The Tyler Museum of Art will host the second installment of its Fall Lecture Series this Saturday, October 2 beginning at 2 p.m. in the TMA classroom. The title of the lecture is “Creating a Mexican Art Museum in Texas” and will be delivered by Sylvia Orozco, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin. During her talk, Sylvia will discuss the history of Mexican art in Texas, as well as the relevance of this type of art to this region and the challenges of bringing it here.
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Millions of grains of colored, crushed marble will be laid into place in this ancient spiritual art form to generate energies for global healing; family activities planned throughout week Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will return to the Crow Collection of Asian Art for a week-long artist residency to construct a magnificent Tantric [...]
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October is Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month, organized by Art Education for the Blind to make art and culture a part of life for adults and children affected by sight loss. The Dallas Museum of Art is pleased to participate in this month of special activities and to host John Bramblitt as the Visiting Artist of the Month in the Center for Creative Connections. Bramblitt will join us for a variety of programming that will include hands-on activities, ways of seeing art without vision, gallery discussions, art-making, and demonstrations of his process, and life as a blind painter. His workshops are unique in the art world in that they not only span the gap between beginning and professional artists, but also include adaptive techniques for people with disabilities.
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The Meadows School of the Arts and the Meadows Museum, both on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, have a number of exhibits, lectures and performances in October. Events include Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Fall Film Festival, Drawing from the Master, Brown Bag Dance Concert, a lecture by Jim Lehrer, art exhibit Spanish Muse: A Contemporary Response, and many more for consideration.
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On Monday, September 20, 2010, Big Tex was once again raised to his perch at the center of the State Fair of Texas. Mr. Holga, our roaming photographer, was on hand to snap a few images using his Holga and Nikon cameras.
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Join the El Paso Museum or Art on Wednesday October 20, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. in the El Paso Energy Auditorium as the museum sponsors the Contract Basics for Visual and Performing Arts as part of El Paso Lawyers For The Arts.
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College-bound high school students interested in pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies in the areas of music, dance, theatre, visual arts, graphic design, and other related disciplines are encouraged to attend the free Dallas Performing and Visual Arts College Fair on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 from 7-9 p.m. in the Owen Arts Center at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, 6101 Bishop Blvd. in Dallas (75205).
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An extraordinarily rare English language copy of Russia’s Treasure of Diamonds and Precious Stones, edited by Aleksander Evgenevich Fersman and published to 1925, will highlight the offerings in Heritage Auction Galleries Beverly Hills’ Oct. 14 Signature® Rare Books Auction. Only a handful of these books have surfaced at auction in the last 80 years. This exceptional volume is expected to bring $25,000+.
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On September 25, the Dallas Museum of Art presents Encountering Space, an exhibition exploring how artists shape and define space in their work, in its acclaimed Center for Creative Connections (C3). Featuring 11 key works drawn exclusively from the DMA’s encyclopedic collections—ranging from an ancient Peruvian clay vessel to Alberto Giacometti’s modern sculpture Three Men Walking—Encountering Space invites visitors of all ages to think about their own experiences in space and about how art defines space in both two and three dimensions. This experience can elicit strong physical and emotional reactions in the viewer.
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The City of El Paso’s Public Art Program invites all professional artists or artist teams residing in the state of Texas to submit their qualifications to be considered for a public art project at the Bataan Memorial Trainway located in downtown El Paso. Interested artists must have experience and knowledge working with project design teams, including but not limited to: engineers, contractors, stakeholders, and City officials. For detailed information please visit www.elpasoartsandculture.org and click on the “Public Art” Tab.
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