Be an inspired participant in a vibrant celebration of life this spring at Lone Star College-CyFair’s “Walking Out of Darkness” art exhibition March 2-April 13.
Laura Sprague, an art educator for more than three decades including the past three years at LSC-CyFair, is a multidisciplinary artist whose artistry is expressed through sculpture and paintings as well as jewelry and glass work.
“In this immersive exhibit that includes drawings, altered photographs, and figurative and more abstract ceramic pieces, Laura will celebrate life and help raise awareness about suicide,” said Bosque Gallery Director Matthew Backer. “The exhibit will be interactive inviting visitors to write a wish, hope or message on a ‘leaf’ and place it on a welded steel tree.”
Sprague said her work seeks to give form to the organic life force in nature and in people. While appreciating the beauty in things such as unity, pattern and movement, she also recognizes the beauty in anything reflecting the eternal, including dark corners of nature.
“My work seeks to give full expression to the universal themes of life and the eternal,” she explains. “My primary motivation is exploring the ideas of paradox, creating objects which visualize the tension in nature.”
Hear more from this artist at the 6:30 p.m. opening reception March 2. Then join her for the March 22 Library Art Talk at 1:30 p.m. in LRNC Room 131 about the creative processes of motivation, aesthetic power of art and more followed with a viewing of her exhibition in the Bosque Gallery.
Next on the schedule will be the Student Art Showcase April 27-May 9, which highlights the original work LSC-CyFair visual art students have completed in their classes and includes an awards ceremony and fashion show at the opening reception.
The Bosque Gallery is located in the Center for the Arts building on the Barker Cypress campus at 9191 Barker Cypress. For hours and information, go to LoneStar.edu/bosquegallery.
It’s not too late to register for spring classes with multiple Next Start options available. For information, go to LoneStar.edu/regcyfair or LoneStar.edu/nextstartcyfair.