Visual artist Tami Curtis expands her reach…all the way to Buc-ee’s.

When Meneray and Ashyle Keaton founded the Ella Project, Curtis followed. “It is such a great resource for artists and so needed,” she exclaimed. She recalled being asked to lead a November 2024 national exhibition for Arts Hancock (of Hancock County, Mississippi) and feeling like she had been “thrown into the fire.” So she reached out to Meneray to be on the selection jury. “As usual, he was so, so helpful,” she said.

It was a month later when, out of the blue, she got a call from Larry Smith at Somerset House Publishing. Being suspicious of scams and phishing, Curtis did her research and learned in fact that Somerset is an arts distribution company with a stable of artists whose images are sold to commercial and private clients, including Buc-ee’s, a Texas-based chain of large roadside convenience stores.