Arts & Entertainment

The cost of products and services continues to rise, and organizations everywhere have increasingly been feeling the pressure to re-evaluate budgets. It’s no different in school districts nationwide, with school boards making difficult decisions about which programs to keep and which will have to go in order to save money.

Michelle Hortsman, the Boerne Art League’s artist of the month, has loved art and creativity of all kinds since she was a young child. Although she does paint and draw, her main area of work is in scratchboard engraving.

“Luckenbach Legacy: Hondo’s Daughter” opened to record crowds this past Saturday at the Museum of Western Art in Kerrville. The exhibit runs through Sept. 17 and features the art of Comfort’s Becky Crouch Patterson.

Find that signature painting – the one that starts the conversation – by enjoying a cup of coffee while taking in the calming abstract images of Paula Lay inside at The Dienger Trading Company in Boerne or by visiting Helotes Art Gallery and Bob Lombardi’s body of abstract impressionistic works.