"Ciara Elle Bryant"

The Oak Cliff Cultural Center in Dallas has announced the opening of a collaborative, community self-portraiture project called "Ghost Studio."

This week: an iconic tower gets a makeover, a new media festival in McAllen, and an online pick for your Delta blues.

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

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

“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.”

From the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Aurora: “Join the Arts Council of Fort Worth and AURORA for a not-to-be-missed public art event this summer! Coming August 20-21, New Stories: New Futures…

“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."

“The thing that I cannot say through art — I relieve those feelings through boxing.”

Glasstire's Events and Social Media Editor walks us through some current exhibitions on view across Texas.

In a way, being on the outside looking in is an apt metaphor for experiencing issues around Black hair from a Black woman’s perspective.

“I think of the legacy I’m going to leave behind, and the narratives I want to put forth into the world.”

Artists in the show curated by Dr. Lauren Cross include Nick Bontrager, Ciara Bryant, Angele Faz, Jessica Fuentes, Jeff Gibbons, Jin-Ya Huang, Sedrick and Letitia Huckaby, Raul Rodriguez, and Bernardo Vallarino.

“I fell in love with art a long time ago. With photography specifically. Love is an essentially irrational thing.”

"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."

"Our technology evolves, but we haven’t evolved that much. We’re the same people we were when we first invented myths, really.”

The Dallas Contemporary is facing community backlash after terminating two staffers.

“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.”