Exhibits and Recognition

New Sculpture added August 29, 2024: North Loop Sculpture Garden: Hook’m Horns

This is a short video of my newest addition to my N.Loop Sculpture Garden , Hook'em Horns, It is made of steel ,48 " tall X 50"wide x 60".long. Just in time for football season.

The” Chickens coming home to Roost exhibit” at the N.Loop Sculpture Garden, update August, 2024

I just added 2 "new" sculptures to the N.Loop Sculpture Garden: the limestone Maya and the refurbished Pete's Sprinkler. Maya was on loan to the San Angelo Salmon exhibit for two years. They asked to keep it a little longer than Oct. 2023. I picked it up in May, 2024. It's kind of like the "chickens coming home to roost." I am glad to see them all together.

P.S. The Madre sculpture was accepted into the University of Mississippi and will be there leased for two years.

**Bison Spirit** : **This sculpture was sold at the Cabinet Oak Project auction to benefit the LBJ National Park in May 6, 2023.**

New Yard Art soon to be exhibited at 409 West North Loop Blvd

I refurbished an old stucco sculpture that had a water feature with new tiles after 22 years. The tiles should make it look shiny for many years. It will be placed in front of my studio soon for all the sculpture aficionados driving on N.Loop Blvd., Austin, Tx

Happy Easter from the Alaniz Sculpture Garden: The Good Shepherd

… And then one day, I decided to exhibit my sculptures out in front of my studio, Dec. 8, 2023

The Apropos of Umlauf show 9/7/23 to 11/26/23

I was one of the first artist to deliver my work to the Exhibit . This video was taken before the exhibit was fully installed.

The Umlaf Museum launched a call for artists to propose work in any media that is apropos of Umlauf. I was one of the eighteen local artists selected.

As a student at Austin Community College, I received recognition from the Texas Association of schools of Art in Texas for a sculpture and a painting in 2023. This is a state wide university and college level competition. We compete with the likes of U.T. , Texas A & M, Baylor, essentially all universities, colleges and Junior colleges, etc. in Texas. This was my second acceptance in two years.

Creating Art from a branch of history : the Cabinet Oak Project

More than 100 artists entered the national call for entries for the Cabinet Oak Project, a juried art exhibition that reimagines history in support of the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park.

Invited artists will use pieces from a fallen branch of the historic Cabinet Oak, a 300-year-old tree adjacent to the historic “Texas White House” on the LBJ Ranch, to create an eclectic range of pieces representing a wide range of artistic practices, genres, techniques and media.

Katie Robinson Edwards, Ph.D., Executive Director and Curator of the Umlauf Sculpture Garden, will serve as the juror and selected invited artists to participate.

March 31, 2023

I guess I got carried away. I had to cut off 2 sections of the log that I picked and received for my project; and, after I had finished the large, major piece , Bison Spirit, I had two ideas for the left over sections . One was to carve a heart and the other was to carve a parrot. Happy to report that all three sculptures were sold on May 6, 2023

**Three sculptures out of one piece of oak from the LBJ NATIONAL PARK**

As a student at Austin community college , I received recognition from the Texas Association of schools of Art in Texas for a marble sculpture of a Bison in 2022. This is a state wide university and college level competition. We compete with U.T. , Texas A & M, Baylor, etc.

ACC Highland Campus : 2022 Juried Student Art Exhibition

Georgetown Sculpture Tour 2022-23

**Torito ,**
**powder-coated steel**
**Delivered on July 5th, 2022 to Shawano and 12th aVe. Green Bay, WI.**

**Unfortunately , this sculpture was vandalized and had to be removed from it’s designated site at the Little Walnut Creek Branch Library. I apologize for any inconvenience** .

“DAMAGED GOODS “

Maya installed in San Angelo, Tx Oct. 2021 for the 7th Biennial Salmon Sculpture Outdoor exhibition.

**Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Gate 12, July 2021 to July 2022. It was during COVID.**
**This is the first sculpture of parrots that I carved in 2020. On the suggestion of my doctor, Dr. Wollan, I contacted the airport about showing it there. They accepted it.**
After that, I decided to enter this idea to the TEMPO ‘21 COMPETITION and they asked me to create something like it which turned out to be another parrot sculpture with blue tile highlights in Oct. 2021.

Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Moore’s Crossing Gallery, Gate 12, July 2021 to December 31, 2021

**Piked up this sculpture on July 5th from Fisk and Dousemen st., Green Bay, WI.**

**MADRE ,exhibited at Cedar Park Sculpture Garden, Cedar Park , Tx Oct. 2020 to Oct., 2021**

Flashback: I completed this oil painting in 2000. In 2013, Sister Penny Dunn purchased it in Austin while it was on exhibit at the Diocesan Chancery. It was needed for the ribbon cutting event of a new wing at the CHI St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan , Tx. I did not get to see where it was eventually placed. In May , 2021, my grandson ,Dean Jones graduated from Texas A & M which is in College Station , Tx . and I made it a point to locate the final resting place for this painting. As you go into the main entrance of the Hospital, it is on a wall immediately to your left in front of the elevators. I always thought of Mother Theresa as a living saint before she died. — Flashback: I completed this oil painting in 2000. In 2013, Sister Penny Dunn purchased it in Austin while it was on exhibit at the Diocesan Chancery. It was needed for the ribbon cutting event of a new wing at the CHI St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bryan , Tx. I did not get to see where it was eventually placed. In May , 2021, my grandson ,Dean Jones graduated from Texas A & M which is in College Station , Tx . and I made it a point to locate the final resting place for this painting.
**As you go into the main entrance of the Hospital, it is on a wall immediately to your left in front of the elevators. I always thought of Mother Theresa as a living saint before she died.**

White buffalo : news bulletin 2.jpg — White Buffalo

**It was completed in March 2002.**
Juried into 2003 National Sculpture Society’s Awards exhibition at the Park Avenue Atrium in New York ;and, then it was moved to Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. I was not able to personally attend to the Awards Exhibition so all I have is a photo of the National Sculpture Society News Bulletin with a small picture of my work.

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**Fra Angelico Art Gallery , Chicago , Illinois 1st prize cash award**

print
ink on paper
7.5" x 10.5"
May 2023

Final bid on this Baby Parrot at the Cabiet Oak auction $150.00

Final bid on this beautiful oak heart, $450.00

First fruits of my Printmaking class .
"All the world is a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time
plays many parts,
As you like it. W.S.

How I carved 3 sculptures out of one LBJ Cabinet oak tree limb.

2000

Parrot Sculpture on exhibit at Employees Retirement System building, Austin, TX

I worked as a pharmacist at Brackenridge Hospital and a disability examiner ( Tx Rehabilitation Commission ) and retired in 1997

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Donation of "Call to Freedom" sculpture to George Carver Library, Austin, TX

St. Francis at Cristo Rey Catholic Church, Austin, TX This sculpture was donated by a patron.

May 2002, National Sculpture Society, SPORTS SCULPTURE EXHIBIT, NEW YORK, N.Y.

FEBRUARY, 2007 , CITY HALL PEOPLE'S GALLERY, AUSTIN, TX, YEAR LONG EXHIBIT

**TEXAS STATE FAIR EXHIBIT, 2009, LADY SPRINKLER**