Please join us in celebrating the new art exhibit at The Heights Theater. It's free to attend, and all ages are admitted. 

Valerie Fowler

Raised in Houston, Texas, Valerie Fowler is the daughter of noted Houston sculptor, Bob Fowler (1931-2010). She received her BA in Art from the University of Texas in Austin where she now lives and works. She has been actively involved in art making and art exhibition for over 40 years. Nature is her infinite muse. Her past work includes murals for Whole Foods Market in Austin, Chicago and Ann Arbor, illustration and layout work for The Texas Observer, illustrations for CD jackets for local musicians, including a fully illustrated, 64 page book that accompanies the CD for "Ivy and the Wicker Suitcase", a musical project, written, recorded and produced by her husband Brian Beattie. She and Beattie produced the full stage production for Austin's Stateside at the Paramount Theater in 2014. In 2018 she was chosen by the Texas Book Festival as the official Festival poster artist. In 2021 she and Beattie completed work on another musical and “Crankie” project: El Camino Real de los Tejas Crankie Suite. A crankie is an illustration on scrolls, cranked along to musical accompaniment. In this case, it’s a 100 foot long illustration, on paper scrolls which tells stories, dipping back and forth in time, about Texas’s historic El Camino Real. These crankie performances have been performed throughout Austin, and on locations along the Camino itself. Fowler’s artworks have been collected widely nationally and internationally.