The Leader, July 14, 2017 by Kim Hogstrom Ten years ago, Houston artists and married couple Thedra and Stephen Cullar-Ledford were living in Manhattan and working as hard as humanly possible to pay the rent necessary to live in the city. They were miserable. Today, the happy couple lives and works under the graceful, old trees dotting…

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-matter-of-choice-mastectomies-without-reconstruction/ For women who’ve had mastectomies, what to do next is, increasingly, a matter of choice. And what some women are choosing to do may surprise you. Erin Moriarty of “48 Hours” takes a candid look:  Debbie Bowers, of Bethlehem, Pa., was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014 and had a double mastectomy. Rebecca Pine…

Excerpted from “Show of force: CAMH spotlights hometown trio in solo retrospectives: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston spotlights hometown trio in solo retrospectives” by Molly Glentzer in the August 26, 2016 edition of the Houston Chronicle Lady Part Follies Though Blakemore’s photographs are like whispers, most of the work in Thedra Cullar-Ledford’s first solo museum show is purposefully brazen….

Step right up, folks! Step right up! Welcome to the YEE-SAW Carnival! Featuring the sentinel of all seesaws, the behemoth of balance beams, the giant of jungle gymnasiums, the monster of monkey bars, the YEEEEEEEE SAW! Standing at nearly 30 ft. tall with a 35 ft. wingspan, inner spinning merry-go-round seats (safety belted of course),…

We are very excited and proud to host an exhibition of work by my dear friend Tina Horenkamp Simonton from Birmingham, Alabama. She and I were in the painting program at California College of the Arts together and I can honestly say that she’s the best painter I know. In fact, I gave up painting…

Indie Penned Events Presents: the Poetry to Portrait Series (& Anthology) @ Independence Art Studios, every 2nd Wednesday of the month. The series will produce an anthology of the November 2012-November 2013 readings, due out in the Spring of 2013. Digital Artist Stephen Pare will create portraits of each featured poet and create an additional “Word…

Thedra Cullar-Ledford’s “Living Dolls” at Thom Andriola’s New Gallery. Opening on Saturday, January 14th from 6 – 8 p.m. Gallery open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 to 5 Exhibit closes February 11, 2012 www.newgalleryhouston.com 2627 Colquitt, Houston, TX 77098 713-520-7053

Order a copy of Thedra’s Fifty Dolls book now. A handsome, 13″ x 11″ hard-cover collection of all fifty doll paintings from this two-year long effort. Books are $200 each, including tax and shipping. Order by December 1 to ensure delivery before Christmas. Make checks payable to Thedra Cullar-Ledford 419 Janisch Road Houston, TX 77018

Here are some progress photos for Jon Clark’s sculpture to be installed here at Independence Art Studios.