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Lisa Hause, in her studio
Access through the back entrance
Walk-ins welcome
$75 per person, $95 per couple payable to the artist.
“My approach is rooted in connection and trust, creating space for real moments to unfold naturally while offering calm guidance when you need it. Photography isn’t just about beautiful images; it’s about the experience you have while they’re being created, and my goal is to make that experience feel thoughtful, relaxed, and meaningful from start to finish.”
— Lisa Hause
Avery Island BCE (AIBCE) is the musical project of songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist A Legendre (STEEF, jess joy, Butte). Dom Pump is a jenga of syncopated rhythms and lyrical themes exploring politics, art, and grief. It’s best described as art rock. Additional elements in jazz-fusion and post-punk territory make this debut release hard to pin down and spectacularly stand on its own. Dom Pump was primarily recorded in Legendre’s home studio between December 2021 and December 2025 and informed through collaboration with her community of musicians in New Orleans.
The AIBCE live band consists of Laura Fisher on vocals and synth, Violet Evie on guitar, Joë Laborde on electric bass, and Shannon Paine-Jesam on drums who all shape the project’s live sound.
Sadie Wolfe is a cellist from Austin, TX who is expanding the genre of amplified, alternative cello playing. Sadie is a member of the band Batty Jr., a psychedelic rock group often described as high-pitch, barely audible screeches that they project onto walls in order to locate objects in a room.
Lauren Michelle Peterson is an artist, educator, and curatorial collaborator currently living and working in Texas. She uses found objects to consider the potential ontological ramifications of a consumer-based society. Finding and excavating edges through materiality and process, Peterson’s practices include drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance. She was named a 2019/20 Aspen Art Museum Fellow and was included in the New American Paintings 150 West edition. Past exhibitions include Off the Wall at Spartanburg Art Museum (SC), Message from the Sea at the GAIA Center in Athens, Greece, and Forget Me Not at Zuckerman Museum (GA). Peterson has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center (VT), Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences (GA), Kimmel Harding Nelson Center (NE), and Jentel Foundation (WY). Recent curatorial projects include Remote Residue at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art with Doppler Projects (2021). Her work is part of the permanent collection of the High Museum of Art (GA) and Goya Contemporary (MD). Peterson is currently pursuing a PhD in the School of Art at Texas Tech University.
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 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.
Join us on the Historic Downtown Square for the annual Lockhart Sip & Stroll, the signature fundraiser for the Lockhart Downtown Business Association. Enjoy an afternoon of tastings from local vendors, live music, and a leisurely stroll through Lockhart’s eclectic shops and merchants. Spellerberg Projects will have our doors wide open — stop by and say hello as you make your way around the square! Check-in and tasting kit pickup begin at 11 AM on the northwest corner of the Courthouse Lawn.
The annual San Marcos Studio Tour returns with open studios spanning two weekends. The self-guided tour features more than 85 artists across San Marcos and surrounding areas. Spellerberg Projects is proud to be part of this year’s tour — add us to your route and come see what we’ve been working on. Studio hours run noon to 6 PM on April 4–5 and 11–12. Admission is free.
Location: Spellerberg Projects, 103 S Main St, Lockhart
Fee: $25.00
This hands-on workshop introduces participants to direct animation, one of the most tactile and expressive forms of analog cinema. Working without a camera, participants will create moving images directly on 16mm film using paint, ink, collage, scratching, and other material interventions, transforming film stock into a surface for experimentation and play. No prior film experience is required.
Also known as cameraless filmmaking, direct animation brings rhythm, color, and texture to life frame by frame. The workshop draws inspiration from artists such as Len Lye, Norman McLaren, and Stan Brakhage, while emphasizing contemporary, process-led approaches to experimental image-making. Over the course of a single day, participants will work with clear 16mm leader and vintage found footage from the 1950s–70s, building abstract sequences that explore gesture, motion, and materiality. The focus is on exploration rather than perfection, encouraging creative risk-taking and discovery.
What You’ll Create
Each participant will leave with a digitized version of their finished 16mm film, along with a collaborative group trailer set to original music that documents the collective output of the workshop.
What’s Included:
Participants receive a 16mm kit including paintbrushes, acrylic paints, paint sponges, a reusable palette, a small magnifying glass, hand-cut 16mm film strips with leader and found footage, plus additional analog tools and materials for experimentation.
What We’ll Explore
Painting & scratching directly onto film
Working with clear leader and archival found footage
Frame-by-frame animation principles and basic FPS concepts
Building texture, rhythm, and abstract visual compositions
Creative considerations when working with analog film
About the Educator
Faiza Kracheni (she/her) is a Mexican Algerian American self-taught media artist and musician hailing from East Austin, Texas. Her artistic journey is defined by non-narrative analog film experiments that merge traditional techniques like hand-developing film and painting onto celluloid with new media, transcending the boundaries of the screen.
Faiza’s directorial portfolio includes music videos for a diverse array of artists such as Young Guv, Vosh, Kotunsion, Mujeres Podridas, Don’t Get Lemon. and Single Lash.
With over a decade of experience as an active touring musician, Faiza’s latest creative endeavor is the electronic duo “Flesh of Morning.” Their debut single “Here in Heaven” was released in 2022, with a full-length album slated for release in 2023/2024.
Her multimedia installation “BORN & RAISED” has garnered acclaim, featuring prominently at SXSW 2023 at the City of Austin Public Library Downtown, as well as an international exhibition in Koscie Slovakia in 2022.
Beyond her artistic pursuits, Faiza is a dedicated advocate for the arts community. She plays a pivotal role at the Motion Media Arts Center, serves on committees for various art organizations including UNESCO Media Arts, and represents District 9 as a City of Austin Arts Commissioner.
About Austin School of Film
Rooted in over 30 years of experimentation, Austin School of Film has long championed independent, hands-on approaches to motion-picture making. MOTION STUDIES continues this ethos by creating space for beginners and experienced artists alike to experiment, take risks, and engage with filmmaking as a living, material practice.
Cristina Velásquez (b. Colombia) is an artist and publisher based between Austin and Bogotá. She received an MFA from the Bard College–International Center of Photography program in New York City in 2017. Velásquez’s work has been exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée, the ICP Museum, ArtBo, MoMA PS1, the Houston Center for Photography, among others, and is held in both private and public collections.
Her photobooks have been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Research Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, ICP, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and George Washington University, among others.
Recent awards and residencies include the Lucie Scholarship Prize (2025), Yaddo Residency (2025), the Dust Collective Prize (2025), the Ramona Residency (2025), ReGeneration4 at the Musée de l’Elysée (2020), Light Work (2019), the Carol Crow Fellowship (2019), and the Kris Graves Projects LOST II Book Prize (2019).
Velásquez is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of New Poetics Publishing, an independent press that collaborates with emerging artists on contemporary and experimental approaches to photography in book form. She is also the art director at Paisajes Coloniales. Velásquez is represented by Assembly Gallery.
Kate Schneider (b. 1980, Cleveland, Ohio) is an artist of settler ancestry living in Tkaronto (Toronto). A lifelong resident of the Great Lakes region, her artistic practice considers her personal and ethical relationship to her home and environment during a time of climate crisis.
She has recently received funding from the MacLaren Art Centre’s John Hartman Award (2020) and the Ontario Arts Council (2023). Kate’s works have been shown extensively throughout North America in such galleries as the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto), Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), Spellerberg Projects (Texas), and the Great Plains Art Museum (Nebraska), and published in numerous books and publications, such as PDN’s Photo Annual, Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), and What Makes a Lake by Another Earth Press. Kate’s first book, How to Understand a Rock, was produced through the Penumbra Foundation’s Risograph Publication Residency (2023).
Ryan Thayer Davis received his BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006. He lives and works in Lockhart, TX, working as an architectural interior photographer to support his painting practice. He has attended residencies in Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming, and Iceland.
Ryan works with printmaker-style layers to create sonorous, formal paintings that revel in structure. He’s interested in compositions that push and pull the eyeball brain, juxtaposing and alternating elements that recede and advance relative to the viewer. Seeking paradoxical relationships in space and color, his work allows many avenues of interpretation, from the feeling of landscape and dreamscape, to the pleasures of structural richness and texture, to the melodious nature of line. Generous up front, but deep enough to stay a while.