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The Lost Pines Artisans Alliance is a non profit arts organization promoting the arts in Bastrop County. LPAA is based in Smithville, Texas in the Lost Pines region in Bastrop County.
Membership meetings are held at 6:30pm every third Tuesday of the month at the the Mary Nichols Art Center at 301 Burleson in Smithville, Texas.

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Mary Nichols Art Center, Smithville, Texas

Our New Home!

The Mary Nichols Art Center, Smithville, Texas

The Lost Pines Artisans Alliance Now has a home of its own in Smithville, Texas. Through an arrangement with the City of Smithville we have leased the Mary Nichols Art Center building at 301 Burleson at the corner of Burleson and Loop 230, just three blocks from Main Street in Smithville. This is an exciting prospect for us as we are now able to expand our range of services to the community and open up the Art Center as a community asset once again.
The art center has space for art exhibitions, classes, workshops and other community events as well as an office for the LPAA. Members of the Lost Pines Artisans Alliance and other community volunteers will spend time this summer sprucing up and organizing the building. Plans are allready under way for member art exhibitions and classes and workshops at the Art Center. Keep and eye on this website for more information. On Sunday, June 29 a group of us met at the Art Center and spent the afternoon cleaning the building and the grounds up. It is a big job and we would like to thank all who attended and helped with the cleanup.

:::  Meeting News  :::

Our regular membership meeting is now held on the third Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm in the Mary Nichols Art Center at 301 Burleson in Smithville. We will have a brief business meeting followed by an art program. The public is invited to attend to find out more about LPAA and participate in making art. One of the projects completed at our meetings,"Ida", is currently on display in the lobby of the Smithville Town Hall and was recently featured in an article in the Smithville Times.
We held our first membership meeting at the new location in the Art Center on Tuesday, June 17 and after a brief business meeting and election of new members to the Board of Directors we toured the building with everyone present and discussed possibilities and plans. The new members chosen for the board of directors are; Stephanie McNabb, who also works with our youth art projects, Richard Latham, a community activist and a strong advocate of public art in Smithville and Cinnamon Meeker, a local artisan who has been very active with LPAA for some time having stepped in to manage our membership communications and help with the First Saturday Art Festival.
The LPAA Board of Directors held their first meeting for the fiscal year 2008 - 2009 at the Art Center on Friday, June 27.Officer elections were held, verifiying that Les Warren will continue to serve as LPAA President for another year, Jo Watts will continue as LPAA Vice-President, and Sam Martin will continue as LPAA treasurer. The Secretary position will be filled by Stephanie McNabb, who was also elected to serve as the LPAA Youth Programs Committee Chairperson. Richard Latham was elected to serve as the Building Committee Chairperson, a position added in light of the accquistion of the Mary Nichol Art Center at 301 Burleson. Cinnamon Meeker was elected as the Membership Committee Chairperson. The Jurying Committee, which juries vendors for the First Saturday Festivals, will remain the same, with Sam Martin, Jo Watts & Karen Darr as our jurors.

:::  Other Projects  :::

Artists Stephanie Shroyer-McNabb and Les Warren from the LPAA taught a mosaic class to children at the Smithville Recreation Center as part of their after school program. The children each did several small pieces and then worked together on a larger piece entitled "The Mad Hatter" which is an artisic exploration of how to handle anger. The classes ran from April 30 to May 21 and the children had an art reception showing their completed work at the Smithville Recreation Center on May 28. The classes and the reception were great successes and the children had a great time making and exhibiting real art.
The LPAA is currently giving summer art classes at the Smithville Recreation Center. Classes for children 12 and under are held every other Wednesday 10am - 12 noon. A schedule and description of the classes is here.
Another project happening at the Recreation Center this summer is a public art project with teens. The teenagers involved will be designing and executing a mosaic mural which will be applied to vertical surfaces at the Power Plaza Skate Park behind the Smithville Recreation Center. The teens meet every Tuesday from 10am-noon and every Thursday from 3pm-5pm. They will continue to meet on this schedule through the summer. Stay tuned to this website for photos and updates. More information here.

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