{"id":332568,"date":"2026-06-11T19:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/332568\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:19:19","slug":"portrait-honoring-corpus-christi-musician-rich-lockhart-unveiled-at-house-of-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/332568\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait honoring Corpus Christi musician Rich Lockhart unveiled at House of Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A new portrait honoring local blues musician Rich Lockhart is now on display at House of Rock in downtown Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lockhart, a popular figure in the local music scene, died in late March. On Wednesday, friends, supporters and community members gathered to dedicate the artwork celebrating his life and legacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The portrait was created by local artist Alison Schuchs, who shared with 3NEWS the story behind the piece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Schuchs said the inspiration dates back to January, when Lockhart stepped in to model for a painters group at the Art Center after another model canceled. During that session, the two struck up a conversation that would eventually lead to the portrait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He wanted a portait of him painted in that theme,&#8221; Schuchs said. &#8220;He said for me to come to one of his gigs and paint live. Well that never really materialized because he passed away. I wanted to keep my promise to him and go ahead and paint it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When it came time to find a permanent home for the portrait, Schuchs said the choice was clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The artwork is now displayed at House of Rock, a venue she said held a special connection to Lockhart and his music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new portrait honoring local blues musician Rich Lockhart is now on display at House of Rock in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[118862,155,157,156,2344,114410,118863,118861],"class_list":["post-332568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-alison-schuchs","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-downtown-corpus-christi","tag-house-of-rock","tag-local-music-scene","tag-rich-lockhart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}