Spellerberg Projects

Gallery Hours

Saturday August 1, 11am-3pm
Reception Friday, August 7, 6-9pm
Saturday August 8, 11am-3pm
Saturday August 15, 11am-3pm
Saturday August 22, 11am-3pm
Saturday August 29, 11am-3pm
Bonus Reception Friday, September 4, 6-9pm
Saturday September 5, 11am-3pm

Every year we put on summertime exhibitions showcasing the artists who practice and work at Spellerberg Projects. This year to celebrate our 10 year anniversary, we are curating 3 shows including current studio residents, studio alumni, and all the talented artists who make up our gallery staff! 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. This year’s shows are a glimpse at the evolution of that community over the past 10 years.

Our third studio show includes work by: Andrea Wallace, Juania Sueños, Laurel Coyle & Connie Schaertl, Matt Holmes and Sam Foster.

About the Artists:

Andrea Wallace is a photographer, video and installation artist in Lockhart, TX.

A photographer for over twenty years and a self-declared artist for even longer, she is inspired by music, beauty, fashion, people, nature, design and the performing arts. Performers are frequent subjects. Andrea studied art and photography at Sam Houston State University and interior design at the Art Institute of Houston. Born five years too soon, her formal education was quickly made obsolete by the dawning digital era. Many years of self re-education ensued and she is a proud perpetual student of the digital and physical arts.

Juania Sueños is a queer MeXicana poet, novelist, and translator. She co-founded and is the Executive Director at Infrarrealista Review. She is the literary section editor at the Caldwell Hays Examiner. Her hybrid poetry collection topography of a border / line bird (Mouthfeel Press, 2025) won the 2026 NACCS Tejas Foco Poetry Award. Her writing has appeared in Acentos Review, New York Quarterly, Sybil Journal, The Skink Beat Review, Porter House Review, Nat. Brut, and Westchester Review. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and other boring credentials given to her by institutions. She’s the author of UnAmerican Dreams (TAVP/Plancha Press, 2022). Her work has been shown at Thrd Space Studio, and Spellerberg Projects Gallery.

Laurel Coyle & Connie Schaertl

Are both visual artists and mother and daughter.

Laurel Coyle is a multi-disciplinary artist who calls Lockhart home. 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 freshly sewn dresses she created and began to understand the inner workings of digital photography.

The images she 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.

Connie Schaertl is an award-winning TX based artist, specializing in figurative art and commissioned portraits.

Matt Holmes lives and works in Lockhart, Texas. His work explores landscape and memory.

Sam Foster grew up in Lawrence, Kansas. As a teenager he lost his father to suicide and was enrolled in after-school art programs for affected youth where he was introduced painting and slam poetry. His abstract paintings are influenced by this relationship to language and grief and are also informed by his experience working in mental health and addiction recovery.

Sam received his BFA in Studio Art at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) in Milwaukee, WI and an MFA from Maharishi International University (MIU) in Fairfield IA. Sam resides in Lawrence, Kansas, and was a studio member at Spellerberg Projects from 2019-2024.