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April 18th, 2022
Students in grades 9 – 12 may submit two-dimensional entries such as paintings, drawings, photos, computer-generated art, collages, and prints to Congressman Gonzales’ office for consideration. The deadline for students to...
July 22nd, 2020
Each year, I look forward to reviewing the Congressional Art Competition submissions from students across the 17th Congressional District of Texas. This competition provides a great opportunity for talented and aspiring high...
July 10th, 2017
Every year, thousands of high school students from every congressional district submit their artwork to their member of Congress for the annual Congressional Art Competition. Helping inspire young people to become active in...
July 25th, 2015
It seems that our world is changing at such a fast pace, that no one is taking time to relax and enjoy the family, or for that matter, noticing that our very own surroundings are changing, or even disappeari
February 21st, 2015
Each spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district. Since the Artistic Discovery...
April 23rd, 2014
Congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Congressional High School Art Competition. The Congressional High School Art Competition, known as “An Artistic Discovery,” is an annual, nationwide art competition initiated by...
January 6th, 2014
The following are must-read books for fellow conservatives for ideas and understanding of today’s world and where to move from here.America 3.0 by James Bennett and Michael Lotus: This book deals...
July 22nd, 2013
James Bennett and Michael Lotus in their book, America 3.0, see the end of the Bureaucratic State, or what they call the end of America 2.0, and return to a smaller and more decentralized America 3.0. Bennett and...
May 2nd, 2012
Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Congressional High School Art Competition.The Congressional High School Art Competition, known as “An Artistic Discovery” is an annual, nationwide art competition initiated by...
August 11th, 2011
WOMEN OF COMAL COUNTYSonja Heldt Harris – Photographer
October 26th, 2020
A musician who’s weary of the COVID hysteria just sent me the following, and I thought (with her permission) you might also want to read it.
May 24th, 2019
This year's winning piece, The Final Journey, is such a wonderful tribute to a beloved President and Texan, and I cannot wait for millions of visitors to see it when they visit our nation’s capital.
August 19th, 2016
For the past several years Sonja Heldt Harris has been photographing the changing seasons in Texas from droughts to floods which she witnesses from her ranch in the Texas Hill Country. She is a native Texan from San Antonio...
May 11th, 2015
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. John F. Kennedy
November 20th, 2014
Photography has always fascinated me and has been my life’s passion. Maybe it’s because growing up I observed my father always being accompanied by his camera.
April 18th, 2014
The United States State Department is on an art spending spree.First, it spent $1 million for a granite statue at the London Embassy. It is modern art. It looks like a stack of bricks.Now it has spent $400,000 for a statue...
October 29th, 2013
If residents of San Antonio don’t wake up to the reality of what is overtaking their city, there won’t be any resemblance to the quite conservative place I call my hometown. San Antonio is not alone in the ‘dumbing down’...
October 1st, 2012
This coming Tuesday October 2nd (that would be tomorrow), at 7:00pm, I am having my first ever book-talk and signing at Barnes & Noble in Dallas! The book signing will be at the Lincoln Park Barnes & Noble at 7700...
April 16th, 2012
Each spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district.This event is a wonderful...
June 8th, 2011
There has been much talk on TexasGOPVote in recent months about The Arts, the NEA and how arts should be funded. Having grown up in the art gallery business and actually having run an art gallery in Rockport, Texas for...
