The MOSES FOSTER PAINTINGS show will end with an open-house style reception on Saturday, January 11, noon to 4pm. Many of his paintings are still available for sale. The show can also be viewed by appointment prior to the closing.
The next gallery show by Bachelor of Arts candidate K.I, “Lens: The World by K.I”, will open on Thursday, January 30, 5-7pm. K.I’s influences include Jean-Michel Basquiat, and her work is powerful and whimsical all at once. “By distorting, abstracting, and re imagining familiar scenes, “Lens” is an invitation to step into my world. A world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary and the unseen becomes visible”. The exhibition continues Saturdays from February 1 through March 1, 11-4 at the Falling Star Gallery @ NAC.
NAC is planning a regular slate of Arts Market vendor fairs in the parking lot beginning early Spring 2025. Vendors can sign up for these events on our website starting early 2025. Stay tuned.
Nacogdoches Arts Collaborative is located inside the Williamsburg Plaza, 320 North Street, Suite 307. The Falling Star Gallery @ NAC is in Suite 306 and is open Saturdays from 11-4 or by appointment by texting 917-209-1050. We are also an easy walk from downtown on N. Fredonia Street, one block north of the Fredonia Hotel just north of Optimum.
Artist Spotlight – Meet Frances Teal!
Frances is an accomplished mezzo-soprano and teaches music at Emeline Carpenter Elementary School in Nacogdoches, and is serving her second year as a board member of the NAC. She’s a BIN and grew up here. When she was a child, Frances started singing at Plainview Baptist Church where her grandfather was the pastor. She graduated from Nacogdoches High (where she was selected for the UIL All-State Choir as an Alto II three years running) and SFA (where she majored in music, concentrating in vocal/choral). She has also performed with the Nacogdoches Interdenominational Youth Choir, the Stone Fort Chorale, at churches including First Methodist, and in musical productions at the Lamp-Lite Community Theater, including their upcoming production of Hello Dolly! opening in February 2025.
Frances has been teaching music for 17 years, the last ten of them in elementary school. “We are so fortunate that the NISD supports the arts programs in our public schools here. Singing and playing an instrument teaches children so much about discipline, about listening, about personal expression, about experiencing community and the emotional power of music. It’s been proven time and again that students who receive training in music and the arts in their curriculum do better on the SAT than those who don’t. Music and the arts are motivators, like sports. For some kids, they are the reason they come to school.” We here at the NAC are proud to know members of our board like Frances are deeply involved in fostering more community support for the arts in Nacogdoches County and in East Texas. The arts are for everyone– music, visual arts, dance, theater and creative writing– and we all benefit from them flourishing here.