The John H. Milde Gallery
The mission of the John H. Milde Gallery at the Goldmark Cultural Center is to provide a contemplative and versatile venue for exhibiting the work of both established and emerging local artists.
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The Role of the Goldmark Gallery Committee
The Goldmark Gallery Committee consists of five Goldmark artists with many years of combined experience in operating and organizing art galleries and exhibitions. The Gallery Committee is responsible for reviewing exhibition proposals for the John H. Milde Gallery, in addition to assisting with the coordination and organization of exhibitions in the Milde Gallery. In the latter role, Committee members serve as liaisons between exhibiting artists and the Goldmark Cultural Center directorship.
As Goldmark artists themselves, the Gallery Committee members ensure that the Goldmark art community at large has a major stake and the deciding voice in the selection of the exhibitions that go on display in the Milde Gallery.
About the Gallery Committee members
Lisa Ballew
Lisa is an artist who grew up in Midland, Texas, painting, sculpting, and learning art from her artist mother, Norma Helm Webb, who was always making art and shared her supplies and talent freely with her daughter. Lisa had undergraduate and graduate degrees in Business and graduated with a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington. While in the program she took advantage of every drawing and painting class available to her.
Lisa founded LHB Landscape Architects in 2005 focusing on estate residential and education campus projects. She has consulted with Caye Cook and Associates and Lambert Garden Design over the last 15 years.
Lisa continues to paint and finds inspiration for her work from nature, architecture, order, native plants and the natural and built environment to create landscape, nature portraits and narrative in pencil, ink, watercolour and in gardens.
Lisa has won several awards for architectural delineation. Her works are in several private collections and the University of Texas at Arlington Library.
Du Chau
Born in Vietnam, Du Chau came to the United States in 1981. He pursued a medical career in Pathology and has been a Pathology Technical Coordinator at Methodist Medical Center, in Dallas, since 1994.
Du began taking ceramics classes at Brookhaven College in the 1990s and was named a Cecil Wallace Fordham Memorial Award in Visual Arts from the DCCCD Foundation. He took a sabbatical from his Methodist Hospital job to pursue both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree at the highly-regarded New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. As well as continuing his pathology work at Methodist Medical Center, Du Chau has also become an adjunct Professor of Ceramics at Brookhaven College.
“It’s so strange; my art degree actually helped my medical work . . . art has helped me to ask more questions as a scientist,” says Chau. He deeply values his work in science, but believes that his work as an artist has enhanced a different part of his identity. His career in the arts has grown significantly in the past few years. He has exhibited widely in the United States.
Du received a 2017 NCECA International Residency Award, which gave him the opportunity to work at the Curaumilla Arts Center in Chile, and in 2016 he was awarded a residency from the C.R.E.T.A. Foundation in Rome, Italy.
Jacqueline Vernon Jackson
Nan Martin
Marty Ray
Marty is an Emeritas Professor of Art, recently retired from teaching ceramics and sculpture and directing 3D programs at North Lake College for 40 years. Her professional honors include twice named Professor of the Year as well as Innovator of the Year of DCCCD. Glaze, a video she created won a national award for educational media.
In 2006, a painting by Marty was installed as the inaugural mural for the Catholic Foundation Plaza located in the Dallas Arts District.
Marty’s work is offered through the Craighead Green Gallery in Dallas. The Ray’s open their studio to the public each October as part of the White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour, an event that Marty co-founded 26 years ago and continues to coordinate.
Susan Sponsler-Carstarphen
Susan Sponsler-Carstarphen was born in Seoul, South Korea.
Susan holds a B.A. degree in Graphic Design from Iowa State University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from Texas Woman’s University.
Susan was a 1995 fellow at the American Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar at New York University and a 1999 recipient of the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship at Houston Center for Photography.
Susan’s works have been shown in Seoul, South Korea; Panama City, Panama; and in many US cities including Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Fort Worth, Denton and Dallas.
Susan’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Korean American Museum in Los Angeles and Texas Instruments in Dallas, as well as in several private collections. Her work is also included in numerous publications.
Susan lives in Richardson, Texas and has been on the photography faculty team in the School of the Arts at Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch, Texas since 2015.
Terri Wilder
For 30 years Terri Wilder’s passion for art had to fit into the busy work and travel schedule of a Delta Air Lines flight attendant. When she retired in 2012, Terri finally was free to give ceramics her full attention, later earning an MFA from the University of Dallas in 2019. Her years of travel impact her work greatly. References to cultures from many lands are a natural part of her expression. Having had the privilege to experience the beauty and diversity the world offers, she wants to share those discoveries through her art.