Artist Monica Cowsert will join Suzy Jones, Executive Director of the ArtCentre of Plano, and you, in an informal conversation regarding her work and her solo exhibition, Where Art Meets Happy.

Beverages and deserts will be provided. This event is free for ArtCentre members, guests $10.00.

Join ArtCentre Executive Director Suzy Jones in an interactive discussion with the artists as they discuss their work and the Threads of Our Lives exhibition at the ArtCentre's popular Lunch and Learn series.

Participating artists are Christine Miller, Marilyn Henrion, Martha Myre and Linda Fleming

Beverages and deserts will be provided. This event is free for ArtCentre members, guests $10.00.

Join ArtCentre Executive Director Suzy Jones in an interactive discussion with artists Join artists Chris Miller, Lu Peters, Christine Guernsey and Martha Myre as they discuss their work and the Threads of Our Lives exhibition at the ArtCentre's popular Lunch and Learn series.

Beverages and deserts will be provided. This event is free for ArtCentre members, guests $10.00.

Join ArtCentre Executive Director Suzy Jones in an interactive discussion with photographer Sarah Carson at the ArtCentre's popular Lunch and Learn series. Beverages and deserts will be provided. This event is free for ArtCentre members, guests $10.00.

Honoring Women's History Month, the ArtCentre of Plano will feature Sarah Carson, internationally recognized photographer. Carson's exhibition will be held at both the ArtCentre of Plano and the Courtyard Theater. The Dallas-based photographer has produced a large body of work in both black/white and color. She also has a collection of black/white images that have been over-painted with oil. Carson’s photographs range from Texas Rodeo and Red Canyonlands to New York Cityscapes, to English Castles, to an Italian Horse Race, to the marvel of Petra, and to Eastern Europe when it was still part of the Soviet Union. Carson photographs chairs and trees as singular photographical subjects, and throughout all of her work finds a special connection to people.

Join ArtCentre Executive Director Suzy Jones and Dollie Thomas, Executive Director of the Plano African American Museum in conversation with award-winning fabric artist and leather pyrography portrait artist Jas Mardis. Mardis' quilts and quilt squares are on exhibiiton at the ArtCentre of Plano and the Plano African American Museum in a dual exhibition honoring Black History Month.

Plano African American Museum.

Join ArtCentre Executive Director Suzy Jones and Dollie Thomas, Executive Director of the Plano African American Museum in conversation with award-winning fabric artist and leather pyrography portrait artist Jas Mardis. Mardis' quilts and quilt squares are on exhibiiton at the ArtCentre of Plano and the Plano African American Museum in a dual exhibition honoring Black History Month.

Plano African American Museum.

Join ArtCentre Executive Director Suzy Jones in an interactive discussion with artist Jas Mardis at the ArtCentre's popular Lunch and Learn series. Beverages and deserts will be provided. This event is free for ArtCentre members, guests $10.00.

Join ArtCentre Executive Director Suzy Jones in an interactive discussion with photographer David Downs at the ArtCentre's popular Lunch and Learn series. Beverages and deserts will be provided. This event is free for ArtCentre members, guests $10.00.

David is a Plano based artist who uses a camera to gather the raw material for his creative images.  Selected by the ArtCentre of Plano as its 2018 Artist of The Year, he continues to grow and explore new techniques of expression utilizing a colorful style and unique perspectives on the world around him. Also, a passionate educator, David leads workshops around the country and speaks to photography groups about The Artist Within.

Whether gathering his raw data in the wild, on the streets, or even in his backyard, he looks for content that present life in memorable fashion. His new coffee table book, A Voice Expressed, is a collection of his images representing the first ten years of his photography journey.

David is a Plano based artist who uses a camera to gather the raw material for his creative images.  Selected by the ArtCentre of Plano as its 2018 Artist of The Year, he continues to grow and explore new techniques of expression utilizing a colorful style and unique perspectives on the world around him. Also, a passionate educator, David leads workshops around the country and speaks to photography groups about The Artist Within.

Whether gathering his raw data in the wild, on the streets, or even in his backyard, he looks for content that present life in memorable fashion. His new coffee table book, A Voice Expressed, is a collection of his images representing the first ten years of his photography journey.

Born and raised in Texas, James’ love of art began in elementary school. Throughout public school he took every art class that was available and there weren’t that many in the fifties and sixties. In the fall semester of high school, 1965, at the age of 16, he finally had a chance to take art classes, where he was introduced to oil painting and his love of art grew to a whole new level. From that point to this he has always had paints, brushes and an easel and has produced paintings in each of those 58 years. He is a member of Plano Art Association and Artists Round Texas. He is also a member of the McKinney Plein Air Society. His studio is in The Rail Station Studios in downtown Plano, www.railstationstudios.com