Maestro Stefan Sanders ~ Informal Talk ~ September 15
Love Music?
Conductor Stefan Sanders is starting The 2023-24 season of the Central Texas Philharmonic with a once-only sensory experience blending artistic creations of music and painting. He selected “Pictures at an Exhibition by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky for the debut performance of the orchestra, and is personally curating paintings by Benini selecting works from more than 60 years to synch with the orchestra’s performance during the movement.
On September 15th, he will meet guests at Museo Benini and share information about this Sunday afternoon performance as well as the 2023-2024 concerts, featured at the Klett Center for the Performing Arts in Georgetown, Texas.
Maestro Sanders is a graduate of Juilliard, a famous trombone player on the international circuit, and a masterful conductor, starting his fourth season for the Central Texas Philharmonic and his sixth season as Music Director for the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina. His long list of credits and performances can be viewed on his website.
The reception is free of charge, but reservations are requested. Call 830-693-2147.
Plein Air Painters working all day followed by Benini Question and Answers in the Museum April 25th
April 25th 10-6
10:00 to 4:00
You are invited to the annual HLCA Paint Out as 33 plein air artists paint throughout the ranch.
4:00
After the plein air painters have put their brushes away for the day, Benini will meet the artists and guests for Q and A in the museum.
Everyone welcome, always free of charge at Museo Benini.
There is an art to painting outdoors.
Painting outdoors offers the pleasure of working in the midst of Mother Nature. It also brings its share of challenges. Light and reflections are constantly changing, as leaves, water, and flowers are in motion, To work “en plein air” or in the open air, as John Singer Sargent and Claude Monet, to name only two, chose to do has intrigued artists through the years.
On April 25th, 33 renown plein air painters will set up easels outdoors at Museo Benini and paint canvases that will be exhibited for sale the following Friday at the Lakeside Pavilion on the Colorado River in Marble Falls.
The Highland Lakes Creative Arts, a non-profit organization of artists and arts lovers in the Marble Falls area have organized events from April 23rd through April 29th centered around this annual Paint the Town event.
The VIP reception and exhibition Friday night (a ticketed event) features the completed works of 33 painters and will reveal the 2023 winners as selected by Judge Charlie Hunter, (www.charliehunter.art) as well as sculpture by three renown sculptors, live music, refreshments and live auction excitement.
For more information visit Highland Lakes Creative Arts at hlcarts.com or send an email to info@MuseoBenini.com.
OLLI of Texas Tech University Museum Tour - April 18, 2023
Tuesday, April 18 at 2:00
OLLI is a learning community for adults age 50+, providing enjoyable and stinulating non-credit learning and cultural opportunites for its members. For more information about the Highland Lakes chapter, contact Sarah Ramos by email, Sarah.Ramos@ttu.edu.
Benini at Museo Benini
Benini will meet museums guests at 4:00 Saturdays.
The Peaceable Kingdom arrives from California.
The Peaceable Kingdom returns….
In 1982, Benini painted this 8 ft. x 8 ft. painting entitled The Peaceable Kingdom: A Tribute to Brother Hicks.
He was living on the shores of Lake Harney, on the north-flowing St. John’s River, northeast of Orlando. It is the only one he painted with a grouping of animals. The leopard with its rosettes (what is commonly called its spots) was a special challenge, and so…. one rose above, two birds and eight animals on a deep blue background became his rendition related to the Isaiah 11:6 verse.
This verse, in the King James version, speaks that the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together….various revisions abound, but the theme being that peace will exist throughout the kingdom with animals at peace with each other…and it is the theme that Edward Hicks, a Quaker repeated in his paintings again and again.
Edward Hicks (1780-1849), an Aries like Benini, was born in Pennsylvania, and became a minister of the Society of Friends. He painted 62 paintings of the harmonious Peaceable Kingdom, one example follows.
Benini’s Peacheable Kingdom was still on the easel when his collector Sheila Martin Stone flew in from California, purchased it, and added it to her large collection of Benini’s work. A gracious and generous lady, Sheila Martin Stone, died last year, and knowing, MuseoBenini is established as a single-artist museum, her will specified the painting be returned to the museum, where it will be on display. Our appreciation to her and to World Air and Ocean Services of San Francisco for the safe crating and delivery to MuseoBenini.
Slow Art Tours Continue during covid times...small groups given time for contemplation...
The museum is 6500 square feet so social distancing is not a problem. Here a friend views Quant e’ Bella Giovenezza by Benini. 48” wide by 78” tall, one of the rare pieces he completed in tones of pinks…..hand blended with a center of blended golds….to the right of the painting is Benini’s divertimenti entltled, Susanna and the Elders.
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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
OLLI is a continuing education program at Texas Tech University. No tests, no grades, no research papers - just intellectual stimulation.
Open to everyone 50 year of age and older. For information, contact olli.hillcountry@ttu.edu.
Second Deise Sculpture in MUSEOBENINI Sculpture Collection
The bright red sculpture of Phoenix sculptor Deise, from his Tether series - the second Deise added the MUSEOBENINI Collection - has been mounted on a limestone base near the main entrance. More information on Deise is available at DeiseSculpture.com.
MUSEOBENINI Sculpture Collection
COLLECTION
Katy Hodgkins preparing to create her sculpture of stacked stones. No mortar.
Katy Hodgkins creates her sculpture made of stacked stones
Cheryl Quallenberg, director of the Llano Earth Art Fest, home of the World Rock Stacking Championship, watches Katy carefully place limestone and pre-cambrain rock pieces to build her sculpture, "Filter" at MUSEOBENINI.
Katy Hodgkins rebuilding her sculpture at MUSEOBENINI. Katy is represented by Lisa Butler Fine Arts. She currently lives in Texas.