[Mike McCarty]

Kim,

You might make note of this -- about 35 miles (+-) from Corpus, just beyond Port Aransas, lies Rockport. Rockport is about as artsy as it gets in that vicinity. There are a couple of galleries in the downtown and they have art festivals during the year. Also, as far as a mailing, there is a nice pocket of affluence there, it's called Key Allegro. It's an island reached by a very small bridge. Take a drive through with a note pad. Mark all the addresses where you see bikes, basketball hoops, tree houses, station wagons, and the usual destruction caused by kids.

There used to be a decent art gallery across the ferry at Port Aransas. I've seen some nice art in there. There used to be a serious landscape artist living nearby that placed his art there.

Also, you might consider Victoria, Texas. At one point Victoria had more millionaires per capita than any city in America. Victoria should be much closer than Beaumont/Galveston. You might do some searching in Kingsville also, there are some serious property owners over there, measured in multiples of miles not acres. I still think you need to paint a kid standing next to their prize bull, horse or lamb. Chickens are a start.

Here's my daughter in the Port Aransas bay.