Matteo's artwork explores the powerful forces of nature and biology in real and imaginary compositions. He paints, draws and sculpts and is inspired by the boundless fodder than the earth, the universe, and the microscopic offer as imagery.

Born in New York and now living in Texas, Peter is a self-taught artist who started drawing as a child, and moved to pen and ink, oil, acrylic and watercolor paints as well as clay. He discovered his passion for stone in 1992 and he has been happily working with it ever since. He works only with hand tools - hammer and chisel, rasps, rifflers and sandpaper.

A unique event for the Crossroads, Polo at McFaddin serves as our major fundraiser for the year. Attendees get to experience tailgate tastings, live and silent auctions, and of course a Polo Game. This event typically draws about 500 people, many from outside the Victoria area. 

An exhibit featuring works from over 80 women artists who are members of the Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association (GAGA).  This Association, which was formed in 2010, was founded to help promote, educate and advance women artists in South Texas.   Each participating member artist has chosen a color from a color palette, and created two 12 x 12 inch canvases which feature the color chosen.

She was a naturalist, conservationist, and artist whose work reflected her love and concern for the world around her. Madeline O’Connor’s work has been noted in Art in America, and fifty photographs of her art and papers are archived in the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. Pieces of her art work are in permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, and in the renowned modern minimalist collection of Giuseppi Panza in Milan, Italy. She was among twelve women chosen to be part of “Texas Women” art exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. that had then President-elect George Bush and Mrs. Bush serving as honorary chairmen.

The Nave Museum proudly presents u n d e r d o g By: Patricia Compton. 

     Born in Refugio, Texas, raised in Goliad, Texas:Patricia Compton has been painting since receiving her first art award from the Texas Department of Culture, Austin, at the age of 12. Compton graduated from the University of North Texas with a BFA in Design. Upon graduation she won an international design 

competition which awarded her the funding to move to NYC.

     Her art career began with numerous group shows in Manhattan and Washington D.C., including The Pace Collection, Washington. She also has had solo shows in East Hampton, NY as well as various galleries in Austin, San Antonio, and Alamo Heights, Texas. The Nave Museum will be her first Museum show.

     Upon publication in David Carson’s “Speak” she decided to make the move out of NYC and “hole up” somewhere to paint a large new body of work. Goliad seemed like a good choice so Patricia came back home. Her painting career literally went to the dogs upon picking up her first stray, mangy dog off the steps of the Presidio La Bahia in Goliad and turned into 20 years of rescue, rehabilitation, and the adopting out of hundreds upon hundred of puppies and dogs to loving and deserving homes.

     She believes her gift for rescue is as much a God given gift as the ability to paint. She is now beginning a new body of commissioned work and determined, with the help of her visionary friends and supporters in rescue to get something built in Goliad reflective of art, dogs, rescue, and education on both subjects.

Kayla is a Victoria native artist that focus on abstract art. This body of work is a modest expression of other forms of art: the personification of the overall aesthetic coupled with a vernal freshness that flourished following the change in seasons. With the arrival of Spring, our waking hours are filled with sunlight; there is a positive association between more sunshine and happier, more hopeful feelings. This shift made allowances for an imaginative awakening expressed in a simple and clean design. Making that connection allowed her to expand her mind, permitting room for interpretation which resulted in an inordinate relationship between mind and body in a manifestation of unrestrained tranquility.