I feel very honored to have been invited to show my oil painting "Midland, Rig 49" in this great event, very thankful to all the Visual Arts Alliance (VVA) volunteer Members and Director for all their help and support. Good luck everybody! For more info please visit www.visualartsalliance.org.

Exhibiting artists will have the opportunity to give a short presentation on their work and answer questions from the audience on Saturday, January 28 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. The artists at this talk are Betty-Ann Brose, Julia Koutroulis, Jimmy Hines, Chell Vassallo, A.M. Schaer, Francisco Andrés Carrión, Kathy Drago, Martin Holmes, Rona Lesser, Kim R. Ritter and Gary Watson.