Carole Sikes Artist / Writer in Austin, Texas

I'm producing a new 30" x 30" painting of some beautiful grasses like those that have turned golden after our frosty February. I thought it might be interesting to capture at least a couple of stages of the work in progress. Unfortunately I didn't photograph the initial marks on the canvas which to me always are exciting, but here is stage #2. Perhaps next month I will have the final results.

MUSEUM NEWS The rumor is true. Front page news on the Feb. 25 issue of the Austin American Statesman was that AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART is regrouping, restructuring and moving from its downtown location. The board is considering a focus of their resources on the AMOA-Laguna Gloria Campus. JUDITH SIMS, has been artfully directing activities and improvements at the school, the villa and the gatehouse gallery for many years. She has worked at LAGUNA GLORIA with former directors Laurence Miller and Dana Fris-Hansen. Dana recently resigned as director of AMOA and is currently traveling abroad but hopefully will return to Austin and its arts scene. He will be missed by so many of us who considered him the friendly, gentlemanly face of Austin's first important art museum. AMOA's former administrator JACK NOKES is interim director. He and the downtown staff and some of the "FIFTEEN ARTISTS TO WATCH" were at the Director's Circle gathering on the 23rd of February for a previ