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Discovery Green, a 12-acre park in downtown Houston, has announced Karen Navarro and Gerardo Rosales as its inaugural Art Lab Fellows.

The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft has announced the 11 local, national, and international artists in its 2024-2025 residency program, including Texas-based Perata Bradley, Nela Garzon, Gabo Martinez, Preetika Rajgariah, and James Sterling Pitt.

The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation has announced the winners of its 2024 Prize for arts journalists.

ICOSA Collective, an artist-run nonprofit in Austin, has announced a national call for entries for its “Open Space 2024” juried exhibition.

Institutions across South Texas, including the Rockport Center for the Arts, the International Museum of Art & Science, and the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, have a slew of solo shows and group exhibitions opening soon.

Easyside, a Fort Worth-based nonprofit, in partnership with Artist Mama Fund, a granting program for artist single mothers, has launched an open call for the Texas Single Parent Art Prize.

Earlier this month, Bale Creek Allen Gallery in Fort Worth announced via social media that it is temporarily closing and a new gallery called Giant Runt is taking over the physical space.

The University of Texas School of Architecture recently debuted an exhibition titled “The Black Home as Public Art” and will host a symposium on the same topic in September.

Contemporary Art Month, a San Antonio nonprofit, has opened its call for its 2025 Perennial exhibition and announced Marisa Sage as the guest curator.

Ballroom Marfa, a non-collecting contemporary art museum in West Texas, has announced the appointment of Jaime Herrell as Associate Curator, as well as other organizational shifts.

Big Medium, in partnership with the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston and DiverseWorks, has announced the artists participating in its 2024 Texas Biennial.

Earlier this year, Houston-based artist Dario Robleto was invited to participate in the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts residency program as its first Visiting Guest Artist.

The Teiger Foundation, a private foundation that supports contemporary art curators, has awarded a total of $3,925,000 in grants to 50 curators across the U.S., including three curators with projects in Texas.

Museums and art centers throughout the Panhandle and West Texas have announced fall exhibitions focused on past and present regional artists.

The Texas Commission on the Arts has announced its call for nominations for the 2025 and 2026 Texas State Artists in 2D and 3D visual arts.

An obituary for Floyd Newsum, artist, professor, and co-founder of Project Row Houses in Houston, who died Wednesday, August 14, 2024.

The Dallas Contemporary has announced the launch of a new initiative to support local graduate students.

The Dougherty Arts Center, a City of Austin-run cultural arts space, has launched an open call for applications for its Visual Artist Residency Volunteer Work Exchange Program.

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art in Houston has announced the appointment of Jack Massing as Executive Director; he succeeds Tommy Ralph Pace.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has announced that Claire Howard will be leaving her role at the Blanton Museum of Art to join their institution as the Hansjörg Wyss Curator of Modern Art.