Advent Art Show & Children's Crafts - December 2, 2007

Celebrate  the beginning of the Christmas season with an Advent Art Show!  Sunday Afternoon, Dec. 2nd from 4-6 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall at Central Christian Church. Four Dallas artists will be displaying a combination of sculptures and paintings.

Light food will be available along with interactive art activities for kids.  Children will also have the opportunity to make tree and Christmas ornaments. Fun for the entire family. Drop by  and enjoy the local art, meet your neighbors, and request your favorite carol.

The kids won't go home empty handed. Also pick up the catalogue of classes for the new Central Academy, (ages 6-11) beginning in Jan. 08, with afterschool classes for Guitar, Piano, Spanish/English, Art, Community Choir.

The evening will conclude with the contemplative worship of the “Longest Night” Safe Place event.

Featured artists at the show include:

Annie Davis

Annie Davis, a fifth generation Texan, has been sculpting in the Dallas area for over forty years. Specializing in portraits, she characterizes sculpture as capturing a moment in time. Children grow up so quickly and there is a small window in their lives when they are neither child nor adult. Annie believes these are special transforming moments especially suited to be captured in sculpture. She also delights in depicting some of these more memorable activities of childhood such as football, first ballet lesson, playing baseball, soccer, karate lesson, reading their first book, goodnight prayers etc. Her love of animals enables her to present realistic moments in your pet’s life. The first point of your English Setter puppy, or your Lab retrieving a duck are fun examples.

Annie’s love of form and design are reflected in her welding. Her unique abstract compositions using found objects are lyrical and fun.

Mary Ann Duckworth

Mary Ann Duckworth – photographer, seamstress, artist and cook – graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BFA in Art in Design. Upon graduation she worked in the garment industry in Los Angeles before returning to Dallas and going to work for the Zale Corporation, Fine Jewelers Guild, in advertising which led to working for Temerlin McClain Advertising as a Production Estimator for Print.

Mary Ann worked free-lance, while working for the agency, creating fabric objects and designs for business presentations and photo shoots for clients. Also, she made wedding  dresses, creating classic tailored designs on an individual basis.

Presently, Mary Ann is teaching at El Centro Community College in the Fashion Design department as a teacher of sewing to beginning fashion students. 

Mary Ann is a member of Southwest Watercolor Society, Westside Players at Central Christian Church, having both appeared in plays and construction costumes and props for plays, and MLA Book Club.

Her awards won include Texas Food and Fiber Commission award of Honorable Mention in Wool Fashion Design in 2004, Honorable Mention in Dress Design at the Apparel Mart Career Day Competition for student designers in 2003.  Also she has won awards in photography, sewing, doll clothes, and cooking.

Lisa Laughlin Boyd

Originally from Fort Worth, Texas, Lisa Laughlin Boyd, known casually as Mom by Kitt, studied art at Vanderbilt, in France and at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned a BFA and a MA in Art History from UT. She resides in Dallas and spends the summers in San Miguel de Allende.

She paints in oil and pastel numerous subjects from landscapes and portraits of old trucks to nudes and portraits. She has exhibited professionally since 1996 at the Karen Mitchell Frank Gallery, the Norwood Flynn Gallery, ArtHouse, the Creative Arts Center, the Pastel Society of the Southwest, and the University of Texas at Austin. She is a member of the National Arts Club.

She has painted in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, New York, Maine, Wyoming, Canada, Mexico, Peru, France, Italy, Egypt, and India.

She is inspired by scenes incorporating natural or man-made structures and the light and shadow playing on them. She has a fondness for plein air painting and sketching.

She has studied with Sally Strand, Lorenzo Chavez, Gil Dellinger, Skip Whitcomb, Ned Mueller and Dan Rueffert and is grateful to all her creative and talented friends and teachers who have supported and encouraged her.

The Advent Art Show is organized by Anne Pogson, docent for Dallas Museum of Art, and sponsored by Central Academy of Arts and Music.