FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASELocal Artist Wins National Prize "Gaze" 20x24 Oil on Linen (Tina's first international sale) Wins 1st Place in the Oil Painters of America 2014 Spring Online Showcase! LEES SUMMIT, MO – May, 24, 2014 – Professional artist Tina Garrett announced today that her work, "Gaze" 20x24 oil on linen (Tina's first international sale) won 1st Place in the Oil Painters of America 2014 Spring Online Showcase.Tina Garrett's oil painting "Gaze" is the third piece in her New Orleans inspired series. The second painting in this series to be awarded this year, "Gaze", depicting the street artists of the French Quarter, won a [...]
Fresh off the plane from my New Orleans trip, it was my idea to load the kids into our camper and trek from the Kansas City area all the way to NYC, with a few days in Washington D.C. for family appropriate patriotic activities. Seth, then newly 13, and Grace not quite 12, mastered the subways and crowds like professionals. We were only accosted once overall and I was proud of them for how they followed my lead. The Garrett family making sure everyone from NYC knows we are not from NYC. On our third day, we criss crossed Manhattan Island to spend [...]
