CAMP TEAM

Executive Director: Kelly Alison PLAINVIEW / HOUSTON

Returning to Plainview Texas after forty years, Alison hopes CAMP will embrace the local culture while building regional bonds to the larger art communities throughout Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mexico. Alison has recently worked as project manager for Houston International Performance Art Biennale 2012 and 2014, served on the board of directors of HIVE Houston and taught at Art League Houston. Her artwork has been exhibited most notably at the Shanghai Art Museum in China, the National Museum of Art in Lima, Peru and The Fine Arts Museum in Houston Texas. Published in books, catalogs and magazines such as Art in America, Texas Monthly and Town and Country.

Joe Diaz SAN ANTONIO

Over the past 30 years Joe Diaz has collected an astonishing number of contemporary art masterpieces by Chicano, Latino and other American artists with roots in Southwest and Hispanic culture. Works from his collection have been in over twenty exhibits including "Arte Caliente" at the South Texas Institute for the Arts in Corpus Christi, and at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Chicago, The San Jose Museum of Art, "Zoe's Room" at the San Antonio Museum of Art and Louis Jimenez works on paper at the Oklahoma City Museum. Among the artists in the collection are Connie Arismendi, Alejandro Díaz, Ana Laura de la Garza, Ester Hernández, John Hernández, Benito Huerta, Luis Jiménez, Cesar Martínez, Chuck Ramirez, Alex Rubio, John Valadez, Vincent Valdez, Kathy Vargas, Peter Saul, Sharon Kopriva and Mel Chin.

Bc Gilbert WICHITA FALLS

“When discussing my artwork, I at times find it difficult to define why I create what I create. Generally my work is put into several categories such as that of a western painter, or a southwest artist, and more recently, a folk or cultural artist. I tend to side with the prospect of a cultural artist, or maybe more of an interpreter, because culture, specifically my own is what fuels my ideas and what most of my observations are based upon. In a nutshell, it is my intention to re-invent or re-interpret the Western Stereotype or Ideal…” B.C. Gilbert was born and raised on the High Plains of the Texas Panhandle, also known as the Llano Estacado, or Staked Plains. He currently lives in Wichita Falls, TX.

Jeff Wheeler SLATON / SPLENDORA

Jeffrey Wheeler, pioneer and mentor artist of Lubbock, announced this last spring that he’d be picking up sticks to head elsewhere in Texas. Jeff Wheeler will take on the title of Co-Director of the legendary studio compound owned by James Surls and Charmaine Locke in Splendora (about an hour northeast of Houston), called Splendora Gardens, and he’ll run it alongside their daughter Ruby. They will revive “…the studio as an art and music destination with plans for workshops, lectures, and eventually artist residencies, and a collecting museum.” Jeff and his brother Brian launched the 14th installment under their collaborative, ongoing (and traveling) Ulterior Motifs series of group shows (which began in 1999 and feature Texas artists),

Kathy Kelley LUBBOCK / HUNTSVILLE / HOUSTON

Ph.D. Student and Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology at Texas Tech University and Artist + Writer + Perpetual Home Renovator at Artist Past: Sam Houston State University and Art Institute of Houston http://design1.kathykelley.us/ http://kathykelley.us/ http://www.kathrynkelley.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/114984726605502146384/albums/5607140894718303953 http://kathrynkelley.blogspot.com/p/projects-systems-develop.html http://www.box13artspace.com/

Michael Collins HOUSTON / LUBBOCK/ SANTA FE

Collins is primarily represented by LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, though he also maintains representation with Redbud Gallery in Houston, Virginia Miller Gallery in Miami, Norwood Flynn Gallery in Dallas, and La Galerie K in Paris. His works have been favorably reviewed in a variety of international arts publications, such as Art News Magazine, Art In America, Art Lies, and Art World Magazine. His works may be seen in 17 museums in the U.S., and his art has been curated in more than 250 group exhibitions in the U.S., Cuba, Peru, Germany, China, Mexico, France, Greece and Istanbul. His paintings have received more than 50 juried awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts-Middle American Arts Alliance grant for excellence in painting and works on paper, as well as three Cultural Arts Council of Houston grant awards for excellence in painting. Collins has held many university teaching positions and is the current chair of the Department of Visual Arts at Houston Baptist University, where he is also Artist-in-Residence in Painting.

Chloe Rizzo AMARILLO / CANYON

Nationally exhibited Figure Sculptor and Art Educator. Chloe currently teaches and lectures at Amarillo College and West Texas A&M University. In 2009, Chloe moved to the Texas Panhandle and began to build a studio in the Amarillo area, previously teaching at the University of Colorado, in Seattle at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seward Park Art Studio, Public Schools, St. Georges Parish School, Seattle Parks and Recreation and the Seattle Academy of Fine Art (now Gage Academy of Art). Much of her work with children was done through the nationally recognized Arts Corps Program that provides art exploration for students who would otherwise not have opportunities to express themselves through the arts. In 2007, her family moved abroad, and she developed a new body of work in a women’s ceramic art studio in the Czech Republic. Upon returning to the United States, in 2008, she taught ceramics through the Perkins Center Summer Youth Program, bringing urban and suburban children from New Jersey, together for an extended period of art exploration.

Josiah and Debbie Herrera PLAINVIEW

Josiah is a Mastor Mason, serving as a Senior Deacon and proud member of the Plainview Masonic Lodge. He is a 27 year old, street skating film maker, who worked with Plainview City Council as one of the founders of the new Skate Park. He runs a social media platform for a professional skateboarding brand called Toy Machine. Debbie is a mixed media assemblage, tattoo and piercing artist with experience operating local art venues. She grew up military, the daughter to a Vietnam Vet and has been married to Josiah for three years. "No kids but many reptiles"!!

Jonathan Whitfill PLAINVIEW / LUBBOCK

Jonathan Whitfill, science head, a physics teacher at Estacado High School in Lubbock, TX, and according to Glasstire " a brilliant artist", with a track record of repurposing books. In a recent interview with Paul of KTTZ’s 24 Frames, Whitfill refers to his patent books as “beefy,” “amazing objects,” and “just too precious.” And he (with the help of friends) has given away and shipped (even internationally) some of these 980 beefy amazing things to over 130 artists of his choosing, on the condition that they’d give something back– a new, original work inspired by the individual volume they recieved. This enterprise culminated in the recent exhibition Patent Pending at the 5 & J Gallery in downtown Lubbock, which opened in conjunction with the city’s July First Friday Art Trail. Jonathan was also selected by the Texas Tech University System Public Art Program to construct and install an outdoor sculpture in front of the Art 3D Annex.

Blair Willson PLAINVIEW / LUBBOCK

David Blair Willson is a native of Plainview, Texas, graduating from Texas Tech University in 1980. He has more than thirty years of experience in industrial, commercial and residential construction. His skills in architecture, engineering, and project management are reflected in his completed projects. Blair married his high school sweetheart, Gayle (Wampler) Willson, more than 35 years ago; they have three grown, married, red-headed children. Recently Blair and Gayle have seen the need to give back to their hometown, and have established a philanthropy dedicated to restoration of buildings and businesses in downtown Plainview, Texas. “Our goal is to use Plainview Downtown Restoration to provide the resources necessary to enable beginning artisans, craftsmen, musicians, entrepreneurs, and professionals in the downtown area to succeed.” Blair and Gayle currently own and operate Grand Hearing Center, with offices in Plainview and Lubbock.

Chad Holliday AMARILLO

Chad Holliday is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at West Texas A&M University (WTAMU) in Canyon, Texas teaching and leading all curriculum in glass, ceramics, sculpture, three-dimensional design and professional practices. Holliday has also led two successful study-abroad courses to the Czech Republic, traveling to significant sites associated with art and the history of the country. As part of the course, students worked at and received certificates from The Secondary School of Applied Arts for Glass (www.czech-glass-school.com). In 2010, The Museum of Applied Arts (www.upm.cz) in Prague acquired one of Holliday’s works. Curator Milan Hlaves and Holliday chose “Radiant Uran.” In 2009, Chad was honored as a featured emerging artist in “American Style” magazine. Holliday received a Fulbright Award for the academic year 2007-2008 and conducted research investigating the traditional teaching practices at the Secondary School of Applied Arts for Glass (SUPSS) located in Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic. SUPSS is recognized as the first and oldest glass school in the world.

Tina Fuentes LUBBOCK

born in 1949 in San Angelo and raised in Odessa, Texas. She earned her B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees at North Texas State University in Denton, Texas where she trained in painting, drawing and printmaking. Much of her professional experience has been with teaching, Waco Art Center, University of Albuquerque, and the University of New Mexico. Presently she is Professor within the School of Art at Texas Tech University. Fuentes has numerous one-woman, group, museum and gallery exhibitions to her credit from throughout the U.S. and particularly Texas and New Mexico. She has participated extensively as an exhibition juror and has served as a member of the Visual Arts Panels of the New Mexico State Arts Division and the Texas Commission on the Arts. She has also served as juror and board member of the Albuquerque Arts Board, 1% for Art Program. At present she serves as grants reviewer for the Lubbock Arts Alliance, is member of the Texas Tech. Museum Acquisition Sub-Committee and serves on several committee's for the School of Art. Fuentes currently has gallery representation in Santa Fe, Dallas and Ashland, Oregon. Tina Fuentes maintains a

Wayne Gilbert HOUSTON

an ordinary artist in an extra-ordinary city full of great artists and art. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Houston in Painting with a minor in Art History 1984. He has a Masters Degree from RiceUniversity in Liberal Studies 2012. He was a founding member of the Rubber Group, along with Bill Hailey and Ramzy Telley in 1996 until 2004. Gilbert's discipline is designed to investigate and question the academic substance of art as it integrates into the theory and critical analysis of art making. What is art? Why does it matter? Who defines a work of art? What is it about this peculiar and mystifying human undertaking that can result in such a huge world wide industry and sometimes be relegated to the lofty world of “priceless”? The range of imagery is wide and does not follow any specific lineage, but rather entertains the momentary flicker of a thought as it might relate to our philosophical, theological, physical or mental trip through this wonderful and fascinating eschatological journey. Wayne has been a guest speaker at BardCollege, Annandale on the Hudson, New York, Rutgers University, New Jersey, and Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas. He has curated exhibitions, in Trujillo, Peru, Santiago, Cuba, Salwedel, Germany, Seattle ,Washington, Marfa, Texas, Arlington, Texas to name a few.