About the owner, Ms. Betty....
She holds a lifetime Texas teaching certificate with a minor in Math and
Computers. Before starting her family in 1991 she taught fourth grade for two
years and also junior high school math for two years. Married into a family of
glassblowers in 1986 and thus began her education in the art of hot formed
glass. In 2003, she and two partners created the Grapevine Beadmaker's
Society which is still going strong. She has been making glass beads since
1997. The Argyle studio will include a small beadmaking studio.
November 1996, she opened Grapevine Art Glass gallery opened, offering a
small variety of lampworked paperweights and vases and bowls made by local
glassblowers, located in the glassblowing studio next door.
Dec. 2001, featured in Southern Living Magazine. Described the gallery as
"Contemporary, chic and sophisticated..."
In 2003, Betty created Mud, Wind & Fire an artists cooperative next door to
Grapevine Art Glass.
In February of 2004 the artists of Mud, Wind & Fire originated Fourth Friday
Gallery Night. For nearly three years, every fourth Friday the galleries in
historic downtown Grapevine were open from 5 to 9 and featured artists and
their new works.
In March of 2006 the glassblowers at Grapevine Art Glass relocated their
studio. Thus giving Betty the opportunity to return to her ceramic roots by
converting the glassblowing studio into a ceramic studio. As a child, Betty's
mother, an accomplished watercolorist and her sisters would spend hours doing
ceramics in an old barn very similar to the old corrugated metal building she is in
now. Her mother taught her the art of making ceramics from greenware and
then applying the glazes. With the help and guidance of her fellow pottery artists
friends and her teacher at Tarrant County College Betty was able to successfully
open the studio. The conversion to a Clay Studio was completed in May of
2006 and opened during the Main Street Days Festival.
June of 2006, Owner, Betty Monette was awarded the Preservation
Advocasy Award for 2006 by the Grapevine Heritage Foundation for her
efforts in maintaining the 1930's industrial look and feel of her commercial
building on Barton Street. As well as, the designation of "Barton Arts District".
In October of 2006 we officially changed the business name from
Grapevine Art Glass Studio & Gallery to Art & Clay on Barton, Clay
Studio & Gallery.
March 6, 2008, Betty closed Mud, Wind & Fire after 5 years as an artist's
co-op. The space was used to expand the pottery studio including a new
pottery wheel throwing studio, Raku painting studio and expansion of the
Paint-Your-Own-Pottery Studio.
November 14, 2008 Betty sold the building at 334 S. Barton Street in
Grapevine. Is in the process of relocating the pottery studio.
Summer of 2009 - Holding classes in Colleyville in a private pottery studio.
August 31, 2009 - Relocated Art & Clay on Barton to the Art Castle in Hurst,
Texas, combining her pottery studio/classes with the fine art classes for kids at
the Art Castle.
She holds a lifetime Texas teaching certificate with a minor in Math and
Computers. Before starting her family in 1991 she taught fourth grade for two
years and also junior high school math for two years. Married into a family of
glassblowers in 1986 and thus began her education in the art of hot formed
glass. In 2003, she and two partners created the Grapevine Beadmaker's
Society which is still going strong. She has been making glass beads since
1997. The Argyle studio will include a small beadmaking studio.
November 1996, she opened Grapevine Art Glass gallery opened, offering a
small variety of lampworked paperweights and vases and bowls made by local
glassblowers, located in the glassblowing studio next door.
Dec. 2001, featured in Southern Living Magazine. Described the gallery as
"Contemporary, chic and sophisticated..."
In 2003, Betty created Mud, Wind & Fire an artists cooperative next door to
Grapevine Art Glass.
In February of 2004 the artists of Mud, Wind & Fire originated Fourth Friday
Gallery Night. For nearly three years, every fourth Friday the galleries in
historic downtown Grapevine were open from 5 to 9 and featured artists and
their new works.
In March of 2006 the glassblowers at Grapevine Art Glass relocated their
studio. Thus giving Betty the opportunity to return to her ceramic roots by
converting the glassblowing studio into a ceramic studio. As a child, Betty's
mother, an accomplished watercolorist and her sisters would spend hours doing
ceramics in an old barn very similar to the old corrugated metal building she is in
now. Her mother taught her the art of making ceramics from greenware and
then applying the glazes. With the help and guidance of her fellow pottery artists
friends and her teacher at Tarrant County College Betty was able to successfully
open the studio. The conversion to a Clay Studio was completed in May of
2006 and opened during the Main Street Days Festival.
June of 2006, Owner, Betty Monette was awarded the Preservation
Advocasy Award for 2006 by the Grapevine Heritage Foundation for her
efforts in maintaining the 1930's industrial look and feel of her commercial
building on Barton Street. As well as, the designation of "Barton Arts District".
In October of 2006 we officially changed the business name from
Grapevine Art Glass Studio & Gallery to Art & Clay on Barton, Clay
Studio & Gallery.
March 6, 2008, Betty closed Mud, Wind & Fire after 5 years as an artist's
co-op. The space was used to expand the pottery studio including a new
pottery wheel throwing studio, Raku painting studio and expansion of the
Paint-Your-Own-Pottery Studio.
November 14, 2008 Betty sold the building at 334 S. Barton Street in
Grapevine. Is in the process of relocating the pottery studio.
Summer of 2009 - Holding classes in Colleyville in a private pottery studio.
August 31, 2009 - Relocated Art & Clay on Barton to the Art Castle in Hurst,
Texas, combining her pottery studio/classes with the fine art classes for kids at
the Art Castle.
| A Fond Farewell to the Gallery and Clay Studio at 334 S. Barton Street. Re-Opening in Hurst, Texas August 31, 2009, at The Art Castle! www.artcastleschool.com |
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