ArtCentre of Plano

The Monica Cowsert exhibition drew hundreds to the opening reception. The exhibition, titled “Where Art Meets Happy” runs until October 19, Tuesdays-Saturdays from 10-5.

This reminder to join us on Saturday, September 7, from 5 pm- 7 pm to catch sight of Monica Cowsert’s Solo exhibition: Where Art Meets Happy
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Come see some of her notable pieces at
The Saigling House, Home of the Artcentre of Plano

Join us tonight! Opening reception: Monica Cowsert: Where Art Meets Happy! Saturday, Sept 7, 5-7 pm

The ArtCentre is pleased to announce the 2024 Honorees who will be celebrated at the For the Love of Art Event on October 26, 2024, at 6 p.m. at the ArtCenter of Plano: To view the honorees, click https://conta.cc/3Z2UaD3. For tickets, go to www.artcentreofplano.org.

"August was nearly over — the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear — the first sign of advancing autumn.” — Viktor Někrasov

"August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”— Sylvia Plath

Make time to see Texas Sculpts before it closes August 24!

"In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.” — Henry David Thoreau

Texas Sculpts is on view now! Make time to visit before August 24, 2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Currently living and working in Dallas Texas, Kat grew up in nearby Garland, Texas and received her BFA in Denton, Texas. She is a well rounded professional artist, currently working in the discipline of sculpture as well as teaching stone carving and managing the stone sculpture department at the Creative Arts Center of Dallas.

"August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. It yawns and lingers on with the light in its palms.” — Victoria Erickson

Texas Sculpts is on view now! Make time to visit before August 24, 2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​George Tobolowsky creates steel and stainless steel sculptures by welding together “found objects,” discarded machine parts, industrial parts and scrap metal. He lets the original shapes of the discarded steel pieces determine the form of each sculpture by balancing its compositions with each “found object” or piece of scrap metal. Tobolowsky’s sculptures are visual memories that reflect his business experiences of the past three decades working in the legal and business worlds.

Texas Sculpts is on view now! Make time to visit before August 24, 2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Luke Sides began his BFA at Odessa College, Odessa TX. He finished his BFA and received his MFA in Sculpture at the University of North Texas, Denton TX. Luke's sculptures are created using a variety of materials and processes: steel fabrication, cast bronze and plastics, and woodcarving. Recently Luke’s work has focused almost exclusively on Cast Iron.

Texas Sculpts is on view now! Make time to visit before August 24, 2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Sabine Senft is an interdisciplinary Texas artist known for her balanced yet poignant works that merge personal and socio-political narratives.

Her practice encompasses mixed media painting, sculpture, public art, and photography, often combining unlikely symbolic elements in installations. With a bachelor's degree in fine art from the University of Regensburg and a master's degree in fine art and education from Munich, she has lived and worked in Japan, London, Germany, and Brazil before settling in Texas.

This will be a great day of events!!

Celebrate Plano Arts!
Celebrate the best of Plano dance, visual arts, theatre, and comedy on Saturday, August 17 at 's Celebrate the Arts at the City of Plano's Courtyard Theatre. Bring your children to a forty five minute Children's Matinee 2:30 p.m. with free arts activities starting at 2 p.m. The Evening performance will be at 7 p.m. Located at 1509 Avenue H, Plano, Texas. Made possible by the Renuka and Hari Vasudevan Foundation. Chaired by Plano Metropolitan Ballet. will present Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36072/production/1205818

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." - Angela Davis

Texas Sculpts is on view now! Make time to visit before August 24, 2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​SV Randall is an interdisciplinary artist from Buffalo, NY. He received his MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from VCU and his BFA from Alfred University. His work has been exhibited at David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY; the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Ditch Projects, Eugene, OR; and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez in Mexico.

Texas Sculpts is on view now! Make time to visit before August 24, 2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Christine is a life long fiber artist with experience in weaving, sewing, basketry, embroidery, felting, dyeing, knitting, crochet, and fiber sculpture. She has been weaving for 50 years, and for the last 30 years she has been weaving with wire to create sculptural expressions. She teaches how to weave with wire as warp and weft in face-to-face workshops, through her online fiber studio, and in her newly published book Weaving with Wire: Creating Woven Metal Fabric.

Texas Sculpts is on view now! Make time to visit before August 24, 2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Carmen Menza is an interdisciplinary artist creating fine art and technology based installations utilizing light, painting, interactive software and music composition.

Her work explores themes of time, space, color, perception and human connection. Her installations have been created for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas Aurora Light & Sound Festival, Meow Wolf, UTSW Clements University Hospital, Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art, Octavia Art Gallery and more.

Texas Sculpts is on view now! Make time to visit before August 24, 2024​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Norman Kary is a Dallas based artist living and working for over 40 years in the DFW metroplex. He primarily works with assemblage, collage and sculptural objects. His fascination with found objects goes back to his childhood where he scavenged fields around industrial parks in Los Angeles.

Texas Sculpts is on view now! Make time to visit before August 24, 2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Alex “Al” Johnson was born and raised in Macomb, Illinois. After high school, he attended Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, completing a Bachelors of Fine Art in Photography in 2010. During his time at NIU, he gained exposure to sculpture and metal casting, shifting his artistic interests. In 2012, he was accepted into the graduate program at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi in sculpture. After completing his MFA in 2015, he accepted his current position at Collin College in Plano, Texas. As the Art Labs Coordinator, he oversees multiple studios in addition to the sculpture and foundry areas.

Texas Sculpts is on view now! Make time to visit before August 24, 2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Dewane Hughes is Professor of Sculpture and has been teaching at The University of Texas at Tyler since 2005. Hughes graduated with his M.F.A. in sculpture from Montana State University-Bozeman and with a B.A. in the majors Art and Philosophy & Religion from Buena Vista University.

"The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage." - Carrie Jones

Texas Sculpts is on view now! Make time to visit before August 24, 2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Margaret Drake lives on a ranch near Glen Rose, Texas. Originally raised in a small ranching community in northwestern Colorado, she has been around horses most of her life. After retiring from the medical industry in 2008, she devoted herself to a year of studying three-dimensional portraiture. After that, she focused on figurative art, taking multiple workshops at Scottsdale Artist's School. She works with both water- and oil-based clays, and creates realistic figures of the athletic human form, horses, and other animals.

Texas Sculpts is on view now! Make time to visit before August 24, 2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Danville Chadbourne (b.1949 Bryan, TX) is an American sculptor who works in various materials and formats, unified by a distinctive handling of forms and primal symbol imagery. He earned a BFA in 1971 Sam Houston State University and an MFA in 1973 from Texas Tech University. After teaching studio art and art history at the college level for 17 years at various institutions, Chadbourne quit teaching in 1989 to devote himself full-time to his art.

Texas Sculpts is on view now! Make time to visit before August 24, 2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Olaniyi Akirash was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He earned his first BSC Degree in Biochemistry from the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta Nigeria (1991), Going on to study fine and Applied Art at the Institute of Textile Technology Arts & Design Lagos (1995), He now lives and works in Pflugerville, Texas.

The grand opening of Texas Sculpts III, the region's premier sculpture exhibition, will be held this Saturday evening (7/13) from 5 - 7 p.m. at the ArtCentre of Plano, 902 E. 16th St., Plano. Come to see outstanding sculptures and visit with the artists. Light refreshments and adult beverages will be served.

“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.” - Bob Marley

Discover the premier annual sculpture exhibition, featuring works by 13 top Texas artists. Handpicked from renowned sculptors, their pieces are coveted by collectors far and wide. On view until August 24.

Sparkle, sizzle, and celebrate! 🎆🇺🇸✨ Happy 4th of July!