Join us as Museum Curator of Art, Emily Wilson, leads a tour through the Marmion Gallery which focuses on the flowers of the Texas Hill Country. Immediately following the talk visitors will have a chance to talk with artist Cliff Cavin as he sketches through the stages of painting bluebonnets while visitors can take the opportunity to sketch along! Supplies will be provided.

Cliff Cavin, a native of San Antonio, Texas, is a landscape artist who has been painting professionally for over forty years. His focus is on views of the American West, especially Texas and New Mexico. He has well over fifty professional exhibits to his credit, most recently a one-man show at the Museum of Western Art in Kerrville, Texas, that included forty-five pieces. He has also participated in shows such as the annual Briscoe Museum Night of Artists Sale and Exhibition, The Russell at the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana, the American Plains Artists Art Show, and the Oil Painters of America National Exhibition and has had exhibitions at the Nave Museum in Victoria, Texas, the Harlingen Public Library in Harlingen, Texas, the Southwest School of Art and San Antonio Art League, both in San Antonio. His paintings have won numerous awards and have been collected both nationally and internationally in private and corporate collections, including Valero Oil, M. D. Anderson Hospital, Jefferson State Bank, Baylor Scott & White Health, and Cibolo Creek Ranch.