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FEATURED ARTISTS:  Saturday - Sunday | November 24th and 25th, 2007 | Presentations are both days, beginning promptly at 1:30 pm | Free of charge

DAN GAUTHIER | Wimberley, Texas | Photographer | 3-D Imagery

Dean is probably best known for his nine seasons playing Langly, one of the computer geeks known as “The Lone Gunmen” from the hit FOX TV series The X-Files.  He also starred in the The X-Files spin-off series The Lone Gunmen. His character is so popular that Dean is a main attraction at X-File and Sci-Fi conventions all over North America.  He appears on trading cards, T-Shirts and even has his own comic book (“The Lone Gunman” published by Dark Horse Comics). 

A long-time comedy improviser,  Dean got his start with the likes of Ryan Stiles and Colin Mockery (Whose Line is it Anyway?) in the internationally award winning Vancouver Theatre Sports League.  He now regularly performs in Los Angeles with The Groundlings and Second City.  Catch him nearly every Friday night at The Friar’s club where he performs with Second City alumni such as Dan Castellaneta (Homer on The Simpsons). 

Dean performs his special blend of stand-up and improv, headlining at comedy clubs and colleges across North America.  He has performed in and hosted at Montreal’s world famous Just for Laughs festival.  He is a favorite host of award shows (Entertainment Media Awards, California Independent Film Festival, Armenian Independent Film Festival) and writes and performs for  corporations such as Coca Cola, Hewart Packard, Apple Computers and Mitsubishi.   His home comedy club is the world famous The Improv in Los Angeles where he can be seen most weeks.   

Dean maintains a successful acting career in film and television.  His television credits include roles in the series “VIP Pamela Anderson”, “Home Improvement” “The Commish," "Sliders," "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids," the animated series “Robocop" and "The Big Guy." His feature film credits include "The X-Files: Fight the Future" “Radio Free Steve”, “Design of Darkness”, “Rice Girl” and the  animated feature film “Tom Sawyer.” 

Dean Haglund trained at Simon Fraser University where he received a Bachelors in Fine and Performing Arts.

CHERIE NOWLIN McBRIDE  &  GLENN NELSON  aka DUCKIE AND THE GRACKLE (Sunday Only) | Brazosport, Texas | Tiny Bird Songs|

                    
 

Cherie Nowlin McBride (AKA Duckie) combines traditional Chinese brush painting with Western techniques to achieve her contemporary images of wild birds. Glenn Nelson McBride (AKA the Grackle) writes sensitive lyrical poetry and music

The "artistic couple of Brazosport, Texas" have combined talents to create the TINY BIRD SONGS project - poetry with fine art images. Each exquisite "poem with wings" reveals the feeling of wild birds, promoting "reverence for awesome nature."  In addition to presenting their wild bird imagery and meditational poetry, the couple will show their TINY BIRD SONG releases of the last 12 months- books, calendars and wall posters.

Cherie Nowlin McBride: Like the traditional Chinese artists, I paint very quickly and the image must stand as it is with no chance of going back. I practice my images much like a pianist would practice for a concert. After the image is learned and while I am centered, the painting flows very easily and softly. I often ask my husband, Glenn - a composer, to play music as I paint to help set the mood.

Glenn Nelson McBride: Music is flow and feeling to me. So I seldom let myself read 'notation.' I play by feeling - not by ear, not by note. I believe we over-think much of the art around us. Thinking may be necessary, but so is feeling. In a toughened world, we live for good feelings. We should learn more from the poets and painters." In Bluegrove, Texas, I began studying classical piano at the age of 8. By 10, I had become a repeat guest on Doc Warren's Television Show. At 12, I became a somewhat reluctant pianist for Bluegrove Baptist Church. Along the way, I played classical recitals in Wichita Falls and the Dallas area and began composing. However, the U. S. Marine Corps help put my music on hold for nearly 40 years. Since 2000, I have produced 3 instrumental CD's. One for artists in their studios. One for planetariums. One for a nature art festival.

 For additional information; www.yellowbirdstudio.com, www.tinybirdsongs.com