VAS was pleased to present these certificates at the reception for our 50th Anniversary to our 2022-2023 scholarship winners, Marcella Deer and Cedric Gonzalez, both from College Station High School. You can learn more about our scholarship program HERE.
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My love of the visual arts began late high school with my first self taught drawing course and my friend’s infatuation with photography. After graduating high school, I got my Associate’s degree in Fine Arts and in 2012 I married the love of my life. Shortly after, I started DCA Studio, sold some paintings, took a variety of photography gigs, and worked part-time while my husband worked full time and pursued a degree in Mechanical Engineering. During this time my husband and I had three beautiful children and grieved the loss of our firstborn son. God has been faithful to walk us through seasons of both sorrow and joy. Though it has often taken the back burner to the priorities in my life, art has always been a catalyst for healing and self-expression. I’m excited to continue pursing and developing the gifts that God has given me and hope that my art will also bring inspiration and joy to others as well.
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I am a Texas native, but as an Army Brat, I spend most of my youth growing up near Ft Rucker in Alabama. I attended grade school, high school, and college in Alabama with a short stint in Colorado.. Aside from being a practicing artist I am an art history subject matter expert with a focus in Asian Art, a high school visual arts and film educator, and a college art history professor for TAMIU and Trident Universities. I have been an educator for almost 15 yrs. My artwork is influenced by my love of the macabre, human anatomy, animals, the power of color, and Mexican Folk Art.
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For most children born in Russia, a country with deep, versatile history and tradition in the arts, art is an important part of their childhood. For Dary Dega, the owner of Aggieland’s newest destination for artists, DEGALLERY, it was no different. Like most Russian children, she was raised attending museums and concert halls, going to the ballet, and classical music concerts. But Dary may have fallen even deeper in love with the arts at an early age, thanks to traveling extensively all over Europe as a child with her father, who was a renowned scientist, and the rest of her family. Throughout her travels, she continuously learned more about the fine arts and their beginnings at every turn. That early passion remained fervent for Dary, who would go on to later graduate from art school and music school, while also pursuing a career in medicine. Dary moved with her husband halfway around the world a couple of years ago because he assumed the position of physics professor at Texas A&M University. Following the move to Texas, Dary’s lifelong love of art inspired her to launch a unique gallery in her new home in Aggieland, a dream of her’s, to build a space that would allow every artist of every age, at every talent level, to express themselves. That dream has finally opened.
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Our new board needs your input! Grab a cup of coffee, sit back and help us! We have created 3 forms for our members:
All members in good standing can have their own page on our website to showcase themselves and their art! Visit https://www.visualartsociety.org/our-artists/ to learn more.
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I am a tapestry weaver and fiber artist. My undergrad was in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario in 1977. After working as a fiber artist for a few years (as well as other occupations) I came to grad school at TAMU and graduated in 1995. During the intervening years, I have been weaving tapestries and producing fiber art pieces. I belong to the Brazos Spinners & Weavers Guild (BSWG) and INTERSECTIONS Textile Learning Center & Gallery (ITLC). As a member of both BSWG and ITLC, I have promoted the textile and fibers arts in this area for about 20 years.
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She was born and raised in the enchanted city of Jerez, in the Mexican State of Zacatecas. During her time there she studied architecture. She then moved to the United States of America and resides in the city of College Station, Texas. This is where she began developing techniques in acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and watercolor. Her artwork expresses her memories of the building and church of the Colonial Architecture of her birthplace.
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In each painted picture, I express the colonial architecture of the town where I was born, Jerez, Zacatecas. The buildings are full of rich colors and they populate the town with history; they are part of the tourist attractions.
Streets with many simple homes of a town whose facades are loaded with pink quarry stone and are the framework of rustic-style buildings and mansions, which when painted and captured on canvas are manifestations of respect for architects and people who built them. The joy and freshness of colors that represent Mexican-life.
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I’m an architect from a mixed cultural background and have been drawing since a very young age.
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My art journey began in primary school but it wasn’t until the birth of my first born that I took art making seriously. I taught kids how to make art, but wasn’t making my own, and that had to change. As an educator, I have worked in Texas public schools as an art teacher for almost two decades, while also pursuing a career as a watercolor artist. Nature is the place where my soul can rest, and it’s where I find inspiration for my watercolor paintings. Whether it’s a vast landscape, an animalistic narrative, or a bird among foliage I find great joy in bringing creation’s beauty to life through watercolor.
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