| Mystic Studio opens in Denison
The newest art studio in Denison, Mystic Studios, at 110 S. Houston Ave., is a gallery an art lover can browse in all day and still not see everything.Mystic Studio was established in 2000, in the Houston area with the purpose of promoting the artistic work of studio owner Joni Beamish. She started her career as a studio potter in 1998 and gradually moved into her own diverse style. Beamish said the tremendous amount of support given to the artists in the Denison area is one of the main reasons for bringing her fresh and new experience to the Denison art scene. "I am here mainly because there is a lot of support for artists here. I feel this area is going to be the next McKinney, and I wanted to get here before the rush," said Beamish. "In order to be able to afford it you need to buy now. In McKinney, the buildings are like $1 to $1.5 million.
Mystic Studio opens in Denison
The newest art studio in Denison, Mystic Studios, at 110 S. Houston Ave., is a gallery an art lover can browse in all day and still not see everything.Mystic Studio was established in 2000, in the Houston area with the purpose of promoting the artistic work of studio owner Joni Beamish. She started her career as a studio potter in 1998 and gradually moved into her own diverse style. Beamish said the tremendous amount of support given to the artists in the Denison area is one of the main reasons for bringing her fresh and new experience to the Denison art scene. "I am here mainly because there is a lot of support for artists here. I feel this area is going to be the next McKinney, and I wanted to get here before the rush," said Beamish. "In order to be able to afford it you need to buy now. In McKinney, the buildings are like $1 to $1.5 million.
Laurie Metcalf
Right out of college, she and a group of Chicago friends started Steppenwolf Theatre, which grew into one of America's most distinguished companies. (Her 20-minute monologue in Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead is an off-Broadway legend.) Later, she picked up a little sitcom called Roseanne, which rewrote the rules of television comedy with its unblinking look at blue collar life. Now Metcalf is exercising her gift for being up to the minute on Broadway, co-starring in David Mamet's new comedy November. It's a Mamet play unlike any other, with the structure of a classic comedy in the Kaufman & Hart vein but filled with scabrous jokes on such hot-button topics as the torture of prisoners, campaign fundraising, the Middle East and gay marriage. Nathan Lane stars as a U.S. President willing to shake down the national turkey lobby to save his faltering re-election campaign, with Metcalf as his lesbian speechwriter, who's not above a little blackmail to get married on national television.
Project Row Houses founder speaks for Architecture Lecture Series
Artist Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses in Houston, will speak about his work at 6:30 p.m. April 13 in Room 458 of Louderman Hall as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' spring Architecture Lecture Series. The talk, titled "Toward Social Sculpture," is free and open to the public. The Architecture Lecture Series is sponsored by the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. Established in 1993, Project Row Houses is an arts and cultural community located in a historically significant inner-city neighborhood in Houston's Third Ward. Encompassing 22 now-renovated shotgun houses, the project is inspired by the work of African-American artist John Biggers — whose paintings celebrated the shotgun house — and combines aspects of neighborhood revitalization, low-income housing, education, historic preservation and community service.
Columbia Business School and Parsons School of Design Students Develop ...
NEW YORK, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- From forward-looking concepts for the Chanel shopping experience in 2012 to a luxury internet site for Bulgari, students from Columbia Business School and Parsons The New School of Design recently marked a semester-long seminar in which teams examined case studies to develop concepts for some of the world's leading luxury goods companies. The course, "Design and Marketing of Luxury Goods," featured projects for Faber-Castell, Lladro, LVMH Perfumes and Cosmetics, and Saks Fifth Avenue, in addition to Bulgari and Chanel. The class functions as an incubator for new ideas for participating companies, not solely for product development but also for enhancing their customer base. This year's projects included increasing brand visibility in the U.S.
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