Kim Alexander
Ashley Bryan
Bernardo Cantu
Sam England
Tim Harding
Sedrick Huckaby
Diane Sikes
Sunny Sliger

Curated by J R Compton and Terry Hays

Saturday August 25 - September 29 2012
at The Bath House Cultural Center on White Rock Lake

Delivery of Artwork - 11 AM to 1 PM, Sunday August 19
Installation of exhibition - Tuesday August 21-24
Art Pick Up - 11 AM - 1 PM Sunday September 30

To see work by these artists, Search This Site for their names,
although most of the work in the show will be new.
 

Cura! Cura! Cura! started with a conversation with Enrique Fernández Cervantes, the Visual Art Curator at the Bath House Cultural Center. The conversation was general but I indicated that I was interested in curating an exhibition at The Bath House, and on July 6, 2011, I received this email:

Hello, J R.

I was looking at my calendar today, and I wanted to talk to you about the options we have in terms of schedule for the show we talked about a few days ago (the one where you find another curator of your predilection and you two co-curate an art show at the Bath House). I currently have two openings in our next gallery season. One is in the Spring, March 17-April 21, 2012; the other opening is in the Fall, August 25-September 29, 2012. Both dates are good. The advantage of the one in September is that the DADA Gallery Walk would happen while the show is on display, and that you would have more time to get ready.

Would you mind telling me which of these two options would work best for you?

Thank you.

Enrique Fernández Cervantes,
Visual Artist / Curator / Graphic Designer

I told him I had no preference, but by the time he wrote back with more details, I had decided on the autumn exhibition span, because that would give me more time.

My first invitation to a collaborator was someone who was already very busy with her own full calendar of curatorial events. She quickly and courteously turned me down. Took awhile to realize that my good friend Terry Hays, who as far as I knew, had little actual curatorial experience, might be perfect for the job, and he is. Opinionated, got taste and is deeply interested.

My own curatorial experience is chronicled on one of my Vitae pages.

Each of us will receive $200 from the City of Dallas for our extensive efforts.

Usually when I start a page for a show I am organizing — or co-organizing, I do a blog for it, and those have been very popular.

This will not be a blog, primarily because I don't want to blab about everything we do. The one aspect I do want to point out, however, is that in most Bath House shows, women comprise 67% of the artists, and we have been very careful to keep this one 50% women and 50% men.

I will, however, add words and images from DallasArtsRevue coverage of those artists to this page below.

Much more information than that, you'll have to decide from seeing the show.

 

So far, there have been 393 emails exchanged in the process of creating this show. There will be many more.

Usually, coming up with a show title is a major chore. This one began as an email subject for many of our emails, and after awhile, it just seemed obvious. Logo design by J R Compton.

Download a PDF of the Bath House Cultural Center's floorplan.