‘The Great Big American Auction,’ with Ty Pennington and Heritage Auctions, set to air Thursday, Dec. 8 on ABC

ABC has announced that it will air The Great Big American Auction, starring Ty Pennington of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, one of America’s leading reality TV personalities, and featuring exclusively Heritage Auctions’ experts, auction services and staff, in a very special television first made-for-TV auction event, at 10 p.m. (ET) on Thursday, Dec. 8.

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ENVISO and SMU Meadows Division of Music Launch William H. Lively SMU Student Composer-in-Residence Program

ENVISO (formerly the Irving Symphony) and the Division of Music at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts have launched a unique partnership in which a Meadows music composition student will be selected to serve each year as a composer-in-residence with the region’s only boutique professional symphony orchestra.

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Sign-up for the Museum Express Tour in Spring 2012

The announced closure of The Women’s Museum reminded us how much fun we had with the Museum Express Tour in the spring of 2010. So much fun that we would like to do it again in 2012.

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Boy Scouts of America Hires New Norman Rockwell Curator

The Boy Scouts of America announced it has appointed Norman Rockwell expert Corry Kanzenberg as curator of exhibitions and collections at the National Scouting Museum in Irving, Texas.

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Creativity Unleashed with a Tribute to African Americans of the Civil War

Irving Black Arts Council’s (IBAC) celebration of Black History Month will begin January 30, 2011 with three free family-oriented events. IBAC’s celebration will recognize the vast expanse of visual creativity through mixed media as well pay tribute to the African Americans who fought in the Civil War.

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Cut & Paste: Works by Gordon Young and Enrique Fernandez Cervantes at the University of Dallas

The University of Dallas, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery is pleased to present Cut & Paste: Works by Gordon Young and Enrique Cervantes. The exhibition includes collages by Gordon Young and photography by Enrique Fernandez Cervantes. Cut & Paste is on exhibit November 12 through December 12 with an opening reception Friday, November 12 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

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Contextus: Works by Lauren Kirchner at the University of Dallas

The University of Dallas, Upper Gallery is currently exhibiting Contextus: Works by Lauren Kirchner. The installation includes colorful, embroidered prints and quilted prints supported by an installation of cords.

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2010 Edith Baker Art Scholarship Awarded to Brookhaven College student Brian Hauser

The Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA) 25th anniversary festivities began with a reception for the winner of DADA’s Edith Baker Art Scholarship and Artist Career Development Fund on Friday, September 24, 2010 at the Irving Arts Center, 3333 N. MacArthur Boulevard. The DADA Scholarship Committee juried the 14 finalists chosen by visual art faculty members of the Dallas County Community College District. The winner, Brian Hauser of Brookhaven College, received $4,000, and may obtain a mentorship and an internship with a DADA member if he so chooses. Call 214-914-1099 for more information.

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Kasten Searles: 119 Strangers at the University of Dallas

119 STRANGERS showcases recent paintings by Kasten Searles that explore the issues of of privacy, public image, and self-surveillance via social media. The exhibition includes 119 portraits of strangers appropriated from internet sources. Kasten’s work re-contextualizes the digital experience of the personal snapshot through the more traditional medium of painting.

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Review: Norman Rockwell at the National Scouting Museum

The National Scouting Museum in Irving, Texas, is very fortunate to have a permanent collection of Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) paintings. The seventeen paintings are displayed in a special gallery along with other paintings by Joseph Csatari (b 1929) and drawings by Remington Schuyler (1884-1955). The National Scouting Museum owns the largest collection of scouting art work by Rockwell. The scouts might own the largest collection of Rockwell paintings outside Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

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Dead Photographers Society — Photographers who still find pleasure in taking pictures the old fashioned way with film, chemicals and a dark room.
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Michael Roman — Painter, printer and photographers.
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