Day: June 20, 2022

Texas Women for the Arts awards grants to arts organizations

Texas Women for the Arts awards 33 arts organizations with $171K in grants at 16th annual meeting in San Antonio. Photo: google

Texas Women for the Arts, a program of the Texas Cultural Trust (TXCT), has selected 33 arts programs across the state to receive nearly $170,000 in grants at their 16th Annual Meeting that took place on April 25 – 26, 2022 in San Antonio, Texas. Texas Women for the Arts (TWA) is one of TXCT’s statewide giving circle, with nearly 200 members from all over Texas. Through their collective generosity, TWA invests in the arts and arts education with the mission of increasing access to the arts for all Texas children. TWA grant applications for 2023 will open for submission on October 1, 2022 and will close December 1, 2022. For more information on the Texas Cultural Trust and their Texas Women for the Arts program, please visit Texas Cultural Trust. (Texas Cultural Trust, 2022)

“Since its inception in 2005, Texas Women for the Arts has awarded 318 grants, totaling nearly $3.7 million to arts programs across the state of Texas, and we are honored to continue this legacy in 2022.” – Heidi Marquez Smith, Executive Director of Texas Cultural Trust

On Tuesday, April 26, day two of their annual meeting, Texas Women for the Arts granted Leslie D.
Blanton the Donna Axum Whitworth Champion of the Arts Award for her continued support, promotion, and generosity for arts and culture in the state of Texas. Blanton currently serves as Chairman of the Governing Council for the Shepherd Society of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. She is a member of the Liberal Arts Development Board and the National Leadership Board of the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas. Blanton is also a long-time member of the Texas Cultural Trust Board of Directors, serving in various capacities including Board Chairman and Co-Chairman of the 2019 Texas Medal of the Arts Awards and is a founding member of Texas Women for the Arts, of which she previously chaired and will chair again in 2022-2023.

The 2022 Texas Women for the Arts Impact Grantees are:
• Creative Kids, El Paso
• Art Center of Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
• Artpace San Antonio, San Antonio
• Hope Stone, Inc., Houston
• Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport
• Texas Ballet Theater, Inc., Fort Worth
• Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin, Odessa
• Imagination Fort Worth, Fort Worth
• Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association Inc., Fort Worth
• El Paso Symphony Orchestra Assn., Inc., El Paso
• Art League Houston, Houston
• Harris County Cultural Arts Council, Houston
• Victoria Ballet Theatre, Victoria
• The Kindness Campaign, Austin
• Lubbock Community Theatre, Lubbock
• Magik Theatre, San Antonio
• Contemporary Art Museum Plainview, Plainview
• Jewish Federation of Fort Worth & Tarrant County, Fort Worth
• Gillespie County Children’s Foundation, Fredericksburg
• Alcorta’s Folklórico Diamante, Inc., Corpus Christi
• Zachary Scott Theatre Center, Austin
• Amphibian Productions, Inc., Fort Worth
• Cypress Creek Fine Arts Association, Spring
• Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo
• Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview
• Kids Excel El Paso, Inc., El Paso
• Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
• The Citadelle Art Foundation, Canadian
• Amarillo Symphony, Inc., Amarillo
• Austin Classical Guitar, Austin
• Texas Book Festival, Austin
• Young Audiences of Northeast Texas, Tyler
• Ballet Austin Incorporated, Austin

Texas Cultural Trust is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and increasing access and awareness for the arts across the state. Programs of the Texas Cultural Trust include the Texas Medal of Arts Awards, Art Can, Texas Young Masters, Texas Women for the Arts, Partners in the Arts, and Arts Access. Texas Cultural Trust efforts are amplified by its partners who are instrumental in the success of leading a cohesive voice for the arts in education, advocacy, and economic impact in Texas, spotlighting the artistic excellence of our state.

Texas Women for the Arts (TWA) is a statewide giving circle and membership program with nearly 200 members from across Texas. Since its inception in 2005, this philanthropic force and champion for the arts in education has awarded 318 grants totaling nearly $3.7 million, impacting nearly 3.5 million Texas children.

New book release: ‘Portrait of a Robbery’ by David Konrad

The fifth book in the Project Adventure series, ‘Portrait of a Robbery’ will be released June 28, 2022. Photo: Robert Konrad

David Konrad is an adventurous dad who shares his love of storytelling with middle-grade children around the world. While traveling internationally and raising his young family, he found inspiration to write his books and fulfill his mission: making a difference in the lives of children. The Project Adventure children’s book series is action-packed, fun-filled, and driven by characters that young readers seeking their next favorite mystery will cherish. International author David Konrad releases “Portrait of a Robbery,” the fifth book in his popular children’s books series, Project Adventure. Just in time for summer, the pre-teen mystery book promises to be a hit with young readers. “Portrait of a Robbery” launches June 28, 2022. (David Konrad, 2022)

The Project Adventure series begins with “The Heart of the Island,” in which Friends, Ethan and Matt seek to find a lost diamond. The next three books include “Rumble at the Zoo,” in which the boys meet Lisa, who joins the team for the rest of the series, “The Courtside Mystery” and “The Scrapyard Shakedown.” In each book, the heroes’ friendship, love for adventure and mystery- solving skills help save the day.

In the latest, “Portrait of a Robbery,” Ethan, Matt, and Lisa embark on a train journey to the small town where Matt’s grandmother caters to her valuable art collection on her beautiful estate. After being caught in a terrible storm that sets the garage ablaze and almost kills them, the detective team discover clues that bring them closer to solving the mystery of the missing Van Gogh.

Of the series, author David Konrad says, “Project Adventure is, of course, fiction and should be viewed as that. But I believe that kids today are a bit overprotected, and that a little bit of adventure, even if it is only on pages, is great for them. It might influence them to take more of an ‘active’ approach in life. To be accountable. To sometimes take chances. To be brave and self-confident, and to believe that things will work out in the end. I think that might be the most important message Project Adventure is trying to deliver.”

“Portrait of a Robbery” by David Konrad is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.
Price: $3.99 ebook, $8.99 paperback
Publish date: June 28, 2022

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