2025

November 15, 2025 - February 1, 2026
Seth Damm | Dimensions Unknown
Barry Stone | Slow Bell

October 11, 2025 - Janaury 5, 2026
Gil Rocha | Cáscaras y Leftovers: Mapping Memories for Tomorrow

August 9 - November 2, 2025
Roberto Jackson Harrington | Almost certain superfluity
Daniel Seth Kraus | Monoliths Among Palmettos: The Failed Florida Barge Canal

July 5 - October 5, 2025
Blyah Krouba & Cat Martinez | Roots in Frame

June 14 - August 3, 2025
Kingsley Onyeiwu | Crowned in Contradictions

April 12 - July 6, 2025
Brandon Ballengée | The Sea of Lost Children

March 8 - June 8, 2025
Ashely Thomas | Solastagia Hour
Micheal Anthony García | Radical Synergy

January 11 - March 30, 2025
Vitus Shell | Study Long, Study Wrong

April 22 – May 28 , 2017

Strand Gallery

April 22 - May 28, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, April 22, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Jules Buck Jones
Gardens and Graveyards

Austin-based Jules Buck Jones’ exhibition, Gardens and Graveyards, is a multimedia installation fusing his paintings, drawings, and sculpture with backdrops, props, and costumes from his Animal Facts Club performances. Jones’ work hints at the supernatural authority of nature through anthropomorphized landscapes and pairings of odd congregations of wildlife. The work delves into thoughts of evolution, transformation, and extinction. Animal Facts Club, puts on theatrical performances which highlight the wide range of species of Texas.

Jules Buck Jones earned his MFA in Painting at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, in 2008 and a BA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, in 2005, and has had artist residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, ME), The Light House Works (Fisher Island, NY), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) and AIRIE in the Everglades National Park (Homestead, FL). His work has been exhibited throughout Texas and his native Virginia. He has received commissions from Gensler (Houston, TX), Dell Children’s Hospital (Austin, TX) and the City of Austin, TX. His work is in the permanent collection at The Contemporary Austin. He is represented by Conduit Gallery (Dallas, TX) and David Shelton Gallery (Houston, TX). Animal Facts Club is a like-minded consortium of artists, scientists, musicians, and writers who come together to share awesome facts about animals with each other. They put on educational performances, create annual calendars, and make animations and videos about the amazing character traits of animals. 

www.julesbuckjones.com

1878 Gallery

April 22 - May 28, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, April 22, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

Calder Kamin
Plastic Planet

Like the scavenger animals Calder Kamin sculpts, she collects a variety of colored plastic bags from her friends and family. Kamin strips and twists the bags into textures like fur or grass to create the work in her exhibition Plastic Planet. This same plastic litters road, fills oceans, and has entered the tissue of all living things. Her work poses the question, “What are the steps to solve this crisis?” In addition to the exhibition, Kamin’s Neocortex Classroom provides visitors an opportunity to absorb the problems of our planet, such as pollution and extinction caused by humans. Through hands-on activities and events, Kamin is motivated to inspire her audience make better choices for the environment. Kamin’s art sparks activism and an opportunity to participate in the greater good by transforming materials and her audiences.

Calder Kamin earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute. Kamin was the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s Art Truck Artist for the 2013-2014 school year and the first Artist-in-Residence at the Beach Museum of Art. She was one of 102 national artists to be selected for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s exhibition “State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now”. Kamin was a mentor for the Teen Artist + Mentor Program in 2015 and is a 2017 Crit Group fellow at Contemporary Austin. She has returned home to Austin, Texas. Her solo exhibition Plastic Planet at Women & Their Work was supported by a Mid-America Arts Alliance 2017 Artistic Innovations Grant. Her next project is to animate her Plastic Planet series for a PSA that will debut on KLRU with project funds from The Awesome Foundation. Kamin is featured in the series Arts In Context set to air on PBS in the fall of 2017.

calderkamin.com

Brown Foundation Gallery

April 22 - May 28, 2017

Opening Reception Saturday, April 22, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

James Talambas
2,524 Earthquakes This Past Year

Fort Worth-based multidisciplinary artist James Talambas brings his spatial work, 2,524 Earthquakes This Past Year - a sound installation referencing seismic activity in Oklahoma and North Texas between January 1 and September 12, 2016, attributed to the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, activity in the region.

James Talamabas is a composer and installation artist who employs technology, improvisation, and space into the pieces he composes, creating site-specific, and musician-specific electro-acoustic works. Talambas also creates original scores and sound design for film, and as the creator and owner of New Media Recordings, he produces, publishes, and arranges for artists internationally.

www.500x.org/james-talambas
www.newmediarecordings.com

Main, 1878, and Brown Foundation Galleries

June 4 - August 22, 2016

Opening Receptions Saturday, June 4, 2016 and July 16, 2016
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Curator’s talk at 6:30 PM

Twenty-Five: A Celebration | Twenty-Five: A Conclusion

This summer, GAC celebrated Clint Willour’s 25th anniversary as curator with two distinctive exhibitions.

Willour has curated approximately 4000 artists in 469 exhibitions for Galveston Arts Center. His curatorial expertise has been pivotal for artists, collectors and viewers throughout Texas.   Highly respected for his excellent understanding and promotion of outstanding contemporary visual art, he has given exhibitions to countless emerging, mid-career, and established artists, some of whom have since achieved national and international prominence. 

While his discerning eye has won him respect from the Art World at large, it is also his amiable character that has garnered admiration from all who have known and worked with Willour.  Never a flatterer, his approach is consistently honest without pomp or pretention, resulting in remarkably curated exhibitions that reveal the true nature of the artist or artists involved.

Galveston Arts Center is fortunate to have had Clint's creative leadership for the last quarter century.  We invite everyone to come and celebrate his accomplishments this summer with two exhibitions that honor one of our state's most respected curators and featuring some of its most renowned artists.

Both Summer Shows are a retrospective of artists Willour has worked with over the past 25 years including: David Bates, Mary McCleary, Luis Jimenez, Ann Stautberg, and David McGee. A full list of artists for Twenty Five: A Celebration can be found below. Twenty Five: A Conclusion will feature Galveston artists who have been shown at GAC, as well as works by artists to whom Willour gave their first or second exhibitions. The impressive artist list for A Conclusion includes Luis Jimenez, Arthur Turner, Sandria Hu, Julie Speed, David McGee, Michael Ray Charles, H.J. Bott, Jonathan Leach, and Robert Pruitt, among others.