Rockport Plein Aire Group shows work.

RCA remembers Mary Lou Lewis

Authors Kathleen Kaska and Karey Johnson will be present Saturday, December 1 from 5-7 pm to sign and share their recently released books.

Quilt show and open house

SXSW Winner about video game creator turned 2nd generation astronaut; as well as date-night feature about an L.A. musician returning to Texas Roots; a documentary about the Wounded Warrior program honoring war veterans, and the infamous 80s ladies wrestling television program GLOW... along with short film blocks and more, this year's stage is set!

Ewoud de Groot, a rising star in the world of painting, will spend three weeks in Rockport beginning October 1, culminating in a show opening October 20.

11 prize winners were awarded on Saturday, July 7 for the 2012 Rockport Art Festival, including 10 Best of Media and 1 Best of Show award.

Every year the Rockport Art Festival T-Shirt has a unique design. The 2012 shirt design was selected from a contest of Rockport-Fulton Middle School Students.

Each year a jury panel awards Best of Category and Best of Show prizes to the top selections in the annual Rockport Art Festival.

The June/July issue of Garden & Gun profiles Texas-born artist James Surls through his remarkable career, including a small mention of Rockport as a recent recipient of one of his pieces!

Wildlife photographer and author David McChesney will give a visual/musical presentation of his latest series of stunning photographs from the Mojave Desert Saturday, June 9, 4:00 pm at the Rockport Aquarium Education Center. Admission is FREE!

Coastal Bend native and filmmaker/screenwriter Clark Childers is developing his first feature film while based in Rockport.

Wildlife sculptor Sandy Scott is named one of "ten leaders shaping the world of representational art" in May 2012's Southwest Art Magazine.

Coastal Bend Arts Patron Susie Love has been helping High School seniors into college with a $2,000 scholarship since 2009.

Join previous poster award winners Larry Felder, Evelyn Atkinson, Christi Mathews, Kyle Polzin and Kay Barnebey in the 64th Annual Shrimporee Festival's Poster Contest! This fantastic annual event returns this year on the second weekend in June.

In 2011, spurred on by yet another school's announcement that it would be eliminating its visual art program due to budget restrictions, I began the ArtSkool Project.

The Art Center will host two resident artists in 2012 as part of a new artist-in-residence program.

Carol Koutnik (2005 Poster Artist) will be included in a group show at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, March 1 - April 18

The 2012 Merit Artists are Mary Downing, Pam Fulcher, Deborah Males, Les McDonald, Ken Reese, and People's Choice: Pete Fischer.

Check out these short videos that demonstrate how to navigate ZAPP and upload images for the Art Festival Jury.