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Color is My Language Exhibit
The Lake Travis Community Library will exhibit Color is My Language, the artwork of Barbara Kelley, during the month of May. Growing up in Ohio, Kelley’s love of color developed as she played dress up in her mother’s evening gowns, favoring the brightest colored pieces. After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in Vocal Performance, Kelley’s color attraction continued as she performed in light opera companies, clad in beautiful, colorful costumes. After time off to raise her two sons and travel throughout the United States and Asia, Kelley later returned to the arts to study art history at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. It was there that she noticed her…
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Overview of the Lakeway Arts Committee
“Art in our community is not a peripheral to civic activity, but an evolving stimulant to our creative and economic potential. It is the mission of the Arts Committee to encourage, develop, and promote the presentation, performance, creation and exhibition of the visual and performing arts. The plan for the visual arts was to establish a public art project identifying desirable objects and locations for permanent art displays preferably to be purchased with private or corporate donations to the community.” – Lakeway Arts Committee Overview An Arts Committee was created by the City Council in December 1999 for the purpose of establishing a Cultural and Artistic Enrichment goal to “encourage,…
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Lakeway Sing Along Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Lakeway Sing Along celebrates two decades of entertaining area music lovers with its 20th Anniversary Spring Show at the Lakeway Activity Center on April 25-27. Expect an array of favorites from past Sing Along shows, as well as familiar songs about who they are and those who helped them get where they are today. Doors open for these dinner show performances at 6 p.m., with dinner served at 6:30 p.m. and the show following. BYOB, of course, and tables of 10 available. Dinner entertainment by the Lohman’s Crossing Band. Tickets are $30 and go on sale at 8 a.m. March 26 at the Activity Center. These shows sell out quickly,…
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The Lakeway Painter: Johnnie Fields
Many people in the Lakeway community know Johnnie Fields – the guy with the genuine smile and the easy laugh, who has taught so many in Lakeway and elsewhere how to paint with watercolor, how to trust their instincts with the brush and to “be loose and unafraid,” as he puts it. Fields, born in Waco, has spent a good portion of his life in Texas. He attended the University of Texas, studying architecture and later opening an architecture firm. He’s helped draw up designs for several area churches and schools – most recently, Lake Travis Middle School. While some might consider 90+ a good age to have been retired…
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A Look Back at the Arts in Lakeway
Here is a brief history of the Lakeway Arts Committee. December 20, 1999: Arts Committee established by Resolution No. 99-12-20-4, signed by Lakeway Mayor Charles Edwards. 2000 January: Committee members (9) were appointed by the Mayor, with George Blume as Chairman. First concert on May 21, 2000: A Gershwin program with a singer and pianist. No cost. Based upon this favorable experience, the series of evening and Sunday Concerts began. Requested funding for Boston Baby Grand Piano by Steinway; granted by Lakeway Civic Corporation May: George Blume was elected to the City Council; Fred Newton was appointed Chair of Arts Committee. 2001 January & February: Brown Bag Luncheon Concerts began.…
