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	Exhibition Scott Lennox’s works are held in private and corporate collections throughout the country. Outside Texas, he is represented by Southwind Gallery in Topeka Scott Lennox, Fort Worth artist, poet, and musician will present his drawings, paintings, field notes, poetry, and original music about his love of the Brazos River and its surrounding countryside in a solo exhibition he calls Brazos River Country. He tells his own compelling story of how his ongoing journey and his time spent with the Brazos have changed him. Scott is a product of the Fort Worth school system who nearly fell through the cracks before being discovered gifted. He attended university studies at North Texas State, Texas Christian University, Brite Divinity School, and the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington. For several years, he has facilitated outpatient psychiatric treatment groups at Baylor All Saints Hospital. During the first week of the exhibit, Lennox will present ten hour long sessions with school students in the Community Arts Center’s Black Box Theatre and them take them to the gallery to discuss his art. Scott is passionate about “giving back” and “paying forward” by inspiring students to discover their own giftedness and to flourish. As a gift to students, Scott will be giving signed and numbered copies of his new book, In Brazos Country, a volume of twenty-four of his poems about the Brazos, made possible by a generous grant from the Kessler Family Foundation in memory of Carl E. Kessler. Scott Lennox, Texas Artist Throughout his life, Scott Lennox has been drawn to the serenity of quiet places and natural settings. He is a lifelong poet who brings a natural balance between his writing and is visual art. He writes visually rich poetry and creates highly articulated graphite drawings, intimate drybrush watercolor paintings, and panoramic landscapes in oil that are quietly, yet strongly, poetic. Raised in Texas, Scott explored the Brazos River and the countryside around it as a young boy, hiking, camping, canoeing the river, and taking pictures along the way. Those early experiences allowed him to know direct contact with life around him. And it is there that he has focused his artistic energies most recently. His drawings, paintings, fieldnotes, poetry, and music invite us to wander and to bump into the mystery and wonder of things. He continues to be inspired by the Victorian poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, who wrote of inscape, the quiet and gradual self-revealing of inner nature, an idea that runs through the body of Lennox’s work. Scott continues to study art and music with his longtime friend and mentor, Scott Gentling. During the past year, they have collaborated on a suite of musical pieces for violin and guitar which they call Brazos River Suite. They found rich and emotional receptions when they performed the music privately for Van Cliburn, and then for the first time publicly at the memorial that honored the recent death of Gentling’s twin brother, Stuart, one of Lennox’s earliest artistic influences. Asked for an artist’s statement, Lennox simply says, “There is still goodness and quiet and grace in the world.”