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My love for this event goes back 28 years, when I attended for the very first time. I was a 17 year old simply enjoying the freedom of a night out with friends. We danced and played down the streets, pointing at things but not really looking at the art.

Fast forward another decade. Seven months pregnant with my son Pace, I was an employee of the festival, happily immersed in the event, working with a group of extremely talented people. I fell in love with everything this festival has to offer.

This year, Mike and I are looking forward to walking the streets, taking in the booths and listening to our favorite band, Poo Live Crew. In years past, we hesitated to make any purchases and regret it. This is the year it will happen. Mike may be dreading my not-so-thrifty credit card habits, but I know once he sees what we display in our home the vein in his forehead will stop protruding.

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Artist's Palette

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The nationally acclaimed Main Street Arts Festival celebrates the

unique character of Fort Worth.

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The value of a trusted relationship has been carried over into the creation of Firefighting’s Finest Moving and Storage, Inc., founded by firefighter “brothers” Derrick Potter and Pat Dodson in 2001.

Derrick moved from Fort Sill, Okla., to Fort Worth in 1998 when he was “lucky enough” to be hired by the city of Fort Worth as a firefighter. He was drawn to the firefighting profession because it appeared to be exciting, well respected and offered a stable future career.

Just like so many in the firefighting profession, Potter has found a tight brotherhood unlike any other. The trust that is built with each other on top of carrying out the mission of helping others forges a truly unique family relationship.

“The 24 hours spent with my firefighter brothers runs a full cycle of experiences and emotions that is only shared with family,” says Potter.”We work, eat, sleep, laugh, workout and share our immediate family issues with each other. The mutual trust exists in knowing that if my life is in danger, I can count on these men to help me.”

Like so many other fireman who work 24 hours on shift and 48 hours off, it is common to look toward other sources of income to supplement the fireman’s salary. For Potter, before he was hired as a firefighter, he would go down to Austin periodically and help a friend with his moving business, learning the craft as he worked. He continued helping move with other firefighters in Fort Worth until one day he turned to his fellow firefighter/moving buddy and said, “I think I can do this a little bit better. Do you want to go in with me?”

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ning 18-20 trucks a day. The company has expanded with locations in Dallas County, Collin County, Denton County, Flower Mound and Tarrant County. A Houston branch opened a few years ago and has grown rapidly. We are proud to be able to offer those customers the same trustworthy, high quality services that our Fort Worth Metroplex customers have come to know and love, says Potter. Future expansions are planned out of state in bordering Oklahoma and Louisiana.

The total workforce in Fort Worth totals just under 100. About 80 percent of the employees are off-duty firefighters; other employees are in fire training and are in the process of being hired. There are also former military, college students and family of current firefighters.

Firefighting’s Finest instills trust in the customer/business relationship by having licensed and fully insured employees who have undergone extensive background checks. Additionally, the company is up for Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year award, which definitely proves the level of quality and integrity displayed in their business.

Giving and serving resonates with both firefighter and mover so it seems only natural that Firefighting’s Finest would give back to the community. Their biggest partnership is with Move For Hunger.

MFH partners moving companies with local food banks to collect unwanted food from customers when they move and deliver it once or twice a month to the food bank.

“This is a simple process to incorporate into our mission every day,” Potter says. “From our start with MFH to date, we have collected and delivered over 90,000 pounds of food to the North Tarrant Food Bank which feeds our local community. We are very proud of this.”

Potter finds operating a successful business rewarding. “It is not always easy but something I take very seriously and knowing that our customer’s have trust in us makes everything worth it!”

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A Main Street Success Story SUCCESS AT THE MAIN STREET ARTS FESTIVAL INSPIRED ARTIST THOMAS DIEL TO PURSUE HIS CRAFT FULL TIME ARTICLE DOUGLAS MATUS | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

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ome artists come to Main Street Arts Festival as established professionals looking to expand their market. Others, who perhaps have honed their techniques over the course of years or decades, use the festival as a springboard to a full-time career.

Thomas Diel, who designs and builds custom furniture with an industrial-chic aesthetic, first discovered his love of craftsmanship as an undergraduate at the University of Kansas. A dynamic and wide-ranging professional career allowed Tom to accumulate techniques through work in architectural firms, and as a member of famed jeweler Thomas Mann’s sculpture department. An invitation to serve as a juror at the Main Street Arts Festival piqued Tom’s interest about applying as an artist.

“I was a juror for the festival in 2007,” says Tom. “I knew that if I could make it at Main Street as an artist, then I could turn it into my full-time career. Before that, I had never done a crafts show or arts fair.”

Tom certainly “made it,” as he won the Best Emerging Artist award in 2011. The Emerging Artists Program, a special category only open to Texas-based artists, seeks to foster the development of an artistic community throughout the Metroplex. The only firm criteria — aside from talent and the potential for growth — is that artists can have exhibited their art at no more than two large events. For Tom, the Emerging Artists Program, and his subsequent award, came at a fortuitous time and inspired him to take a leap that was long in the making.

“After my first exposure at Main Street Arts Festival,” says Tom, “I began to receive so many commissions that I decided to throw caution to the wind.”

At the time, Tom worked for Charles Alan, a furniture manufacturer that allowed him to learn computer-aided design and manufacturing techniques. All of Tom’s knowledge and skills come to bear on his creations, often designed through a partnership with clients. His studio, located at 3801 West Vickery Blvd., provides a space for Tom to realize his particular design vision, which he characterizes as architectonic. Tom finds inspiration everywhere, especially in bridges, which he admires for their transportive and gravity-defying natures. Tom describes his method as similar to that of an architect, though on a smaller scale. Unlike the stereotype of the isolated artist, toiling away in solitude, Tom’s work often involves collaboration.

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“I pretty much work on consignment,” says Tom. “Right now I’m building a sign for a church. I work with other designers, and the art world actually provides for about 40 to 60 percent of my business.

Interior design firms will also hire me to craft pieces.”

The 2015 Main Street Arts Festival, where Tom will exhibit at booth 428, is undoubtedly the year’s most important event for him.

“Main Street Arts brings such a broad audience. It’s four days of exposure on a scale that most artists never get,” says Tom. “It’s the number one marketing event for me, especially when you consider its prominence on the national festival scene. Main Street is regularly chosen as one of the best in the country.”

So how does an artist who works primarily on consignment display at a festival? The festival booth allows Tom to display speculative pieces and connect with possible customers. Occasionally, second or third-generation designs that Tom considers particularly successful will also appear.

“It allows me to advertise the cost out to potential clients,” says Tom. “It’s the largest audience I’ll see. It feels like the whole Metroplex attends the festival.”

His interactions with the public over the course of the festival’s four days provide an additional sense of satisfaction.

“It’s wonderful because you get to interact with an incredible amount of people coming through the festival. Friends, but also the general public, and you can get some surprising feedback. When I first did this in 2011, people described my stuff as Steampunk. I didn’t even know what that was, and had to go home and Google it.”

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Marriage of Like Minds FESTIVAL MAINSTAYS RAYMOND RAINS AND PAMELA SUMMERS CHART A SHARED PATHWAY TO SUCCESS ARTICLE DOUGLAS MATUS | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

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o artists embody the spirit of the Main Street Arts Festival better than Raymond Rains and Pamela Summers. This married couple has participated in the festival for 15 years running, and each has won a prestigious host of awards in honor of their craft and creative integrity. For the upcoming festival, both artists plan to build upon their successes through the offering of a broad selection of pieces for festival attendees.

Raymond Rains and Pamela Summers co-exist as artists at the Cliff House Studio, an epic work and exhibition space situated over Eagle Mountain Lake. Raymond, who works in glass, first discovered his artistic drive through participation in a brief workshop in 1999.

“I worked in corporate at the time,” says Raymond. “I’d always had a fascination with glass, and a weekend workshop really got me interested in it. After taking the workshop, I decided to explore the process more, and built my own furnace.”

A sense of adventure and independence led this artistic autodidact to develop his own style of glass works. Raymond’s distinctive style utilizes dynamic color patterns and fluid, almost liquid shapes that make the most of the sculptural capabilities of glass. Glass, while an unforgiving medium, has yielded high dividends for Rains’s sense of creativity, and his pieces often incorporate such unconventional elements as copper and welded steel.

“After the workshop, I started to pursue glasswork on the evenings and weekends. I retired from corporate and took the plunge about seven years ago to do it full time,” says Mr. Rains.

Raymond’s wife, Pamela Summers, has her own successful career in the world of art. A ceramics artist, Pamela has won many accolades through her participation in Main Street Arts Festival, including a Merit Award in 2014 and Juror’s Awards in 2008 and 2009. A lifelong artist, Pamela’s career stretches from her time as an undergraduate at the Pretoria Art School of the College for Advanced Technology in Pretoria, South Africa, to her current situation as the co-owner of the Cliff House Studio. With more than three decades of experience in the development of her craft, Pamela’s techniques have evolved to emphasize unique combinations of shape, color and texture. All of her hand-made pieces benefit from multiple firings, and utilize a signature polychrome style through ancient Salt Saggar and Raku firing methods.

The couple, who share a love of sailing and the sea, cemented their relationship with a six-month cruise through the Florida Keys and Gulf Coast. Their 1994 marriage presaged the foundation of Cliff House Studio, an idyllic pastoral space available for parties, workshops and retreats.

For all of the success that he and his wife have experienced in the art world, Raymond is clear on the benefits gained through their involvement in the Main Street Arts Festival.

“The festival is really well organized,” says Raymond. “The volunteers and everyone involved make it as easy as possible to get in and set up, then tear down when you’re done. For a lot of festivals, the logistics can make things difficult, but the organizers for Main Street work really hard to ensure that’s not the case.”

The fact that these two dynamic artists share not only a marriage, but also a creative space, begs the obvious questions about shared inspiration and mutual involvement in one another’s creative processes.

Visitors to the pair’s booths at Main Street Arts Festival — numbers 301 and 303 — will notice a shared fascination with bright colors.

“We have separate studios, but we do bounce ideas off of each other,” says Raymond of his creative interaction with his wife. “We both like bright colors, and we often wind up doing things that complement each other’s work.”

If you want to see the proof of this engagement for yourself, you can visit Raymond Rains and Pamela Summers anytime throughout the festival, and perhaps buy a piece (or two) of your own.

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The Main Street Arts Festival, one of the largest of its kind in the country, celebrates the unique character of Fort Worth.

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ain Street Arts Festival returns to downtown Fort Worth April 9 through the 12th, and organizers have outdone themselves in an effort to maintain the celebration’s history of excellence.

Attendees to this year’s festival can, of course, expect a bounty of exceptional art; but the largest art show in the state of Texas promises much more than that, and stands as a celebration of the rich cultural heritage of its host city.

With a new presenting sponsor and a heavy emphasis on food and entertainment, the Main Street Arts Festival has evolved to become one of Texas’s premier annual events. The only problem for attendees is finding the time to experience all that the festival has to offer. This year, the festival will boast more than 200 featured artists — carefully selected from over 1,600 applicants — 150 musical acts across three stages, and two dozen food

vendors. With nearly three decades of success, the festival has changed a lot since the early days.

“Originally, Main Street Arts Festival was developed to showcase the downtown and reawaken the core of the city,” says Claire Bloxom Armstrong, the festival’s media contact. “The festival was created to emphasize art, and it started with just one concert stage. Over the past three decades, it’s just continued to grow.”

The festival’s entertainment offerings have expanded so that Main Street Arts is now Fort Worth’s largest music festival. On top of that, the festival showcases the city’s culinary heritage through the 27 spots made available for food vendors.

Only the best and brightest need apply, however, as festival organizers are content with the event’s growth.

“Food is a competitive attraction for us,” says Claire. “The festival has expanded

exponentially, and now covers 25 blocks.

This year, we only accepted about half of our food applicants.”

The competition is even more fierce for artists who wish to exhibit. Of the 1,600 artists who applied for this year’s festival, only 215 made the grade to exhibit and sell their art. The reason for such a high level of competitiveness becomes apparent when you consider the national stature of the festival. It’s the largest festival of its kind in the United States Southwest, with in excess of 500 participating artists, vendors and performers. Art Fair Sourcebook and The Harris List, a pair of authoritative art-industry publications, both ranked Fort Worth’s Main Street Arts Festival among the top five annual arts events in the country, and the best overall in Texas.

“The quality of the art at Main Street Arts Festival is world class,” says Claire.

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“We have artists from all over the United States working in 15 different mediums.

Gallery owners and dealers come from around the country to purchase art.”

Festival attendees do not need the resources of a gallery or dealer to purchase a piece of art, however. Those who want to support the festival and its cadre of working artists can choose from a wide variety of pieces, with options available from $15. Of course, there’s much more to the festival than art.

“We have live music available on three stages, starting at 11 a.m.,” says Claire. “We also have a family-friendly area that covers two blocks. If you come to the festival with kids, there are balloons and free activities like mural painting and face painting.”

Another component of the festival draws attention to young artists. The Growing Young Artists Program, organized in partnership with the Fort Worth Independent School District, provides an opportunity for local student-artists to harvest some fruit from their creative labors. (see article on p. 22) “Our young people’s art fair allows for aspiring young artists to showcase and sell their own works of art to Main Street festival-goers,” explains Claire. “If you’re limited on your budget, you can always head down to the young people’s fair and purchase student work.”

The Growing Young Artists program reflects a general goal of

the festival to support creative professionals in the Fort Worth community. For many artists, the decision to pursue their craft full-time comes fraught with tension. Questions of paying bills, consistent commissions and the maintenance of lifestyle standards scare many potential artists from taking the plunge.

Main Street Arts Festival not only serves to expose artists to the public: it also provides a valuable revenue stream that many artists could not do without. The benefits are hardly one-sided, though, as the popularity of the festival has done a lot to revitalize Fort Worth’s downtown.

“The City of Fort Worth, the Chamber of Commerce, all of our partner organizations, everyone 100 percent supports the Main Street Arts Festival,” says Claire.

“The festival brings tens of thousands of people to downtown Fort Worth over a four-day period.”

The economic impact of all this attention cannot be overstated. A 2012 economic study revealed that the Main Street Arts Festival generated $27 million in overall revenue for the city. With a festival this large, however, it’s easy for attendees to overlook prime aspects. For this, Claire has some pointers:

“Because the festival is so big, many people overlook the two northernmost blocks.

It’s a shame, because it’s our Main Street Creates area, our family-friendly area, and it has a lot available,” says Claire.

With so much to offer, it boggles belief how the Main Street Arts Festival can negotiate all the contingencies between hundreds of artists, performers and food vendors. It would not be possible, in fact, without the commitment of 1,200 volunteers. For a festival that celebrates the spirit of Fort Worth, it’s only fitting that Fort Worth citizens commit the man-hours to make it happen.

“It takes a lot of support to make a festival like this happen,” says Claire. “Our volunteers come out and get work done, and our new sponsor, Andrews Distributing Co., ensures the festival’s livelihood. Without them, the festival wouldn’t even exist.”

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Growing Young

Artists Main Street Arts Festival’s studentfocused initiative gives young artists a leg-up in the professional world.

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he Main Street Arts Festival exists to support the local community of Fort Worth. A major component of the festival, the Emerging Artists program, highlights the up-and-coming artistic talent that infuses the soul of the city. Not content to limit themselves to a single supportive venture, festival organizers decided to invest in another treasured resource: student artists from Fort Worth Independent School District and surrounding communities. The Growing Young Artists program, now in its seventh year, provides an opportunity for young artists to connect with the public and profit

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from their creative endeavors. Jay Downie, the president of Downie Productions and director of the festival, offers some insight into the inspiration behind this program.

“Several years ago, we decided that we wanted to build another layer of involvement between the community and the arts world,” says Downie. “We wanted to engage artistic young people with the world of professional art, and reached out to Fort Worth ISD to see what we could do.”

The initial goal was to have up to 25 artists between the ages of 7 and 17 who could both present their art and reap the rewards from sales.

“The goal was to have young artists get an experience of what it is like to work as professionals. The students transact the process from beginning to end. They create their artwork, have a presence at the festival, interact with the public and sell their work.”

Young artists need not worry about the worthwhileness of their efforts: all proceeds from sales go right back to the kids, an important component of the program organizers want to emphasize.

“The kids keep all the money,” Downie says. “Last year our sales total for the Growing Young Artists program was more than $8,000.

Our overall goal is to engage young people and show them that they can make art for a living.”

While the program began small, enthusiasm from educators spurred an immediate burst of involvement. When Beverly Fletcher, the art director for Fort Worth ISD, first heard of the idea, she organized involvement for 300 students across multiple campuses. Though this far outstripped the initial vision of the program, festival organizers decided they would do whatever it took to accommodate demand.

“From the very beginning, we had a huge involvement from the students,” says Downie. “We decided that if there was any possible way to engage all these kids, we would make it work.”

Student engagement involves much more than the opportunity to exhibit. Main Street Arts Festival also creates connections between students and professional artists, who offer workshops and mentoring activities. The festival’s visiting artist’s program, which provides 12 to 15 artists the opportunity to visit Fort Worth and exhibit at the festival, partners with the Growing Young Artists Program to bring established art-world experience directly into classrooms.

“Our artists-in-residence go into schools before and after the festival to lead workshops and engage training for students,” explains Downie. “This opportunity is available for any area school, thanks to the support of Tarrant County College.”

While the initial focus of the Growing Young Artists program was squarely upon Fort Worth ISD, the current iteration supports students from schools across a broad swath of the local area.

“Ultimately, everyone involved with this program wants to engage and communicate with young people. We’re always trying to bring new artists into the industry,” says Downie.

The Growing Young Artists Program pairs nicely with another initiative of the Main Street Arts Festival: the Emerging Artists program. This program provides an opportunity for local artists to establish a foothold in the world of professional art, and furthers the festival’s mission to support the viability of art as career. With

involvement criteria that emphasizes local and non-established artists, the program has had no small degree of success.

“Our ultimate goal is to bring new artists into the industry and promote local culture,” says Downie. Our emerging artists go through the standard jury process, and get the experience of setting up and marketing themselves to the community.”

From the standpoint of the emerging artists category, several participants have seen their careers blossom. Some previous bestin-show winners can actually trace the beginnings of their careers back to the Emerging Artists program. Fort Worth’s Academy of Fine Arts, a U.S. News & World Report Top-100 High School, has sent many participants to the Growing Young Artists program that have gone on to pursue full-time careers in art.

Festival attendees have ample opportunities to support these noble initiatives. A full list of emerging artists can be found at the festival’s website, MainStreetArtsFest.org. The Growing Young Artists program has its headquarters at Weatherford and Main Street.

There, attendees can visit individual booths staffed by student-artists, with plenty of art available for purchase. As for sales tactics, festival organizers make sure that the students have an edge.

“It’s important to us that the students understand how to market themselves,” says Downie. “It’s not about being hyper-aggressive, but more about the manufacture of art that people actually want to buy. We also encourage the students to explain their processes to visitors, in order to engage them more.”

An individual’s support of the Growing Young Artists program can manifest in a few ways. Obviously, purchasing a piece of art from a young artist can serve to encourage and inspire future endeavors. Merely taking the time to browse, however, and engaging these creative minds in discussions about their art can serve to legitimize youthful efforts. As a young artist, it sometimes seems as if the world couldn’t care less about your work. The Growing Young Artists program gives the public of Fort Worth an opportunity to correct that misconception.

“Our ultimate goal is to have young people see art as a possible career choice,” says Downie. “The entire organization is structured to benefit the students.”

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Don’t Buy Art on an Empty Stomach THE RANGE OF FOOD OPTIONS AT THIS YEAR’S MAIN STREET ARTS FESTIVAL SHOULD BOTH SURPRISE AND SATISFY ARTICLE DOUGLAS MATUS | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

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ith 25 city blocks of artists, food vendors and performers, the Main Street Arts Festival is so large it’s logical that a day’s exploration could cause any attendee to work up an appetite. For many people, a major appeal of street festivals is the food.

Whether you’re looking to chow down on a turkey leg or cool off with a cold drink, Main Street Arts Festival has you covered.

You’ll find more than just standard festival fare, however; festival organizers put the same amount of care into the selection of food vendors as they do for juried artists. The end result is a rich selection of food that reflects the identity of Fort Worth, and also the multi-cultural atmosphere that the festival strives to foster.

But with a competitive application process, what goes into the selection of individual vendors?

“We get recommendations and try to support our regulars as much as possible,” says Gary Hammer, the festival’s concessions manager.

“We have people from right here in Fort Worth, and as far away as Minnesota. Everyone has to meet certain criteria and submit their application, then the staff sits around a table and chooses the best vendors to serve our attendees.”

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Eclecticism defines the general theme behind the organizers’ choices for food vendors. Want some local flavor? Riscky’s Barbeque will be on hand to provide sliced and chop beef sandwiches, Texas Fries, fried corn, and the omnipresent festival staple, smoked turkey legs. For something a little different, check out Crawfish Connection, which brings a taste of New Orleans to downtown Fort Worth with ample offerings of jambalaya, gumbo and crawfish. Another iconic restaurant, Schmidt’s of German Village, brings authentic German flavors with an emphasis on — what else? — sausage and potato salad. You can get your corn dog fix from Fletcher Corny Dogs, and even sample a funnel cake from Funnel Cake Fries. Hot dogs exist in abundance, with options available from Leisure Foods, Inc. and Tequila Red’s Hot Dog Cart. Want something that’s a little left of the dial? Try Mario’s Mediterranean Cuisine, or Taste of Cuba. The former ensures that festival goers won’t go without gyros, while the latter offers up Cuban sandwiches, fried plantains and other delectable treats.

In previous years, organizers chose to centralize the food in Sundance Square. This year, they’re spreading the love around to make it easier than ever to experience all the tastiness that Main Street Arts has to offer.

“We used to have food vendors predominantly on Sundance Square,” says Mr. Hammer. “But this year we’ve moved them throughout the event. It’s more spread out now, and you can experience things from 3rd and 4th streets on up to the main stage.”

In addition to all the food offerings, this year’s festival attendees can experience a couple of special events centered around beer and wine.

The Wine Experience, a special RSVP event, offers participants a selection of fine wines and food pairings, along with a commemorative glass to celebrate the occasion. The Craft Brew Garden, situated under trees near the University of Texas at Arlington’s stage, serves up regional and national beers. The festival’s presenting sponsor, Andrews Distributing, also has a large selection of beers available around the festival. Attendees who purchase coupons can get beers at eight locations, and can buy a larger selection of drinks at a primary location in Sundance Square.

With so many food options available, you might forget that the festival’s emphasis is on the art. This mental lapse is forgivable, however, when you remember that all aspects of the Main Street Arts Festival serve to celebrate and support Fort Worth’s unique local culture. If you want the perfect pairing to go with a day of entertainment and fun, try a plate of fajitas, or rack of beef ribs, or some ribbon-cut potatoes; it’s there for the choosing at the Main Street Arts Festival.

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History 101

Those Thoroughly Modern Heights Art Clubbers ARTICLE JULIET GEORGE

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welve flappers and one sheik joined Arlington Heights High School’s Art Club for the 1924-25 academic year. They made plans to practice two venerable fabric-imprinting traditions from faraway lands: batik and tie-and-dye.

“The purpose of the club is to design and make articles of use about the home that cannot be made in class,” a spokesperson wrote for the club’s yearbook page. Other projects included wood-blocked, stenciled and cut-out pillow tops; book ends; and hand-painted vases.

In that free-spirited era, the exotic was welcome. Recently, a tie-dyed blouse emerged from a New Orleans lady’s clothing trunk, where it had languished since the 1920s, and appeared on Etsy. A stock photograph, published in a circa-1924 fashion magazine and now advertised online for licensing, shows a frock and shawl made from a batik fabric – credited to the Paris design house of Lucien Lelong.

Batik, a Javanese word sometimes translated as wax painting, is the name of a process during which wax is applied to fabric to mask out areas, causing them to resist dye. Curators of the 3,000-piece trove of batiks in an Amsterdam museum have written that interest in the fabric began in the Netherlands in 1840, when Dutch colonial rule led to its importation. Itie C. van Hout’s 2001 book, Batik -- drawn in wax: 200 years of batik art from Indonesia in the Tropenmuseum collection, focuses on batiks “as visual witnesses of cultural encounter within the East but also between the East and the West.” Ancient batiks have been found in the Middle East, South America, Asia and Europe. “Despite its uncertain origins,” state

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the owners of a Kuala Lumpur-based distribution company, “batik has reached its highest artistic expression in South East Asia, particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia.”

Just 16 years prior to the art club’s explorations of textile printing, Professor Charles E. Pellew (an adjunct in chemistry at Columbia University) authored an article for Gustav Stickley’s Arts and Crafts movement magazine, The Craftsman, in 1909, titled “Tied and Dyed Work: An Oriental Process with American Variations.”

Fort Worth artist Eleanor Fritz, who directed the Arlington Heights art department, sponsored the club. She would later take charge of the Polytechnic High School art program – mentoring Don Dow and Olive Nicholson Pemberton, among others.

She also taught at the Fort Worth School of Fine Arts (founded as the Texas School of Art, opening in 1932 and closing in 1941).

Art historian Scott Grant Barker noted that Fritz “was one of the Fort Worth artists represented in the art exhibit at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition in Dallas.” By 1940, Barker added, she had moved to Santa Monica, California. Her paintings are scarce; he knows of two in local private collections.

It seems that the progressive Mrs. Fritz drew those west side students into an experiential connection with textile artists from worlds quite different than their own.

Image from the 1925 Yellow Jacket yearbook of Arlington Heights High School, courtesy of the Billy W. Sills Center for Archives, Fort Worth Independent School District. Eleanor Fritz appears third from right, front row.

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Art and Wine: A Perfect Pairing THE WINE EXPERIENCE ALLOWS FESTIVAL GOERS TO SIT DOWN AND ENJOY SOME DELICIOUS LOCAL WINES ARTICLE DOUGLAS MATUS | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

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isitors to Fort Worth’s Main Street Arts Festival know that there’s much more to the event than artwork. Since the event’s inception 30 years ago, organizers have expanded offerings to the extent that the festival now stands not only as one of the premier arts events in the United States, but also as a top-notch destination for music and food. This year, attendees can once again indulge their palates for wine through participation in the Wine Experience, an exclusive showcase organized by local vintners, Times Ten Cellars.

Public enthusiasm for this event — and for Times Ten Cellars’ locally-produced wines — inspired organizers to make it available for a consecutive year. The tasting takes place several times over the course of the festival’s four days, but interested parties shouldn’t hesitate to reserve a spot; after all, each session caps attendance at 30.

The Wine Experience is more than just your run-of-the-mill tasting. It also highlights the products of North Texas’s premier winery, the DFW-based Times Ten Cellars. The local genesis of the winery actually led to an early and fortuitous partnership with the Main Street Arts Festival.

“We started the winery originally in the old east Dallas post office building,” says Kert Platner, co-founder of Times Ten Cellars.

“We didn’t account for how much space we needed, and in 2008 moved to a larger facility that had a warehouse attached to the end.

One day, Jay Downie, who runs the Christmas parade, called to inquire whether we would rent some space to store Christmas floats.”

This simple request yielded some big dividends down the road, as one of Downie’s other projects, the Main Street Arts Festival, wanted to expand its offerings to attendees.

“Mr. Downie was interested in crafting an experience to benefit the patrons of the arts festival,” explains Platner. “We would take reservations and give people a memento with the embossed stemware. We sold out almost every spot from day one.”

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select group of local restaurants. Attendees get to experience six separate wines throughout the tasting, each paired with food that highlights its unique flavor profile. Times Ten Cellars has its foundation in a vineyard in far west Texas, near the town of Alpine. There, the unique high-desert climate has proven conducive to the growth of varietals such as Tempranillo and Malbec.

Platner hopes, through public exposure at events like the Wine Experience, to correct certain misconceptions about Texas wines.

“Back when we started in 2004, there were a lot of misconceptions about Texas wine. People didn’t understand what varieties of grapes did well in our climate,” says Platner. “Just because something’s popular doesn’t mean you can grow it everywhere.

We’ve discovered what works best here, and we’re proud to offer Texas wines as part of the tasting.”

Aside from public enthusiasm, the Wine Experience has also benefited from the broad support of festival organizers.

“The amount of support is one of the most amazing things,” says Platner. “It’s an amazingly well-run event. The organizers had signs and banners made for us, and everything was well orchestrated and organized. Sometimes you go to festivals and it’s just a beatdown. Main Street Arts Festival really cares about encouraging local businesses.”

The exposure at the festival has certainly paid off for Times Ten Cellars.

“It’s amazing to hear from people about how their first experience of us was because of the festival,” says Platner.

Anyone interested in the Times Ten Cellars Wine Experience should act fast to secure a spot. The event serves as an ideal breather from the perusal of other festival offerings, and just might expose you to your new favorite wine.

“We’re proud to offer guests a seated experience,” says Platner.

“There are linens on the tables and stemware, and at the end, you even get to take home your favorite wine.”

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The Art of Acquiring Art WORDS DENISE SNODELL

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ou can’t spell painting without “pain.” This is something I learned at a silent auction several years back.

While attending an outdoor literary festival, I stumbled upon a booth featuring one of my favorite local artists. Local for me, I should say, because I’m sure his colorful, whimsical paintings sell across the nation. He just happens to share my area code.

This was a big “yay.” The artist had actually offered about a dozen of his originals for an on-the-spot silent fundraising auction.

His booth happened to be tucked away from the crowds. And, as I mentioned, this was not an art festival. It was a literary festival.

Most folks there had their noses in books. Not many oil sniffers were on the prowl.

Jackpot.

I called my husband, who was elsewhere that day. “You-knowwho is auctioning his paintings. I think they mislabeled his location.

Hardly anyone seems to know he’s here. Should I stay and bid?”

My husband responded with an un-publishable variant of, “Jeepers, yes!”

So I committed myself to close down the event. As I have learned over the years, at silent auctions, one must linger until the last minute. Even if there’s low attendance, strange stuff happens at the end. The rule is to hover, to intimidate potential competitors while pretending to be civil and nonchalant—even though there’s smack-down rage simmering on the inside.

Blink, blink, smile, oh, hello. Oops, pardon me. Blink, blink, smile.

I signed up for four paintings, because it was him, plus everything was such a deal. But there was one painting I really want-

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ed. It was a still life with uplifting swirls of oranges and greens. A painting I would put in my office to gaze at maybe 50 times a day.

As the afternoon ticked away, I would circle back to check on the auction sheets. People were catching on, so I had to re-bid now and then. Then the pesky issue of cost began to surface. I eventually decided to focus on just two works—but especially on my orange dream. My office painting. Mine.

With every return visit, I would chat with the friendly artist, who was as colorful as an impressionist’s palette. By then my fandom became rock solid, and I mean Michelangelo-marble-slab rock solid. I had to own an original. I had to.

In the final ten minutes, a mini-mob converged on the scene.

Dang it. Pens flew across the bid sheets. But I was still safe.

Countdown to my beautiful orange…

Then, she appeared. Miss Artbucks. She blinked twice, smiled, and doubled my last bid before I had time to rationalize “spending too much.” Orange, crushed.

I now own the other painting.

I’m sure the artist was aware of the last-minute drama. He actually hugged me (not her) as he handed me my winning bid.

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And, it’s a painting with a built-in back story. Literary festival, indeed.

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