Symposium Sessions

Symposium Sessions

17th Annual Texas Art Fair and Symposium on Early Texas Art
March 29 – 31, 2019
TCEA Conference Center 
3100 Alvin DeVane Boulevard, Building B, 
Austin, TX 78741



Friday, March 29, 2019

1:00 – 4:00pm

Pre-Symposium Ticketed Event (Sold Out)
Tour of Charles Umlauf Home and Studio /
Tour of exhibition, James Surls: With Out, With In
Light refreshments
Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum
*Umlauf home and studio not ADA compliant*

Join CASETA for an exclusive Curator-led tour of the life and work of the American sculptor Charles Umlauf (1910-1994) with a visit to his private home, studio, and family sculpture garden. Guests will also enjoy wine and cheese on the private terrace overlooking the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden & Museum. After your tour, we will jump forward in time for Texas legend James Surls’ first ever sculpture exhibition in Austin at the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden & Museum. Dozens of Surls’ works, ranging across his career, will fill the UMLAUF’s gallery and garden.

3:00 - 8:30pm

Symposium Registration 

5:30pm    

Start of 2019 17th CASETA Symposium 
Opening Remarks by Sarah Beth Wilson, Chair, CASETA Board of Trustees

5:45pm

Introduction of Pacesetter Speaker
Katie Edwards, CASETA board member

Pacesetter Address
Michael R. Grauer

McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture/Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
Oklahoma City, OK
Porfirio Salinas: Serious Artist or Potboiler Painter
With wildflower paintings covering the early Texas art landscape, the work of Porfirio Salinas receives mixed reviews among collectors and virtually no credibility in major Texas museums.  Moreover, no serious scholarship has ever examined his place in early Texas art.  Using visual and historical analyses, this presentation will seek to place Salinas in the context of his forebears and emulators, while also posing the question of his legacy in light of his often inferior late paintings.

6:30 – 8:30pm

Opening Reception of the Texas Art Fair
hosted by Heritage Auctions

 

Saturday, March 30, 2019

9:00am

Texas Art Fair and Symposium Registration Opens

9:30am

Session I
Susie Kalil  

Author/Independent Curator
with Roger Winter
Artist/Teacher      
Fire and Ice: A Conversation with artist Roger Winter
This presentation examines the career of the renowned Texas artist and offers a preview of the major publication, Roger Winter: Fire and Iceforthcoming from Texas A&M University Press. Winter and Kalil will engage in a lively discussion, highlighting periods of his art, life and impact as an educator, while also exploring the forces that have shaped the painter from the mid-1960s to the present.

10:30am

Session II  
Panel - What to Do with Your Collection When You Run Out
of Wall Space

Sue Canterbury - The Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Ted Lusher – Early Texas Art Collector, Austin, TX
Andrea Perez - Attorney at Kessler Collins, P.C. and Adjunct Professor at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Moderator - Bonnie Campbell, Director, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, Houston, TX
Discussion by panel members will include estate planning, de-accessioning, and working with museums and dealers.      

11:30am

CASETA Awards

11:45am

Lunch Break 
(box lunches at TCEA Conference Center included with registration) 

1:00pm

Session III
Keynote Address
James Surls

Internationally-known Artist and Sculptor
Carbondale, CO                      
Then, Now and Tomorrow
This talk will draw from the historic well-spring that fed the little roots and gave James Surls a sense of place and home, not only in Texas, but in America. Mr. Surls will speak of a few of his earliest works, then meld into the great middle period of the last thirty plus years. Finally, Mr. Surls will show "the now" as it relates to his future, as well as the future state of a great and grand community at large.

2:00pm

Session IV
Bradley Sumrall

Curator of the Collection
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
New Orleans, LA
Our Brother's Keeper: Building an Important Texas Collection
in New Orleans

This presentation will discuss the guiding principles that informed the establishment of a seminal collection of Texas Art in Louisiana. Between the Museum's permanent collection and the Roger Houston Ogden Collection, the development of Texas Art can be traced from the 19th century works of Theodore Gentilz and Richard Lentz, through Impressionism, Regionalism and Abstract Expressionism into the contemporary era with works by artists such as Sharon Kopriva and James Surls.

3:00pm

Break

3:15pm

Session V
Katherine Brimberry

Co-founder and Director
Flatbed Press and Gallery               
Austin, TX
Dancing with a Matrix:  Seven Texas Artists Step Onto the Printmaking Dance Floor
When Flatbed Press was founded in 1989, it was poised to collaborate with artists in its region who were well established.  Within the first eleven years of Flatbed, the artists James Surls, Melissa Miller, Robert Levers, Kelly Fearing, Bert Long and Luis Jimenez had come to Flatbed where working with the technical support of Flatbed's Master Printers, they succeeded in creating works with a wide variety printmaking media.  This presentation will show and explain the various techniques each artist used, a few images of artists working, and images of the finished works.

5:30pm 

TOUR 1 Bus leaves for Special Event 
Private vehicles can also drive to Lusher home (Bus FILLED)

6:00 - 7:00pm 

TOUR 1 Ticketed Special Event
The Ted and Sharon Lusher Collection of Texas Art
Private Viewing at the Lusher Home 
Transportation: private vehicle or bus    
Refreshments (Tour 1 FILLED)

Saturday evening will offer an opportunity to tour one of the most spectacular collections of early Texas art in the home of Ted and Sharon Lusher. The Lusher collection has a deep emphasis on early Texas art including a number of paintings by Julian Onderdonk, Jose Arpa, Everett Spruce, Porfirio Salinas and others. This behind-the-scene tour shows a collection brought together with passion and love for early Texas art.

6:30pm

Texas Art Fair Closes

TOUR 2 Bus leaves for Special Event 
Private vehicles can also drive to Lusher home (Bus 2  FILLED)

7:00 – 8:00pm

TOUR 2 Ticketed Special Event
The Ted and Sharon Lusher Collection of Texas Art
Private Viewing at the Lusher Home 
Transportation: private vehicle or bus    
Refreshments (Tour 2 FILLED)

Saturday evening will offer an opportunity to tour one of the most spectacular collections of early Texas art in the home of Ted and Sharon Lusher. The Lusher collection has a deep emphasis on early Texas art including a number of paintings by Julian Onderdonk, Jose Arpa, Everett Spruce, Porfirio Salinas and others. This behind-the-scene tour shows a collection brought together with passion and love for early Texas art.

 

Sunday, March 31, 2019

9:00am 

Texas Art Fair Opens

9:30am

Session VI
Liz Kim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in Art History
Texas Woman’s University
Denton, TX
Coreen Spellman’s Abstractions
This presentation examines the works of one of the key women artists based out of North Texas, Coreen Spellman, focusing on the artist's turn towards abstraction during the mid-to-late periods of her career. Overall, this paper argues that Spellman was a methodical and experimental artist that expertly shaped various media to synthesize regional shapes with modernist forms.

10:30am

Session VII  
Ron Tyler, Ph.D.

Retired Director
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Fort Worth, TX
The Art of Texas: 250 Years—What Have I Learned
This presentation is based on the speaker's experiences in organizing (along with co-curator Michael Duty) a comprehensive exhibition of Texas-related art, from the earliest image in the seventeenth century to the turn of the 21st century. 

11:30am

Raffle Drawing  

Closing Remarks
Howard Taylor

CASETA Executive Director

12:30pm

Texas Art Fair Concludes