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]]>First launched in 2013, Dallas Arts Month is a city-wide celebration held each April. Originally, ART214 was an annual exhibition that served as a cornerstone of Dallas Arts Month programming. The event has transitioned into a biennial showcase and is a collaboration between cultural venues that are a part of the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, including the Latino Cultural Center, the Bath House Cultural Center, the Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Moody Performance Hall, and the South Dallas Cultural Center.
This year participating artists were selected by a panel of five art professionals from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The panelists were Ashley Jordan, founder and Creative Program Director of Form Creatives; Mylan Nguyen, artist and co-founder of Strange Powers Press; Raymond Butler, artist and curator; Shawn Saumell, artist and art/photography professor; and Jose Vargas, artist and curator. Once the artwork was selected, Benjamin Muñoz, artist and co-founder of Familia Print Shop, curated the exhibition across multiple venues.
See the locations, exhibition dates, reception information, and viewing hours for each of the venues below. Find a full list of participating artists at the ART214 website.
Latino Cultural Center
2600 Live Oak St., Dallas, TX 75204
Exhibition Dates: March 16 – April 19, 2024
Reception: Saturday, March 16, 2024; 6 – 8 p.m.
Viewing Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
South Dallas Cultural Center
3400 S. Fitzhugh Ave, Dallas, TX 75210
Exhibition Dates: March 22 – April 27, 2024
Reception: Friday, March 22, 2024; 5 – 8 p.m.
Viewing Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Bath House Cultural Center
521 E. Lawther Dr., Dallas, TX 75218
Exhibition Dates: March 23 – April 27, 2024
Reception: Saturday, March 30, 2024; 6 – 8 p.m.
Viewing Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6 p.m.; Open until 10 PM on nights with theater performances
Moody Performance Hall
2520 Flora Street, Dallas, Texas 75201
Exhibition Dates: April 1 – May 5, 2024
Reception: Tuesday, April 2, 2024; 5 – 7 p.m.
Viewing Hours: Open on days and nights with performances. Viewing is by appointment at other times.
Oak Cliff Cultural Center
223 W Jefferson Blvd, Dallas, TX 75208
Exhibition Dates: April 13 – May 24, 2024
Reception: Saturday, April 13, 2024; 6 – 8 p.m.
Viewing Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6 p.m.
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]]>CAM is a nonprofit organization that promotes contemporary art in San Antonio by organizing an annual month-long city-wide celebration during March. This year Christopher Blay, curator at the Houston Museum of African American Culture, was the guest curator for the CAM Perennial, an annual exhibition that coincides with Contemporary Art Month.
The CAMGrant program was launched in 2022 and provides unrestricted funds to support local artists. In its first year, the granting program offered four $500 grants. Last year, to better support recipients, the organization increased the award amount to $1,000 and reduced the number of grantees to three artists. The 2023 awardees were Kim Bishop, Tanesha Sumerset Payne, and Ashleigh Valentine Garza. This year, while the award amount will still be $1,000, only two grants will be offered.
In a press release, Nina Hassele, CAM’s Executive Director, remarked, “This grant continues to be spearheaded by an incredible group of women, and I am really proud of that. It marks a major milestone for our organization and the community of artists whom we serve.”
San Antonio artists are encouraged to submit their applications for consideration. The application deadline is Wednesday, March 27, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. Winners will be announced via email on March 29, and a public announcement will be made at the CAMMIE Awards and CAM Closing Event on March 30.
Learn more about the CAMGrant and apply via the CAM website.
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]]>The poster contest was open to middle school, high school, and college students, as well as arts professionals. San Antonio native Anna Arce was named the top winner. Ms. Arce holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas, and is currently pursuing an MA in Art Therapy at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana. Her poster will be used for the promotion and marketing of this year’s festival. Additionally, she has been awarded a prize of $2,000.
While Ms. Arce won the overall prize, winners were also named in the student categories. Annalise Solis, a student from Gregory Portland ISD in Portland, Texas won the middle school category; in the high school category, Anahi Barroza, a student at Churchill High School in San Antonio won first place, and Victoria Leal, a student from Northside ISD, received an honorable mention. Alejandro Rocha was the winner of the college category. In the open category, Roberto B. Sosa, who designed the 1983 Tejano Conjunto Festival poster, was named the winner.
Tickets are now on sale for the 42nd Annual Tejano Conjunto Festival, which will take place from May 17 to 19 at Rosedale Park. Additional events, including the Seniors Dance and Hall of Fame dance, will take place at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9186 on Wednesday, May 15 and Thursday, May 16.
See the full schedule of events and purchase tickets at the GCAC website.
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]]>Inman Gallery opened in 1990 and moved into the Isabella Court building in 2004. It debuted its first show (also of works by Darren Waterston) in the 4,000-square-foot space, which was designed by architect John Blackmon and features a main exhibition space, a smaller back room space, an inventory/gallery space, and offices, in July of that year. Throughout the gallery’s time in Isabella Court, Ms. Inman’s program has focused largely on working with and fostering the careers of local and regional artists, many of whom she has represented for years.
Of her choice to move her gallery out of its longtime home, Ms. Inman told Glasstire, “1502 Alabama has an amazing history as the Station Museum, and we are excited to move there; it is a really great next step for Inman Gallery. We will only be four blocks away from our current location and imagine coordinating events with the Isabella businesses, hopefully amplifying the area’s cultural offerings.”
To help design the interior of the 1502 Alabama building, which is approximately 8,460 square feet and is located about half a mile east of the gallery’s current location, Ms. Inman has hired the Houston firm Dillon Kyle Architects. She says their minimal ideas for the building include “highlighting the assets of the space — the pitched ceiling and the beautiful wood floors, while increasing the natural light inside.”
This move will make Ms. Inman’s gallery one of the largest in Houston. She says that more than half of the space will ultimately be offices and storage, and that the significant square footage will allow the gallery to have all of its storage on site.
When asked how the new building will allow her gallery’s program to grow, and what she looks forward to about the space, Ms. Inman told Glasstire, “1502 Alabama will allow Inman Gallery to have all of our activities under one roof, on site parking, and a very visible location. I’m excited about the challenges that the new space offers us, and hope to be a new destination within Houston’s arts ecosystem. I also look forward to having morning coffee across the street, and a beer after work around the corner.”
The future of the 1502 Alabama building has been in question ever since the Station Museum, which was known for presenting wholly unique and sometimes controversial exhibitions, announced it would close until further notice in November of 2022. The building’s situation was made even more uncertain after the death of the Station’s co-founder (and the building’s co-owner), James Harithas, in March of 2023.
Ms. Inman’s purchase of the building was made possible by the recent sale of another Midtown property she had purchased in 2012, the 23,000-square-foot Bermac Arts Building at 4101 San Jacinto St., which for years housed artists’ studios and the Community Artists’ Collective. Though the terms of sale of the former Station Museum building are confidential, property records show that as of January 2023 it was valued at $1,378,370. By comparison, the January 2023 valuation of the Bermac property by the city is $2,765,046.
Given the trepidation surrounding the future of the 1502 Alabama building, many in the Houston arts community will likely be excited that it will remain an art space, though there will also be some sadness that the sale of the building would seem to be the final death knell of the Station Museum.
For her part, Ms. Inman will think fondly about her time at Isabella Court: “I have absolutely loved having Inman Gallery at Isabella Court for 20 years, it has been an amazing home! I’m happy to see galleries and artist studios starting to fill up the Isabella spaces again!” The gallery’s departure from the building will mean that the newly opened Throughline Collective will be one of the last art spaces in the building. It also, however, will leave a vacancy with potential: a fully built-out gallery space with address recognition and a storied history, that could be, in theory, move-in-ready for the right tenant.
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]]>In an email to Glasstire, Sara S. Iqbal, Communication Director for IAC and Festival Director for RFF, spoke on the impetus for the festival:
The growing Pakistani diaspora in the U.S. faces a significant challenge of underrepresentation in art, film, TV, and mainstream media, which is the most influential medium of persuasion. This lack of representation leads to unfair misrepresentation and stereotyping of characters. Rūng Film Fest… aims to diversify the narrative in U.S. media and film by highlighting and showcasing original stories told through the lens of Pakistani filmmakers, in an annual film festival for underrepresented filmmakers.
Ms. Iqbal revealed that over sixty films were submitted to this first RFF. The lineup has not yet been announced, but will be revealed in the coming weeks on the IAC website here. The festival will be held at the Midtown Arts and Theater Center, 3400 Main St., on May 4 and 5 from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. An awards ceremony will follow the screenings. There will also be panel discussions and Q&A sessions with, according to the website, “invaluable resources for indie filmmakers and related artistic disciplines.” Specific details have not yet been announced.
Accomplished figures of Pakistani American cinema, including actors Faran Tahir and Kamran Shaikh, filmmakers Sadia Uqaili and Hiba Said, and producer Fahad Shaikh, have lent their support to the festival. “Media shapes our perception… Our image matters, and it matters how people look at us. We can do that through storytelling and streaming these vibrant voices into the mainstream for everyone to see,” said Mr. Tahir, who serves on the RFF advisory committee, as quoted in the press release from IAC.
Ticketing information for the festival has not yet been released. For updates, follow IAC on Facebook or Instagram, or stay tuned to the RFF website.
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]]>Answer to Van Gogh (1987) is an 18 x 46.5 x 5 inch multimedia work that features an acrylic painting on canvas inside a wide and heavily-collaged frame. In the painting, a large eye, a heart, and a hand sit nestled within a hilly landscape. According to the press release from the gallery, “Long describes the philosophy behind his work as a quest to help people diagnose their inner self, believing his art to be the vehicle to help facilitate positive change” (emphasis in original). The piece, which typifies Long’s mixed-media approach, was made in the same year that he was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Long’s work can also be found in the collections of institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Instituto de Bachillerato in Spain. In addition to the NEA grant, he was awarded a 1990 Prix de Rome fellowship, Art League Houston’s 1990 Texas Artist of the Year award, the 1997 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant, and the 2009 Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts Artist of the Year Award. In 2016, Michael Bise reviewed Long’s third posthumous exhibition with Deborah Colton Gallery for Glasstire .
As stated in the press release, “Bert L. Long Jr. continues to be recognized as an important African American artist throughout Texas, nationally and internationally.” For more information on Long, visit his artist page on the Deborah Colton gallery website . Those interested may also keep tabs on the National Museum of African American History & Culture website for possible news of the acquisition.
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]]>Fresh Arts Executive Director Angela Carranza, quoted in the press release, said, “as we celebrate a decade of artistic vibrancy, these exciting events showcase the collaborative spirit that defines Arts District Houston.”
Knapp Chevrolet (815 Houston Ave.) will host Art Car Community Paint Day on Saturday, March 16 from 12-2 p.m. Artist Kearin Cook, a Houston local who was selected by Fresh Arts as the designer of their first-ever art car, will be on hand. As the name of the event implies, visitors will have a chance to help paint Cook’s car in advance of this year’s Art Car Parade.
According to the press release from Fresh Arts, the nonprofit’s new art car will be repurposed as a “mobile welcome center” within Arts District Houston after its debut in the parade. It will “promote and bring more awareness to the arts and cultural opportunities within Arts District Houston.”
On Friday, April 5 from 5-7 p.m., celebrants will want to make their way to Meive Gallery & Studio for an Art Car Preview Party. The gallery is located at 1520 Center St. Unit 1, in the heart of Arts District Houston. Fresh Arts will unveil Cook’s finished car, a vintage Suburban, at this event. Complimentary drinks will be provided by LALO tequila.
These events are precursors to the annual Art Car Parade, organized by the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art. This year’s parade will occur on Sunday, April 13. It is perhaps a bittersweet year for the Parade, as it will be the last iteration before the permanent shuttering of the Art Car Museum.
Additionally, FotoFest will have its 2024 Biennial up and running throughout the Arts District Houston anniversary celebrations, while 4th Wall Theater will present both Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play and Florian Zeller’s The Father during that time.
Learn more about upcoming Arts District Houston events here.
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]]>In January, Public Art UHS announced that Havah… to breathe, air, life, an installation featuring a sculpture and video work commissioned in partnership with New York City’s Madison Square Park Conservancy, would be on view from February 28 through October 31 at the university. On February 7, Texas Right to Life, a Christian, anti-abortion nonprofit organization, launched an online petition to keep the sculpture out of Texas and called for protests at the opening event scheduled for February 28. One portion of the installation, Witness, was installed, which individuals protested the day of its opening.
In the recent March conversations held at UH, students raised concerns that the university’s handling of the protests could possibly indicate that they would not receive support from UH if their work were deemed offensive. Faculty and staff were equally concerned that it may be harder to recruit future students, and that faculty might not be protected if students or community members were to call into question their curriculum.
Faculty member and Project Row Houses co-founder Rick Lowe, who was not able to be present at the meeting, prepared a statement that was shared during the conversation. In part, it said, “When there were threats of protest of Shahzia’s work, it became a gift to our community, which we declined by canceling programming that would allow the powerful voice of her work to inspire diverse voices of our community to be heard whether in protest or civil dialogue.”
Following the town hall meeting, professors Anna Mayer and Natilee Harren, along with Reynier Leyva Novo, an exhibiting artist at UH’s Blaffer Art Museum, penned an email and launched a petition in support of Ms. Sikander’s work. The email noted, “Based on the powerful thoughts shared at the town hall, some SoA [School of Art] faculty members and Novo drafted a petition that calls on UH Public Art and the university as a whole to support Sikander and arts & artists on campus.”
Another point of contention around Ms. Sikander’s project brought up at the meetings was that Public Art University of Houston System (Public Art UHS), which commissions works and manages the university’s public art collection, has not yet installed a video work, entitled Reckoning, which was originally going to be part of the university’s presentation. This has led some to believe that the artwork will not go on view. The Art Newspaper reported that though this piece was intended to be displayed at the same time as Witness, “Sikander says that, in the end, UH did not bring Reckoning on campus for display.”
When Glasstire reached out to Public Art UHS to ask about the delayed installation of Reckoning, a university spokesperson responded, “There is no specific reason for the delay,” and did not give a timeline for or confirmation of the work going on view. A spokesperson for Sean Kelly Gallery, which represents Ms. Sikander, recently confirmed that Public Art UHS has been in touch with Madison Square Park Conservancy, and said that the installation of the video work is moving forward at UH, though they did not specify the date it will be up.
Andrew Davis, who serves as Dean of the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts, seemed to distance the college from decisions around Ms. Sikander’s piece and also express support for the work in an email to faculty and staff, which read in part, “The McGovern College and the University of Houston are committed to free expression and to support for artists…. Public Art UHS is an organization that manages a public art collection on behalf of the entire UH system. It is separate from the academic unit that is the McGovern College of the Arts.” Mr. Davis’s email also confirmed that Reckoning, the video work, will eventually be installed.
Though it appears the installation of Ms. Sikander’s video is moving forward, a rescheduled date for her artist talk has not yet been announced, and it is unclear if it will still take place. When the university first announced the temporary installation, it noted that there would be an opening reception and artist talk on Wednesday, February 28. However, just days before the scheduled event, an email was sent to newsletter subscribers with the subject line “Cancelled – Shahzia Sikander Opening Reception and Artist Talk.” In the email, Public Art UHS noted, “We are reaching out to update you that there are no planned opening activities scheduled for Wednesday, February 28th.”
On February 26, following the cancelation, Ms. Sikander shared an exclusive statement with The Art Newspaper. She remarked, “Art should be about discourse and not censorship. Shame on those that silence artists.”
On March 6, a representative from Sean Kelly shared Ms. Sikander’s longer statement, which reads:
“Art should be about discourse and not censorship. The artwork is an allegory of women and justice and tensions between women and power. As a Witness, the sculpture seems to be exemplifying these very fissures in the country. I find it ironic since the sculpture Witness is about ‘life’ itself. Havah is an Urdu word that literally means ‘breath’ or ‘air’ and is mapped in glass tesserae in a loose calligraphic form around the metal skirt of Witness.
In Witness, the female figure wears her hair in braids that resemble two ram’s horns, universal symbols of strength and wisdom. While conceiving the sculpture, I was studying various recurring motifs in the New York Appellate Courthouse, including those found in its decorative program. The ram and its horns adorn the arms of the iconic judge’s bench chairs in the courtroom. The rams also appear on the frieze of the façade of the courthouse. The braided hair draws on the syncretic, visual histories of Africa and Asia, citing early 20th century Nigerian crest mask, and the spiraling snail-shell hair curls that often adorn the Buddha’s head.
The lace jabot on the sculpture is a nod to the feminization of the black judicial robe popularized by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and first introduced by Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.”
On February 29, following the publication of multiple articles from a variety of news sources on the protests and postponement of the artist talk, Ms. Sikander stated via social media, “I did not ask for the opening event and artist talk at the University of Houston to be cancelled or postponed.”
A spokesperson for UH countered Ms. Sikander’s claims, telling Glasstire that “On February 20, the artist told a University official that she did not want to come to Houston and the event was subsequently cancelled.” However, Sean Kelly Gallery contends that “Shahzia never told the University she did not want to come to Houston.”
Witness will remain on view through October in the university’s Cullen Family Plaza.
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]]>Artist and educator Jessica Fuentes will serve as this year’s juror. Ms. Fuentes has exhibited her work locally for over a decade and is a former member of the F6 Gallery Collective and 500X Gallery. In 2023, her work was included in the 18th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Exhibition at Texas Woman’s University in Denton. As an art educator with more than 15 years of experience, Ms. Fuentes has taught in public schools, higher education, and museums. She was instrumental in developing the C3 Visiting Artist Project at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Carter Community Artists initiative at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Her dedication to art education is evident through her role as a founding director of Kinfolk House, as News Editor for Glasstire, and through her involvement with Make Art with Purpose.
New Texas Talent is a statewide exhibition open to visual artists over the age of 18 who reside in Texas and who are not currently represented by a for-profit or non-profit gallery. All submitted works must be available for sale, and entries cannot be more than 84 inches tall, wide, or deep. Additionally, works must have been created within the past two years. Artists can submit up to three artworks.
The deadline to apply is May 18, 2024. The exhibition is scheduled to run from July 20 to August 24. For more information on submissions and guidelines, visit Craighead Green Gallery’s website.
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]]>This international residency opportunity is specifically intended for artists who identify as LGBTQIA+ and are working within live performance as their artistic discipline. Additionally, artists who apply should be able to demonstrate a commitment to environmental sustainability practices. The program will select one Austin-based artist and one Denmark-based artist.
The one-month residency includes an artist stipend, food allowance, production costs, and lodging and travel expenses. The selected artist will receive one-on-one mentorship, opportunities for network building, and the time and support to develop new work. Artists will present the work completed during their residency at both their host organization and home site (which, in Austin, is The Museum of Human Achievement).
Interested applicants are encouraged to attend an application support workshop being held at The Museum of Human Achievement (3600 Lyons Rd.) on Tuesday, March 19 at 7 p.m. Register to attend the free information session here.
The deadline to apply is Sunday, March 31 at 11:59 p.m. CST. Artists will be notified by Wednesday, April 10. Questions can be directed to info@themuseumohumanachievement.com. Learn more and apply via The Museum of Human Achievement’s website.
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