Locke Surls Center for Art and Nature @ Splendora Gardens
26041 Midline Rd, Cleveland, TX 77328
(832) 422-5090
Alton DuLaney, ART BENCH II, 2023. Photo: Paul Hester.
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Alton DuLaney is an artist, curator, consultant and television personality. Through his multi-disciplinary ART, Alton researches the conceptual ability of art to transform the perception of objects, images, and actions, as communicated through artistic expression, the relevance of site, the act of mark-making, and the identity of the artist. In his work ART is the subject, the medium, and the Message. In performance art, he has created the character of “The World’s Most Famous Gift Wrap Artist” who has appeared on multiple national TV shows and in his own show “ The Great Gift Exchange” on YouTube Originals, promoting creativity. He has written, directed, and starred in 5 gift-wrap-rap videos, rapping about Wrapping. Alton has shown his ART in numerous exhibitions in Texas, Los Angeles, and New York City as well as Europe and South America. He is in several museum collections and many important private collections. He has a BFA from the University of Texas in Austin, an MFA from the University of Houston, where he also taught Public Art. Alton is the Curator of Public Art and the Cultural Arts Program Director for the Houston Airports overseeing one of the largest public art programs in the aviation Industry. Alton lives in Splendora, Texas, where he ran for Mayor.
Anthony Bob (sound) / Art Monuments by Alton DuLaney Sammy Butts (video)
Houston-native Anthony Bob is a contemporary- classical musician in both piano and flute. As many can relate, his first musical experience was in third grade when he received a recorder, where his precocious nature showed itself in skillfully teaching himself to advance well beyond the expectation. Anthony would go on to challenge himself further and become a professional musician primarily focused on the flute and piano. Initially, he was self-taught on both instruments.
Anthony attended Houston’s renowned High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and later the prestigious New York City Conservatory Mannes School of Music at the New School. Mannes is known for rigorous classical training and boundary-pushing performance experience.
Anthony is a three-time National Winner of the NAACP National Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) in Classical Performance. For a year, Anthony worked with community-based volunteers to develop his classical performance focused on tones of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Additionally, he has won numerous concerto competitions in Houston while working with various symphonies. Anthony’s talents resulted in receiving several scholarships for performance in Houston and Philadelphia. He is part of a Philadelphia-organized group called the New Arcana Ensemble, which solely focuses on music of the modern composers in the 20th and 21st century. Arcana is dedicated to presenting interesting, beautiful, and unconventional music in unconventional places. Anthony currently resides in Houston, where he teaches privately and performs locally.
Sammy Butts is an entrepreneur, author, filmmaker, and architectural designer from Splendora, Texas. Sammy’s design background and deep-rooted entrepreneurial spirit flow into endeavors and creative concepts ranging from music festival production to experiential design.
He studied Architecture at the University of Houston from 2006-2012. Following university, Sammy founded Fathom Producers, a full-spectrum production company that creates, promotes, and produces world-class events. In 2020, an era when live events were shuttered, Sammy founded Creator Assembly, a collaborative studio of creative masterminds that offer services of advertising, film and storytelling, copywriting, social marketing, and technology design.
“Ignite Je Ne Sais Quoi and Awaken the Senses”
more at sammybutts.com
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Alton DuLaney
A Gift From The Bower is presented by DiverseWorks and the Locke Surls Center for Art and Nature @ Splendora Gardens (LSCAN).
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Alton DuLaney, ART BENCH II, 2023. Photo: Paul Hester.
Alton DuLaney is an artist, curator, consultant and television personality. Through his multi-disciplinary ART, Alton researches the conceptual ability of art to transform the perception of objects, images, and actions, as communicated through artistic expression, the relevance of site, the act of mark-making, and the identity of the artist. In his work ART is the subject, the medium, and the Message. In performance art, he has created the character of “The World’s Most Famous Gift Wrap Artist” who has appeared on multiple national TV shows and in his own show “ The Great Gift Exchange” on YouTube Originals, promoting creativity. He has written, directed, and starred in 5 gift-wrap-rap videos, rapping about Wrapping. Alton has shown his ART in numerous exhibitions in Texas, Los Angeles, and New York City as well as Europe and South America. He is in several museum collections and many important private collections. He has a BFA from the University of Texas in Austin, an MFA from the University of Houston, where he also taught Public Art. Alton is the Curator of Public Art and the Cultural Arts Program Director for the Houston Airports overseeing one of the largest public art programs in the aviation Industry. Alton lives in Splendora, Texas, where he ran for Mayor.
Anthony Bob (sound) / Art Monuments by Alton DuLaney Sammy Butts (video)
Houston-native Anthony Bob is a contemporary- classical musician in both piano and flute. As many can relate, his first musical experience was in third grade when he received a recorder, where his precocious nature showed itself in skillfully teaching himself to advance well beyond the expectation. Anthony would go on to challenge himself further and become a professional musician primarily focused on the flute and piano. Initially, he was self-taught on both instruments.
Anthony attended Houston’s renowned High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and later the prestigious New York City Conservatory Mannes School of Music at the New School. Mannes is known for rigorous classical training and boundary-pushing performance experience.
Anthony is a three-time National Winner of the NAACP National Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) in Classical Performance. For a year, Anthony worked with community-based volunteers to develop his classical performance focused on tones of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Additionally, he has won numerous concerto competitions in Houston while working with various symphonies. Anthony’s talents resulted in receiving several scholarships for performance in Houston and Philadelphia. He is part of a Philadelphia-organized group called the New Arcana Ensemble, which solely focuses on music of the modern composers in the 20th and 21st century. Arcana is dedicated to presenting interesting, beautiful, and unconventional music in unconventional places. Anthony currently resides in Houston, where he teaches privately and performs locally.
Sammy Butts is an entrepreneur, author, filmmaker, and architectural designer from Splendora, Texas. Sammy’s design background and deep-rooted entrepreneurial spirit flow into endeavors and creative concepts ranging from music festival production to experiential design.
He studied Architecture at the University of Houston from 2006-2012. Following university, Sammy founded Fathom Producers, a full-spectrum production company that creates, promotes, and produces world-class events. In 2020, an era when live events were shuttered, Sammy founded Creator Assembly, a collaborative studio of creative masterminds that offer services of advertising, film and storytelling, copywriting, social marketing, and technology design.
“Ignite Je Ne Sais Quoi and Awaken the Senses”
more at sammybutts.com
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Alton DuLaney
A Gift From The Bower is presented by DiverseWorks and the Locke Surls Center for Art and Nature @ Splendora Gardens (LSCAN).
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