CELEBRATING THE ARTS
The Museum of Western Art, our Community’s Hill Country backyard, announced its newest exhibition, “Billy Schenck --Mystic Visions of the West,” runs through September 2.
The exhibition features 42 works that date from 1980, and fills both the Main and Kiekeffer Galleries. You do not want to miss this opportunity to visit MOWA, recently ranked no. 3 in the True West magazine listing of the “Top Art Museums of the West 2023.”
Purchase tickets for the exhibition online at: www.museumofwesternart. com. For details, call 830-896-2553. The museum is located at 1550 Bandera Highway in Kerrville.
Schenck, a creator of the Western Pop Art movement, marries the techniques of photorealism and pop art to both celebrate and, at the same time, treat -- in a satirical manner --- traditional images of the West.
The artist uses film or video-like description to flatten and reduce his images, as his colors are applied side-by-side and never blended. In general, the Pop Art movement of the late 1950s and ‘60s was inspired by commercial and popular culture and defined as a diverse response to the postwar era’s commodity-driven values.
Most famous of the American Pop Artists includes Robert Rauschenberg (1926-2008), Jasper Johns (1930-), Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), and Andy Warhol (1928-1987).
Schenck lives the cowboy lifestyle, a world champion in ranch-sorting, a western-style equestrian sport that has evolved from the common ranch work of separating cattle into pens for branding, doctoring, or transport. The Double Standard Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been his home for decades.
EVENTS
Join the Boerne Village Band at 7:30 p.m. July 25 for the last Abendkonzert of the summer season at Main Plaza and help welcome the Boerne High School Volkstanzgruppe.
This group is made up of ninth-12th-grade students who want to learn traditional folk dances from German-speaking regions. BHS has had a folk dance group on and off since 2004 competing in the annual Texas State German Contest. This year’s Volkstanzgruppe is made up of 10 students and they placed fourth in this year’s competition. This will be their first public performance.
The Boerne Village Band, founded in 1860, is the oldest continuously performing German band in the world outside of Germany, and this year celebrates its 163rd year.
HCCArts presents ‘Mini Workshop Summer Series’
• “Immersion into Fine Arts” instruction takes place at the classroom at The AgriCultural Museum and Arts Center, 102 City Park Road, Boerne. HCCArts members $75, Non-members $85. Class size is limited. Supplies included.
Mini workshops are designed to provide hands-on instruction in a medium or style of painting without a huge investment in equipment and supplies. View the complete Mini Workshop Summer Series listed below, and complete details regarding a variety of offerings at www. hccarts.org. Send email inquiries to: [email protected] or call Paula at 210-269-8349.
• July 24: Fine arts instruction with Maren Phillips, and her Introduction to Watercolor from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. A professional artist and instructor, Phillips will introduce participants to the wonderful, fluid art of watercolor.
Workshop members will learn about basic watercolor supplies, and the techniques and methods used by watercolorists. You can expect a Mini Workshop filled with demonstrations, personal instruction, and fun.
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