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Carriage House Gallery proud to announce Rita Kirkman awarded Master Pastelist status

The artist partners at Carriage House Gallery proudly share the news that Rita Kirkman has achieved and been awarded the status of Master Pastelist.

The artist partners at Carriage House Gallery proudly share the news that Rita Kirkman has achieved and been awarded the status of Master Pastelist.

An elated Kirkman advised her friends and followers, “I am so thrilled that my pastel painting, The Letter, is one of only twenty pastels selected from the Pastel Society of America’s 50th Annual Exhibition, 2022, to exhibit at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio.”

The exhibit is personally curated by Dr. Louis Zona, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Butler Institute, and will show through mid May, 2023. The Letter had previously won the Flora B. and Joseph V. Giffuni Memorial Award at the PSA 50th Annual Exhibition.

The name pastel comes from the French word, pastiche, meaning pure powdered pigment ground into a paste with a small amount of gum binder. The paste is rolled and dried in stick form with an infinite variety and range of colors.

Some of history’s most noted painters used pastels. Leonardo da Vinci and his contemporaries used red pastels for their figure studies.

As a painting medium in its own right, pastel can be traced back to the 18th century and came into its own in the mid to late 19th century with the Impressionists and post Impressionists. Pastels were used by artists such as Edgar Degas, William Merritt Chase and Mary Stevenson Cassatt.

Join Carriage House Gallery TODAY, Saturday, April 22, and tomorrow, for the Texas Corvette Association 30th Annual Open Car Show. Artist Mary McIntosh will have her 2020 newly redesigned Stingray Corvette to the gallery where art demonstrations will go on all day. When it’s time to cool off, enjoy refreshing drinks and snacks while you browse the gallery. For information, email info@carriagehousegallerytx. com; 110 Rosewood Avenue, Boerne.

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TODAY, April 22, Earth Day Artisan Market at Dodging Duck Brewhaus and Restaurant, 11am-5pm, featuring Cat Dog Ceramics, Pick-Me-Pottery, Hound House Ceramics and Ample Dumpling Jr, recycled artworks. 402 River Road, Boerne.


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