Spellerberg Projects

Gallery Hours

Saturday July 12, 11am-3pm
Saturday July 19, 11am-3pm
Saturday July 26, 11am-3pm
Closing Reception Friday, August 1, 4, 6-9pm
Saturday August 2, 11am-3pm

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Every year we put on two exhibitions showcasing the artists who practice and work at Spellerberg Projects. The Studio Shows are an opportunity for visitors to see the work produced behind the front gallery and connect the ways this community of artists influences each other working within a shared space..

Artists participating in Part 2 of Studio Show 2025:

Laurel Coyle is a multi-disciplinary artist who has called Lockhart her home for the past eight years. She celebrates the richness of Lockhart embraces the growth of the special and unique community.

She picked up her first camera, a 110 instamatic, at age eight, and became fascinated by the possibilities of image making. She still has a box full of exposed film from her childhood that she is slowly processing. She continued photographing through middle and high school. Laurel has a history as a dressmaker and, at 24, purchased her first digital camera. Using an auto timer, she made self portraits while wearing the dresses she created and began to understand the inner workings of digital photography.

The images creates are not of a specific region but are anchored in experience, each image tied to a specific memory. Laurel believes that artistic expression begins with the heart and that art is the physical manifestation of our individual passion.

Matthew Holmes is an emerging visual artist whose paintings, sculptures and drawings developed out of a lifelong practice of writing fiction. Inspired by folk art, comics, and juvenilia, he reimagines place in an effort to disentangle it from the distortions of childhood. Leaning into ambiguity— paintings as drawings, words as images— he is able to expand the possibility of meaning.

Ursula Rogers was born and raised in Lockhart, Texas. She received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and an MScE in Intelligence Studies and International Development from Aberystwyth University in Wales. A self-taught photographer, Rogers is fascinated by using mundane subjects to explore memory and storytelling.

Ursula is also a photo journalist who regularly contributes to the Caldwell/Hays Examiner.

Brandy Schuenemann is a string artist from the vibrant artistic community of Lockhart, Texas. As a young girl, Brandy’s fascination with string art began to take shape in her grade school art class, where she crafted her very first piece. In 2013, she picked up the threads of her passion once more, and her artistic journey truly began to unravel.

Schuenemann meticulously weaves intricate patterns and tangled knots, transforming string, nails, and wood into vivid, vibrating compositions. As a lover of mathematics, Brandy finds string art to be the perfect marriage of geometry and creativity. She looks to nature, architecture, and music to find endless angles, patterns, rhythms, and fractals to inspire and enchant. Her admiration for street art, particularly the elusive Banksy, has led her on a quest to push the boundaries of her craft. In 2017, she hosted a street string art exhibit, tying together the worlds of street and fiber art.

Schuenemann has also commissioned large-scale lobby installations for the Residence Inn of Mariot-Austin and Staybridge Suites Houston-NASA/Clear Lake. The latter piece combines lights with her characteristic thread drawings in a shimmering ode to space travel.

Marie Tobola comes from a classical figurative background but leans on the abstract while searching the breadth of digital imagery for impulses of freedom in fleshy form.  She graduated from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2006 and has been painting for over twenty years. She lives and works in Lockhart, Texas.