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FotoFest has announced a virtual memorial service honoring the life of the organization's co-founder, Frederick Baldwin, who died last month.

FotoFest has extended the deadline for artists, organizers, institutions, art spaces, and other venues to register to participate in the Participating Spaces program. The new deadline is March 18, 2022.

As part of their ongoing collecting practice of supporting local and regional artists, the Dallas Museum of Art acquired works by eight Texas artists in 2021.

“Limitless: The Recipients of ClayHouston’s Award for Texas BIPOC Ceramic Artists,” opens at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Saturday, January 15, 2022. The show features work by Jihye Han, Tammie Rubin, and Earnest Snell.

The City of San Antonio recently debuted "Spheres of Reflection," a new public art project by Kaldric Dow, located in Martin Luther King Park. 

Creative Capital — a nonprofit organization that provides direct funding and support to artists — has announced grants totaling $2.5 million in support of 50 projects.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded a total of $4.1 million to 49 museums and arts organizations through its Fall 2021 grants. Houston nonprofits DiverseWorks, FotoFest, and The Menil Collection are among the recipients.  

On December 26, 2021, visitors scratched the names Isaac, Ariel, Norma, and Adrian, along with the date, across a petroglyph. Fort Worth-based photographer Paul Leicht who photographed the now-defaced petroglyphs in early December, shares his thoughts on the vandalism and the importance of National Parks.

Submissions are currently being accepted for the 43rd annual CineFestival San Antonio, which will be held at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center from July 6-10, 2022.

The iconic portraits of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will be ending their U.S. tour at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in April.

The City of Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs in collaboration with the Houston Arts Alliance has awarded a total of $9,998,343.77 in grants to 87 individuals and 151 arts and cultural nonprofits. 

The North Texas Community Foundation, a nonprofit organization that manages charitable gifts, has announced an award totaling $32,000 for Arts Fort Worth and Art Tooth.

Juror Natalie Dupêcher, Assistant Curator of Modern Art at the Menil Collection states, “In these very different but rigorous and richly imaginative practices, Hodge, Gaona, and Rajgariah each explore some of the most pressing issues of our time.”

Dan Phillips, the Huntsville-based artist, architect, and educator, died on December 21, 2021 after a long battle with cancer.

Ten Texas artists and art teams have been selected to complete public art works at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

The Contemporary Art Museum Houston and Radom Capital have announce a partnership to support CAMHLAB, an artists-in-residence program in Houston's Montrose neighborhood. The program's first four artists include Eepi Chaad, Two Star Symphony, Frame Dance, and Dana Caldera.

The second round of open calls for the Sundance Square and Artspace 111 Consulting, "Temporal Integral Mural Exhibition (T.I.M.E.)" closes Wednesday, January 5, 2022.

BOX 13 ArtSpace, an artist-run nonprofit studio and exhibition venue founded in 2008 for the creation and advancement of experimental contemporary art, is accepting new member applications.

Cultural enthusiasts look forward to January 1st because literature, music, movies, works of art, and other copyrighted materials enter the public domain each New Year.

In 2021, the art world lost formative figures like Clint Willour, Edith Baker, Geraldine Lee Epstein Hooks, Frederick Baldwin, and Ann Harithas. Added to this list are those we lost all too soon, including Jana Perez, Dr. Mark Roglán, and Adán Hernández.