The Goldmark Cultural Center’s John H. Milde Gallery is proud to present “Exploring Nature in Art”, a group exhibition of works by Cindy Fleming, Cassidy Allarah Steele, Ana Sofia Quintero Galindo, Amber Flores, Haley Jones, Glory Odle, Sloan Rogers, and Madison Pemberton.
The exhibition is on display from 18 May 2026 to 26 June 2026, with a reception on Saturday, 6 June, from 3:00pm - 5:00pm.
About the Exhibition
This group exhibition brings together East Texas–based artists working in ceramics, painting, drawing, and sculpture. Through a range of mixed-media approaches, the works explore the beauty of natural materials and their role in artistic creation.
Each piece reflects a personal connection to nature, highlighting how organic forms, textures, and processes shape artistic expression. Together, the exhibition considers the relationship between environment, material, and the act of making.
Madison Pemberton
Madison Pemberton is an East Texas native and Studio Art major pursuing a BFA with an all-level teaching certification through East Texas A&M University, working across drawing, painting, mixed media, and sculpture.
Her work draws from the natural world as a poetic language, using it to unravel and translate human experience—memory, exhaustion, longing, and connection—into layered, atmospheric forms. Through charcoal, oil, and sculptural material, she constructs quiet, immersive spaces where inner emotion and the organic world mirror and blur into one another.
Sloan Rogers
Sloan Rogers is an emerging mixed-media artist based in Greenville, Texas, and a current BFA candidate at East Texas A&M University, concentrating in All-Level Art Certification. Her work explores themes of identity, family, and reflection through sculpture, ceramics, mixed media and teaching-based projects.
Glory Odle
Born and raised in Dallas- Fort Worth, Glory Odle has always prided herself in being a Native Texan. Everyday afterschool she would sit and draw at the kitchen table while her mother made family dinner. In highschool, Glory was awarded first place in a juried exhibition on a sculpture and a watercolor painting. That moment is what solidified her belief that she was an artist, not just a lover of art.
She continued her studies at Collin Community College with all the art classes they provided, simultaneously receiving her Associates Degree. She Received her BFA in Art Education from East Texas A&M University December 2025 and is pursuing a career as an Art Teacher.
Ana Sofia Quintero Galindo
Ana Sofia Quintero Galindo is a Mexican born artist who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from East Texas A&M University. Her work explores the tension of navigating two cultures, capturing the sense of belonging to neither fully. Working across multiple mediums, she creates pieces that reflect identity, displacement, and the in-between spaces of cultural experience.
Cindy Fleming
Cindy Fleming is an artist residing in Kaufman, Texas and is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in sculpture from East Texas A&M Commerce. Her work begins with a deep respect for the material itself, its imperfections, its unique patterns, and its natural beauty. Working mostly with wood, Cindy creates work that feels connected to the natural world and to bring out the life in every piece, creating something that resonates with both the viewer and the material itself.
Cassidy Allarah Steele
Cassidy Steel explores survival, healing, and the reconstruction of identity after domestic violence, expressed through ceramics and painting. As a BFA graduate in Studio Art at East Texas A&M University, she creates forms and imagery that reflect both vulnerability and resilience, often drawing inspiration from her spiritual path in Paganism, rather than focusing on trauma itself, her work centers the quiet, ongoing act of healing.
Amber Flores
Amber Flores is a Mexican-American ceramic artist and MBA candidate at East Texas A&M University. Her work explores natural forms through a historical lens. Through ceramics, emotional intensity is distilled into a calm, deliberate practice; with clay serving as a sanctuary from the weight of contemporary politics and the constant noise of daily life.
Haley Jones
Jones is an artist based in North Texas, they are currently set to receive their BFA in May of this year. They primarily work in oil painting with a style that is loosely impressionist. Through their work they explore spatial tension and utilize color and form to create paintings that convey drama while maintaining a sense of whimsy