Eight Fort Worth artists featured in The Color Cowgirls through April 16
The Museum of East Texas is delighted to present The Color Cowgirls in our main gallery February 1 through April 16, 2025. This group of female aritsts from Fort Worth, Texas, is a mix of gallery owners, college art majors, and gallery represented artists, moms, and friends. They lead colorful and joyful lives! We know you'll enjoy seeing their works and learning about their backgrounds and we're certain you'll find several works that resonate with your spirit.
Amy Biggs
Amy Biggs is a Texas artist, wife, and mother of two grown children. She paints in her home studio in Fort Worth, Texas with her two dogs, Pancho and Lefty, by her side. She has loved art since her childhood, being inspired and encouraged by the many artists in her family, including her grandmother, great grandmother, uncle and cousins. She took summer classes at The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History and continued to study art at The University of Texas, earning a BFA. After college, she continued to paint and explore, taking classes along the way at The Art Students League of New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth.
Amy is an intuitive colorist, painting abstractly with an ever-evolving style and a steady inspiration from the Abstract Expressionists, including Helen Frankenthaler. Her work exudes energy as she strives to capture the vibrancy of life. Amy’s intention is to share through her paintings the joy and happiness that creating each piece brings her.
You can follow Amy on Instagram at: @amybiggs.art
Allison Castillo
Artist, Fort Worth native and SFASU graduate (’98), Allison Hoffer Castillo, is most recognized for her Love series where she paints with a vibrant color palette and generous layers of graffiti. Allison explains, “This series emerged amid the pandemic as a way of healing and to feel connected to others. The joy I experience from creating these pieces and the happiness they bring is life-giving.”
Allison finds inspiration in motivational podcasts, uplifting music and everyday life as a mother of three children. Her favorite mantra “all of this is temporary,” personifies her creative process and can be found woven into her work. Other unique words and phrases appear in the Love series making each piece feel like its own experience.
Allison’s work can be found on multiple continents; she is featured in HGTV magazine and collaborations with Barrington Gifts and Paper Sunday.
You can follow Allison on Instagram at: @allisoncastillodesigns
Sarah Gentry
Sarah is a native Texan, wife, mother, and born-again artist. She has always had an appreciation for art, a colorful imagination and busy hands that like getting dirty and creating. She started painting once she stopped driving carpool and had more time on her hands. She's always happiest when she's creating! She received her B.A. in studio art from Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia.
She loves working with both oils and mixed media. She loves the freedom and challenges that abstract painting presents and also enjoys painting in a more traditional way. Her style is always evolving and working with different mediums and on different subjects always keeps her energized.
Her inspiration comes from so many sources, but mostly from nature and color…nothing complicated…just everyday things that grab her attention and make her thankful for the world around her. Her desire is to create pieces with images and colors that grab the viewer’s eyes and make them discover something different in them each time they look.
You can follow Sarah on Instagram at: @sarahgentryart
Kori Green
Kori began making jewelry as she was finishing her law degree at the University of Texas in Austin. After years with her nose in the books, she craved a creative outlet and found it. She loved creating eclectic and colorful pieces and a hobby soon turned into a thriving business. Kori quickly went from making jewelry for herself and friends to hosting trunk shows and currently sells in numerous boutiques across the State of Texas and in several other states.
Kori Green Jewelry is individually hand crafted in Fort Worth, Texas. Her love for natural stones and different color and texture combinations makes for eclectic pieces that are sure to garner many compliments. Kori currently lives in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband, musician Pat Green, and 2 children, Kellis & Rainey and 3 dogs.
You can follow Kori on Instagram at: @korigreen
Pat Green
“Pat Green is a Texan through and through. And Pat Green is an artist through and through.
Like the paintings and sculptures he produces, Green does what he wants irrespective of and unrestrained by genre or classification. Call it country, call it music, heck, just call it art.
But Green, like a true renaissance man, has outlets of expression outside of music. He doesn’t do music every day. But he does do art every day.
‘I do a lot of sculpting, a lot of painting. I write all the time. I love my imagination. My imagination is my favorite. If you really want to get to know me, get to know my imagination. It’s my favorite side. I love expression, and I love being true to expression.’
Since diving deep into painting and sculpting, Green opened an art space that housed his and other artists’ works. While the gallery, which opened in 2018, has since closed, Galleywinter Gallery remains an art collective that routinely collaborates.”
Source: Kendall, Brian. “Pat Green Has It All Figured Out.” Fort Worth Magazine, 6, Oct. 2022, https://fwtx.com/culture/pat-green-has-it-all-figured-out/
You can follow Pat on Instagram at: @patgreenmusic
"Marty and Kathy Kaylor were first exposed to fused glass art by Marty's Mom who began
Sarah Murrin
Sarah Wheless Murrin is from Houston, Texas. She paints at her home studio on a ranch in Fort Worth where she lives with her husband, Philip, and their three grown children. Sarah is a graduate of the Kinkaid School, UT Austin Plan II, where she wrote her thesis on art collecting thanks to her parents’ inspiration of collecting, and SMU’s Cox MBA/Meadows MA in Arts Management.
Sarah is a self-taught painter and is always innovating to see what the colors and paint reveal. Her styles include Collage, Assemblage, Color Field, Illuminated Manuscripts, Pop Art and Kawaii.
Faith and family are most important to her, as well as her cherished groups of girlfriends across Texas. Art has always been a way of connecting throughout her life, and travel and museums have provided great inspiration. Organizations near and dear to her are:
Monuments Men & Women Foundation, Save Venice, UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center, Respond Against Violence, Project Beloved & Birchman Baptist Church.
You can follow Sarah on Instagram at: @sarahmurrinart_
Ginger Ray Walker
Ginger Ray Walker is a Dallas native but proudly calls Fort Worth home. After graduating from Highland Park High School in Dallas, she went to Baylor University and studied art. She currently resides in Fort Worth with her husband, Rob, and their two kids, Tatum and Wade.
Ginger absolutely loves color with a particular penchant for pink! Color is her love language, her therapy and refuge. Her abstract paintings are inspired by nature, travel, music, and emotion. She would love to paint something for you!
In Fort Worth, you can view her art in person at Ginger's studio/gallery by appointment only, and at House of Neville Gallery. In Dallas, you can find Ginger Ray Walker art at AF Home in the Dallas Design District, Brooke Drake, and Casa Costa. She ships anywhere!
You can follow Ginger on Instagram at: @gingerraywalkerart
Amy Young
Born and raised in the South, Amy Young grew up with a paint brush in her hand. Her family was creative and as a child she was given the freedom to be messy while creating. She was told not to color within the lines, to paint beyond the borders, and that clouds could be any color! Her family recognized her gift and gave Amy the opportunity to develop her natural ability through professionally taught workshops where she gained competence in a variety of artistic mediums.
After graduating from the University of Alabama, she was fortunate to get the chance to study under several nationally recognized artists. As a painter, at the beginning of every piece, Amy’s ultimate goals are authenticity and childlike freedom to experiment. Amy’s studio is a place of exploration where she wildly applies paint using proprietary methods.
The materials she uses include oil, ink, gouache, watercolor, acrylic, charcoal, pastels, oil sticks, handmade paper, textiles, oil pastels, dry paint pigments, industrial paint, cold wax, encaustic wax, and old concert posters collected from her travels. Her pieces can be found in private collections and public spaces across the country. In April 2021, she opened the Amy Young Art Gallery in Fort Worth, Texas.
You can follow Amy on Instagram at: @amyoungart
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