The arts will grow where the seeds are planted
It is important for a community to pay attention to its own cultural development, feed into it and nurture it. The culture of a community is represented by its art and music. Our residents need to support our art businesses and help our cultural arts organizations to grow by joining, subscribing, volunteering or donating! People who buy tickets, make donations, register for classes, or help plan art events, art exhibitions and art and music festivals are making great things happen for Katy. It’s worth it too. Art is good business and will make a great place like Katy an even better place to live.
It is up to people like you to make things happen. The people that live here, work here and play here. Come out for the arts in Katy, support your cultural district development. Buy tickets and plan events. The arts represent our unique culture and diversity. We need to work together to help make our arts community grow. It’s time to live a dream, be an artist, be a supporter of the arts and create a whole and creative community.
Be a part of the arts.
Join the Cultural Planning and Events Review Committee and help bring the arts to Katy!
The non-profit Arts, and individual artists, musicians, and art businesses; paint and ceramic, music and dance studios, supportive venues, caterers, marketing and graphic services, designers… these are the creative people and organizations that are part of our art community, they help make Katy creative and unique and we need to support cultural outreach, arts development and our art businesses here in Katy.
Look for our cultural art organizations with corporate offices, kiosks, galleries, venues, theaters and studios located within the Cinco Ranch 77450 district. Villagio Town Center at Corner of Westheimer Parkway and Peek Road and NE to the Equestrian Center in Cinco Ranch. The seeds are planted. You’ll find the arts alive and growing here. And More Art will grow if the community helps. Immediate support for cultural district development has been made possible by developers like Marcel Group from the Woodlands who are offering subsidies to support the development of new art business and cultural arts organizations in Katy to find the heart beat of activity at the Villagio Town Center and in Cinco Ranch.
Cultural Art Organizations that have registered for kiosk space, gallery space, donated artists studios, workshop space, public art projects, and venue sponsored events at Villagio Town Center include:
ARTreach Gallery and Studios at the V Gallery- with Gallery Night openings once a month on the 3rd Friday. The next public opening is February 18th, with additional art groups represented by March 18th
ARTreach Institute- Teaching Artist Training Center. Training workshop that invites students to participate for free or subsidized workshops with practicing artists in training. Unique and new workshops are scheduled quarterly. Participants may register in advance for an upcoming workshops with professional artists and volunteers in training. Artists and volunteer are training for Outreach, to bring the arts to neglected populations, children at risk, in hospitals, impoverished communities, senior living and assisted living centers, and special needs facilities and home care groups. Wherever ARTreach goes. We make sure the arts are part of everyone’s life. www.artreachonline.org
The Texas Music Project in Katy. LIVE at the V.I.P. with great concerts in line through April. Touring and coming to Katy- Inner City All Stars, Sara Hickman, Del Casitllo and Jon Christopher Davis and the Lone Star Attitude. Different genres to represent our diverse community with support from the Texas Commission on the Arts. This project supports economic development and cultural tourism and will measure local community support for the arts through tickets sales and community donations. “Come out the the Arts in Katy!
Katy Heritage Society- Community Outreach – Public Art Project- “All Aboard Katy!” Find the Community Artists Studios and amazing trains and works in progress at the Villagio Town Center- Heritage Roundhouse Studios.www.katyheritagesociety.com
Katy Visual and Performing Arts Center (KVPAC)- Outreach and Community Theater previews monthly at the VIP and and Villagio Plaza- and children’s art shows coming to the “V” Gallery soon. Arts Alive at LaCenterra this spring, and always great after school art programs and community theater at the Equestrian Center. www.kvpac.org
Young Audiences of Houston- offering sponsored family presentations, storytellers, puppet shows, music and previews . Young Audience of Houston connects our schools and community to the cultural arts and Arts For Learning Programs. PTAs and Arts in Education Committees are aware of this great arts organization. Families can learn more at the YAH Kiosk at the V Gallery at Villagio. www.yahouston.org
TEXAS PTA has a kiosk representing Arts in Education Committees and PTA involvement in the schools and community here- Find Arts Advocacy information for parents and teachers at the V Gallery at Villagio. Coming this spring see an exhibition of the State winners of the 2011 Reflections Program- theme “We’re in this Together!” www.TXPTA.org and our local Katy ISD Council of PTAs www.katycouncil.org
ALL non-profit art groups, colleges and fine arts groups are invited to be here, to represent Katy’s great and growing arts community. Art related businesses may apply for unique developer subsidies and V Gallery support to make creating your art business to be viable in Katy. No matter where your art business is located in the the Katy area. We’ll show it off at the V Gallery and share your business information at the Art Business Kiosks in Katy at Villagio. It’s a new idea, how it grows depends on proactive involvement and our community interest and support.
ARTreach Corporate Offices at FALA Creative, and KVPAC, offering theater and art programs, and Katy’s great community theater, The Encore Players, and Night at the Improv are also located in this area and at the Equestrian Center in Cinco Ranch. ART on the Lake is coming in April to be held at Firethorne. Artist and volunteers are needed to share creative and interactive art activities to encourage children to participate in the arts.
Thank you to the work behind the scenes represented by the Cultural Planning and Events Review Committee and a growing list of art supporters and businesses supporting the arts in Katy. If you are into the arts, you need to be part of this. Every brushstroke helps to paint the greater picture. Just reach out for the arts, connect the dots and paint with lots of color. If you represent art, theater and music and you are here in Katy, please become involved in Katy’s cultural planning and development. info@artreachonline.org (281) 392-5341
What kind of art and art events would you like to see happening in Katy?
Tags: art, ARTreach, Concerts in Katy, Katy Arts
Art, Music and something magical – monthly at the ARTreach Gallery
Gallery Night, the 3rd Friday of each month at the Villagio Town Center
SEPT 19, 2010 Katy, TX – ARTreach Gallery Night on Sept 17th featured an unveiling of amazing artwork and a host of great artists and musicians in the community. Katy is invited to join ARTreach each month at the Gallery at Villagio Town Center – the Friday night receptions include art, wine, appetizers and desserts and is free to the public. This is your chance to see new art, and be introduced to amazing artists, hear live music and participate in the process of making and buying original art.
This is the ARTreach Gallery – The organization is featuring a roster of professional exhibiting gallery artists and visual and performing arts entertainers monthly at the ARTreach Gallery & Marketplace. ARTreach sells original art, pottery, fused glass, jewelry, the most unique gifts for teachers and friends to help raise money for ARTreach Programs. The Marketplace includes ARThouse Coffee Blend and Cups of Caring created by art volunteers and students in the community, and other wonderful items to help bring art programs to underserved schools in our tri county area. ARTreach Gallery Night features an ARTparty on the Patio with family art activities sponsored by Berryhill Baja Grill of Cinco Ranch.
Gallery Artist of the Month- Vickie McMillan and the ART of Africa
Featured Musician – Bill Solley courtesy of Cinco Ranch Conservatory of Music
Special Guest Star – Graelyn Kelly of ARTreach
Guest Artist- Mark DeLeon, Live Painting- Professional Graffiti Artist from the ARTreach Warehouse in NW Houston &
George Melchor- Painting the ARTreach /Tradition Bank “All Aboard Katy” Train at the Roundhouse!
ARTreach Teaching Artist of the Month- Danny Russo, professional silk screen artist, on the Patio at Berryhill with art activities for the children
Special Patio Artist- Face painting by Amber Gustafson of Katy and Amber’s Design
Thank you to ARTreach Art Volunteers from National Charity League Azalea Chapter
Featured caterer of the month – Hasta La Pasta
Wine of the month- LangeTwins Winery & Vineyards
Featured ARTreach Program of the Month- Art of Africa, Uganda Arts Council and International ARTreach Exhibiting Artist’s Vocational Training Workshops
All this IS happening at the ARTreach Gallery Night at Villagio Town Center- New artists, music and activities each month- This is signature ARTreach event that benefits the entire community. The public is invited each month – visit Villagio Town Center and the ARTreach Gallery the 3rd Friday of every month, 6-10 pm. The Gallery is open for special events and ARTreach workshops held throughout the month, and the items in the Gallery can be found and purchased online soon via the ARTreach Gallery and Marketplace www.artreachonline.org
Upcoming at the ARTreach Gallery
October 15 – More Art of Africa! Musician of the month courtesy of the Cinco Ranch Conservatory of Music. “Art to a Different Beat” Mark DeLeon and Hannah Anderson live at Berryhill Baja Grill.
November 19- A Featured artist and professional photographer, Fatima Donaldson. Check out the ARTreach Marketplace- Sweet Heat Jalapeño Jelly created in the ARTreach “Within My Reach” Culinary Art Program for adults with special needs.
December 17- featured artist of the month- Elizabeth Bailey, Art to a Different Beat! ARTreach Christmas Marketplace and Teacher Gift Party- Buy your gifts from the ARTreach Gallery and Marketplace. Your art purchase helps to bring art programs to underserved title one schools in our community. PTAs can a help! ARTreach Rotating Gallery and Marketplace can be booked to come to your school by a PTA. ARTreach makes art shopping easy for parents and teachers – PTAs and ARTreach work together to help a sister school in need of art programs and beneficial cultural arts and educational connections.
ARTreach is in the community and bringing the arts to Katy through resource sharing partnerships and creative art and music outreach that will amaze you! Visit the website, www.artreachonline.org. You’ll be inspired! Please volunteer, donate, and get involved in the arts. It’s worth it.
Contact Terri Bieber, ARTreach Executive Director for more information about ARTreach or Gallery Night 281-392-5341. To join the Gallery, interested artists and musicians, please submit an online application, the ARTreach Gallery Director is Fatima Donaldson. Sponsors and new art partners please contact Christine Stilwell at c.stilwell@artreachonline.org Additional photos are online and can be downloaded by the media. Our photographer is Janet Buller of Buller Photography.
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All Aboard Katy! You are HOT!
Thank you Katy Heritage Society! Your Public Art Train Project, “All Aboard Katy!” is putting Katy on the track to becoming a cultural HOT spot! And City of Katy hotel taxes and the Arts in Katy are the attractive passengers on that Hot Train!
“All Aboard Katy!” is a public art project initiated by the Katy Heritage Society to help raise money for the Heritage Society and their mission to protect and preserve the history of Katy. The Trains help share the history of Katy with residents outside the city’s jurisdiction, residents of Cinco Ranch for example, who may not be as familiar with the MKT Rail connection to Katy’s history. “Why a train?” is a common question concerning this art project. “Doesn’t our history in Cinco Ranch connect to horses?” or “I thought Katy’s history was related to our schools, a prairie, a goose, maybe that rice dryer?” All true, all good. But never forget that the MKT rail line is what moved all the people and materials we needed to build Katy on the plains. The truth is, having Katy “newcomers” share a sense of history with Katy “old timers” will create a stronger connection to Katy for everyone, and a strong connection to your community is what makes citizens become proud stewards of a community.
That is the Katy Heritage Society’s vision: to make ALL of us proud and protective of our entire Katy community, whether we live in the City of Katy jurisdiction or not, and most this area’s residents don’t live within the City of Katy limits. We live in the unincorporated areas surrounding the City of Katy. But we all live close enough to the City of Katy to care about the city’s efforts to protect and preserve Katy’s history and to keep planning to improve the look and feel of the community, including public arts projects like “All Aboard Katy!”. It makes us feel proud of our environment and makes us want to stay.
Everyone gains when their City cares enough about their citizen’s environment to invest in the Arts. Thanks Katy Heritage Society you are on the right track. Thanks for caring for all of us!
I live in Cinco Ranch and I know my family benefits and my home value increases when the arts are present within my community, and our caring elected officials in Katy would certainly get my vote, if I had one! I hope when a vote for the Arts comes up on the Council, they will be thinking about us. Thank you for supporting the arts in Katy!
Knowing that Hotel tax funds can only be spent with the city limits, it usually goes to restoration of a park building, the rice harvest festival, and various small conventions. These funds must include some facet of bringing visitors to Katy to stay in the hotels where the funds come from. Our quality of life, and our sense of place can be positively impacted by what the decision makers decide to fund. What art projects would you like to see the City of Katy support using Hotel tax funds?
