Georgetown Sculpture Tour 2011-12

Herbert Long's Chac-mool Woman

The Arts and Culture Board, a group of seven citizens appointed by City Council, is charged with promoting public art in Georgetown—the performing arts as well as the visual arts. One of the Board’s most visible projects has been the Georgetown Sculpture Tour, a rotating collection of borrowed sculptures that have been displayed in San Gabriel Park and at the library. The sculptures are on loan for a year at a time and October 2011 marked the arrival of the third rotation.

This year, thanks to help from the Main Street Advisory Board and the parks staff, there will be sculptures downtown on the Square as well as in San Gabriel Park and at the library. The dry summer played havoc with the plantings in some of the downtown pocket parks, so all concerned agreed that it would be better to place sculpture pads in those spots and replant eventually with native plants that will be chosen to compliment the sculpture displays. All of the downtown sculptures are along Main Street, between 7^th and 8^th Streets. Look for Nick Bakker’s Scorpion and Preying Mantis, Dar Richardson’s Lollipops, Terry Jones’ Blue Dolphin, and Bobby Hamric’s Root Beer 3.

In San Gabriel Park, near the intersection of Stadium Drive and Morrow Street, you’ll see Herbert Long’s Chac-mool Woman and Nathaniel Hesse’s Seated Couple. At the same location are several other pieces that are on extended loan to the City, but not a part of the Sculpture Tour: Fr. Jairo Lopez’s stone and glass mosaics, Bluebonnet and Pavo Real II, Mirroricity by Johann Eyfells, and Moore Venus by Herbert Long.

Only one piece on the rotating Sculpture Tour is at the library, 402 W. 8^th Street: Pokey Park’s Poco a Poco Se Va Lejos (Little by Little One Goes a Long Way). Other pieces on loan to the City that are being displayed at the library are Johann Eyfells’ Singularicity and Ho Baron’s Yummy and Coyote.

Three pieces by Kristine Eyfells are on display in front of the Georgetown Recreation Center, 1003 N. Austin Avenue: Dancing Bones, Shallow Coral, and Spider Bones.

Click here to see images of the sculptures mentioned above.

Waterloo Watercolor Show at the Library During November

The Georgetown Public Library is pleased to have the Waterloo Watercolor Group return this year, bringing us a show they’re calling “29 Ways With Watercolor.” It will hang through Monday, November 28. The artists will hold an opening reception, to which the public is invited, on Friday, November 4, from 4-6 p.m.

The watercolor group began in 1977 with fifteen charter members; today it is a large, enthusiastic organization that works to promote watercolor art through education and exhibitions. Membership is open to all artists interested in learning more about art in general and the watercolor medium in particular. Visit their website at: www.waterloowatercolor.org.

Art Hop 2011

Art Hop opens the Month of the Arts in Georgetown with a reception at the Georgetown Public Library on the evening of First Friday, October 7, from 6 to 8 p.m. Art Hop, an annual art show that is in its fourth year, is sponsored by Georgetown Art Works. It is a juried exhibit open to Texas artists who are at least 18 years old. The works being shown are original, have been completed within the past two years, and are competing for prizes in the following categories: Painting/Mixed Media, Photography, and Printmaking. Prize winners will be announced at the opening reception. Art Hop entries will hang in the library galleries and in two businesses located on the downtown Square — Cianfrani Coffee Roasters and Franklin & Company Fine Jewelers. Be sure to see them all!

This year Art Works has collaborated with the Texas Society of Sculptors to add mobiles to the Art Hop display. While the traditional visual art entries will be exhibited only through October, the mobiles will hang at the library until March 2012.