Welcome To CAS!
​The Creative Arts Society, established in 1999,  is an Austin based, non-profit 501(c)(3) thriving arts organization actively promoting the development of the “Artist in Everyone” for the expanding growth and diversity of our community. Our vision is to be a vital presence in the community inspiring: Cultural enrichment, Community participation, and respect for diversity. Our goal is to increase awareness and appreciation for and through the Arts.  CAS welcomes artists from all backgrounds and supports diversity of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability and age.

FEATURED ARTIST

TERRI ST.ARNAULD & FRANK YEZER

PlatinumPortraitsPhoto.com
terrifrank95@gmail.com
Artist Statement
We each became interested in photography in our youth, Terri during family travels and events based in Wisconsin, and Frank as a ballet dancer and student based in New York. Each of us learned the basics of film and print processing in Austin. Then we met and decided it might be fun to do that together. We started in the darkroom Frank had set up in his apartment, then moved to a duplex and worked there. Finally, we bought a house and set up a permanent darkroom in the garage, adding to and upgrading our darkroom and camera equipment over the years. We currently work in traditional Black & White (B&W) film and printing, historical Platinum printing and digital capture and printing. We often experiment in anything. We love light - soft, bright, colored, moving, dappled (especially dappled), iridescent, artificial, but mostly natural light. It can give importance to something by putting it in the spotlight or can mysteriously or secretively make it all but disappear. The first example of our work is a B&W image made with a medium-format camera and the negative is enlarged up to 20x24. This image is titled "Ariane". The second example is a woven Platinum print, a process we devised and developed. Two negatives are made with a large-format camera (cloth over the head), then used to print on separate pieces of cotton paper, coated with our own mixture of platinum chemistry, using UV light. One of the prints is cut vertically; the other is cut horizontally; and they are interwoven to add distortions and juxtapositions of subjects, producing a subject matter mash-up. This one is titled "Lost Again!" The third example is a Polaroid Emulsion Transfer, a now-extinct process. We feel this process has a richness and sparkle not found in the current instant films. It began as a 35mm slide, enlarged onto Polaroid film. Then the image (emulsion) is soaked, lifted off the film base and transferred to a cotton paper. This image is titled "Canal Grande".

​TERRI ST.ARNAULD & FRANK YEZER​
NEXT MEETING:  
September 2021
​6:30 pm  Networking   |  7 pm  Meeting

FEATURED EXHIBITS

Some of our venues:

Cypress Grill
4404 W William Cannon Dr,  Austin, TX 78749

Zaviya Grill
1212 W Parmer Lane, Unit A, Austin, TX 78727

See more of our venues.

​President's Message

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Dear CAS Members,

I hope that everyone is safe and well and enjoying the Spring weather! Our wonderful volunteer board members and venue coordinators have been working behind the scenes looking for exhibit opportunities as places begin to open up, in addition to managing our on-going rotating exhibits and curated venues.  
We are looking forward to our first special event of the year, the Riverbend Inspirational Gallery exhibit, at the end of May as well as our first CAS exhibit at the Inspired Minds Art Gallery in Buda in July.  Thank you to the participating artists for your patience in following the contactless pick up and drop off protocols implemented at our rotating exhibits.  Please patronize our restaurant venues, Cypress Grill and Zaviya Grill during these difficult times.
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Thank you,
Joyce LaBaw
president@creativeartssociety.org

WHAT'S HAPPENING

Check out KLRU's feature
​on CAS in their series Arts in Context!
Read the latest newsletter: SEPTEMBER 2020
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The Creative Arts Society is an Austin based, non-profit 501(c)(3) thriving arts organization actively promoting the development of the “Artist in Everyone” for the expanding growth and diversity of our community. Our vision is to be a vital presence in the community inspiring: Cultural enrichment, Community participation, and respect for diversity. Our goal is to increase awareness and appreciation for and through the Arts.