Where Was Suzie When She Won the Rose Award?

By Bob Bahr This is an important question, because it indicates why she received the Rose Award in the first place. The Rose Award is an award not given every year at the SKB Dubois Workshop—only when there is a clearly deserving recipient. This past year, Suzie...

John Banovich on TexArt and Painting Big

by Bob Bahr   “I want you to feel more than think.”   John Banovich is explaining why he paints the way he does. Banovich paints big. His pieces often avoid a literal narrative. He is waiting for you, the viewer, to bring the rest of the story to...

New Approaches at This Year’s SKB

by Bob Bahr Two new options were added this year to the Susan Kathleen Black Foundation’s workshop in Dubois–instructors were teaching relief sculpting and colored pencil on suede board. Stephen Spears was leading participants in their exploration of...

SKB Spotlight: Maddy Whatley

There are people with talents, with skills developed through hard work, with charisma. Any of those can translate into success. One trait almost always guarantees success, and Maddy Whatley has it, along with the others: Determination. Whatley is attending Lone Star...