FREE ART GOODS!

Limited Time - Act Fast

Send a SASE to:

NICK C. KIRK / TRAIN

PO BOX 331953

FW, TX 76163

I will stuff it full of FREE goods including:

stickers, sketches, small watercolors, etc.

Every pack will be different!

Must be postmarked by December 21st!

GIFT SHOW

Art-Hunger is at it again, hosting a Toys For Tots benefit art show at Esoterica Salon in Fort Worth.  December 15th 8pm-midnight, over 20 artists will be displaying and selling their craft - each item will be priced for the holidays - everything will be 50.00 or less!  There will be First Bite Gourmet Food Truck in the front serving up all the best dishes, cupcakes and cake balls for sell inside made by local  baker visionaries, live music and more!  There will also be a HUGE raffle going on, with more than 30 items being given away to those attending.  Raffles include local artist art work as well as local business gift cards and vouchers!  Be sure to stop in, bring a packaged toy and join in on the fun while supporting a great cause for the holiday season!  Artists can sign up at www.art-hunger.com at the registration page!

FWCAC Article Magazine

Nick C. Kirk  Cowpuncher  ARTicle Magazine FWCAC TAC ACOFW Contemporary Art

I wanted to give a big thanks to the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County for choosing to use my 'Cowpuncher' painting for the cover of this quarters magazine, ARTicle.  You can pick up one at the magazines at the FWCAC, Asel Art Supply and other local art venues and galleries.

Vetro Glass Grapevine Texas Glass On The Tracks 11.3.2012 Raffle Auction Food Drinks Music Pyrotechnics

Glass On The Tracks

Saturday, November 3rd  6pm-10pm.

Vetro Glassblowing Studio and Gallery

701 S. Main St. Grapevine, TX 76051

The event will benefit EASL - Emergency Artists' Support League

Pre-sale tickets online -25.00 or 35.00 at the door.

Entry gets you:  All inclusive beer, wine and appetizers.

Truth or Consequence Glass Auction, Live Glassblowing, Flameworking and Pyrotechnics.

Special Guests Mike Snyder and David Yates will co-host the event.

Live music by Austin's own Graham Wilkinson

Pyrotechnics by Greg Schaatt

Catering by neighboring Chill Bar and Grill

Glass raffles worth $250, $350 and $5,000

For questions and information contact Vetro at 817.251.1688

or check out more online at www.grapevineglassblowers.com

 GIVE THANKS

Give Thanks Art Show 2902 Race Street, Fort Worth, Texas. 4-10pm.  Art Hunger F6 Collective Piranha Bear Fringe Gallery Salon Purple Martin Brewery Fuzz's Tacos first Bite Gourmet Molten Metals Foundry

Art-Hunger First Annual Give Thanks Art Show benefiting Tarrant Area Food Bank

It's art, it's music, it's food, it's a fundraiser! Give Thanks Art Show will be Saturday November 17th from 4pm-10pm or later.  The show will consist of local DFW artists.  There will be food and drinks.  There will be live music.  There is a 5.00 donation to enter.  Funds will be donated to the Tarrant Area Food Bank.  Each 5.00 entry will receive a raffle ticket for a piece of artwork!  Plus, bring in two canned food goods and get an extra raffle ticket!  Feed the hungry, and a chance to win one of over 20 art pieces being raffled off. (must be present to win)

Artists and food and drink vendors wishing to sign up and be a part of this event, sign up on the registration page. Artist drop off/hang will be the Friday before.  Inside: each artist will get 6 linear feet of wall space to show whatever they wish. (no physical painting on the walls - hanging only)  You may also put a table against the wall at your six foot space as well.  Outside: 10x10 booth spaces are 30.00  Food and beverage vendors will be allowed a booth space outside or in front of the building for 30.00  We will update the artist, live band, dj and food vendors every week!  
If you wish to play at this event contact Nick at info@art-hunger.com  
For more info, visit www.art-hunger.com

KAWS COMPANION (PASSING THROUGH)

Sep 09, 2012 - Jan 06, As an encore presentation to last winter’s exhibition, FOCUS: KAWS, which featured the work of Brooklyn-based artist KAWS, the Modern is pleased to announce the upcoming installation of the artist’s monumental sculpture,COMPANION (PASSING THROUGH), 2010. The work will be installed at the Modern’s entrance and on view from September 9, 2012 to January 6, 2013.KAWS often explores Pop-culture imagery in his work, borrowing from existing cartoon figures, advertisements, posters, television, and film. Tweaking and manipulating these universally identifiable images, KAWS morphs the familiar into something new. COMPANION (PASSING THROUGH) exemplifies this, and represents one of the artist’s most iconographic recurring characters. The sixteen-foot-tall sculpture, a human/animal/cartoon hybrid, is seen seated, head in hands. COMPANION has a Mickey Mouse body, complete with gloves, shorts, and cartoon-shaped shoes, like the original character. To this borrowed, well-known image, KAWS adds his own now unmistakable imprints—an inflated skull and Xs, for example. Like Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker, 1903,COMPANION (PASSING THROUGH) reflects a modern-day human condition. Although we may initially feel connected to it through its familiarity, we also sympathize with what it models to us: its posture and pose suggest sadness, fatigue, and the feeling of being overwhelmed.Born Brian Donnelly in 1974, KAWS grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he emerged as a graffiti artist in the early 1990s. He later studied at the School of Visual Arts, New York City, (1993-1996), shifting his focus to creating public “interventions” by subverting imagery on billboards and advertisements in bus shelters and phone booths. This led to collaborations with commercial photographers and designers, and to his evolution of making original artworks. Today KAWS comfortably straddles the commercial and fine art worlds. He is well-known for his pop-oriented paintings, drawings, and sculptures that have been widely exhibited across the globe; and he is acclaimed as a graphic artist, and a creator of highly sought-after editioned toys, apparel, and other products. KAWS’s upcoming projects include participation in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with a 40-foot-long balloon of his character, COMPANION (November 2012); “Sculpture Plinth Exhibition Program” at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum (2013); and a solo exhibition at CAC Malaga, Spain (2014).

Kaws aka Brian Donnelly will be showing a companion figure at The Modern in fort worth Sept 9 2012- Jan 6, 2013

Local DFW Artists unite!

See some of the local art talent Saturday August 4th in Grapevine during Art-Hunger's all day event, 10am-8pm.  With more than 20 artists showing and selling their craft, you won't want to miss this FREE to the public event!

Art-Hunger is a new organization comprised of artists for artists.  The main goal: Help dedicated artists show and sell their work!  Art-Hunger is just getting started this Saturday as we host the first monthly exhibit in a long list of shows to come.  Not only can you check out some great Texas talent, but meet and talk with the artists!

More info here: http://fwtx.com/events/art-hunger-art-event