Cy-Fair Events and Happenings in Cy-Fair Area

Kathy Womack’s work is featured on wine barrels that can serve as the base for a table.

beginning march 27

area resident to be featured
at bayou city art festival

Kathy Womack, a graduate of Klein Oaks High School, will be among the 300 artists participating in the Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park March 27-29. The fine juried art festival, ranked the No. 3 festival in the U.S. by the readers of AmericanStyle magazine in the February 2009 issue, received 1,100 artists’ applications from all over the U.S. and Canada—the most in festival history.

A past Bayou City Art Festival featured artist, Womack is best known for her Women and Wine paintings. She will also exhibit her new Burlesque series this spring.

“I live vicariously through my paintings. As a mother of three my life is hardly glamorous. It ’s very full, just not glamorous. So there’s this little piece of me that screams to put on some strappy sandals and an evening frock and hit the town, see the girls, have a glass of wine —or two,” said Womack. “Call the baby sitter and say you might be a little late. That’s the inspiration for Women and Wine. The success of the series lies in the fact that I share this view with many women today who might feel the weight of our commitments and just need to get out and mingle, ” she added.

Womack, whose art career began as a fashion illustrator/graphic designer for the Austin American Statesman in retail advertising, notes that much of the creativity in her work focuses on the women ’s fashion design. With the move to computer-generated images in the late ’80s, she switched from graphic design to fine art. Having always painted throughout her life, she picked up her brushes again, with more purpose. In addition to her canvases, she is painting her figures on wine barrels that can be topped with glass to create custom tables.

Starting with First Look Friday on March 27, the award-winning Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park welcomes more than 300 visual and performing artists 10 a.m.-6 p.m. through Sunday, March 29. The juried fine art event, the only festival to take place in Memorial Park, showcases 19 media formats, transforming the park ’s tree-lined, 1.1-mile loop into a canopied outdoor art gallery, bursting with fine art and multi-cultural music and dance. The colorful offerings include clay, drawing/pastel, fiber/textiles, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, watercolor and wood creations.

Admission is $10 for adults and free for children 12 and under.

The festival’s Emerging Artists program invites area high school students to create and exhibit their 3-D installation and 2-D art in the park. Younger children will enjoy the Capital One Bank Creative Zone, an interactive area designed for children and families to explore the fun of art. All proceeds from donations made in the Capital One Bank Creative Zone are divided equally among the festival ’s participating nonprofit partners.

There is no public parking in Memorial Park. The festival provides free shuttle service from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. to and from Memorial Park on Friday from Northwest Mall on Hwy. 290; and Saturday and Sunday from Northwest Mall and downtown: Memorial Drive at Rusk, Rusk at Smith and Smith at Capitol.

For a schedule, pre-sale discount purchases and further information, go to www.bayoucityartfestival.com or call 713-521-0133.

habitat for humanity tool box bash, march 21

Habitat for Humanity Northwest Harris County will host its fourth annual Tool Box Bash on March 21 at 6:30 p.m. at the Greenspoint Marriott Hotel.

This “construction casual” fundraiser is a fun event featuring a sit-down dinner, construction themed games, live and silent auctions and music and dancing. Raffle tickets are $5 each or six for $25 with a chance to win two round trip tickets from Houston to London on British Airways and $750 for hotel expenses. Proceeds from the Tool Box Bash will assist families in need of affordable housing.

For more information, contact Rachael Wright at 281-820-2307 or development@habitatnwhc.org.

nam’s 12th annual art for the hungry food sculpture competition, March 22-April 5

Northwest Assistance Ministries is looking for creative people to construct food sculptures using a minimum of 1,000 non-perishable food items. The theme for this year ’s event at Willowbrook Mall is “Disney’s World of Caring.”

Sculpture building night is Sunday, March 22. The edible artwork will be on display through April 5. Shoppers are encouraged to go by and vote for their favorite creation.

Competitors must enter in one of three categories: school groups, churches and community organizations/businesses. The event is designed to raise money and food donations to feed children this summer when free school meals are not available. It ’s all for a good cause—and fun, too!

Registration packets are available by contacting Tanecia Snid at 281-885-4608 or tsnid@namonline.org.

fallon franklin to perform at
Lone Star College-Cy-Fair, March 26

Lone Star College-CyFair welcomes vocalist Fallon Franklin to the campus on March 26 from 1 p.m.-2 p.m. in the College Center as part of LSC-CyFair ’s Women’s Month.

Franklin, who was featured on America’s Got Talent, has shared the stage with Asleep at the Wheel, Vertical Horizon, Pat Green, Cory Morrow and The Great Divide.

For information on the concert series, call 281-290-3270 or e-mail cfstudentactivities@LoneStar.edu. For information on Women’s Month, go to CyFair.LoneStar.edu/womensmonth.

hub scramble golf tournament,
march 30

Houston’s First Baptist Church will hold its Annual HUB Scramble Golf Tournament on March 30 at Black Horse Golf Club, 12205 Fry Road.

The day will begin at 11:30 a.m. on the driving range,with a shotgun start at 1:30 p.m. and dinner served following the tournament.

For registration forms or sponsorship and fee information, go to HFBC.org and click “Events.”

For more information, contact Susan Newman at 713-957-7631.

student State-Fish Art Contest,
deadline march 31

The deadline for entering the Texas State-Fish Art Contest is March 31, and students and teachers should take time now to review the contest rules and regulations.

Texas students who enter the contest can win prizes of up to $1,000. Entries are judged in three grade-level divisions: 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12.

Thanks to funding from the Toyota Texas Bass Classic, the three first-place winners from Texas receive financial assistance for travel to Minneapolis, Minn., to compete in the national competition.

The complete set of rules is posted at www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishart. Links on that page contain everything needed to prepare entries to enter the contest.

Home-schooled students are also eligible to enter.

Women’s Month 2009, march 22-31

Lone Star College-CyFair will host a Women’s Month of activities from March 22-March 31 to celebrate, teach and empower women.

Windows on the World, whose mission is to facilitate a series of events designed to enrich the LSC-CyFair community, is sponsor of 2009 Women ’s Month. Events include lectures and panel discussions, films, concerts, art exhibitions, library displays and health fairs.

All events are open to the public and will be held at the Barker Cypress campus. For a complete line-up of events, go to http://cyfair.lonestar.edu/womensmonth or
e-mail womensmonth@lonestar.edu.

Computer Classes at the Library, during March

Dave Smith, computer instructor, will be teaching seven different computer classes at the Barbara Bush Branch Library in March The classes are computer basics, Introduction to the Internet, e-mail, MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint and Publisher. Each class meets for one 2-hour session. As class size is limited to 12 people, pre-registration is required for each class. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Call the library at 281-376-4610 for more information and to register for a class. The classes are held in the Barbara Bush Library Friends Computer Lab. Check out the online registration at http://www.hcpl.net/calendar.php.