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Impressions 6-26-10
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6-11-10Cone
6-10-10 Draw
6-11-10Easter
4-13-10 Edmonson
5-12-10Farnsworth
5-14-10Gilpin
6-5-10Girard
6-4-10 Glenn
6-4-10Grassland
6-11-10Hart
6-6-10Jayton
6-10-10Key
6-4-10 Landergin
4-13-10Lela
6-11-10Margaret
5-7-10 Morse
5-14-10 Needmore
4-13-10Olton
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Patricia
7-29-10 Posey
6-14-10
Pringle
5-14-10 Ransom
Canyon 6-18-10Rayland
5-7-10Red
Springs 5-7-10Running
Water 5-12Shallowater
5-4-10 Southland
6-14-10Springlake
5-19-10 Sundown
5-19-10 Tascosa
5-20-10Texola
5-26-10Vera
4-27-10Whitharral
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LakesBuffalo
Springs Lake
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Route 66Devil's
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Book & Excerpts
Looking
For Texas - Essays from the Coffee Ring JournalHoly
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Rick VanderpoolWriter/photographer,
Rick Vanderpool has marketed and sold his creative output for nearly 40 years.
Vanderpool graduated from the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College
of Journalism and Mass Communications in 1975, worked for a year as staff photographer
for Callaway Gardens, then opened an art studio in Athens, Georgia, working primarily
with corporate interior designers, designing and producing custom wall art programs.
Texas had developed as his major market, and in 1993, he relocated his studio
to Commerce.
In 2000, Vanderpool published "Looking for Texas" – a unique
collection of photos of the state name, at least one from each of Texas' 254 counties,
gathered from traveling over 20,000 miles in The Lone Star State, 1994 - 1999.
His travel journal, by the same title, was published the following year by Republic
of Texas Press.
The success of "Looking for Texas" and subsequent variations
of Vanderpool's trademark Texas-themed photographic montage collections, is owed
to his varied experience as author, imagist, teacher, event director, newspaper
publisher, speaker and entrepreneur.
"Ninety days in TEXAS WINE Country"
is Vanderpool's latest montage project – the sixteenth in his series. His print
by that title was featured at several exclusive signings as part of Texas Wine
Month [October] and beyond, in wineries statewide. It was premiered at the 5th
Annual Texas Fall Fest, October 2-4, 2009 in Marble Falls, Spicewood (Spicewood
Vineyards) and Tow (Fall Creek Vineyards).
Vanderpool is currently working
under contract with the Texas Plains Trail Region, creating a photo-archive for
that group's 52-county chunk of "the real Texas."
Writing samples, speaking
topics and references are available upon request.
Email:
stateart1@earthlink.net
- Rick Vanderpool, April 2010 |
