April 25 - June 8, 2025
From the Rockport Center for the Arts:
“Sojourn,” showcasing the colorful work of artist David Everett, is coming to Rockport Center for the Arts (RCA) April 25–June 8.
Just as the exhibition’s title suggests, guests will find themselves as temporary residents amongst the many creatures of the diverse habitats along the Texas Gulf coastline, brought to life through Everett’s colorful prints and sculptures.
“Recalling times spent exploring the woods and vintage wooden toys with moveable parts, David Everett’s work is rooted in this nostalgic sense of play,” said Catey Arnold, Barrow Foundation Curator of Exhibitions for RCA. “With 10 sculptures, a suite of framed Color Woodblock prints, and a few preliminary drawings on view, audiences are sure to step into a world of wonder in the McKelvey Gallery this exhibition cycle.”
Represented by Davis Gallery in Austin, Everett’s work will be on view and available for collection in the McKelvey Charitable Fund Gallery through June 8, with an artist reception scheduled for Saturday, May 10, from 5–7 p.m., which is free and open to the public. The event will coincide with the monthly Austin Street Art Walk, a free, alfresco, walkable art experience featuring RCA and other galleries located in downtown Rockport.
Born in the southeast Texas town of Beaumont in 1950, Everett has been fascinated from his earliest memories by the natural world, drawn to the forests, swamps, bayous, marsh-covered plains and bays found along its coastline on the Gulf of Mexico. It was from this vantage point that he began a life-long process of restating his observations into a visual art that explores an allegorical interplay of both human and animal forms, celebrating the natural history of a personal world.
Everett began his career as a sculptor after earning his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from The University of Texas at Austin. An Austin resident to this day, he has appeared in dozens of high-profile solo and group exhibitions, primarily in Texas and the Southwest, including multiple galleries in Dallas and Austin, as well as Chicago, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. He has created dozens of commissioned works, and his pieces appear in numerous corporate, public and private collections, including the National Museum of Wildlife Art (Jackson Hole), The Witliff Collections, Texas State University (San Marcos, Texas), the Federal Reserve Bank (Dallas), and the Austin Museum of Art.
Everett’s creations have also been the subject of a book The Art of David Everett: Another World, by Becky Duval Reese, former director of the El Paso Museum of Art, and past president of the Texas Fine Arts Association, and his work graced the cover of the famed Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalog (1989).
For more information on “Soujourn,” visit rockportartcenter.com follow RCA on Facebook, or call (361) 729-5519.
About Rockport Center for the Arts
The new 1.2-acre Rockport Center for the Arts, the Coastal Bend’s first multidisciplinary arts organization, is located a block from Aransas Bay in the heart of the Rockport Cultural Arts District. Designed by the award-winning team at Richter Architects, the state-of-the-art campus features a two-story, 14,000-square-foot, visual arts and education building with four galleries and five classrooms (204 S. Austin St.); The Rockport Conference Center, a one-story, 8,000-square-foot conference and event center, known as The ROCC, (106 S. Austin St.); with a 16,000-square-foot Sculpture Garden serving as a visually inspiring transition space between the two buildings. The hours of operation for the showroom, galleries, and gift shop are Tuesday–Saturday from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. and Sunday from noon–4 p.m. Admission is always free. For information on event space or to book an event, call (361) 450-8033. For general information and to become a member, visit rockportartcenter.com,follow RCA on Facebook, or call (361) 729-5519.
Reception: May 10, 2025 | 5–7 pm
638 E. Market St.
Rockport, 78382 TX
361-729-5519
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