Join us for PFP’s 2nd Annual Creative Showcase highlighting the incredible talents of our PFP community. This year’s showcase will feature artwork and live music by PFP participants instructors, board members and volunteers.
In addition to breathtaking artwork, the event will include fantastic company and plenty of tacos. Swing by for the chance to enjoy a delicious meal, mingle with PFP’s artists and maybe even take home some artwork!
This event is family friendly and absolutely free to attend. All are welcome; feel free to invite your friends, spouses, children and grandchildren!
Featured Artists
Dulce Possante
The first time Dulce picked up a paintbrush with the urge to paint was in April 2019, a year after her PD diagnosis. Prior to this, she had never felt the desire to paint and so believes that perhaps there is a link
between Parkinson's and her newfound passion. As soon as Dulce began painting she was immediately addicted; painting day and night and completing several paintings a day. From that day on, she has never stopped and creates art on any piece of paper she can find and also knits, crochets, and makes macramé!
Dulce paints from her heart, without technique, rules, and without having any idea what the final result of her creation will be. She is completely self-taught and lets her love of mixing colours guide her as she paints, reflecting that through her creations she sees and feels life with more colour in it!! In Dulce's own words, when she paints she feels free and happy; content in a space where there is no pain, cold, heat, hunger, or sleep. Dulce has hundreds of paintings stored up in her attic and we will be exhibiting images of these paintings via a TV screen at our Creative Showcase!
Robert Kamper
Robert Kamper is one of our local participants who captures amazing photos of native Texan plants, flowers, insects and the occasional portrait of a PFP participant!!
Photography has been a big part of Robert’s life for a long time, but since joining the Williamson County chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT) and becoming their unofficial photographer in 2009, he has become a lot more serious about this amazing passion of his!! Robert enjoys recording the beauty of his fellow inhabitants on this planet and several of his photos have won awards at the NPSOT
annual symposiums. He has also found and documented a few “firsts” for Williamson County flora. He finds that he feels more connected to nature through his photography; that it becomes a form of meditation which allows him to see things that others may miss as he sits and waits for minutes at a time to get the perfect picture of a critter or rare plant.
Along with his photography, Robert is also musically creative and a very clever lyricist. His lyrics to The Native Plants of Texas, (to the tune of The Yellow Rose) performed by PFP volunteers Gail March and Richard Mattingly, won a Best Video award and has been adopted as the NPSOT theme song!! We are looking forward to seeing more of your creations at our Showcase Robert, thank you for sharing your talents with us!!
Alex Andron
We are excited to introduce you all to Alex Andron, one of our YOPD participants, who creates incredible mosaic artwork.
Alex underwent bilateral DBS 9 years ago to address his PD. Within six months of his surgery, he began exhibiting the symptoms of a very rare brain infection as a result of one of the stimulators. During his rehabilitation for this, he learned about neuroplasticity and was encouraged to pursue more creative outlets as a way to stimulate the right "creative" hemisphere of his brain. So Alex began exploring computer-based cognitive therapies and
then progressed to jigsaw puzzles which then led him to discover mosaic artwork. Alex has created many incredible mosaic pieces, including the one featured in the picture above which is a contemporary mosaic using glass rods - a technique that Alex is proud to have devised himself!! Along with his mosaics, Alex has published a book and is currently pursuing an associates degree in digital music composition. Alex, your talents blow us away and we are so looking forward to you exhibiting your works at our Creative Showcase!!