Metal Artist Cheryl Garcia Chosen for International Art Show

Cheryl Garcia Demonstrates her craft at South Stage Cellars last year

Jacksonville metal artist Cheryl D. Garcia has been accepted as a featured artist in the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art’s 41st International Art Show in Brownsville, Texas. Cheryl traveled to Texas just prior to Christmas to visit the museum, deliver art, meet the curators and inspect the venue.

The Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, founded 1935, is the only institute in deepest south Texas dedicated exclusively to the advancement of the visual arts. In 2006 the Museum opened a new 17,000 square-foot building with conservation and exhibition facilities in the heart of the Mitte Cultural District of Brownsville.

While Cheryl was delivering her piece, she had the opportunity to view the museum’s current exhibit of the illustrative and sculptural works of Salvador DalÍ inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy and having been to the DalÍ museum in Figueres, Spain it was a special opportunity to revisit the collection.

This juried exhibition will begin with an artist’s reception on January 18th and run from then until February 17th, 2012.  BMFA is located at 660 East Ringgold Street, Brownsville TX 956-542-0941

Cheryl Garcia's Swallows

Cheryl is well-known in Jacksonville for her famous poppies in the vineyard just East of town, and her sculptures are cropping up everywhere! Visit her website for more information and click here for a previous article about Cheryl.