The Ranger Online

Issue date: 9/28/07 Section: Premiere

The popular art at First Friday has some new competition in the up-and-coming North Flores Street art community.

The NOFLO Art Show will feature local artisans and student artists, as well as live music and performance art from 5 p.m.-11 p.m. Saturday at Artists Collaborations at 1118 N. Flores.

Artists from this college's Student Art Guild will showcase a number of media, including oils on canvas, watercolors, photography, sculpture, airbrush art and pottery.

"We're promoting starting artists," Sean Worcester, owner of Artists Collaborations, said. "I'm really just trying to give back to the community and if that means helping students, that's what I'm going to do."

Louis Lubbering, one of the first professors to teach photography at the University of Texas at San Antonio and an art professor who has also taught at Trinity University, is one of the featured local artists.

The show will feature six of Lubbering's paintings that vary greatly from piece to piece.

One of his paintings is Monet-like, depicting what looks like a rural scene from the movie "Bonnie and Clyde" complete with a cabin and a 1930s model Ford.

Lubbering brilliantly uses vibrant colors of reds, blues and pinks, causing the painting to appear as if it were on fire.

If anyone thought they were going to spend the evening just looking at art, they were wrong.

Local graffiti artists, known only as "Suffer" and "Easr," will use a rainbow of spray paints to turn clear plastic shower curtains into one-of-a-kind works of art, which will be given away at the end of the night.

But wait, there's more.

Throughout the evening's festivities, patrons also will enjoy the live sounds of Three Guys Walking, a band that mixes rock, Americana and a little bit of blues, and June with a Cleaver, a band that wails on vocals and keyboards.

North Flores is gaining ground as a new hot spot for art galleries, from the recent opening of San Pedro Springs Gallery at 1012 N. Flores, to Artists Collaborations, which opened in May.

"The whole block is really coming up and it's turning into an art deco district," Worcester said.

Worcester, who also owns a promotion company called The Box, has always been interested in spreading the work of artists and musicians.

His art studio not only provides an outlet for new artists, but he even offers classes to children who want to learn to paint and create art.

"I really wanted to create a place for everyone to just hangout in the neighborhood," Worcester said.

For more information, call 745-1620, or go to www.theboxsa.com.

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