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Saturday, February 18, 2012


Monday, February 20th, 2012 - Sunday, Febuary 26th, 2012

What's happening in art in the North Texas area (with emphasis on nonprofit visual arts groups). Find out where to go to appreciate, create, meet or learn about art!


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Events

(Exhibit Openings & Receptions, Art Walks / Studio Tours, Festivals & Art Sales, Art Lectures & Conferences, Fundraisers and Paintouts)

Click on Art Events Calendar to see full details and links.

Tuesday, February 21
  • Dallas Architecture Forum: Paul FIELD, Assoc. AIA; “The Art of Building – Rethinking the Role of Architect”
  • Encaustic Painting Demo - Talk - Dinner
  • Joyce Elaine Grant Juried Photography Exhibition; Reception
  • Spring Fling Show opens
Wednesday, February 22
  • Collin County Student Art Show opens
  • Valerie Powell "Sculptural Works" opens
Thursday, February 23
  • Charlie Goes to Hollywood: Making Myth on the Celluloid Trail
  • Collin County Student Art Show opens
  • Jill Downen: Dust and Distance Opening Reception & Gallery Talk
Friday, February 24
  • THE ROSE MARINE LATINO FILM FESTIVAL
  • Last Friday Gallery Night in Granbury
Saturday, February 25
  • THE ROSE MARINE LATINO FILM FESTIVAL
  • Haveron, Powhida & Gibbons opening at the MAC
Sunday, February 26
  • THE ROSE MARINE LATINO FILM FESTIVAL

Lectures are also held at several local art museums:
For more gallery openings see

Meetings and Demonstrations

Click on the Art Meetings Calendar to see details and links.

Monday, February 20
  • Dallas Handweavers & Spinners Guild
  • Society of Watercolor Artists
Tuesday, February 21
  • Farmers Branch-Carrollton Art Association
  • Fort Worth Quilt Guild
  • LGAA Photography Meeting
  • Mineral Wells Art Association
  • Richardson Civic Art Society
Wednesday, February 22
  • Rockwall Art League
  • Texas Pottery & Sculpture Guild
Thursday, February 23
  • Desoto Art League
  • Gainesville Area Visual Arts (GAVA)
Saturday, February 25
  • Articrafters
  • Fort Worth Weavers Guild

For the schedule for weekly ongoing art activity groups, see Painting, Drawing & Critique Groups.


Classes & Workshops

Note that classes and workshops require prior registration. Click on the Art Instruction Calendar to see details and links.

Monday, February 20
  • Irma Ward Oil classes
  • Barbara McFarland Monday evening classes
  • LGAA Free Drawing Session
  • Oil & Acrylic with Barbara McFarland
  • PAT KOCHAN Monday watermedia classes
Tuesday, February 21
  • Irma Ward Oil classes
  • Bohlman Weekly Watercolor Class
  • Intermedia Drawing Class
  • Watercolor with Bennie Wood
Wednesday, February 22
  • Irma Ward Oil classes
  • Acrylic with Kenneth Porter
  • Brotherton Variations in Watercolor Wednesday Classes
  • Giclees and Licensing Your Work by Hamilton Doak
  • LGAA Free Painting Sessions
  • Life Drawing Sessions (live models)
  • The Business Side of Art : The Ins and Outs of Giclées and Licensing Your Work
Friday, February 24
  • Encaustic Fri./Sat. workdays/workshops
  • Friday Open Art Nights
  • LGAA Free Experimental Art Group
  • Watercolor with Bennie Wood
Saturday, February 25
  • Encaustic Fri./Sat. workdays/workshops
  • MAUREEN BROUILLETTE Experimental Collage Weekend
  • Acrylic with Kenneth Porter
  • Gainesville Area Visual Arts (GAVA) Workshops
  • Saturday Kids Workshop
Sunday, February 26
  • MAUREEN BROUILLETTE Experimental Collage Weekend
  • Sundays with Brett Dyer: Encaustics with Imagery

See also these listings:

For painting groups see: Painting, Drawing & Critique Groups


Deadlines 

Calls for entries and artist opportunities. Click on Art Deadlines Calendar to see full details and links or for more deadlines.

Monday, February 20
  • Society of Watercolor Artists 2012 International Juried Art Exhibition
Wednesday, February 22
  • Antifaz
Friday, February 24
  • PAINT HISTORIC TERRELL
Saturday, February 25
  • Society of Watercolor Artists 2012 International Juried Art Exhibition
Monday, February 27
  • Missions Art Exhibit
Thursday, March 1
  • 2012 FWCAC Biennial
  • RCAS 2012 Regional Show
Friday, March 2
  • 2012 FWCAC Biennial
Saturday, March 3
  • 2012 FWCAC Biennial
  • Bishop Arts Saturday Market
Thursday, March 8
  • Urban Street Bazaar
Friday, March 9
  • PAINT HISTORIC TERRELL
Saturday, March 10
  • Turn Me On exhibit
Thursday, March 15
  • NEXUS in Texas 2012 (Women Printmakers of Austin)
Friday, March 16
  • Learn 2 Live Green
Monday, March 26
  • IAA 2012 Annual Juried Show
  • TONAL Watercolor 2012
Sunday, April 1
  • International Artist/Health Residencies, Ratot, Hungary 2012
  • Mars: the next Frontier
Tuesday, April 3
  • Bishop Arts Saturday Market
Sunday, April 15
  • Paint Historic Waxahachie
  • Ring of Fire: the legend of Johnny Cash


TO ADD AN EVENT, contact moderator@artgroupsdfw.com or use the Submission Form. All notices are moderated.

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