Art Briefs
Lone Star Film Society
features documentary
The Lone Star Film Society will help to launch Fort Worth WeeklyÂ’s Music Awards at 7 p.m. June 17 with the North Texas premiere of Fort Worth native Andrew ShapterÂ’s documentary movie, Before the Music Dies. The venue is Four Day Weekend Theatre, 312 Houston.
A concert following the screening will showcase one of the film’s featured artists, trumpeter Ephraim Owens, with guest artists Red Young and Adonis Rose. Before the Music Dies casts a social-critic eye upon damages done to the music-making industry by an entrenched big-business tendency to homogenize the broadcasting and recording industries — with such consequences as prefabricated “stars” and institutionalized nationwide radio programming. Reservations ($20-$30) can be made online at www.lonestarfilmsociety.com.
Campbell gallery artists
poised for June 20 opening showcases
Acumen, an exhibition of new works by Sevan Melikyan, Jeff Mueller and Shawn Wallis, will open at 6 p.m. June 20 (through Aug. 15) at William Campbell Contemporary Art, 4935 Byers Ave.
Acumen emphasizes the reduction of formal and contextual elements to a range of essences. Melikyan seeks purity by reducing complex compositions to elemental color relationships. Wallis focuses on one color and its relationship to the canvas. Mueller monumentalizes commonplace graffiti by placing such elements in an unaccustomed context, focusing largely on the colors and lines inherent in the letters.
Meanwhile, the June issue of 360 West magazine features a spread on the paintings of Melikyan, more prominently known as marketing chief with the Van Cliburn Foundation.
Another Campbell-connected artist, Cecil Touchon, is featured in the current issue of Interior Design magazine.
A5A features
Jazz Collective
A June 20 concert by the Arts Fifth Avenue Jazz Collective will offer works by such historic Texas artists as Cedar Walton, Kenny Dorham and Ornette Coleman, in addition to original compositions. Showtime is 8 p.m.
Reservations ($15.00) can be made with a call to 817-923-9500. Arts Fifth Avenue is located at Fifth Avenue and West Allen in the Fairmount neighborhood.
Meanwhile, Arts Fifth Avenue has preserved its recent celebration of National Tap Dance Day, featuring Broadway champ Tommy Tune, on video. The DVD document of the occasion can be had for $20 from Glenn EubankÂ’s Images with Impact, 1021 Edgecliff Drive, Bedford TX 76022.
American Airlines
lands arts honors
American Airlines and its employees have been recognized by North Texas Business for Culture & the Arts (NTBCA) for a record of commitment to the arts.
The award remarks the carrier’s extended history of supporting the arts community via board memberships and donations — citing involvement with such organizations as Casa Mañana and the Fort Worth Cultural District at large.
YWCA unveils sculpture
The downtown YWCA has unveiled a monumental sculpture called Promise Fulfilled, by Fort Worth artist Michael Pavlovsky, at 512 West Fourth St. The bronze symbolizes the agencyÂ’s efforts to combat poverty and homelessness.
Carter Museum
sets gallery lecture
A 6 p.m. lecture June 18 at the Amon Carter Museum, “Sculpting Space,” will feature TCU art-history graduate students Katie Dillow and Martha MacLeod in a discussion of works from the museum’s permanent collection.
Allen Dance Institute
in progress at TCU
Fort WorthÂ’s traditional
Debbie Allen Dance Institute is in progress through June 20 at Texas Christian University, as presented by Imagination Celebration. Allen, a Texas Medalist of the Arts and acclaimed
choreographer and filmmaker, stresses the importance of
artistic discipline to success
in academic and personal achievement.
On the Web: www.icfw.org
