| April, Come She Will! March 17, 2005 "You need a place to really live! A place you want to tell others about, not an Anywhere Suburb, just south of Anywhere, USA," says Cherie McBride. This April, you'll be seeing Glenn and Cherie McBride trying to support such a dream with their art and music. The couple says that they believe in the power of "local' as in local environment, local community, local culture, local art, local music. "We have some great history around here," says Cherie. "However, we also have contemporary - immediate things to protect, promote, nurture and even grow. If everyone paves over their home town and natural resources, what will be left? " That's why you'll see the McBride's participating heavily in April's local culture and wildlife events: Migration Celebration, April 9 and 10; Artisans in Nature (Bay City), April 2nd, Mad Hatter Tea Party (Riverside), April 16, Astronomy Day (Center for the Arts and Sciences) April 16 and Artists in Action (Palacios) April 30. The couple will also be a part of this Fall's Hummingbird Extravaganza at the GCBO in Lake Jackson. Cherie is getting ready with Gulf Coast birds and scenes from local life while Glenn works on this year's hummingbird music album. |
| Flying High! Brazosport FACTS, July 1, 2004 From July 13th through August 29th (2004), the Brazosport Art League will present an exhibit billed as "Flights of Fancy", and the show will include works by artists KAYE MARTINDALE, GLENN MCBRIDE and CHERIE MCBRIDE. The league will host an opening reception on Saturday, July 17th, at the Center for the Arts & Sciences, with Freeport Welding on board as the sponsor. |
| ROCKDALE, May 16. 2007 Cherie Nowlin McBride won Best of Show prize at the recent Rockdale, Texas "Tejas Art and B1ook Festival." Her entry, "Quintana Blue" took top honors (a $1000 prize) with it's rendering of two great blue herons. The herons were painted in watercolor. Cherie's technique on heavy watercolor paper is greatly influenced by Chinese Brush Painting - traditionally done on fine rice paper in China. "Quintana Blue" was painted from a series of studies originally commissioned by a Freeport, Texas couple who loved seeing "their herons" every morning wading the wetlands on the edge of town. The herons were observed, sketched and photographed along the wetlands between the Brazos River bridge on Hwy 36 and the Port of Freeport. Since the original painting, Cherie has rendered several great blue heron scenes, including a glazed ceramic fireplace mural for a couple who remodeled their house on San Bernard River. This Thursday evening, May 17th, Cherie will demonstrate her techniques at "Explore Chinese Culture," the Lake Jackson Library from 5 to 8pm. It is part of The Big Read program, sponsored by the National Endowment of the Arts. It is for all ages. xarticle xduckie xmarketinglogg xfacts xtbs xchinesebrushpainting |