The Art Station

The 11th Annual Thos. S. Byrne Charity Golf Tournament Benefits The Art Station

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The annual event is attended by over 300 players representing the best in the construction industry and all proceeds benefit mental health services for children in Tarrant County. The Art Station is honored to be the recipient of proceeds raised from this year’s event. We thank all who participate in and sponsor the event and continue to be grateful for the support and generosity of Thos. S. Byrne Construction and its employees.

The Art Station Participates In Arts Goggle

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Once again, The Art Station will be opening it’s doors for Fall Arts Goggle, a Fort Worth Near Southside presented by Fort Worth South, Inc. The event will be Saturday, October 8, 2011 from 4-10pm. Park Place Avenue will be closed to vehicular traffic and we will be featuring the work of our clients and sharing their experience with art therapy. Please join us! For more information, visit Fort Worth South, Inc.

Ethics…Living By The Book

jjohnson — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:57:19 +0000

Friday, October 28, 2011

9:30 am – 12:30pm

$50.00

CEU: 3.0 hours

Come let your creativity flow, have fun and fulfill your professional ethics requirements. In this experiential workshop, participants will explore various art materials while creating a book that reflects their ethical identity.

The group will be facilitated by Jane Avila, LCSW, ATR-BC. No previous art experience is needed. All materials will be provided.

Due to space limitations, workshops will be limited to 12 participants.

Number of Spaces Available: 12

Cancellations and Refunds

Cancellations received at least five working days before the workshop are refundable less a $10 administrative fee per registrant. For cancellations received less then five days prior to the workshop, a credit will be issued toward a future training. Please note that if you register and do not cancel, you are liable for full payment. Participant substitutions may be made at any time.

Registration

Registration for all Art Station workshops is completed online and payment is processed through PayPal (a PayPal account is not required) for your convenience. An additional receipt will be provided to you at the time of the workshop. Please use the Add to Cart below to add this workshop to your shopping cart.

Caring for Ourselves: Using Art as Self-Care

jjohnson — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:56:12 +0000

Friday, November 11, 2011

9:30 am – 1:30pm

$75.00

CEU: 4.0 hours (1.0 hour of Ethics)

Whether it’s the upcoming holidays, doing more with less at home or at work, or a difficult caseload, this workshop is for you! Therapists need to care for themselves so they can continue to care for clients. Come let your creativity flow, have fun and spend some time in self-care. In this experiential workshop, participants will make a personal art piece while discussing how to defend against burn out and stressful situations and learn to identify stressors and develop a plan for well being.

The group will be facilitated by Jane Avila, LCSW, ATR-BC. No previous art experience is needed. All materials will be provided.

Due to space limitations, workshops will be limited to 12 participants.

Number of Spaces Available: 12

Cancellations and Refunds

Registration

Kevin Titzer

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Kevin Titzer creates three-dimensional busts, statuettes and figurines using wood, metal, and other debris found near his home by the Ohio River. A native of Evansville, Indiana, the 31 year old has been making art for most of his life and has established himself in galleries in Louisville and Nashville.

Kevin says “Evansville is located next to the Ohio River and I live about five blocks away from said river. On its banks is where I scavenge most of my raw materials. Mostly the wood I use is driftwood. After tumbling around in the water, the wood is usually nice and soft and easy to carve. It also strips the bark off for me.

I started surfacing my work with tin when I lived in Terra Haute, IN. I lived there for a short time and was working with a cousin of mine who was a blacksmith. There was a surplus of reclaimed ceiling tin from old buildings in the shop. I usually try to utilize what’s around me, so I began playing with the tin. I still use the ceiling tin and also old candy tins (for more color) and sometimes plastic. Usually the only materials I buy are nails, and acrylic paint (for the heads and hands) – most everything else is recycled.”

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James “Buddy” Snipes

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Buddy, one of twelve children, was born in Macon County Alabama in 1943. Living a hardscrabble life as a sickly child, he began to make his own toys out of anything he could find. School lasted only 3 or 4 years and as he got older he worked at a number of odd jobs – logger, farmhand and dishwasher. He soon found that he was good at fixing broken furniture and sagging doors and making wheelbarrows out of old lumber. While fixing things for other people to make his living, he began to make things that he liked from roots, limbs, vines, scrap lumber, road signs, tobacco cans, horse collars—anything he found that triggered his imagination. “I see something and it just comes to me…God put this in my head and I does it”.

His creations are rough, whimsical, chunky, and colorful, and have met with great interest by folk art collectors. His work has been shown at the Wiregrass Museum in Dothan Alabama, the Kentucky Folk Art Festival, and Celebrating the Vision: Self-Taught Artists of Alabama” 2000.

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Carolyn Mae Lassiter

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Carolyn Mae Lassiter was raised in Ahoskie, North Carolina where her family worked as share-croppers until she was twelve years old. Picking cotton, tobacco and peanuts alongside her family, she spent very little time in school. Carolyn developed her interest in art during the early 1970′s when she and her husband, Edmond Rabkin, lived in Mexico with a family of indigenous artists. A self-taught artist, she began drawing on barkpaper in 1975, and started to add paint to her drawings in 1989. Her artwork has been critically acclaimed at shows internationally. Carolyn’s work includes various types of multimedia art. Carolyn has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1982.

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Larry Staida

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Larry Staida, a native Texan, was the only child of a career military family and spent much of his childhood living abroad. As a teenager, Staida began to exhibit behavior that would eventually lead to a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Disowned by his family, the Austin State Hospital (ASH) became his home for the next 20 years. About midway through his hospitalization, Staida became involved in the ASH art program, and his interest in creating art has developed significantly in the past several years.

While many patients find art-making a calming, meditative experience, Staida approaches painting with an “energetic, kinetic approach, channeling his energy through the process of painting,” according to his mentor and ASH art educator, Kathryn Carlson. She describes his process as “emoting on paper.” Though his work is characterized by vibrant color, for which he has a natural sensibility, he claims his favorite color is black. Now in his late 30s, Staida relocated in late 2004 to a halfway house in Austin, Texas.

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Cher Shaffer

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Cher Shaffer was born in Atlanta, Georgia on a small farm. She spent her youth surrounded by earth, sky and the whistling pines of the American South. Her mother, who was of Native American decent, accompanied Cher on many of her long walks and taught her about the woods and lands that they both cherished. Cher’s mother shared with her young daughter the beliefs and customs of her Native American heritage. Her father was German and a descendant of Martin Luther as well as a practicing Baptist. Through this parental combination Cher developed a deep respect and appreciation for nature and it’s Creator. She began painting shortly after the death of her gifted mother. As Cher explains this event opened a “Pandora’s box” of emotions and memories. Painting these memories seemed the best way to express and preserve her cherished childhood.

In 1978 with no formal training, Cher began transferring her memories to canvas. It was a significant factor in healing her grief over the loss of her mom. As in the case of happy childhoods our memories tend to be tinted with a hint of fantasy. Her early works are depictions of church gatherings, warm holidays, festive celebrations and the everyday chores of life on a rural farm. They are idyllic and flavored by the innocence of youth. Cher’s work developed and began a departure from these traditional folk art scenes into true fantasy interpretations. Electric color with smooth graceful lines evolved.

In 1985 Cher’s life again took a tragic turn. Due to extreme exhaustion Cher’s heart failed. She emerged from this terrifying event with a greater sense of responsibility for what she would leave behind. Her work began to explore the question of death. Ghostly images began to haunt her style. She describes her work from this period as coming from a “primal level”. In addition to painting, Cher also works in wood, stone, mixed media and designs three-dimensional creations such as dolls and masks.

As Cher explains she is a “double- minded” artist. One side of her art is carefree happy idealist and the other is a little on the wild side. You never know what will come out. While being interviewed by Millard Lampell, co-founder of the movement to recognize Appalachian Art, concerning her art training or lack of it she replied, “When people ask me if I am a trained artist, I have to laugh, I’m not a trained artist, I’m barely civilized.”
Cher’s career as an artist is highlighted with many accomplishments. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in many one-woman shows including the 1992 Owensboro Museum of Art and 1993 a retrospective exhibition at Colorado State University.

She is represented in several public and private collections including that of Whoopie Goldberg, Jane Fonda, Richard Dreyfus, Rob Reiner, Henry Winkler and one of her most appreciated, fellow artist, Thornton Dial. In 1989 Shaffer’s work appeared in the traveling exhibition O, Appalachia: Artists of the Southern Mountains and in the publication by the same name. Also in 1989 she appeared on the “Today Show” on NBC. Her work has been featured in several publications including Art Voices South and Country Homes.

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Jennifer Pappe Johnson, LPC, LMFT

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Executive Director Jennifer Pappe Johnson received her master’s degree in Psychology with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio and is a licensed supervisor. She is also a graduate of Texas Christian University and worked over 7 years with adults in a day hospital setting, adolescents in therapeutic group homes, and teens with severe emotional diagnoses. Prior to joining The Art Station in 2006, she spent the 3 years directing a non-profit therapy program for adolescents with substance abuse issues.