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Private Schools & Classes

Artisan's Studio Gallery 2825 Valley View Lane, Suite 301, Dallas, Texas 75234, 972-488-8182, fax 972-241-6504, artisansD@aol.com offers watercolor classes

Jack and Vera Barnett offer private and group classes in painting and drawing, for beginners to advanced. Jack is a former insrutructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. Please view our website www.barnettbytwo.com to see examples of our work and resumes. Our studio is in Grandview Texas, less than an hour drive from Dallas Fort Worth, please call for more information 817 866-3669.

Laura Brooks - teaches a nationally recognized program called KidzArt, a confidence building drawing program for children. E-mail to kidzartDFW@yahoo.com

Glass Blowing for Beginners at Bowman Hot Glass, 1419 Griffin Street East, Dallas 75214. For more information call 214 426-4777 or email us from our website.

The Cedars gallery at 1114 South Akard Street has Life Drawing sessions 7-10 Thursday evenings and 1-4 Sunday afternoons and Art Lessons: "We currently have a class that meets Friday mornings from 9:30 to 11:30, and another that meets Thursdays from 4 to 6 pm. Please call 214-421-2982 if you are interested in art lessons of any sort."

Cliff House Studio and Gallery, 8092 Eagle Mountain Drive, Ft. Worth, TX 76135, 817 237-7109 offers beginning, intermediate, and advanced instruction in clay and Raku firing.
Contact Pam Summers

Creaitive Arts Center, 2360 Laughlin Drive, Dallas TX 75228, 214 320-1275. E-mail CAC — in Deep East Dallas. CACA has many classes and workshops in drawing, jewelry, mosaics, painting, pottery, sculpture, silk screen, stone & wood carving. Great teachers.

CAC's competition on the north west side of Dallas, the Craft Guild of Dallas, has very similar classes and workshops, except CG provides for kids 4 and up, 14325 Preston Road, 972 490-0303.

Dallas Art Institute (history) offers degrees in digital and graphic design and multimedia

Dallas Darkroom is a rental black and white photography darkroom and teaching facility off Forest Lane between Greenville & Abrams. Dallas Darkroom, at 11837 Judd Ct., Ste. 120, Dallas, TX 75243, 469-330-7111

Lakewood Arts Academy has classes for kids and adults, Workshops and seasonal camps.

Laurieann Lepper Dygowski - teaches beaded and polymer clay jewelry, drawing-colored pencil, painting-mixed media. 7242 Liberty Grove, Rowlett TX 75089, 972 475-1836, www.dygowski.com

Mary Griffin - classes are ongoing, every Tuesday at the Hobby Lobbys in Plano:Tuesday morning from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm at the Hobby lobby at Coit and Legacy and Tuesday evening from 6-8 pm at the 15th St. and Alma store (bordering Collin Creek Mall.) I demo a quarter sheet painting at every class and my method of teaching allows for both beginners and more experienced painters to succeed. E-mail to griffinmk@comcast.net

Niki Gulley - Adult art classes are ongoing. Tuesdays 12:30-2:30pm & 7-9pm. Through guidance, encouragement and suggestion, learn how to create gorgeous paintings in oils, watercolors or pastels. Studio near Northwest Hwy. and Abrams Rd. 6421 Larmanda Street. For more information, see the website or contact niki@nikigulley.com / 214-803-5812.

Bonny Leibowitz gives instruction in oil painting and/or pastels with a ballanced approach to creative and technical issues for artists at every level. 580 w. Arapaho ste#262 just east of Floyd in Richardson www.bonnyart.net for more details on the classes and supplies or email: bonnyfineart@aol.com and
phone: 214-405-5993.

Michael Mentler's Society of Figurative Arts offers instruction for beginners and professionals. 3306 Wiley Post, Studio 104, off Midway Road, near Addison Airport, 972-679-1625, E-mail mentler@mac.com.

Bob Nunn is offers private instruction in his studio in the Continental Gin Building. E-mail Bob at ProfBNunn@prodigy.net

Nan Phillips teaches Art Glass and Figurative Sculpture. See her website for more info.

Mike Schroeder teaches an ongoing drawing and painting class for beginners in oil. Call for reservations and supply list. 214 942-6911 or email schroederart@sbcglobal.net

Sofia Art Academy is a Dallas-based traditional classic art school, offers classes to children and adults.

StudioArtsDallas.com offers art classes for kids, teens and adults at 10051 Shoreview Road in Dallas, 214 827-1222

Texas Academy of Figurative Art

Westwood College includes computer graphic design and multimedia classes, at LBJ-635 and 75N

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Colleges & Universities

Austin College, Ida Green gallery ( events ), 900 North Grand Avenue in Sherman, 9-5 Monday - Friday, 903 813-2188

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts - Arts Magnet, 2501 Flora Street, downtown

Brookhaven College: the new gallery and the old Studio galleries at Brookhaven College Center for the Arts Forum Galley in Building C, 8-10 Monday-Thursday, 8-5 Friday, 8-4 Saturday; Studio Gallery in Building D, 8-8 Monday-Thursday, 8-5 Friday, 972 860-4101. Contact gallery director David Newman

Collin County Community College, Spring Creek Campus art gallery, Room A175, 2800 E. Spring Creek Parkway in Plano, Texas, 972 881 5873 or 5145, Vicki Mayan at 972 881-5145, or The Arts gallery at 972 881-5873

Eastfield College Gallery, 3737 Motley Drive in Mesquite, 9-9 Monday - Friday, 917 860-7210

Mountain View College's Gallery, 4849 West Illinois Avenue, (near the intersection of Loop 12 and W. Illinois Avenue in Oak Cliff) Dallas, Texas 75211, 214-860-3649

North Lake College, 5001 N. MacArthur Boulevard in Irving, 972 273-3660

Richland College

Brazos Gallery, 12800 Abrams Road, 972-238-6339, open 10-4 Monday - Fridays and Thursday evenings till 7 pm

Lago Vista Gallery, on the lower level of the library, 12800 Abrams Road, 1 mile north of LBJ Freeway, 9-8 Monday -Thursday, 9-4:30 Friday; noon-4 Saturday and Sunday, 972 238-6339

Southern Methodist University in University Park, in Dallas

School of Arts - nearly illegible web page

Meadows Museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University, 10-6 Monday - Saturday, 972 239-7957

Pollock Gallery on the ground level ( basement ) of the Hughes Trigg Student Center, 3140 Dyer Street in University Park, 11 -5 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; 1-5 Saturday, 214 768-4439 or E-mail director Philip Van Keuren

Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas 75962-3001: Art Department, Both Art Galleries, The Art Center in the Opera House, 329 East Main in Nacogdoches, Texas, open 12-5 Tuesday - Sunday.

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Tarrant County College

Southeast Campus's Art Corridor gallery, just south of I-20 off the Collins/ New York exit, a mile south on New York to 2100 Southeast Parkway in Arlington, Texas - West end of building, 2nd level, open 8am-9pm Monday-Saturday , 817-515-3522

Northwest Campus's Visual Arts Gallery in Tarrant County College , 4801 Marine Creek Parkway in Fort Worth, 817 515-7207

Events at TCC

Texas Christian University's Moudy Exhibition Hall at the corner of University Drive and Cantey Street on the campus of TCU in Fort Worth, open 11-6 Monday, 11-4 Tuesday - Friday and 1-4 Saturday and Sunday

University of Dallas - Art Department
1845 East Northgate Drive
Irving, Texas.
Haggerty Gallery,
Open 9-5 Monday-Friday, noon-5 Saturday & Sunday, 972 721-5087 or maybe 214 721-5319
Persons needing special assistance call 972 721-5000 & ask for the ADA coordinator.

This is the editor's alma mater, and despite its overwhelming Catholicism and political Conservatism, I still have a warm spot in my heart and a bright spot in my intellect for this incredible liberal arts college. I learned to think and write at UD — skills that have made all the difference.

University of North Texas
University of North Texas Offers programs in ceramics, fibers, metalsmithing & jewelry, painting & Drawing, photography, printmaking and sculpture.

The University of North Texas School of Visual Arts, P.O. Box 305100, Denton, TX 76203. 940 565-4001, Fax 940 565-4717; Metro 817 267-3731, Ext. 4001

UNT Gallery in the art building, Mulberry at Welch in Denton. Lectures are in room 223. There's a great map at www.art.unt.edu/gallery/index.html

E-mail gallery@unt.edu 

Director/Curator - Diana R. Block

Summer Hours: M - Th, 10 - 4
The University of North Texas Art Gallery Art Building, Mulberry at Welch office (940) 565-4005, gallery (940) 565-4316; Gallery Hours:
noon - 8 Monday, Tuesday; noon -5 Wednesday - Saturday

Cora Stafford Gallery, Oak Street Hall, Oak at Ponder, (940) 565-8798 Visitor parking available in side lot, Gallery hours: 2-5 Monday - Friday and by appointment

E-mail gallery@unt.edu

UNT artspace FW, Center for Biohealth, CBH 160, 3400 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76107. Mailing address: UN Health Science Center, CBH 160, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76107, 817 735-0205. Gallery Hours: noon-5 Wednesday; noon-7 Thursday and Friday; noon-5 Saturday

P.R.I.N.T. (Print Research Institute of North Texas) is a fine art press affiliated with the University of North Texas School of Visual Arts working on an invitational basis with emerging and established artists. It is an innovative organization that promotes printmaking and artistic exploration through residencies, exhibitions, workshops, tours and lectures.

University of Texas at Arlington - Art Department
gallery 171 in the
Fine Arts Building on the Southwest corner of Cooper and Border
700 W. Second St.
Arlington, Texas
817-272-3143

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 10 - 5 PM, Saturday 12 - 5 PM.

Located on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building, UTA Campus, Arlington, Texas. (West of Cooper, just south of Border St.)

Daytime visitors can use metered parking spaces in the lot adjacent to the Fine Art Building or obtain a visitor parking pass from the UTA Police Dept. near the southwest corner of Davis and Second Streets. Free parking is available in the Faculty/Staff lot on weekends and weekday evenings.

For more information, contact Benito Huerta 817 272-3143 or Patricia Healy 817 272-5658

University of Texas at Dallas
Visual Arts Building
2601 Floyd Road|
Richardson, Texas 75080
972-883-2787
off Campbell Road in Richardson ( Enter North on University Parkway, Left on Drive A, Right on Rutford Drive, Right on Drive D, then Right into the parking lot (( Art Building on right )) ) 8-10 Monday - Friday, 8-6 Saturday, 972 883-2787

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