Outdoor Painters Society’s annual Plein Air Southwest, a juried plein air competition, exhibition, and sale moves to the Texas Coast.  

CORPUS CHRISTI GLASS ARTISAN, BRAD PEARCE, RETURNS TO ROCKPORT, WHERE HE FIRST LEARNED HIS CRAFT

(ROCKPORT,TX.)Every year Rockport Center for the Arts hosts a statewide, juried exhibition for undergraduate and graduatestudents emerging in the visual arts.Three winners are awarded cash prizes, $500 for first prize, $300 for second prize, and $200 for third prize.This year the winners will be selected by Rainey Knudson.

BETWEEN, BLAKE KENNEDY’S MATURE CERAMIC WORKS DEMONSTRATE DEPTH,INTIMACY AND REFLECTION 

2017 All-Member Exhibition

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum's 2016 Birds in Art Exhibition comes to the Center

Once again 6 outstanding Member Artists make up this year's Merit Show: Standing Out. Kitty Dudics, retired Professor of Art from Del Mar, Corpus Christi selected artists for this year's group exhibit at the Rockport Center for the Arts.

Tim Olson's one-person show includes miniature paintings and drawings incorporating collage and found object assemblage.

The Art Center welcomes our 24th Poster Artist to kick off Art Festival season!

Curated by Lauren Amalia Redding, this exhibition encompasses the voices of several New York-based women artists, who along with Jane Eyre announce, "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

This year’s Texas Clay Arts Association member show, The Six Pack Show, will showcase works from over 60 artists across Texas and beyond.

In Voracious Spaces, Joe Pena examines the culture of food trucks illuminated as they are by the intimate light of ethnic identity.

Carol Koutnik returns to the Main Gallery with her one-person show, Fantastic Garden. Carol was our 2005 Poster Artist and serves on the Art Center Board. She has been painting for over 50 years.

Every year RCA hosts a statewide juried exhibition for undergraduate and graduate students emerging in the visual arts. Prize winners are awarded to the top three artworks and selected by an invited juror: $500 First Prize, $300 Second Prize, and $200 Third Prize. 

For her 40th birthday, Mary Fischer treated herself to a clay class. She has been working in clay ever since. After taking classes as Southwest School of Arts and Craft, Mary discovered that functional clay was not her language, and has spend her time instead developing the "bleakly whimsical" structures she is known for today. 

Sally Mitchell is a local member artist. Those who frequent our galleries should be familiar with Sally's regular contributions to the Members Galleries in various medias, but this one-person Garden Gallery show will be a great opportunity for visitors to see a selection of her photographic work.

The annual all-member exhibition highlights our family of artists and provides a chance to stand out as a Merit Artist the following year. An invited juror will chose five Merit Artists, and a sixth is selected by popular vote.

2016 Artist-in-Residence, Ellen Heck Print Exhibition

Gallery: Garden Gallery

Chispa's brings prime examples of her magical realism in the form of triptic alter pieces. Dramatic abstract landscapes counterpoise Chispa's magical realism alter pieces. This show will include drawings as well as oils on both canvas and paper.