Hallet Oak Gallery–Juneteenth Celebration 

Sunday, June 19, 2022

12 PM – 4:00 PM 

Doors open at Noon to view special exhibits

Free and Open to the Public

Refreshments will be served.

1:00 PM: Meet & Greet Moses Adams, Naomi Carrier, Satori Davis, and Gene Grant.

Presentations:

1:30 PM to 2:00 PM:  Moses Adams “African Quilting from the Past”

2:30 PM to 3:00 PM:  Naomi Carrier “Window of the Past to Today”

3:00 PM to 3:30 PM:  Satori Davis “Mixed-Media New Works”

3:30 PM to 4:00 PM: Gene Grant “Historic Artwork”

4:30  PM: Doors close.

Former art teacher and renowned black history artist Moses Adams will discuss and display quilts created by his grandmother, Lettie Prince North.  Born in 1899 to former slaves, Mrs. North used one patch “postage stamp” designs. Her quilts have been published in “Collecting African American Art,” by John Hope Franklin and Alvia J. Wardlaw.  Naomi Carrier, author of “Go Down, Old Hannah,” founder of the Texas Center for African American Living History (http://www.tcaalh.org), and curator of the Mitchel Museum will discuss Juneteenth as a reminder of the emancipation from slavery and as a window into the past.  She will offer insight into how the past relates to current times. Satori Davis, a Hallettsville High School graduate is now attending Sam Houston College, she is exhibiting her new artworks.  Local Hallettsville artist Gene Grant will share his portrait of Frederick Douglas, leader in the abolitionist movement.

About the Speakers:

Moses Adams, Jr. was born May 11, 1947, in Los Angeles, CA and moved at an early age to Hallettsville with his grandparents. He attended Hallettsville High School and graduated from Steven Mayo School District in 1966. He received his BA in Art Education from Texas Southern University in 1970 and was enlisted in the US Army. After 26 years as an art educator, Moses retired from the Houston Independent School District after 26 years. His lifetime legacy is working on his personal retrospective of rural life during segregation. Presently, he is exposing the public to African American handmade quilting created solely by his grandmother. He is selling the quilts that will be on display, which have exhibited at the African American Museum of Dallas; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Texas Southern University in Houston; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Proceeds will go to the North Family Scholarship Fund and to Hallet Oak Gallery.

Naomi Mitchell Carrier graduated from the University of North Texas with a degree in Psychology and Education.  She earned a Master’s in Education Leadership at the University of St. Thomas and has done post graduate work at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her continuing education includes the University of Houston, Tulane University, and the Universities of Texas at Winedale, El Paso, and San Antonio.  Mrs. Carrier is a veteran classroom teacher of American and Texas history, music, literature and theatre.   Her book, “Go Down Old Hannah, The Living History of African American Texans” is a collection of 15 plays commissioned for historic sites around the State of Texas through her theater, Talking Back Living History Theatre.  Carrier was the Head of School at St. James Episcopal School and directed the Performing Arts Workshop at St. James School, is best known as the playwright and composer for the award-winning musical, “I Am Annie Mae.”  She has received grants and awards from the National Park Service, National Freedom Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Texas Commission for the Arts, Texas Composers Forum, Humanities Texas, The City of Houston, The Brown Foundation, The Meadows Foundation, Texas Parks & Wildlife, and The Houston Endowment.

Satori Davis, currently a Sam Houston University student, is known as an award-winning 2018 graduate of Hallettsville High School student, continues to delight viewers with “effortlessly-appearing, yet incredible detail” in her illustrations and keen eye for composition. Satori’s art teacher for four years explains, “Satori is an outstanding and hardworking student; I look forward to her future.” Satori uses real objects, people, and animals for subjects to create one-of-a-kind artworks. A true naturalist, she loves to draw things as they are in real life making her work very life-like. Winning Best-of-Show twice in the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Art Contest gave her a scholarship opportunity to attend the Glassell School of Art.  Satori also won the Patriotic Art Award through the Lavaca Memorial VFW Auxiliary #6382 three times. She won the 2017 Hallet Oak Gallery’s Art Contest, a 2017 South Central Texas Art League scholarship to attend a portrait workshop; and a 2018 Hallet Oak Foundation scholarship.  Her public artwork of an American Flag can be seen downtown Hallettsville at Glen’s Packing.

Gene Grant is a fourth generation South Central Texan whose great-grandfather helped construct the Lavaca County Courthouse. Still living in Lavaca County and inspired by Boris Vallejo, a Peruvian painter whose work has graced the covers of science fiction paperbacks, Gene is a self-taught artist. He uses minimal materials and always carries a notebook to create pencil sketches for his beautiful portraits. Gene enjoys and challenges himself in capturing facial features, especially the eyes. He is available for commissioned works and is a master at pencil, pastels, charcoal, and oil techniques. He studies oil painting under Michael Windberg.

Hallet Oak Gallery, 115 N. Main St., Hallettsville, TX 77964 www.halletoakgallery.com Free and open to the public.