Should you happen to be traveling through Germany anytime from September 17 though October 19, Dieter Erhart invites you to drop by his newest exhibit in Erlangen. The main piece of “Dragonblood”  is an 18 foot dragon enhanced by thousands of plexiglass pieces.

Dieter is the owner of Art Center Seadrift, located at 6th and Broadway in Seadrift. The center is open by appointment, but there are many works on display outside.

Find out more about Art Center Seadrift and Dieter’s other artistic works at:
www.artcenter-seadrift.com.

To see what Dieter has been doing to help children in Guatemala, go to: www.dieter-erhard.com/Soziales

Dieter Erhard will be at the Art Boat next month from April 1st through the 21st. While here he will assemble 2.5’ X 3’ “speech boards”.

Children and adults will be able to push a button in order to hear the sounds or various animals and an explanation of them. Either one animal or a group will be explained. All the animals of Texas will not be on display, but there will be a nice selection of them.

We think this will be of interest to many and a great learning experience for our children.

German artist and Artboat owner Dieter Erhard from Seadrift recently created a huge stainless steel stork. It is about 15 feet high and weighs 1,300 pounds, sitting on a 2.2 tons concrete base.
He got the idea for this piece while visiting the town of Herzogenaurach, Germany (where the famous Adidas and Puma companies’ headquarters are located).

Dieter saw about 30 storks sitting on the Medeval old town’s roofs. He decided to build one big stork of stainless steel, one of his favorite material to work with. Two months later the gigantic stork was finished. It even has a pulely that makes the stork’s beak rattle, just like real storks do.

The whole area of Bavarian Frankonia has an highly increasing number of nesting storks, so Erhard named him Frankonian Stork … Fränkischer Storch (German) … Frankonia Circonia (Latin).

If you haven’t seen the “Ocean Inside” experience at Seadrift’s ArtBoat, you can view it any time, day or night, through the porthole of the ArtBoat. Pushing the button will temporarily turn on the UV light inside the boat.

For those who can’t make it to Seadrift, you can view it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdLXHfzO_TU. You can see the Channel 25 interview with Dieter at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lndwGESGbic.

Anyone interested in seeing more paintings by Aubrey Parker, can see them at 153 B Street in Olivia. Please call 361-893-5881 for an appointment.