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Charles Adams
Mathematica for the School provided with quality educational
of Art building at Texas Tech and research opportunities, like
University. I’m honored to classes, workshops, fellowships, and
have a small role in CASP’s residency programs. Along with
influential effect in Lubbock’s art providing local artists a space to
scene.” Some of Whitfill’s other live and create, CASP has ongoing
public installations include the classes and available studio time
Contemporary Art Museum in where anyone can learn a new
Planview, Delta State University, discipline or hone the skills they
and the downtown location of already have.
Western Bank in Lubbock.
The happiest moments at CASP for
Charles Adams Studio Project me are in the print studio, when
is unlike any other comparable a child gets ink on their hands for
place for hundreds of miles. the first time, or when someone
CASP Director, Chad Plunket, comes to make artwork that will be
notes that “Without its artists, cherished by their loved one forever.
CASP would just be empty These moments are only possible
rooms,” and those spaces at CASP. Come see the excitement
are continuously filled with happening at Charles Adams Studio
innovative artwork; artists Project, a fun environment for
creating works that are seen people of all ages and experience.
throughout not only the region,
serves to safely sustain our creative but also the world; workshops
production. It is a space of retreat – and classes offered to the public; To learn about classes, workshops,
the other shelter, no less private or First Friday Art Trail; studio exhibitions, special events, & artist
precious than our home – where we spaces filled with new creations; opportunities at CASP, visit the
can do our making and thinking and welcoming events for everyone of website casp-arts.org, follow us on
feel buoyed by creative momentum, any age or experience with art; and, Facebook “Charles Adams Studio
rather than stagnated. We are very so much more. CASP serves as a Project - CASP,” come to First
lucky.” You can see the artwork cornerstone for the arts in not only Friday Art Trail each month, or
of Fremaux and Valdez at First Lubbock, but throughout Texas stop by our open studio hours on
Friday Art Trail events (and also in and the surrounding communities Saturdays 1PM-6PM
exhibitions around the country). by providing spaces where artists
of all levels and backgrounds are
In addition to workshops and
classes open to the public, working
artists are provided with the
equipment and workspace necessary
for artistic production, and this
unique environment promotes
collaborative exchange. Sculptor
Jonathan Whitfill utilized CASP’s
Metal Studio to make an artwork
that is now in the permanent Texas
Tech University Public Art Program,
and he explains: “Without CASP’s
generous offering of studio space,
equipment, and support, the reality
is that it might have been impossible
for me to have constructed Syntaxis
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