Isabel Scurry Chapman has long been an enthusiastic hiker, bicyclist, river rafter, bird watcher and beachcomber.  When a 1993 rollerblading accident left her temporarily bedridden she refused to be idle, and so took up painting.
Her favorite artistic subjects are birds, and she has amassed a sizable collection of representations of avian wildlife from the Galveston area.
She uses empty cigar boxes because these are what so many people use to hold their valuables.  Also, because of what she calls their “rib cage size,” they are of the perfect dimensions for her paintings.  They even come with attractive, engraved borders like Native American artwork.
After fully representing Galveston’s birds she added paintings of Caddo Lake’s ornithology.  She will also show her collection of bird sculptures made from dryer lint, wire, colored foil, buttons and dried flowers. Yet the exhibition is not hers alone.
Jim Blackburn is a Houston-based lawyer with the firm Blackburn-Carter, P.C., which is devoted to environmental law and planning and is presently litigating over the future of the Whooping Crane.  He is co-director of the Houston Wilderness, the Matagorda Bay Foundation and the Galveston Bay cheap pills Foundation.  He has put his passion for the natural world and its wildlife in a collection of poems that will also be on display at the exhibit.
The venue will be the Michelson Museum of Art from online pharmacy cialis July 6 to September 26, Tuesdays through Fridays from noon until 5:00 p.m., and weekends 1:00 p.m. till 4:00 p.m.  The opening reception will be Thursday, July 8 from 4:30 p.m. through 6:30 p.m. For more information call (903) 935-9480.