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Arts Cottage Opening near Rosanky
After leaving the directorship of the University of Texas Performing Arts Center, Pebbles Wadsworth traveled extensively, in part because her lawyer husband, Chris, insisted she not take on any projects for at least a year, she says …
Jack Crosby, Pebbles Wadsworth and Richard Isackes
As soon as that year ended, Wadsworth put her considerable energy, connections and skill to work on moving a Victorian cottage from Smithville to her nearby ranch, C Rock, renovating it and creating a rural mecca for performing and visual arts amid the rolling pastureland southeast of Bastrop and southwest of Smithville …
Sherry and David Dalgleish
The Arts Cottage welcomed its first full audience on a drizzly, muddy Sunday. Yet it was all good cheer inside, as 50 or so patrons — including a former UT president and some high-powered philanthropists — snacked on bites from Smithville’s Back Door Cafe, waiting for announcements and performances …
Andrew and Mary Ann Heller
The work of Austinite Roi James, as well as Smithville artists (a poet, a jeweler, a sculptor) claimed their share of the conversation before Wadsworth managed to seat everyone and explained the Arts Cottage concept …
Terri Moore, Bill Livingston and Pam Buchanan
Not surprisingly, the idea is as big as the cottage is small. Wadsworth wants to prove that rural communities can establish sustainable arts centers for education, exhibition, performance, seminars and workshops. She’s formed a nonprofit and wants to spread the blueprint to other small communities …
Paulino Lopez and Judith Rhedin
Performances were delayed an hour, so, alas, I missed them to make other engagements. Yet I’m absolutely certain this is not the last you’ll hear of the Arts Cottage, which combines some of the best ideas from Round Top and Winedale with a particular emphasis on the local community.
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