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See also Series below and the exhibitions list for more talks
and our Art Space Information Page for new or unfamiliar space

new ArtCycleTx Exchange - a day of eco-spirited recycling and creative company. Bring unused (or gently used) art-related items to this community event. Be inspired by the possibilities, share ideas on what to make from a large variety of items. You may also donate items for the Free bins (free pick-up available) or set-up a vendor space for $15. E-mail artcycletx@gmail.com or call 214 839-7689 to reserve a spot. More information at ArtCycleTx.blogspot.com, 235 Murray Street, Dallas, TX 75226, between Commerce and Canton, 10-5 Sunday, March 14

new Art for Darfur Preview Night fundraiser in the Hughes-Trigg Basement at SMU, 3101 Dyer Street, with a performance by Dallas Black Dance Theatre and art by students of Rice and Hotchkiss elementary schools, 7-9, Saturday, March 20

new VSA arts of Texas (The International Organization on Arts and Disability — for people with disabilities to learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts) - Andrea Beleno speaking about Basic Legal Issues for Artists and Microentrepreneurs at the Latino Cultural Center, 2600 Live Oak Street in Dallas, 9-11 Wednesday, March 24, This is a free and inclusive workshop, appropriate for artists with and without disabilities. To register, contact Lynn Johnson at lynn@vsatx.org or call 1-866-489-8412.

new Pacesetters in American Art and Culture - a panel discussion featuring Kimberly Davenport, Director, Rice Gallery, Tyler Green, Art Critic, Modern Art Notes and Sedrick Huckaby, Artist and Art Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, artists who found success in the visual arts as young adults, and discover how they continue to keep the creative process alive as their careers progress.

This program also includes a look at artists featured in the exhibition American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art who excelled at a young age, including Stuart Davis and Jacob Lawrence at The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. A reception follows the program. Reservations required, 817 989-5030 or education@cartermuseum.org, 6-7 Thursday, March 25

new Ultra Xtra Arts Mix - a future-themed fundraiser for the Greater Denton Arts Council at Center for Visual Arts, 400 E. Hickory, Denton, Texas, live music, dance, film, interactive art, visual art and theater, $15, 940 382-2787, 7-11 Friday, March 26

Jackie Jung   Fish Formation   2009   acrylic on canvas   21 x 17 inches   $250

new Planned Living Assistance Network fundraiser at Continental Lofts, 3311 Elm Street, Dallas, Texas, approximately 30 artists including JeanE McIntosh, Chong Chu, John Christian, Claire Christian, Lise Dearborn, Martha Durbin 6-9:30 Friday, April 23

new Wish '10 Art Auction at Dallas Contemporary, Premier Peek 7-10 Thursday, May 13, Auction 7-11 Saturday, May 15

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Classes

Glassblowing at Bowman Glass

Paper Works by Paper Nerds - Flip books, 1-4 March 28, Paper marbling, 1-4 April 25, Screen printing, 1-4 May 23

Schools & Universities all have classes, and they're listed on The Schools page.
 

Dallas Artists Out of Town

Send us your out-of-town art show info per the pink box on the bottom of this page of this page.

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TJ Mabrey   Sliced Okra   at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas

member Anticipation - TJ Mabrey and Eliza Thomas at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center's McDermott Learning Center in Austin, through March 7

Click members' links to see more of their work on their DallasArtsRevue Membership pages.

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Community

As always on this site, comments are by J R Compton, owner and publisher of DallasArtsRevue. The opinion parts are usually rendered in gray text:

Intersting that of the three artists recently touted by Haley-Henman Gallery, all three are DallasArtsRevue Supporting Members. As previous reported here, Susan Lecky is on June Mattingly's blog that went up February 5, Jerry Lee Dodd's Tether was selected by the Lampasas Association for the ARts to show in their year-long exhibition, Art in the Park 2010; and Studio Visit Magazine selected Esther Ritz' Lost Dreams (third down on her member page) to be in their 2010 Summer Edition of that juried publication that introduces work to a serious national audience. We should probably mention that several other DARts Supporting Member Artists are also often featured in H-H exhibitions.

Click members' links in bold to see more of their work on their DallasArtsRevue Membership pages.

Georf Hager video

Big-time New York graphic artist Milton Glaser on What is Art, and What is Not? including his Advice to Young Artists and other topics. Thanks Fannie.

Juanluis Gonzalez installs work at Henderson Art Project (Facebook).

Story on NPR pits Fort Worth and Dallas' so-called arts districts, happily ignoring Dallas and Fort Worth artists, of course. I couldn't listen to the whole thing for the smarm and stereotyping them big city boys gush on us and our sister city to the west... –JRC

She got it moved to Glass Street near the Trinity River, now Dallas Contemporary Director Joan Davidow is retiring. Read the following press release with a boulder of salt. I always have to wonder what planet these people are from. They don't know who they are or where they are going. Except where they lie again about their founding, the following is verbatum, and the punctuation and grammar is all their own:

"Dallas, TX - February 17, 2010 - Dallas Contemporary today announced Joan Davidow will retire from the position of executive director effective May 31, 2010. The institution will shortly begin a national search for a new director. Davidow will continue in a consulting role until the end of 2010."

It is interesting to this curious student of local art organizations' histories that after claiming that Patricia Meadows alone founded that group in 1980, then that she and Judy Smith Hearst founded the group, the board of directors of the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, more recently known as The Contemp — though many of us just call it The Contempt, because it has ignored its founding purpose, to create an art center for Dallas artists and craftspersons, while refusing to show local artists who have not achieved stardom — now cites that it was "cofounded in 1978 by Patricia Meadows and two [unnamed] arts leaders."

In 1978 there was no D-Art. There was only the Artists Coalition of Texas (ACT), the organization that Mary Wachoviak Ward approached to help her sent up a center for Dallas artists. ACT became D-Art. Although Patricia Meadows was clearly instrumental in popularizing the organization and worked tirelessly in its behalf later, she did not found D-ART. Mary Washoviak Ward did.

Ward was fired in 1982. See DallasArtsRevue writer Julia Frazier's interview in 1982 with Mary Ward after she was fired.
See also the Index of The History of D-Art stories on DallasArtsRevue.
 

Veronica De Anda Tosten died Wednesday, February 3. Her husband, Erik, said that it was "after a six-year battle with pancreatic cancer. It was a long and painful struggle, and its a comfort to know that she is now free of her suffering. She was an artist, wife and good friend." Veronical wrote the following eulogy that was presented at the memorial service February 13 at 500X:

"This of course wasn’t easy to write, but, heck, at least I didn’t have to read it aloud in front of all of you. By the way, thanks for coming. I appreciated everything you did and continue to do for me and Erik. I feel so fortunate to have had such a wonderful family and friends. You all made my life rich and exciting and worth living.

I always said that attending UNT was the best decision I made and I meant it. Besides meeting the love of my life there, I made wonderful life-long friends (even though my life was not as long as I thought it would be, go figure).

But, enough about you all, this is about me, and how great I was, right? Erik said I was a great artist and I couldn’t argue with that. Almost each artwork I made was praised and lots of it sold, too. Even though I was shy. I wasn’t afraid to express myself through my art.

What else … what else … oh!, even though I was short, I still looked great in my leather boots and form-fitting dresses.

Well, the good thing about my life being so short is that I didn’t have time to make any major mistakes or have many regrets. Of course I regret that I was not able to grow old with Erik, but he’s a great catch and will make a great husband again some day. Especially now that I’ve smoothed out all the rough edges. I hope his next wife likes beards.

The best I can hope for now is that my body, which I’m donating to medical science, helps others live longer, healthier lives. I also hope that at least some of my viable organs like my eyes can be reused, too. That would be kinda creepy and cool, for someone to be walking around with my eyes. Anyway, I hope you all consider checking that organ donor box on your driver’s license and donating your body to medical science as well. Thanks."

Vimeo Slideshow
 

Dallas artist Pat Forrest died on January 30, 2010. Details of a scholarship in her name to come.. She requested there be no memorial service.

Randall Garrett on Art in Dancing Ganesha

member Kathy Robinson-Hays is in issue 84 of New American Paintings, where each artist gets three images, bio and small photo. Recurring Dreams 1, 3 and 5 on her member page are included.

David Hickman on YouTube.

Centraltrak's founding director Charissa N. Terranova, PhD, has announced her resignation from that institution. Her replacement — if that is even possible — is Kate Sheerin, whom San Antonio's Witte Museum calls "an expert on early Texas Art," will be the new director of the University of Texas at Dallas art residency program housed in a building beneath elevated Central Expressway in Deepest Elm, near where the depot of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad tracks used to be.

As Terranova states in her public resignation letter PR, she brought artists from "France, Germany, The Netherlands, Argentina, Russia, Mexico, Israel, and Saudi Arabia to work in our avant-garde compound on Exposition Avenue." Her stated reason for stepping down is to "focus all of [her] energy on teaching at the university and [her] scholarly writing, in particular the completion of [her] manuscript Automotive Prosthetic: The Car, Technological Mediation, and the Conceptual Turn in Contemporary Art."

Terranova "will continue working at UTD in the capacity of full-time tenure-track assistant professor," and in the best news of all to Dallas artists, she "will also continue work as freelance art critic." Hooray for that! We need her unfettered art opinions, despite the complicated Marxist theories. — J R Compton

More, Older News is on the News Page.

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Series/Ongoing 

Free Museums

The Nasher - 5-10 pm Thursday nights and 10 am till 2 pm on the First Saturday of each month

Entrance into The Dallas Museum of Art is free - First Sundays and 5-9 every Thursday, although some shows still cost.

SMU's Meadows Museum is free after 6 pm on Thursdays
 

Tours & Series

Dragon Street galleries and shops remain open til 8 pm on First Thursdays

Exposition Avenue First Thursdays - On the First Thursday of each month galleries along Exposition Avenue (from Fair Park's main entrance up to 500X) has a First Thursday Night. They invite the community out to enjoy art, food and drinks on the Fist Thursday of every month. Involved are Van Ditthavong, 832 Exposition, Canvass at 824, the Art Club at 823, Expo Park Cafe at 841, Daddy Jack's at 3106 Commerce (more than a little walk away),

A free walking tour of our so-called downtown Arts District at 10:30 am First Sundays (and parking meters are free), meeting at Olive and Flora.

The Uptown Off the Wall gallery stroll is the first Friday of every month, when all participating galleries, museums, bars, antique and map stores and restaurants stay open till 9 pm. For full info, visit the Near North Dallas website.

Norwood Flynn presents Artful Wednesdays, open "late" till 7 pm Wednesdays in March for wine, cheese and, one supposes, art
 

Sketching in the Galleries/Life Drawing

Drawing from the Masters - for adults and students ages 15 and older, drawing materials available, attendance limited to 20 on a first-come, first-served basis, Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop, SMU campus, free with admission, 214 768-4677, 1-2:30 Sundays, March 14 and 28, April 11 and 25

Life Drawing at The Cedars (1114 South Akard Street, 214 421-2982) 7-10 Thursday evenings and 1-4 Sunday afternoons. $20 each. "no one is too inexperienced to enjoy the experience."

7-8:30 Thursdays at the bof Asian Art; 7-8:30 Thursdays at the DMA; and sketch works from the permanent and special collections at the Meadows Museum. Visitors 12 and up, open to artists of all abilities. Paper and drawing materials provided. Free but reservations required 214 768-4993 beginning one month in advance.

Lectures

Artist lectures At the MAC Wednesdays at 6:30 but check with them first.

Dallas Architecture Forum has lectures but changes the times and dates faster than i can keep up.a

Some Art Talks are listed with their exhibitions. Many area art galleries
are listed in Art Space Information or the Museums and Art Centers pages

DallasArtsRevue Resources include geographic, phone and link information for area galleries and other places that show art, museums, schools and visual art groups and HOW TOs including How To Start Showing Your Work, How to Design and Distribute an Invitational Post Card and How to Photograph Art, among other topics.

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Other Places

Many art venues have so much going on we could never catch up, so we link their sites, and you can discover for yourself.

museums

Amon Carter (current exhibitions), Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum, Meadows Museum, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, The Women's Museum. All of Dallas' best art museums are in Fort Worth — except the amazing MADI. — JRC

More information about area art centers and museum on our Museums & Art Centers page.

other

Dallas Architecture Forum are often doing something, sometimes really interesting, but they're expensive and their events are primarily for their membership. We usually avoid groups' membership-only events.

Shows with a are probably more interesting, but I often do not get around to using it. From here, short reviews go to the Short Shows 2010 & old news goes to the old news page  Red quotes " indicate a quote from another source, usually the gallery. Unless noted, images are from postcards or email attachments (greatly appreciated, unless it incorporates words, which are difficult to squeeze out.)

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