"Bryant 3x3"

“People can forget what certain micro-aggressions can look like. Words are very, very, very powerful.”

"Oak Cliff really pushed me into understanding that this is my neighborhood, this is me, these are the things I'm seeing — these things are worthy of being shown. That neighborhood as transformed me." 

“It’s important for somebody to see their reflection in any way possible. But it’s better when it’s a positive reflection and not a negative.”

"When I was a kid, a clown picked me up and I cried."

"Art for me is living, is surviving, is love, is communication; it's the way that I can live every day.”

"If you give something time, and you focus on it — almost anything — you'll find something interesting about it." 

“Our parents were discriminated against for using Spanish; there wasn’t really an emphasis to teach us, so we just grew up around it, picking it up. And it’s kind of this bastardization of language."

“The real impetus for me is something I just can’t out of my head, and I just keep thinking: I need to make this; I have to make this.”

“What gets me going creatively is the community that I live in. It's really just absorbing everything in the community, and then how I replicate that in the studio practice."

The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas has opened applications for its annual Artist Grants initiative for North Texas artists.

The Dallas-based Talley Dunn Gallery has announced that Nuestra Collective has been awarded the 2023-2024 Equity in the Arts Fellowship.

Rosa Boshier reviews an exhibition featuring work by Ciara Elle Bryant, Tanya Habjouqa, Mari Hernandez, and Letitia Huckaby.

The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas has announced the five winners of its 2022 Nasher Artist Grants.

The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the winners of its 2022 Awards to Artists, including nine artists from North Texas.

The $5,000 award is open to all BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Color) artists working or living in either Dallas or Dallas County.

This week: putting in work in San Antonio, geometry in Houston, and a biennial tackling equality and identity in Amarillo.

“There are incredible indigenous cultures that have been developing technologies with clay for thousands of years.”

“I try to create a piece of work that can be the piece of work of others. It's not done. People will finish whatever I'm trying to share with them.”

“I go back to the first-ever art form that I made, which is drawing.”

"You allow yourself to respond to things as they come. You allow chance to enter into the process in a really serious way."