Larla Morales & Kacy Latham

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Kacy Latham is an artist from the Big Empty area of Texas.
Kacy received her BFA in Theatre from Midwestern State University where she discovered her knack for design and painting in her scene design classes. Kacy is an experienced muralist, illustrator, and giant puppet builder. More recently, she curated the Storybook Attic Exhibit in conjunction with the International Children’s Literature Festival for the Center for Contemporary Art in Abilene Texas. Kacy combines her many interests in creating highly textured paintings, assemblage pieces, giant parade puppets and murals.

Currently, Kacy is working on a public art project in bringing more than 50 new murals to her rural hometown of Munday Texas. 

Larla Morales (b.1992) is a Visayan American artist who lives and works on Rolling Plains. Her work is inspired by the fields, prairies, thickets, coastal plains and high deserts of Texas and The Southwest where she spent her formative years. Following an innate urge to explore, create and (de)construct, her artistic practice has brought her through a number of educational and professional institutions and workshops, notably West Texas A&M University and The University of North Texas, where she pursued a BFA in Sculpture before leaving to explore other opportunities. Larla currently maintains a studio at The Center for Contemporary Arts in Downtown Abilene where she creates artwork and handmade paints, pigments and other art mediums from foraged earth, mineral and plant sources.

 

There were two different opening receptions on July 30th for this exhibition in collaboration with House of Milan Enterprises.

From 6:00-7:30 all ages, free admission, no-tickets-required opportunity to meet the artists and admire their work.

From 8:00-10:00 the gallery was transformed into a magical, 21+ ticketed event (called The Treehouse Experience) featuring adult beverages, VIP section, live music, burlesque, poetry, live tarot readings, and fireside chat with the artists.

Clayton Jones Images captured the vibe of this one-of-a-kind evening.