Pat Musick and her husband/collaborator Jerry Carr

Pat Musick has been a practicing artist since she was four years old. She majored in art at the University of Southern California and received an MA in Design and a PhD from Cornell University. Her sculpture and works on paper are in over 50 museums, sculpture gardens and public spaces across the United States. She taught for many years at the University of Houston. Since 1999 when her husband, Jerry Carr, retired NASA Astronaut, left space work the two have worked together in their studios to produce her art. Jerry does the engineering and metal fabricating of Pat’s designs. The sculptures are constructions of wood, steel and natural stone from around the country. Recently she added bronze to her media. 

Mostly environmental abstracts, the work addresses Musick’s concern about the fragility of our natural environment (a theme she learned from Jerry’s overview of Earth from space.) She seeks a reconciliation between the destructive forces that both nature and mankind wreak upon our world and to express the rebirth of new life and hope that can be found in the aftermath of disaster. 

Musick and Carr will discuss their work “Stone Songs on the Trail of Tears”, a five year project in which they took one of her sculptures along the trail the Cherokee Indians followed in 1838 when they were forcibly removed from their homes in the Southeast and marched to Oklahoma Territory. This journey is chronicled in a book published in 2006 by the University of Arkansas Press. Musick and Carr will be available to autograph copies of the book following their presentation.

Vittoriana Benini  | Mordano, Italy |New Work
                                                        

Do you think of cancer as a "modern-day" disease? This presentation by oncologist Jose Lopez will reveal secrets
of the collaborative efforts of paleontologists and oncologists, as ancient mummies and other archeological findings give up their secrets and even shed light on the study of cancer. Since 1996, Dr. Lopez has cared for patients at his charming, historically-renovated stone cottage office on Schubert Street in Fredericksburg. In another historic stone building on Main Street he opened Photography 414 Gallery, known for its educational seminars and world-class exhibitions in fine art photography. To learn about this gallery, visit www.Photography414.com

The day that Barb Murrell brought her new series of gold course paintings, she has several friends with her. All of a sudden, the gallery was filled with beautiful sounds.  We followed the melodies to Cynthia,  and learned about her love and successes in the world of music, as you can at www.CynthiaClawson.com.

Called "The most awesome voice in gospel music" by Billboard Magazine, she has received a GRAMMY and five Dove Awards for her work.

She was three years old when her father first asked her to sing in the small church he pastored, and Cynthia has not stopped since - from local neighborhood churches to Robert Schuller's Hour of Power to London's Wembley Stadium. Cynthia has reached millions of people throughout the world with her music.

Throughout her career, Cynthia has continued to push beyond the boundaries of traditional gospel music. A graduate of Howard Payne University with a major in vocal performance and a minor in piano, Cynthia was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Houston Baptist University in 1995. Her rendition of Softly and Tenderly set the evocative tone for the soundtrack of the Academy Award winning movie The Trip to Bountiful. In 1998, she recorded a cast album of gospel songs for a revival of the musical Smoke on the Mountain, which opened at the Lambs Theatre in New York City.

For over a decade, Cynthia has been a guest artist for Conspirare, a group recognized as the preeminent a cappella choral ensemble in the country. She has performed with this professional choir, under the direction of Craig Hella Johnson, in their annual Christmas at the Carillon event to full-house audiences each year. 
 

www.CynthiaClawson.com

KENNY PARKER | Austin, Texas