal Artists 49th Art & the Animal exhibition (Salina, KS Sep 5-Nov 1).  Debbie’s award winning birds can also be seen at the Rockport Center for the Arts Shorelines 2009 show (Rockport, TX Oct 14-Nov 21) and a solo exhibit at Bismarck Studios

(San Antonio, TX Dec 3-31).  If you are lucky enough to travel to Na ‘Āina Kai Botanical Gardens and Sculpture Park in Kauai, Hawaii you can see two new commissioned pieces by Eva Stanley.  Jointly titled The Last Tango (and separately Itsy Bitsy Spider & La Cucaracha), the piece features a twice life-size tarantula and cockroach in a red rock escarpment cave, the major feature of a Navajo village recreation within the park.  The escarpment also features another of Eva’s pieces, Space Invasion, a prairie rattlesnake.  This gal has moxie!

Darnell Jones is participating in the Nomadas del Arte exhibit and the Outdoor Painters show in Dallas this fall and painting for a charity auction at the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens.   Edie Collins has a painting at the Bright Shawl in San Antonio and her husband, Finis Collins, is heading to upper NY state to paint with the WC Gang (Lee Ricks, Gordon West, & Clay McGaughy).  In the meantime, Gordon West received the Purchase and Merchandise Awards in the Watercolor USA National Exhibition and a painting was selected for the Travel Exhibition of the National Watercolor Society’s Annual Exhibition.  Look for Kyle Polzin’s work in the Nov issues of Western Art Collector, Southwest Art & Art of the West, as well as a solo show at Southwest Gallery in Dallas.   Marilyn Leuszler’s painting Snow Fence was awarded 1st place in water media at the 33rd Annual International Exhibition in Raton, NM and Roundup will be on display at the Denver Int’l. Airport this fall and the CO State Capitol through the winter.  Rusty Jones will be painting in Palo Duro Canyon, TX and Canyon De Chelly, AZ as part of the Plein Air Southwest competition.  Dave Bates is participating in Tucson's 40th Mountain Oyster Western Art Show opening Nov 22 and is preparing for a retrospective of his work with 24+ paintings at the Museum of East Texas in Lufkin beginning in Jan.

Support the Artists!

Linda Morgan, Richard Millan, Rick & Cameron Pratt