Archway Artist News

ARCHWAY GALLERY artists are making news......

Fabric artist PEGGY SEXTON=s soft sculpture can be seen through March 11 at a juried show at the Brazosport Art League....From March 2 to April 1, Peggy and other national artists will show their work in AAltered Books: 1^st Edition@ at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft....And from April 6 to May 2, her work will be featured at Mossrock Gallery in The Woodlands

Special congratulations are in order for oil painter KAY SARVER, who has been announced a finalist for the prestigious Hunting Art Prize....Her work will now been shown in a Madrid, New Mexico gallery, just outside of Santa Fe.

LIZ CONCES SPENCER has begun an adult drawing group at the gallery on Wednesday evenings. Limited space is available to ensure individual attention and critique. For more information, call Liz at 713.898.6568 or email liz@lizconces.com.

The University of Houston has installed "Remembering You", a triptych honoring the artist's sister Barbara Conces Bolton, in the central campus library. The piece has been added to the permanent collection of the University.

Liz is completing work on a yearlong collaboration with glass artist Gene Hester of Genesis Art Glass Studio for Camp Aranzazu in Rockport, Texas. Commissioned for The Sanctuary, a multifaith chapel, were five floor to ceiling windows on the theme of "traversing a difficult path". Installation is scheduled for summer, 2007.

SUE BURKE HARRINGTON, with her dramatic digital photo collages, has recently shown in several venues: Houston City Hall Annex Art Exhibition, “Exploring Multiple Dimensions at the Albuquerque Museum July 7 – October 8, 2007, VAA 24 Annual Juried Exhibition, A5 Course Love@ at Stages Theatre, AConnections@ in Lexington, Kentucky, Sue is currently showing with Local Color Gallery in The Woodlands.

Beginning the new year by demonstrating watercolor techniques at the Visual Arts Alliance, MARSHA HARRIS is our forerunner of winning awards in and out-of-state.

She is a watercolor teacher at WAS-H, the Watercolor Art Society - Houston.

Mossrock Gallery owner ANDY SANKOWSKI has built a loyal following in The Woodlands with his dynamic shows and exquisite knack for detail. Those qualities are evident in his work, which has been accepted into a national ceramics show. He is currently showing a beautiful dinnerware series.

MADILYN STEIN is forming a class entitled AGround Preparation on Wood & Canvas Using Polymer, Encaustic@. Sessions will be held at the gallery. For more information, contact the artist at her studio 713.528.1163 or at the gallery 713.522.2409.

SHIRL RICCETTI recently had some of her pen travel sketches published in the Fall issue of Travelers= Newsletter (Grand Circle). She also teaches an adult Alight-hearted approach to Art History@ series, with >hands-on= projects, at City ArtWorks in Spring Branch.