Ruben Carrazana, Christian Cruz, Jer’Lisa Joyce Devezin, Austin Jordan Johnson, and Gerald L. Leavell II will each receive $4,000 of the $20,000 award.

This week: Lawndale's Big Show returns, Juneteenth is this weekend, and doomscrolling is an art form.

No one may be more in the mood to celebrate than Opal Lee of Fort Worth. The 94-year-old has sustained a five-year campaign to make Juneteenth a national holiday, and has been dubbed the Grandmother of Juneteenth.

Artists 18 years or older who currently live in any North Texas county may apply.

"Kubricht's galaxies offer a respite and reminder of how small and fleeting our own troubles are in the grandest scheme."

"An exhibition of 15 relief paintings by Jo Zider based on the archetypes of Grief, Blame and Hope, as they find commonality between a 17th-century playwright's characters and the effects of climate change on the lives of contemporary man."

"Haden’s specialty is re-purposing found objects, trash, or scrap materials, with the intent of changing the viewer’s perception of that object."

"The artist illustrates modern human habits with a sense of humor and absurdity, while commenting on and aiming to satiate the viewer’s need for instant gratification."

“I think of the legacy I’m going to leave behind, and the narratives I want to put forth into the world.”

The work pivots on carefully planned silliness and deceptively poor craft, and this balance of thoughtful and careless gives them an edge.

The mural is by artist Reginald Adams and depicts scenes that commemorate Juneteenth.

"I hope my works starts to make our ideals of nature a little more complex, and maybe realistic."

The flag is currently on view at Philbrook Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma through September 5 of this year.  

The exhibition is a luminous, timely exploration of how both artists find the sublime in the close observation of nature.

Artists in the show curated by Dr. Lauren Cross include Nick Bontrager, Ciara Bryant, Angele Faz, Jessica Fuentes, Jeff Gibbons, Jin-Ya Huang, Sedrick and Letitia Huckaby, Raul Rodriguez, and Bernardo Vallarino.

“All roads lead to Houston! All roads lead to Houston in Black art.”

Currently, the gallery’s represented artists include Sonia Borgialli, Matthew Stavrowsky, Peggy Cook, Gloria Sanchez Hart, Monica Puryear, Karen Pittman, and more.

"Houston artist Royal Sumikat has done a wonderful job conveying the sense of strife and hope every immigrant faces."

This week: art battles gentrification, virtual communities go physical, and artists collaborate in a small town's evolution.

The first exhibition in the new space is a group show curated by artist Vicki Meek. It opens July 24.