The Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit opened on Sunday, February 7th and will continue through February 19th with many talented artists from across the state offering demonstrations alongside the art exhibit. Demonstrations scheduled for Tuesday, February 9th will include Robert Stacks, Julie Mize and Jacquie McMullen.
Demonstrations will be presented from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. on weekdays at the Depot Civic and Cultural Center in Brownwood. Artists will show visitors how to use a variety of different media as well as share interesting techniques.
The Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit will continue with daily hours through February 19th at the Depot. For more info, visit Julie Mize – Artist Books
Brownwood art teacher Julie Mize has been interested for several years in handmade books of artworks and artistic journals. There are endless ways to collect and create artworks in book form, whether by the book’s structure and format, materials used, and themes.
Mize’s demonstration will show examples using collages, books with hand-stitched bindings, travel journals, and a book in progress of embroidered images.
Mize is the art teacher at Brownwood Middle School. She also teaches the darkroom photography course at Howard Payne University. She holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in art from Howard Payne University and a Master’s degree in art education from Texas Tech University. As a child, she was always interested in drawing, painting, and taking photographs. She was inspired by her elementary art teacher Beth Brubaker of Houston and as early as age 11, Mize had no doubts that she would become an art teacher too.
Primarily a photographer, Mize has had work accepted into the Stars of Texas exhibit many times since 2003, had photographs accepted to Texas Tech University’s annual High and Dry photographic exhibit three years in a row (2012 – 2014), and has also exhibited work in Granbury, Coleman, and Junction, Texas. During the fall of 2015 several of her photographs were part of the Howard Payne University Art Department’s faculty exhibit.
Jacquie McMullen
Texas artist, Jacquie McMullen, is an award winning pastel artist who has been painting and drawing for as long as she can remember. While she had painted in oils for years, an artist friend introduced her to pastels about 20 years ago and she fell in love with the medium. “My first love had been drawing and somehow using pastels just seemed to be an extension of that. It was love at first stroke.”
She lives in Dublin, Texas with her husband of 43 years; Mac is a real estate agent in Stephenville, Texas. They raise quarter horses on their “Para-Dice Ranch” in Dublin. She paints every Monday with a group of artists in Dublin, is a member of the Artists of Texas, a past president of the Seguin Art League, and has been involved in the Austin Pastel Association, as well as the New Braunfels Art League.
Always trying to improve her work. Jacquie has attended workshops with Bill Hosner, Doug Dawson, Kraig Kiedrowski, Bob Rohm, Steve Napper, E. Gordon West, and Kaye Franklin.
Jacquie won “Best of Show” at the “2013 Art & Conservation Show & Sale” sponsored by the Cibolo Nature Center and the Hill Country Council for the Arts, with the painting “The Ranch Road,” an Award of Excellence in the 2013 LGAA Fall Festival of Art in Granbury, Texas with the painting “Hill Country Cactus” and third place in the pastel division of the “2014 Art in the Garden Show and Sale” at the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens. She has also won awards in the Austin Pastel Society Juried Show and the Huntsville Cooperative of Working Artist Show.
Other recent exhibits have included the 2012 “Spirit of Texas Art Show and Sale” in Graham Texas, the 2012 & 2013 “Annual Art Show and Sale” in Breckenridge Texas, the 2013 Lake Granbury Art Association “Fall Festival of Art,” and the Fifth Annual Artist of Texas Show “Nowhere But Texas” at the Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas, Texas. In 2014, Jacquie has exhibited in the “Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit” in Brownwood, Texas, the Artists of Texas “Spring Fling” online show, the “7th Annual Art in the Garden Show and Sale” at the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, the Artists of Texas “Somewhere in Texas” Fall online show and the 2014 LGAA “Fall Festival of Art.”
In 2015, Jacquie’s work has been selected for exhibition in the “Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit” in Brownwood and the Art & Conservation Show and Sale in Boerne, Texas.
Jacquie also does demonstrations and workshops for area art groups.
