Texas Commission on the Arts Announces Over $7 Million in Grants across Texas, Designates Seven New Cultural Districts

AUSTIN, Texas – September 7, 2016 – The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) has approved funding of 974 grants in its first funding round for fiscal year 2017. The grants total over $7 million and will go to nonprofits and units of government in 120 cities. These grants include all of the Arts Create program grants, the Arts Respond Cultural District project grants, the first of two funding rounds for the Arts Respond Project program, the quarterly Arts Respond Performance Support program, and the quarterly Commission Initiatives and Designated Funding category.

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Linda and Mickey Rawls combine art of plants, natural resources

by Margaret B. Williamson

Keep Salado Beautiful will sponsor tours of Salado’s gardens Oct. 8 with proceeds funding improvements in Salado.

Definition of garden from Wikipedia: “A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature.”  Linda and Mickey Rawls have combined the art of featuring plants, the natural resources of the land and the imagination to create their garden spaces.  They have extensively used local rock and stone throughout their landscape combined with various sized rusted pipe vessels used as containers for potted specimens.  As you enter the landscape along the driveway, notice the hillside has been lined with river rock and terraced with large limestone.

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