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We need your input!

Our new board needs your input! Grab a cup of coffee, sit back and help us! We have created 3 forms for our members:

  • VAS Exhibit Questionnaire for Members Form , created by Ruth Scego, our VP and Exhibits Chair.. Fill this out if you are interested in exhibiting your art around our community.
  • Member Demo and Workshop Interests Form created by Jaimie Ladysh, our Demo and Workshop Chair, We want to know your interests as a member of VAS for future demos, workshops, field trips, etc. to make art, or view art.
  • Member Artist Info Form created by Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt, President and Technology Chair . We are looking for members who want their own webpage on our website. Take a look who we have now on the Our Artists tab!

New Perk for Members – Your own webpage!

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.

Helen Dewolf

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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.

  • Fun facts:
    • Grad school at TAMU– Anthropology – Nautical Archaeology in 1987, and graduated with a PhD in 1995.
    • I was employed in the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation in the Conservation Research Lab illustrating archaeological artifacts for publications and conserving artifacts.
    • I retired as chief conservator from the CRL in April 2020.

Examples of my art:

  • Lake Huron Shore 2022
  • Prickly Pear #1
  • Gneiss Rock #1
  • Mesquite Momentum #1
  • Summer Garden

Ma. Guadalupe Drumgoole

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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.

Artist Statement:

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.

Examples of my art:

Steve Frayne

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I paint what tickles my fancy and only for fun!

  • Fun fact:
    • I once had a career as a brewmaster.

Examples of my art:

  • “Yaquina Head OR Lighthouse”
  • “Heceta Head OR Lighthouse”
  • “St. Charles Bridge, Prague”
  • “St. Basils”
  • “Sisterhood”

Joseph Garavito

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I’m an architect from a mixed cultural background and have been drawing since a very young age.

Examples of my art:

Vicki Halsell

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I am the mother of two, Glamma of one and married to my husband Mark for 43 years. I am also a retired high school Physical Education/Health teacher who now has the opportunity to pursue my fine arts passion to live as a “starving artist”.:) I LOVE creating in Colored Pencil, Acrylics and Watercolor.

Fun fact about yourself:

  • I am In Love with Clouds!

Examples of my art:

Garrett Hines

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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.

Fun Facts:

  • I’ve traveled to 9 countries spread over 4 continents,
  • I lived in Jakarta Indonesia and was the MC for the Indonesia National Yo-yo competition 2019,
  • Our home is a certified wildlife habitat.

Examples of my art:

  • Different Kind of Same
  • Wholly (Un)-Natural
  • Competing Tales
  • When All Feels Burned
  • Contemplation

Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt

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Bryan-College Station has been my home since I arrived from Watertown, NY in 1975 to earn my Ph.D. in Oceanography.  It was here I graduated, met and married my love. I taught First Year Chemistry at Texas A&M University for 30 years & ran the Chemistry Open House for 13 years.  Teaching was my passion; I earned many awards including the prestigious Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence. I still tutor students in first year chemistry. I started watercolor as a complete novice in 2013 just before retiring, taking local classes with Hailey Herrera, Chris Wilson, Robyn Glass and Monica Pate. In 2019, Monica, Robyn and I started “Brazos Watercolor Retreats” in my art studio, but they moved on to other endeavors and now I continue to have monthly classes and give private lessons. I have been on the board of the Visual Art Society of Bryan-College Station for several years: 2016–2023 as treasurer, and president/technology chair for 2023-2025. I also manage our Aggieland Art Trail project.

  • Fun facts:
    • My undergraduate and master’s degrees in Chemistry were from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
    • I was a VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) volunteer in 1972-3.
    • I travelled through the US, Mexico, Belize and Guatemala in a Volkswagen bus in 1975.
    • During graduate school, I played on the first TAMU women’s rugby team and was an assistant cook in a gourmet restaurant.
    • I am the namesake for the Dr. Wendy L. Keeney-Kennicutt Endowed Lectureship for First Year Chemistry
    • I have visited all 7 continents, including Antarctica, with hubbie, Dr. Mahlon Kennicutt II, who was President of SCAR, Scientific Committee of Antartic Research.
    • You can find all my chemistry notes and help pages HERE, and take a look at this VIDEO explaining how I used the virtual world of Second Life to teach chemistry! That was fun!
    • Lastly, I am a retired herbalist and sell my herbal skin cream “Dr. Wendy’s Wrinkle Warrior” at Village Foods and online.

Examples of my art:

  • “Reflections on Reflections”
  • “Her Majesty”
  • “And Justice for All”
  • “Pineapple and Shadow”
  • “Young Elizabeth”

Sherry Killingsworth

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Sherry Killingsworth studied studio art at the University of Texas and Stephen F. Austin University, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1973. After receiving a gift set of Rembrandt soft pastels in 1988, she fell in love with the spontaneity of the medium and the vibrant colors. Sherry is primarily a landscape artist who paints in a realistic/impressionistic style. Sherry is a member of the Pastel Society of Southeast Texas, Austin Pastel Society, Red Rock Pastel Society, the Pastel Society of America, The Brenham Fine Arts League and the Visual Art Society, formerly the Brazos Valley Art League. “I have always found a spiritual connection with nature. My landscapes reflect the moment I connect with an image, bathed in beautiful lighting or veiled in mist, that strikes a chord in my memory and makes my heart skip a beat!”

  • Fun fact:
    • I love to fish and travel.

Examples of my art:

  • Tasman Sea 12 x 16