"Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk is an artist whose most acclaimed piece, 'Buckminster's Galetea', is a work of exquisite patience and detail. The artist inverted Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome formula at different angles in order to create the 7ft female figure…An incredible architectural design!"
~The Buckminster Fuller Institute~
"(Buckminster) Fuller would have been proud --- he understood the metaphysical and cosmic soul of geometry. Which is why Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk, a star-crossed Dallas artist, whose work tends to have a spiritual overtone, created the 7-foot-tall woman out of toothpicks shaped into geodesic domes."
~Pat Craig~
San Fransico's Contra Costa Times
Monday, July 21st, 2003
"Mary Ann has a rare, natural artistic talent."
Pat Kerr Tigrett
Fashion Designer, Chairman and Owner of Pat Kerr, Inc
"I believe that Mary Ann's wonderful travels and different experiences permeate her work and create an exciting future for her in the art world. The development of her work has been profound over the past eight years. Her work is limitless, just like her future."
George Segers
Interior Designer with Stephan Stefanou's Dallas based Design Solutions
" Between her art, her community involvement, and passion for Dallas, Mary Ann has many wonderful things going! Our city needs someone like Mary Ann with such energy, great communication skills, and youth!"
Rosanne Hart
President and Owner of The Hart Agency
Responsible for bringing the Art Expo from New York to Dallas
“Her creativity in art combined with her involvement in her community is truly impressive!"
Jeannie Barresi
Managing Director
Spirited Women In History Tours
"Her ears must burn from time-to-time, as her name comes up in the office! We're all so blown away by her accomplishments, her drive, and her talents, and maybe most of all, her heart!"
Dale Martin
Director of Operations
EwomenNetwork
“It looks like she is doing some great things!"
Martha Edwards
Executive Director of The Fund for Women Artists
"Mary Ann’s piece (Buckminster's Galatea) is wonderful! ...The AIA Dallas and The Dallas Architectural Foundation are happy to have the artwork to hang in the gallery of Pillsbury Peters Fine Art Gallery (for AIA's "Art of Architects" 2003 event)."
Stacey E. Marshall
American Institute of Architects Dallas Chapter
Loving Memory
“Mary Ann constantly amazes me...I tell her to keep changing the course of the world through her art, her words & most of all by her beautiful example."
Suzie Humphreys
(Radio & Television Personality)
"Her web site is wonderful! It is so special, touching, aesthetic, so her! I am honored to know her."
Cherie Carter-Scott
New York Times #1 Best Selling author
“Mary Ann is A CHILD OF LIGHT and a big time healer on planet Earth.”
Elaine Dodson
“Mary Ann hopes that people look past her talent to discover a message of religious tolerance and spiritual exploration.”
Heather Hays
FOX News Reporter
“Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk’s unusual works are provocative ‘show stoppers’! Her unique sculptures are fashioned from bronze, silver, glass, clay and semi-precious stones -- even toothpicks! A 27 year old dynamo, she serves as the founder & President of the Advisory Board for The Visual Arts Coalition of Dallas, as well as in behalf of many other non-profit endeavors, earning her nominations in both ARTV’s categories of “Best in Sculpture” and for “Artist of The Year”!
ARTV
“Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk is a prolific artist, writer and social activist! She supports our mission to provide exhibition opportunities to women artists and to educate the WORLD about women’s artistic contributions by serving as on Chicago’s WomanMade Gallery’s Advisory Board.”
WomanMade Gallery
“From the Hermes belt to the Jimmy Choo sandals, her looks label her ‘wealthy young fashionista’. But looks, like labels, are misleading and artist Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk is more than a beautiful, well-heeled socialist (though she is that). She’s an artist of unique talent, whose extraordinary journey in life was determined by a strange quirk of fate, whisking her from poverty to privilege and philanthropy in a single second.”
Mary Ann Crenshaw
(New York Fashion Consultant & Editor)
“Professor Stephen Hawking has autographed Mary Ann’s extraordinary gift to him as an imprimatur of her exceptional journal and also as a token of his personal esteem.”
John McCaffrey
For Prof. Stephen Hawking
“Mary Ann’s father, John Philp Thompson, exposed her to philanthropy at a young age, and now today she is following his footsteps.”
Bob Hopkins
CEO & Founder of Philanthropy Magazine
“Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk is the visionary woman, artist, speaker, and educator, who birthed the vision of the Memnosyne Speaker Series.”
Frank MacEowen
Druid Priest and author of
“The Spiral of Memory & Belonging” & “The Mist Filled Path”
