“Since 1998 the Old Jail has celebrated Youth Art Month by hosting a Student Art Show Competition for ages 13-18. This competition provides local teens...

An exhibition featuring works recently acquired by the Old Jail Art Center. Over the past few years, the center has acquired works by David Bates, Ed...

Lily Cox-Richard’s works “focus on systems and networks that exist all around us, yet often go unnoticed-the electrical wiring and plumbing between walls, the sprawling...

Katie Robinson Edwards, the curator of the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin, will discuss midcentury Texas art, specifically highlighting the artists of the Fort Worth...

A show of paper, wood, and plywood structures by artist Ronald Watson. “Watson utilizes strict systems of order, artistic intuition, and the viewers’ perception to...

A show of works by San Antonio-based artist Kelly O’Connor. In her site-specific installation in the Old Jail’s cell galleries, O’Connor draws parallels between the Emerald City...

A suite of Andy Warhol prints depicting American West icons such as Annie Oakley, General George Custer, John Wayne, and Geronimo. The show will also feature a...

“Joel Sampson combines technology, visual art, music, and design to create works of art that remind viewers they are witness to a one-man band…minus the...

Watt Casey Jr. began photographing musicians while working as a roadie in 1970. This show features photographs of musicians taken over the last five decades.

A show of sculptures by New Mexico artist Ted Larsen. For his exhibition in the Old Jail Art Center’s jail cell, Larsen plans to install his...

An exhibition featuring works by nine artists who utilize the mediums of collage, montage (photographs or film), and assemblage. Artists include Andy Coolquitt, Matthew Cusick, John...

An event celebrating the reopening of the Old Jail’s Robert E. Nail, Jr. Archives.

An exhibition of works by artist Dan Phillips. Trained as a cabinet and furniture maker, Phillips creates custom furniture pieces out of a studio in Dallas. Additionally,...

An exhibition bringing together the works of influential Texas art teachers Sallie Gillespie, Wade Jolly, Blanche McVeigh, and Evaline Sellors. All four artists were instructors at...

An exhibition by Dallas-based artist Margaret Meehan. For this show, Meehan created work “based on multiple versions of an erased and reinvented past of the historical...

An installation of work created by self-taught artists. The show includes pieces by Hector Alonzo Benavides, Robert Adale Davis, Helen Burkhart Mayfield, Ike E. Morgan, Royal...

An exhibition of photographs by Robert Langham. The artist rescues wild animals and then poses them in his studio using simple and arbitrary props. In many...

A free family event of performance, crafts, games, and food.

This exhibition will focus “on Utter’s best-known period, the 1950s and 1960s, as well as his lesser-known but exemplary prints. The exhibition will be the first significant retrospective...

An exhibition of works from an open call for football photography.

A group exhibition exploring unique depicted realities beyond “realistic” rendering. Includes works by Seth Alverson, Daniel Blagg, Dennis Blagg, Julie Bozzi, Jason Cytacki, Ann Ekstrom,...

5-12th grade artists were invited to submit artworks that “talk back” to one of five works in the museum collection and exhibitions. Thee winning pieces...

A fantastically wide-ranging selection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and objects from the Old Jail Art Center’s collection that reference, elicit, or are inspired by spiritual...

Intricately layered collages by artist Natasha Bowdoin, taking some inspiration from the initials HEX∆M carved into the limestone blocks that form the OJAC’s 1877 jail....