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Rockport, Texas named one of the “Top 10 Coastal Art Colony” in the United States.
-- Coastal Living Magazine
   
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Jesus Moroles Foundry
Al Barnes
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- Rockport-Fulton is one of the most unique coastal art communities in the United States
- Aransas County has been an Art Colony since the late 1800's, with over 300 artists living here today
- Simon Michael, a world traveler born of a Phoenician-Syrian-Lebanese family, opened the 'Fulton School of Painting' in 1948
- Al Barnes, Herb Booth, and Steve Russell are nationally recognized sporting and wildlife artists
- Jesus Bautista Moroles, 2007 Texas Visual Artist of the Year, and one of the most recognized visionary sculptors in the world, has his foundry in Rockport
- Over 15 art galleries are open to intrigue you with coastal and wildlife art, contemporary abstract artwork, and select Texas Modernist art
- Rockport Center for the Arts, comprised of three art galleries, workshops, a gift shop and a Sculpture Garden on Aransas Bay, has been open for 39 years
- On July 4th weekend in 2008 Rockport will host the Rockport Art Festival, one of the largest juried art festivals in the U.S.
- One of the wildest places in America, Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, is a 59,000 acre refuge which offers extraordinary photographic experiences
- This is why Rockport-Fulton is truly a Premier Art Destination!
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Click Here for a list of Artists and Art Galleries in the Rockport-Fulton area.
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