Gene Allen

There are strong ties to the Van Zandt area in this painter who has been a life long resident of Dallas, Texas. Mr. Allen is the great grandson of Ambrose Fitzgerald who has a long line of history in this area and has recently been featured in the Canton newspaper because of painting pictues from the recorded accounts of his life and travels to this area.

Mr. Allen has painted since his high school days in Dallas, and attended art school at the Dallas Museum of Art. Largely self-taught, he continues to perfect his talent for a life-long passion at the age of 82. He is a past member of the Art Club in Canton and is a past winner for two years at the Van Zandt County Fair winning "Best of Show" both times in the Professional Class. He also received a Blue Ribbon at the Texas State Fair.

His paintings are now displayed in many area homes such as one of the local judge's home in this area, and at the North Texas Big Brother and Big Sister Organization in Dallas. There are no copies of any of the paintings and many have been commissioned by those who have fond memories of special times in their life and wish to remember those times in a painting.

Mr. Allen has an eye for the beauty of nature and enjoys sharing that beauty with others in his paintings.

Nancy Thompson

Nancy Thompson enjoys working on a variety of stained glass projects out of her East Dallas home/studio. Inspired by her passion for glass and natural talent for design, Nancy began her whimsical art glass designs when a car accident prevented her from continuing her former vocation.

"I love glass with a lot of color and texture so it works in harmony with light and movement. Most of my work is done in lead but I also have some copper foiled pieces."

Brad Abrams

Brad Abrams has been an artist since childhood. Brad has specialized in glass sculpture since 1985 as well as steel and mixed media. He has worked in the metroplex since 1990 at his Dallas studio.

Mr. Abrams is an abstract experimental expressionist inspired by free thought, addiction of color, and his love for Southern women. His work is shown in many galleries and shops across America and collected widely because of his unique, playful and colorful forms.

Mr. Abrams has studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California; the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio; Cedar Crest College in Pennsylvania; and numerous workshops at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington.

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Laura Walters Abrams

As a sculptor my work finds its inspiration in the infinite forms of nature. Though no artist can compete with the perfection or spectacular beauty that exists in the forms from our ocean, the earth and the sky, and the tiniest cell or organism, my challenge is in studying these forms, as well as those which man has created, and bringing them together in an interesting way. For me, creating is a spiritual and intuitive process where the link between nature, our existence, and universal consciousness coincide.

Polarities and opposites – simplicity/complexity, good/evil, male/female, faith/reason – forces that drive our universe, intrigue me and are an underlying current in my work. I believe these polarities are the essence of creating balance. Fascinated by the inherent motion & universal rhythms found in so many forms both natural and manmade, my work strives to capture a piece of this action, sometimes found in the tiniest flower bud, sometimes in the industry of music, sometimes found simply in a feeling of being part of our vast, mysterious world.

Deanne Eskridge

A Dallas native, Deanne Eskridge has been blowing glass for the past 5 years at the BA Glassworks studio. She finds nature a constant source of inspiration.

"I'm hopelessly hooked on glass. I love the movement and surprise with the flow of hot glass during the creation of a piece, it's as if it's alive. When the glass is cold, I find the interplay with light fascinating, the piece can glow or cast a pattern of color."

Chris Lake

Chris Lake's love affair with hot glass began in 1994 when he saw the Chihuly Installations exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. As he has traveled the world since then, he has collected and experienced as much of the medium as he could. Chris began taking classes in stain glass technique and bead making in 2002. He learned to blow glass from Brad Abrams and he has been working with him ever since. As a musician, a lifelong drummer, Chris is drawn to the rhythm and balance of the glassblowing process.

Leila Strauch

Leila Strauch is a Brazilian artist from Santa Catarina , a city in the south of Brazil. Her love for glass started when she was about five years old. Her mother would take her around the church building to see the colored glass windows which always attracted her attention. Her mother did that in compensation to her quietness throughout the church service. For that reason, she learned to be silent at church to enable her see the glass artwork around the church every Sunday. Moreover, she learned working with glass twenty years ago from a German glass artist by the name of Lorenco Scheneider, a Uruguayan Roberto Bonino, from The Sarasa Family and a plastic artist by the name of Elvo Benito . They all contributed a lot to her knowledge to fusing, restoration, molding, and glasswork in general. She has worked with glass fulltime since then.

Leila’s creative talent and her drawing desire, led her to love working with architects and interior designers. Her artwork that starts form transparent and colored glass doors, windows, lamps, walls, knobs, sculptures to every glasswork in newly- born babies rooms has appeared in several Brazilian publications.

Each work is done exclusively.

Luis Toledano

Keith Livingston

Keith Livingston is diverse in his approach and choices of material. He enjoys working in contemporary forms when sculpting in wood, clay, steel and casting in bronze and aluminum. He is also a skilled representational sculptor and does portraits. Much of his recent work has been focused on creating sculptural jewelry in gold and silver. He often does detailed dog and cat rings and pendants. He is an award winning sculptor and jeweler and his work has been show in the Dallas area and in galleries in the Northeast. He is a former president of the Texas Sculpture Association and has a BFA form Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

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Steve Herndon

Dallas artist Stephen Herndon is nationally recognized for his biomorphic sculptic forms in paint. His work is inspired by natural phenomena-imagery suggestive of astronomical, biological, or geographical formations. Often, Herndon will couple his organic primal forms with contemporary manufactured elements to create an imaginative dialogue between past and present, between the natural and manmade.

Mark Epstein

Mark, a Texas native, established his "Clayworks" studio in Dallas in 1981. He earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Dallas in 1994. Mark teaches classes and workshops in and around the DFW area.

"I concentrate on how to best utilize the plasticity of the material to create sculptural forms and or functional vessels. For me its a never ending exploration. Having lived in this neighborhood for twenty years, I am constantly amazed at how many people (locals) have stopped in during our sales not sure what they were going to find at the house with all the pots and sculptures in the yard. We’ve enjoyed growing up in this neighborhood."

Randy Broadnax

Diana Rose Downs

Roy Cirigliana

Roy Cirigliana graduated from NY Institute of Photography and has done course work at NYU, Eastman Kodak and East Texas State University. He moved to Dallas 29 years ago and has worked as a commercial photographer, lab technician, educator and exhibitor of fine art photography and metal work. He is currently teaching in the Richland College photography program. He is also the co-creator of the Maymester Richland College New Mexico Infrared Photography Workshop Series and was one of the founding members of 500 Exposition Gallery. Cirigliana uses Infrared film, which technically records images formed by the visible spectrum and infrared radiation.

"The light quality of infrared film is of prime importance to me. The special effects and surreal imagery lends itself to my style of shooting."