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• "This Rejection of the Conqueror: Works by Robert Pruitt"

  • Start
    21 Jan 2012
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  • End
    08 Apr 2012
  • Location
    500 Main Street, downtown Beaumont

   

  

  Opening Reception:
  6-8 p.m., Friday, Jan. 20, 2012

   

  This Rejection of the Conqueror: Works by Robert Pruitt, organized by AMSET, will feature the large-scale figurative drawings, sculpture, and video of the Houston-based, African American artist Robert Pruitt.  Pruitt is an accomplished draftsman whose subject matter addresses timely political and cultural identity issues often with an element of subtle humor. Inspiration from comic book superheroes (his first foray into art), hip-hop and urban street culture from his predominately African American Third Ward of Houston neighborhood all play into his artwork. His rereading of 20^th century art, especially the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp, in light of African American history and experience, offers a commentary on the ongoing struggles of black Americans. 

   

  Robert Pruitt was born in Houston, Texas in 1975.  He received his BFA from Texas Southern University in 2000 and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003.  Pruitt currently lives in Houston and teaches art at Texas Southern University.

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• "Meredith Jack: Back in Black"

  • Start
    21 Jan 2012
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  • End
    08 Apr 2012
  • Location
    500 Main Street, downtown Beaumont

  Opening Reception: 6-8 p.m., Friday, January 20, 2012

   

  Meredith Jack: Back in Black, organized by AMSET, will include this Houston-based artist’s recent work and will be installed in the Steinhagen Gallery. In addition to the indoor work, two large sculptures will be installed outside on the grounds in the front of the museum as part of a long-term loan. The exhibition’s title reflects the theme of the exhibition which is all non-referential, black sculpture created in a variety of metals including bronze, steel and aluminum.

  
  Recently retired, Jack was a Lamar University professor of art who taught primarily sculpture classes since 1977. He is widely respected in our area as a sculptor, molten metal caster, fine art instructor and mentor. Jack was born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1943 and grew up in the small, rural community of Tonganoxie, Kansas.  He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in drawing and printmaking from the University of Kansas in Lawrence in 1972 and his Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the Tyler School of Art/Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has exhibited widely and his work is in many important art collections. 

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• "Taylor Randolph Perry: Stenciling Out the Time"

  • Start
    26 Jan 2012
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  • End
    25 Mar 2012
  • Location
    500 Main Street, downtown Beaumont

  
  

  Public opening reception:

  2-4 p.m., Sunday, February 5
  
  

           Beginning January 26 through March 25, 2012, Café Arts presents Taylor Randolph Perry: Stenciling Out the Time.  Perry is a Houston-based artist who uses the medium of cut stencils and various paint mediums on sheets of aluminum, slabs of concrete and colored tissue paper.  The artist was in attendance at AMSET’s recent summer family day called Recycled/Reinvented where he worked with children creating cut plastic bottle flowers.  Perry attended the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on a painting scholarship and now works at the Children’s Museum also in that city.
  

           Tayloris a computer draftsman by trade and draws his artistic inspiration from the woodcutting and printing of the Germans, Japanese and Latin Americans, as well as from classical art and the masters such as O’Keeffe, Matisse, Goya, and Rivera.  Taylorstates, “Stencil is a form of spray art and part of graffiti art in general.  It also seems that stencil is more able to catch something like the emotional eye of the beholder than most of the other street art is.”
           In the summers of 2006 and 2007, Taylor visited San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.  Drawn to the religious retablos, a city filled with cathedrals and beautiful native gardens, he began to perfect his painting on metal techniques. Most recently, trips to Galveston Beach provided inspiration to paint on concrete.

   

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• "I See 3-D" Family Arts Day

  • When
    11 Feb 2012
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    10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    500 Main Street, downtown Beaumont

  

   

  This Family Arts Day will explore the artwork of Meredith Jack and Robert Pruitt and allow participants to make foam sculptures, figured drawings, and more!!!  We'll also celebrate Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras and Black History Month with art activities and entertainment.  As always, face painting and refreshments round out this FREE Family Arts Day.

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• Protégé High School Art Competition and Exhibition

  • When
    23 Feb 2012
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    6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    500 Main Street

  Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony – 6-7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012

   

  Protégé exhibition on view at AMSET – Feb. 24 through March 29, 2012

   

  Protégé is a 26-year-old program organized annually to promote and inspire 12th-grade artists in our region. AMSET believes it is important that young artists have an early opportunity to enter art competitions and to learn museum exhibition practices. After the opening exhibit at AMSET, the works of art will tour regional schools.

   

  To register or for more information, click here.

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• Go for the Gold Party and Reverse Drawing

  • When
    08 Mar 2012
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    6:30 PM
  • Location
    500 Main Street, downtown Beaumont

  

   

  YOU could win $10,000 in gold at this exciting event!

   

  Each year AMSET invites community members to participate in Go for the Gold, a very popular and entertaining fundraising event. For the ticket cost of $100, participants receive admission, dinner and cocktails for two along with one entry into the most exciting drawing in town. Three lucky ticket-holders get a chance to win unbelievable prizes in gold, magically turning $100 into $10,000 for the first place winner in a reverse drawing where the winner is the last ticket drawn. The second place winner receives $1,500 in gold, and third place winner receives $1,000 in gold. Proceeds from Go for the Gold benefit the museum’s exhibitions and education programming. For more information, call (409) 832-3432.

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• "Contemporary American Marine Art: 15th Annual Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists"

  • Start
    20 Apr 2012
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  • End
    17 Jun 2012
  • Location
    500 Main Street, downtown Beaumont

  

  
  Opening Reception: 6-8 p.m., Thursday, April 19
  
  

  This traveling exhibition organized by The American Society of Marine Artists will be hosted by eight museums across the country.  ASMA formed in 1978 and 2012 marks the society’s 15^th National Exhibition.  Every few years, the society holds national exhibitions of its members’ works.  This juried exhibition will consist of over 100 works in a variety of media by national and international contemporary marine artists that celebrate the rich heritage of marine painting in art. 

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• "Collection in Reflection: 10 Years of Acquisitions"

  • Start
    30 Jun 2012
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  • End
    02 Sep 2012
  • Location
    500 Main Street, downtown Beaumont

  
  Each summer, AMSET organizes an exhibition focusing specifically on the research and interpretation of the permanent collection.  Subjects explored in previous years have ranged from photorealist paintings and prints to folk art sculpture.  In 2012, AMSET will feature an exhibition that examines the museum’s acquisitions for the past 10 years.  Collection in Reflection will explore the museum’s collecting focus and assess both individually and collectively the featured works. As AMSET has grown into maturity, so has the focus of its collecting. The areas of concentration have evolved to include modern and contemporary American art with a focus on the Texas region, including painting, prints, photography, sculpture, as well as contemporary folk art and a core collection of earlier 19th and 20th century works that can provide context in which to view later work.

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