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westernartandarchitecture.com | Laurel Delp |Wend Agency |in April
RENDERING: BUILT TO BELONGArizona may have its fair share of Taliesin educated or inspired architects, but you’d be hard-pressed to find any more dedicated to the design philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright than founder Ron Brissette and partner Jeff Kamtz of Phoenix, Arizona-based Brissette Architects. That’s not to imply they’re designing Wright clones — far from it.
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westernartandarchitecture.com | Kathy Chin Leong |Wend Agency |in April
WESTERN LANDMARK: A UNIQUE DESIGN TRIBUTESan Francisco artist Ruth Asawa [1926–2013] was one of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans held in relocation camps during World War II. Initially detained at the Santa Anita racetrack in Southern California, she passed the time by learning how to draw from Walt Disney animators and fellow detainees. As these early mentors encouraged her artistic expression, Asawa forged ahead, experimenting with various media and found objects.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
westernartandarchitecture.com | Wend Agency
RENDERING: BEYOND BLUEPRINTSThe three principals of Missoula, Montana-based Hone Architects + Builders have much in common. They grew up in families who built anything from sheds to shelves and houses from scratch. They’ve all been out in freezing weather working as timber framers. And all are into sports and the great outdoors. Both Chris Chitty and Damian Mast quickly lost interest in higher education. Mast set out to be a wildlife biologist, assuming that would mean working outside.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
westernartandarchitecture.com | Wend Agency
WESTERN LANDMARK: FROM DUSTY TO DESTINATIONWashington Avenue, home to the newly revitalized Hotel 1928, has long been a thoroughfare in the Central Texas town of Waco. Its bridge spans the Brazos River and connects East Waco to downtown. Since this city’s founding in 1849, people have come to Washington Avenue to gather, converse, and celebrate. Today, the revitalization of Hotel 1928 is a continuation of this rich history.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
westernartandarchitecture.com | Wend Agency
THINGS WE LOVE: THINGS WE LOVERococo Square Serving Platter by AnnieglassRegal and traditional with an artistic flair, the Rococo Square Serving Platter undoubtedly makes a statement at the dinner table. Each piece is hand-painted with a layer of 24-karat gold and individually set into a high-temperature kiln, allowing the glass to melt and drape over the handmade ceramic molds. During this process, the precious metals are permanently fused, turning each piece into a unique work of art.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
westernartandarchitecture.com | Wend Agency
PERSPECTIVE: A COWBOY ARTIST WITH LIMITLESS RANGE Harry Jackson, the artist credited with revitalizing Western American bronze beginning in the late 1950s, reviving the lost art of polychrome sculpture, and writing a definitive book on Italian Renaissance lost-wax bronze casting, is also the man who, in an authentic cowboy voice, could sing about the life of a chuckwagon cook: “I sort all the big stones right out of the beans, and I don’t wipe the fryin’ pans off on my jeans.” He was friends...
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
westernartandarchitecture.com | Wend Agency
ECHOES FROM THE WESTThough many of Curt Mattson’s sculptures are tabletop-size, the artist himself is larger than life. A sculptor, painter, preacher, historian, and horse trainer, Mattson brings decades of study, skill, and execution to his artworks, and then that ineffable quality that defies easy definition — spirit. His bronze sculptures speak. They tell stories as striking personalities or moments frozen in time for posterity.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
westernartandarchitecture.com | Wend Agency
WESTERN NOSTALGIA“Time is a constant in all of our lives,” says artist Jason Kowalski. His evocative paintings of weathered, often abandoned restaurants, motels, vehicles, and other artifacts of the West comprise, he says, “an archival portrait of the American story.” Rife with rust, dust, fading paint, and splintered wood, his depictions of the undone and the abandoned celebrate the curious beauty of dilapidation. “I believe that beauty lies in transformation,” Kowalski says.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
westernartandarchitecture.com | Wend Agency
A STORYBOOK CABINARCHITECTURE | Hendricks Architecture CONSTRUCTION | John Radleigh Construction, Inc. There was a time when the Lyons family enjoyed rappelling from a bunk bed with a rope down a ladder staircase in the middle of the night. They also recall instances when the family of five took their place in line in the morning for the only bathroom. And when arriving on weekends, they might have met more than the occasional mouse dashing about, having come in through holes in the wall.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
westernartandarchitecture.com | Wend Agency
A WILD STANDOil painter Elizabeth Pollie extracts the extraordinary from the ordinary. Her still-life depictions of shells and sake jugs, of tiny, blue-spotted eggs and feathers, reflect expansively on the alchemy of daily routine and pull on the threads of the lacy beginnings of awareness. She also takes in the cows in the field, the chickens in the yard, and the horse of her imagination. Her world consists of possibilities, inhabiting the secret cycles of the creatures she observes day after day.
