Art

New Office Building Artfully Banking on Parker County Success

By Joy Donovan / January 21, 2025 /

When a banker loves art, concocting a way to combine the two isn’t a big stretch. Here’s banker Greg Morse’s latest idea. He took the metal sculpture of a pointing dog created by artist Dale Rogers out of his backyard and placed it for all to see along I-30 in Fort Worth. It’s the site…

Andrew Bayer of Apothicc Creates Home Goods That You’ll Never Find at HomeGoods

By Nikki Barringer / November 14, 2023 /

A few weeks ago Andrew Bayer gave me arguably one of the best gifts ever. It’s currently tied for first with a pink Christmas tree and the birth of my two children. It was a handmade rug that measured two feet by two-and-one-half feet. It’s almost as big as my son and that’s going to…

Best of 2020: 4 Reasons to Buy a Second Home in Marfa, Texas

By Mary Cate Long / January 1, 2021 /

[Editor’s Note: This year has been a decade, right? So many things happened, lots of things were postponed, and houses continued to sell despite it all. While the SecondShelters..com team takes a hot minute this holiday season to recharge the ol’ Energizers, we’re serving up our very favorite stories from 2020. Enjoy!] Mary Cate: If we’re being…

Creativity on Call: Katie Fuerst Art Comes to You!

By Karen Eubank / March 19, 2020 /

I’m very creative with words and design, but hand me a paintbrush or a pencil and I’m lost. I can’t paint or draw myself out of a box and I bet a lot of you feel the same way. That’s why we need companies like Katie Fuerst Art. Katie brings out your inner creative being.…

Dallas Opens Second Round of Artist Microresidencies

By CandysDirt / February 9, 2019 /

Are you creative? If so, the city of Dallas might just have a spot for you in a unique program that provides microresidencies within city departments to foster creative solutions. The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs announced this week that it was opening up the second round of microresidencies, which are aimed at…