“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.”
"Ciara Elle Bryant"
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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…
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“I go back to the first-ever art form that I made, which is drawing.”
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"You allow yourself to respond to things as they come. You allow chance to enter into the process in a really serious way."
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“The thing that I cannot say through art — I relieve those feelings through boxing.”
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Glasstire's Events and Social Media Editor walks us through some current exhibitions on view across Texas.
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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.
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“I think of the legacy I’m going to leave behind, and the narratives I want to put forth into the world.”
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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.
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“I fell in love with art a long time ago. With photography specifically. Love is an essentially irrational thing.”
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"Art for me is living, is surviving, is love, is communication; it's the way that I can live every day.”
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Glasstire 3×3: Shelby David Meier — Who or what has influenced your work?
by Glasstireby Glasstire"If you give something time, and you focus on it — almost anything — you'll find something interesting about it."
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Glasstire 3×3: Giovanni Valderas — Who or what has influenced your work?
by Glasstireby Glasstire“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."
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"Our technology evolves, but we haven’t evolved that much. We’re the same people we were when we first invented myths, really.”
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The Dallas Contemporary is facing community backlash after terminating two staffers.
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“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.”
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“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."
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"That you can make something that can express an idea without using any words, and someone can see it and formulate their own language around it seems like unifying and gratifying thing to do."
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“If I can use art to bring a different perspective that can change people’s minds, or at least get them to acknowledge an issue, I think my role as an artist is a viable one.”
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Our list ranges from artists whose works are represented in multiple national and international museums and collections, to mid-career artists, to emerging artists — some with their first couple of exhibitions in the past year.