The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs has announced a call to artists for the White Rock Lake Centennial Commemorative Sculpture project. The project is open to all professional artists not currently under contract with the City of Dallas Public Art Program or anyone currently employed by the City of Dallas. This is a gran opportunity to leave a lasting impression on our beautiful city.

White Rock Lake

A historic destination park in the Dallas Park System was completed in 1911. The 1,015 acre city lake is located at 8300 East Lawther Drive serves as a recreational lake for the City of Dallas. From its earliest days, area residents used it for rest and relaxation by constructing cabins and docks on leased property along its shoreline. This urban lake is enjoyed by over 2 million visitors each year.

White Rock Lake offers a wide variety of outdoor activities including: hike and bike trails, sailing, bird watching areas and wetlands sites, scenic picnic areas,rental facilities and fishing piers.

Cultural, sports and others events are held at the lake throughout the year around the lake and at the Bath House Cultural Center. This City of Dallas Cultural Center is a welcoming venue for visual and performing artists. The historic Art Deco-style Bath House houses a 116-seat black box theater, three gallery spaces, the White Rock Lake Museum, and several multipurpose spaces. The Center is dedicated to fostering the growth, development, and quality of multicultural arts in Dallas by emphasizing innovative visual and performing arts and other multidisciplinary arts events.

Goals for the White Rock Lake Centennial Commemorative Sculpture

• The 100 year history of White Rock Lake must be a part of the design.
• The theme of water conservation and the natural environment near the installation site must be reflected in the design.
• The desired vertical configuration must be tall enough to be highly visible from the adjacent roadway, Garland Road.
• The character of White Rock Lake including the architecture on White Rock Lake Spillway Promenade that runs along Garland Road must be a part of the design.
• The materials for the sculpture must be consistent with the materials found at the lake including the White Rock Lake Spillway Promenade.
• Lighting to ensure good visibility at night must be planned as a part of the design.
• The White Rock Lake Centennial Commemorative Sculpture must become an icon for the lake.

Eligibility

All professional artists are eligible to apply except for artists currently under contract with the City of Dallas Public Art Program. Employees of the City of Dallas, their spouses, members of the Public Art Committee, or any consultants under contract for any phase of these projects are ineligible. The City of Dallas Cultural Policy does not accept qualifications from undergraduate students for Public Art projects.

Specific qualifications for this project include

Demonstrated successful completion of a public art project of similar size and scope,

Demonstrated ability to work with a design team to meet the goals for the White Rock Lake Centennial Commemorative Sculpture.

Commitment to complete the design, fabrication and installation of the project at the selected location within the budget specified.

Submission Format

By mail: Send the materials listed above on a CD to: Kendall Ferguson, Public Art Coordinator 1925 Elm Street, Suite 400 Dallas, Texas 75201.

Email Submission: Send materials listed above to: whiterocklakecentennial@gmail.com File size not to exceed 2MB.

Submission Deadline September 7, 2011

Questions

Please direct all submission-related inquiries to: Kendall Ferguson, Public Art Coordinator 214-670-3284 kendall.ferguson@dallascityhall.com.

Terms and Conditions

Application for any project advertised by the City of Dallas Public Art Program constitutes acceptance of the terms and conditions outlined in this prospectus as well as recognition of ordinances and policies of the City of Dallas (including the Good Faith Effort and the Minority and Women Owned Business enterprise goals of the City.) The City reserves the right to reject all submissions and to terminate the selection process without prior notice. Submission materials become the property of the City.

Check the Blue Star Museums Initiative website for a complete and up-to-date list of participating museums.

This list only includes museums that charge admission. Some museums, like the Crow Collection of Asian Art, in Dallas, Texas, offer free admission all year round.

Arkansas

• Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources, Smackvoer, AR
• Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR
• Grant County Museum, Sheridan , AR
• Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum & Educational Center, Piggott, AR
• Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, Springdale, AR
• Southern Tenant Farmers Museum, Tyronza, AR
• William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum, Little Rock, AR

Louisiana

• Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
• DeQuincy Railroad Museum, DeQuincy, LA
• The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA
• Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA
• LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge , LA
• Sci-Port: Louisiana’s Science Center, Shreveport, LA
• T.R.E.E. House Children’s Museum, Alexandria, LA
• West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen, LA

New Mexico

• Coronado State Monument, Bernalillo, NM
• El Camino Real International Heritage Center, Socorro, NM
• Fort Selden State Monument, Radium Springs, NM
• Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
• Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
• Jemez State Monument, Jemez Springs, NM
• Lincoln State Monument, Lincoln, NM
• Los Alamos Historical Museum, Los Alamos, NM
• Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM
• Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
• Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Santa Fe, NM
• National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
• New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque, NM
• New Mexico State Monument/Fort Sumner State Monument, Fort Sumner, NM
• NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces, NM
• Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM

Oklahoma

• American Banjo Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
• Cherokee National Historical Society, Inc., Tahlequah, OK
• Chisholm Trail Heritage Center, Duncan, OK
• Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK
• General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute and Museum, Hobart, OK
• Guthrie Museum Complex, Guthrie, OK
• Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum, Seminole, OK
• Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, OK
• The Mustang Historical Society, Mustang, OK
• National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
• Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
• Oklahoma Museum of Telephone History, Oklahoma City, OK
• Osage County Historical Society Museum, Pawhuska, OK
• Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum, Pawnee, OK
• Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa , OK
• Plains Indians & Pioneers Museum, Woodward , OK
• Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, OK
• Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, OK
• Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK
• Science Museum Oklahoma, OKC, OK
• Sheerar Museum of Stillwater History, Stillwater, OK
• Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, Tulsa, OK
• Stafford Air & Space Museum, Weatherford, OK
• Toy & Action Figure Museum, Pauls Valley, OK
• Will Rogers Memorial Museum & Birthplace Ranch, Claremore, OK

Texas

• 1940 Air Terminal Museum, Houston , TX
• Acton State Historic Site, Acton, TX
• Alvin Historical Museum, Alvin, TX
• Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo , TX
• American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum, Fort Worth, TX
• American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum, Amarillo , TX
• American Wind Power Center, Lubbock, TX
• Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
• Arlington Historical Society, Arlington, TX
• Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
• Austin Museum of Art, Austin , TX
• Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
• Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History, Bryan, TX
• Brownsville Historical Association, Brownsville, TX
• Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX
• Caddo Mounds State Historic Site, Alto, TX
• Camp Hearne Historic Site, Hearne, TX
• Casa Navarro State Historic Site, San Antonio, TX
• Children’s Discovery Museum of the Golden Crescent, Victoria , TX
• The Children’s Museum of the Brazos Valley, Bryan, TX
• Confederate Reunion Grounds State Historic Site, Mexia, TX
• Czech Heritage Museum & Genealogy Center, Temple, TX
• Dallas Heritage Village, Dallas, TX
• Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance, Dallas, TX
• Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
• Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site, Denison, TX
• El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
• Ellen Noël Art Museum, Odessa , TX
• Fannin Battleground State Historic Site, Fannin, TX
• Fort Concho National Historic Landmark, San Angelo, TX
• Fort Griffin State Historic Site, Albany, TX
• Fort Lancaster State Historic Site, Sheffield, TX
• Fort McKavett State Historic Site, Fort McKavett, TX
• Fort Sam Houston Museum, Fort Sam Houston, TX
• Frontier Times Museum, Bandera, TX
• Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas, TX
• Fulton Mansion State Historic Site, Rockport, TX
• George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, College Station, TX
• The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX
• The Heritage Museum of the Texas Hill Country, Canyon Lake, TX
• Kell House Museum, Wichita Falls, TX
• Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
• Landmark Inn State Historic Site, Castroville, TX
• Martin & Frances Lehnis Railroad Museum, Brownwood, TX
• McFaddin-Ward House, Beaumont, TX
• McNay Art Museum, San Antonio , TX
• Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Wort, Fort Worth, TX
• Museum of South Texas History, Edinburg, TX
• Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
• Museum of the American Railroad, Dallas, TX
• Museum of the Gulf Coast, Port Arthur , TX
• Museum of Western Art, Kerrville, TX
• Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
• National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum, Fort Worth, TX
• National Musuem of the Pacific War, Fredericksburg, TX
• Nature Discovery Center, Bellaire, TX
• Neill-Cochran House Museum, Austin , TX
• Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig Museum, Galveston, TX
• Old Red Museum of Dallas County History and Culture, Dallas, TX
• Pearce Museum, Corsicana, TX
• Port Aransas Museum, Port Aransas, TX
• Railroad & Heritage Museum, Temple, TX
• The Red River Historical Museum, Sherman, TX
• Republic of Texas Museum, Austin, TX
• Sabine Pass Battleground State Historic Site, Port Arthur, TX
• Sam Houston Memorial Museum, Huntsville, TX
• San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo , TX
• San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
• San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site, San Felipe, TX
• Scurry County Museum, Snyder, TX
• Silent Wings Museum, Lubbock, TX
• Southwest School of Art, San Antonio , TX
• Star of the Republic Museum, Washington, TX
• Stark Museum of Art, Orange, TX
• Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
• Umlauf Scupture Garden & Museum, Austin, TX
• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site, West Columbia, TX
• Veterans Memorial Air Park, Fort Worth , TX
• W.H. Stark House, Orange, TX
• Wolf Creek Heritage Museum, Lipscomb, TX
• The Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future, Dallas, TX
• The Woodlands Children’s Museum, The Woodlands, TX

For over 38 years the Amarillo College and the West Texas A&M University Visual Arts Departments have enjoyed this partnership with AMoA that showcases the best of current works of students and faculty.  Students learn to prepare work for exhibition and gain a sense of pride in sharing their work with the community in the professional setting of the museum.

AMoA offers free student membership (with showing of I.D.) to all AC and West Texas A&M University students. AMoA also includes students in special events, such as the Ladd Lecture series. Art Professors of both institutions take classes to the museum to view and discuss current exhibitions. Vicky Taylor-Gore, AC Art Professor, stated, “Seeing art work in person is a much more enriching experience for students then simply seeing it reproduced in a textbook.”

Museum hours are Tuesday – Friday from 10 – 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 1 – 5 p.m. AMoA is located on the Amarillo College Washington Street campus at 2200 South Van Buren with entrance through the Fine Arts Plaza.

For more information, please call 806-371-5050 (or 806-371-5392 nights and weekends) and visit www.amarilloart.org.

News crews reporting from the Churchill overpass in Dallas, Texas (Pinhole camera image by Mr. Holga)

This should be no surprise to anyone in the Texas right now, but a number of museums will be closed Wednesday, February 9, 2011,  due to winter weather. Ice and snow are expected for the northern region of Texas.

The following museums have already announced closures today:

• Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas
• Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, Texas
• Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas
• Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas
• Log Cabin Village in Fort Worth, Texas
• Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas, Texas
• Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas
• Oklahoma City Museum of Art in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Amarillo, Texas
• Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Tyler Museum of Art in Tyler, Texas

As other museums announce closures, we will add them to the list. Be sure to call before you go.

The current weather conditions are only expected to last about a day. Most museums are expecting to be open on Thursday, Feb. 10.

Show Us Your Museum Snow Photos

If by chance you are out and about near one of our beloved museum, we would relish the opportunity to see your photos. Post your pictures to an online image site like Flickr and put the link in the comments below. You can also send us a Tweet at twitter.com/DallasArtNews.

News crews reporting from the Churchill overpass in Dallas, Texas (Pinhole camera image by Mr. Holga)

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Todd Kent

Todd Kent majored in radio, television and film from the University of North Texas. Since graduating in 2000, Mr. Kent has been an independent documentary filmmaker. His first documentary short, Fast Food (2003), was a whimsical look at product mobiles like the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, Hershey’s Kissmobile and SpamMobile.

Mr. Kent’s latest documentary feature, Comic Book Literacy (2010), is scheduled to screen in February at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Opening gala is Saturday, January 29, 2011

On the evening of Saturday, January 29, 2011, the Amarillo Museum of Art will host the Achievements in Art Gala, marking the opening of the fifteenth in a series of exhibitions organized by the Museum to recognize important collections and/or collectors of art. AMoA Executive Director, Dr. Graziella Marchicelli, curated this year’s exhibition – The Collector: Treasures from the Texas Panhandle – with selections from close to 50 private Panhandle area collectors. The two-month celebration honors these exceptional art works and the passionate collectors who have brought them to Texas.

Included in the exhibition will be works by Mary Cassatt, Charles Burchfield, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Alfred Sisley, Jean Baptiste Camille Carot, J.M.W. Turner, Marc Chagall, Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Edward Potthast, Gilbert Stuart, Renori, Rembrandt, Picasso, and Joan Miró – to name just a few.

The exhibition’s major sponsor is the Sybil B. Harrington Exhibition Fund.

Opening Gala is Saturday, January 29, 2011. Mr. and Mrs. Barry Paterson are gala chairmen. Committee members are Mr. and Mrs. Gary Pfeffer and Mr. and Mrs. Owen Bybee. Benefactors of the Gala are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pool. Sponsors are Amarillo National Bank and Donald S. Mullins Gallery. There are a number of patrons.

Last year nearly 32,000 museum-goers representing 68 Texas cities, 43 states and 14 foreign countries visited AMoA. In addition, 5,000 youth participated in one or more of AMoA’s TEKS aligned education programs.

Hours are Tuesday-Friday from 10-5, Saturday and Sunday from 1-5, and most Third Thursdays until 9 p.m. The museum is located at 2200 South Van Buren on the Washington Street campus of Amarillo College. For additional information, please contact AMoA at  www.amarilloart.org.

Palo Duro Canyou

What does the Amarillo Museum of Art (AMoA) have in common with The Louvre in Paris and the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.? Paint-by-Numbers art!

But in typical Texas style, Amarillo will do it BIGGER!

“Ours will be the world’s largest indoor paint-by-numbers art project. Residents of every age in the Texas Panhandle are invited to join the fun,” said Lilia Escajeda, president of AMoA Alliance, volunteer group sponsoring the 2 month long event on the museum’s 1st floor.

Thursday, December 9, 2010, at 1 p.m., Amarillo College Fuse Arts club will kick off the event by sketching & numbering an original of West Texas icon Palo Duro Canyon–the world’s only paint-by-numbers art of the canyon–based on a photo by Amarillo’s Jim Jordan.

Dr. Graziella Marchicelli, AMoA Executive Director, notes “This is the first time a Texas art museum has staged such an event, and at 10 feet wide, this Paint-by-Numbers community event will be a great new component of our annual Panhandle Artists’ Hanging. Dates for the 2011 Hanging are January 7 – 16 with the Opening Party on Thursday, January 6.” Kevin Ball, president of the AMoA board of trustees agrees. “We want people to know that art museums are for everyone, and that ours is both fun and educational.”

Beginning Thursday, January 6 and continuing for the next two months, area residents of all ages—no art talent required—are invited to visit the Amarillo Museum of Art on the Washington Street campus of Amarillo College, 2200 South Van Buren St., to participate during museum hours, T-F from 10-5 p.m., S-S 1-5 p.m.

“AMoA Alliance will supply brushes and paint. Each numbered section is a $5 donation to the AMoA Alliance. All proceeds will go to the Alliance Education Fund, which last year supported the museum’s education programs serving nearly 5,000 students throughout the Panhandle area,” said Anne Amerson, event chairman. “Participants will have their name added to the artists roster. Everything for the event has been donated by a local business.”

AC Fuse Arts students who will begin the world’s largest indoor paint-by-numbers project in the museum include: Alejandra Amaya, (Fuse Arts president/AMoA Education Apprentice), Jordan Jones, Morgan Kuster, Carlos Najera, and Noelly Perez .

Answer the call of your inner artist. Be part of the “Paint-by-Numbers” project! January 6 through April 2011.

FAQ about Paint-by-Numbers (PBN)

• Paint-by-numbers craze began in 1951 and sold 12 million kits by 1954
• Andy Warhol’s PBN art was featured in the Museum of Modern Art, NYC
• The Louvre, Paris, exhibited a PBN portrait of a Texan–President Lyndon Johnson– commissioned by Esquire Magazine in 1967; in 2008 they exhibited 6000 PBN canvases loaned by an American collector.
• Smithsonian Museum, Washington staged an exhibit devoted to PBN phenomenon in 2002.
• Largest outdoor paint-by numbers project is an Indianapolis mural 1,230 feet long.

Palo Duro Canyou

The workshop will be held Saturday, December 4, 2010, from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. and is designed for children ages 4-10.  The event is a festive occasion which includes refreshments, music, and a visit from Santa, too.  This annual event is extremely popular and attendance is limited.  The fee for the workshop is $20 and reservations must be made in advance by calling 806-371-5050.

Rock On! The Art of the Music Posters from the 60s and 70s, the summer exhibition at the Amarillo Museum of Art, will set the theme for the opening night fundraising gala on Friday, June 18, 2010. Party goers will enjoy a private viewing of original posters of the period; the opportunity to purchase authentic rock and roll memorabilia (such as a one-of-a kind handcrafted bracelet made from guitar strings played by Peter Frampton); and eat, drink and be merry with MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC. Lovers of the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, the Clash, the Who, Pink Floyd, the Talking Heads, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and their contemporaries will dance the night away while helping support AMoA’s school outreach program that serves Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle. For reservations and ticket pricing, please email amoa@actx.edu, call 806-371-5050, or visit AMoA’s website at www.amarilloart.org.

The exhibition will be open to the public from June 19 until September 5. More than 75 vintage offset lithographs will be on display. From late 1960s psychedelia through the emergence of punk in the late 1970s, Rock On! highlights the work of leading graphic artists who fused their visual talents with the musical vision of the era’s influential bands to create some of the most enduring pop culture images of the 20th century.

Many of these posters came out of the San Francisco Bay Area, home to a crop of young visual artists and two now-legendary rock clubs during the 1960s—Fillmore West and the Avalon Ballroom. Numbered among the artists were Stanley Mouse and the late Alton Kelley, the San Francisco-based team who created the Grateful Dead’s famous skull-and-rose emblem; Milton Glaser, photographers Brian Duffy and the late Richard Avedon, Gerald Scarfe, Victor Moscoso, and John Pasche.

Their colorful and highly creative promotional posters represent a unique intersection of fine art, music, and commerce. They reflect the “hippie” ethos and anti-war, anti-establishment attitudes that were prevalent in San Francisco and across the U.S. in the late 1960s and into the 1970s.

During the exhibition AMoA will host author Paul D. Grushkin, who will speak about his book  The Art of Rock – Posters from Presley to Punk, and  artist Victor Moscosco, whose Swirl Dance poster for Quicksilver Messenger Service and Steve Miller Blues Band at Avalon Ballroom will be on exhibition.

The Amarillo Museum of Art is located at 220 South Van Buren on the Washington Street campus of Amarillo College. Hours are Tuesday- Friday from 10 – 5 and Saturday and Sunday from 1-5. Every day is free admissions day at AMoA.  For more information, please call 371-5050 or check our website at www.amarilloart.org.

The Hanging is open to any artist working in any medium. One work per person will be accepted. The show is hung, by the artists, salon style from floor to ceiling. Artists may hang their work on Thursday, May 27, 10 – 4 pm, and Friday, May 28, 10 – 4 pm.

An Opening Party will be held on Friday, May 28 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Admission is $10 per person with AMoA Members free.

Memberships for AMoA begin at $10 for seniors and educators and $50 for families and continue to $10,000. For more detailed information, please visit www.amarilloart.org.

Museum hours are Tuesday – Friday from 10 – 5 pm, Third Thursdays (once a month) until 9 pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 1 – 5 pm. AMoA is located on the Amarillo College Washington Street campus at 2200 South Van Buren with entrance through the Fine Arts Plaza. For more information, please call 371-5050 or 371-5392 nights and weekends.