Host Jeff Flinn (Boerne Star managing editor) welcomes Cara Hines, owner of Mix House Gallery in Comfort, TX, to preview the Comfort Art Festival — happening today, 10 AM–4 PM on High Street. They discuss the festival's structure (artists hosted by local businesses), the three artists featured at Mix House (Douglas Galloway, Mike Martin, Leonardo Gutierrez), the wide range of art media on display, and how the Comfort business community rallied during recent floods. A call to support local artists and the businesses that host them.

Time     Topic

0:00     Show intro — Jeff  opens The Boerne Brew on Boerne Radio 103.9 FM

0:12     Comfort Art Festival overview — 10 AM–4 PM, 14th year, organized by Julie Kuykendall

1:05     Festival format — artists apply, businesses host, cross-promotion model

2:42     Featured artist Douglas Galloway (San Antonio) — mixed media encaustic (beeswax) paintings, "Lagniappe" exhibit through Sept 27

3:11     Leonardo Gutierrez (oil painter, Comfort local) & Mike Martin (printmaker/collagraph, Comfort)

4:04     Lagniappe exhibit details — Cajun term meaning "a little something extra"

5:18     Jeff's Das Festival experience — watching an artist draw vehicles on-site

6:48     Roll call of participating artists (~40+ names) across Comfort, Boerne, San Antonio, Kerrville

9:12     Full list of art media — oil, felting, masks, acrylic, wood carving, quilting, watercolor, dulcimers, digital photography, gourd art, stained glass, microscapes, and more

10:11  Practical info — parking, walking High Street, artists set up outside businesses

10:31  Supporting artists and businesses — buy art, thank host businesses

10:51  Re-recap of Mix House's three artists and their locations

11:34  Douglas Galloway deep dive — New Orleans/French Quarter background, shotgun houses, peeling paint inspiration, photos paired with abstracts

12:52  Julie Kuykendall's organizer role — application/matching process, fees, artist placement

14:06  Cara's favorite medium — mixed media (cross-disciplinary artists, gallery name origin)

15:51  Demonstrations across the festival — printmaking, pastel, sea glass jewelry, and more

17:00  Judith Youngers — sculptural succulent microscapes + poet

17:20  Hotel Giles — courtyard artists, rooms available, George Brinn's dulcimers

18:15  Directions — Highway 27, take a left to High Street, parking tips

18:39  Jeff's must-see list — dulcimers, digital photography, collagraph printmaking

19:50  Do artists stick to one medium? — experimentation behind the scenes

21:02  Comfort businesses to visit — Freethinkers General Store, Vintage Comfort, 8th Street Market, 723 High, Monogram 29, High's Cafe, Both Hands Burger Bar, Three Paths Distillery, Newsome Vineyards

22:55  Comfort floods (2025) — businesses fed/housed first responders, Renee's Kitchen (450 meals/day for 3 weeks), Susan Dye & Comfort Pantry

24:10  Sign-off — thanks to Cara, Roland (engineer), final call to support Comfort & buy art

Original Air Date:  September 19, 2026, as heard on Boerne Radio 103.9FM

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