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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.

Lectures are also held at several local art museums:

•  Amon Carter Museum: see http://www.cartermuseum.org/calendar
  • Dallas Museum of Art: see http://dallasmuseumofart.org 
  • Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth see http://www.themodern.org/lectures.html 
  • Kimbell Art Museum see http://www.kimbellart.org/
  • McKinney Avenue Contemporary see http://www.the-mac.org/
  • For more see the Worthgoing.com list of Lectures, Readings or KERA's Art&Seek list of Books, Lectures & Readings or the Spring 2011 Art Festival & Special Events guide

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Meetings and Demonstrations

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

Monday, March 12

• Arlington Visual Arts Association
• Lake Granbury Art Association
• Mesquite Creative Arts Club
• Wise County Art Association, Bridgeport

Tuesday, March 13

• Fort Worth Calligraphers Guild
• Henderson County Art Club, Athens
• Visual Arts League of Lewisville

Wednesday, March 14

• Mid Cities Fine Artists
• Southwestern Watercolor Society

Thursday, March 15

• Artists of Eastland County
• Irving Quilt Guild
• Visual Artists of Cedar Hill (VACH)

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

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Classes & Workshops

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

Monday, March 12

• Spring Break Art Camps at Oil & Cotton
• Mix It Up Spring Break Art Camp for Kids
• Encaustics Workshop by Junanne Peck
• Irma Ward Oil classes
• Barbara McFarland Monday evening classes
• LGAA Free Drawing Session
• Oil & Acrylic with Barbara McFarland
• PAT KOCHAN Monday watermedia classes

Tuesday, March 13

• Spring Break Art Camps at Oil & Cotton
• Mix It Up Spring Break Art Camp for Kids
• Encaustics Workshop by Junanne Peck
• Irma Ward Oil classes
• Keiko Tanabe Watercolor Workshop
• "Playing with Color" with Niki Gulley
• Bohlman Weekly Watercolor Class
• Intermedia Drawing Class
• Quilter's Guild of Plano Community Sew Day
• Watercolor with Bennie Wood

Wednesday, March 14

• Spring Break Art Camps at Oil & Cotton
• Mix It Up Spring Break Art Camp for Kids
• Encaustics Workshop by Junanne Peck
• Irma Ward Oil classes
• Keiko Tanabe Watercolor Workshop
• Acrylic with Kenneth Porter
• Brotherton Variations in Watercolor Wednesday Classes
• LGAA Free Painting Sessions
• Life Drawing Sessions (live models)
• TxLAC Zentangle Classes

Thursday, March 15

• Spring Break Art Camps at Oil & Cotton
• Mix It Up Spring Break Art Camp for Kids
• Encaustics Workshop by Junanne Peck
• Keiko Tanabe Watercolor Workshop
• Discharged Cloth and Clothing by Karen Arzamendi

Friday, March 16

• Spring Break Art Camps at Oil & Cotton
• Mix It Up Spring Break Art Camp for Kids
• Albert Handell Workshop
• Encaustic Fri./Sat. workdays/workshops
• Friday Open Art Nights
• LGAA Free Experimental Art Group
• Watercolor with Bennie Wood

Saturday, March 17

• Spring Break Art Camps at Oil & Cotton
• Albert Handell Workshop
• Encaustic Fri./Sat. workdays/workshops
• Acrylic with Kenneth Porter
• DANCING PAINT 101
• Discharged Cloth and Clothing Workshop
• Irving Quilt Guild Workshops

Sunday, March 18

• Albert Handell Workshop
• The Hands On Be a Better Photographer Studio Workshop

See also these listings:

• Recent art instruction announcements
• Guide to Art Instruction at Galleries, Art Schools, Artist Studios and Arts & Crafts Stores http://tinyurl.com/nqwpv2
• KERA's Art & Seek: Classes and Workshops Click or Art or Craft under Browse

For painting groups see: Painting, Drawing & Critique Groups

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Deadlines 

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

Monday, March 12

• 48th Annual Collin County Adult Art Show
• Celebrate the Earth

Thursday, March 15

• CraftTexas 2012
• NEXUS in Texas 2012 (Women Printmakers of Austin)

Friday, March 16

• Bath House Spring Art Mart
• Learn 2 Live Green

Saturday, March 24

• Richardson Civic Art Society 50+ Show

Monday, March 26

• IAA 2012 Annual Juried Show
• TONAL Watercolor 2012 cancelled

Wednesday, March 28

• Watters Creek Fine Arts Festival

Sunday, April 1

• International Artist/Health Residencies, Ratot, Hungary 2012
• Mars: the next Frontier

Tuesday, April 3

• Bishop Arts Saturday Market

Friday, April 6

• Texas Sculpture Association 2012 Members Show

Sunday, April 15

• Paint Historic Waxahachie
• Ring of Fire: the legend of Johnny Cash

Friday, April 20

• 2012 Design on Wine

Monday, April 30

• Art on the Edge
• Fort Worth Music Festival

• For more calls for entries and other artist opportunities in the DFW area, see the Dallas Arts Revue or Art&Seek.
• For outside DFW see Glasstire (Houston & Austin), ArtShow, Art Calendar, CallForEntry,  ArtPerk, and Art Deadlines List

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