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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.

Monday, April 30

• Congressional Art Show
• Interior Design Exhibition opens
• UTA Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition; Reception

Tuesday, May 1

• DeSoto Art League Monthly Member Exhibits opens
• Senior Level Interior Design Exhibition opens
• Senior Level Photography Exhibition opens
• Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (Lectures)

Wednesday, May 2

• Brookhaven Student Art Sale
• TAG Open Show; reception & awards

Thursday, May 3

• Brookhaven Student Art Sale
• Bishop Arts District First Thursday
• Crossroads for 3 solos opening

Friday, May 4

• Dallas Craft Guild 2012 Spring Art Show and Sale
• 24-Hour Video Race
• ArtLoveMagic's Art & Coffee
• First Friday in Denton
• Fort Worth First Fridays
• Tiny Spokes: The Oak Cliff Bike Experience reception

Saturday, May 5

• Dallas Craft Guild 2012 Spring Art Show and Sale
• 24-Hour Video Race
• 4th ANNUAL ETSY DALLAS SPRING BASH
• Bishop Arts Saturday Market
• CADD Art Bus Tour
• Dallas Arts District District Public Tour
• Texas Area Artist Exhibit opens
• WIT & WISDOM reception

Sunday, May 6

• Dallas Craft Guild 2012 Spring Art Show and Sale
• IAA Annual Juried Members Show; Reception & Awards
• Society of Watercolor Artists 2012 International Juried Art Exhibition reception

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

Meetings and Demonstrations

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

Tuesday, May 1

• Associated Creative Artists (ACA)
• Visual Arts Guild of Frisco

Wednesday, May 2

• ArtLoveMagic Monthly Management Meeting
• Dallas Society of Visual Communications
• Pastel Society of the Southwest

Thursday, May 3

• Quilter's Guild of Dallas
• Visual Arts Society of Texas

Sunday, May 6

• Texas Area Artists

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, April 30

• Irma Ward Oil classes
• Barbara McFarland Monday evening classes
• LGAA Free Drawing Session
• Oil & Acrylic with Barbara McFarland
• PAT KOCHAN Monday watermedia classes

Tuesday, May 1

• Irma Ward Oil classes
• Bohlman Weekly Watercolor Class
• Tiffany Stained Glass
• Watercolor with Bennie Wood

Wednesday, May 2

• Irma Ward Oil classes
• Acrylic with Kenneth Porter
• Beginning Sculpture Workshop with Dale Martin
• Brotherton Variations in Watercolor Wednesday Classes
• LGAA Free Painting Sessions

Thursday, May 3

• Creative Studio Night Workshops

Friday, May 4

• Intermediate / Advanced Oil Painting with Michael Ome Untiedt
• Calligraphy Class - The Joy of Calligraphy
• Brenda Henning “Split Ray Mariner’s Compass #5” Workshop
• Friday Open Art Nights
• LGAA Free Experimental Art Group
• Watercolor with Bennie Wood

Saturday, May 5

• Intermediate / Advanced Oil Painting with Michael Ome Untiedt
• Acrylic with Kenneth Porter
• TxLAC Saturday Zentangle Classes

Sunday, May 6

• Intermediate / Advanced Oil Painting with Michael Ome Untiedt
• Advanced Zentangle (Zen-Mandala) Class
• May Comic Book Pinup session with Taffeta Darling
• Metalworking – Mother’s Day Pendant

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