Art News DFW Archive

Monday, June 25th, 2012 - Sunday, July 1st , 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! For the complete (and searchable) Google calendars:    Art Events * Art Meetings * Art Instruction * Art Deadlines  Don't forget to check out our associated websites: Art in DFW Gallery on Flickr Art Groups DFW Group on Facebook Art News DFW on Pinterest  ***NEW*** Companion newspapers DFW Arts Daily , DFW Artists Voice, and Art Spirit Daily TO ADD AN EVENT, contact moderator@artgroupsdfw.com or use the Submission Form. All notices are moderated.

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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, June 26

Art After 5 at Ted Houston Studio

Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (Lectures)

 

Thursday, June 28

Alberto Mena: Dream With Me reception

 

Friday, June 29

9th Annual Hecho en Dallas Juried Exhibition Reception

Last Friday Gallery Night in Granbury

Strip (Cardenas, Kennedy & Jin) reception

 

Saturday, June 30

Artists in Heat: benefit for SiNaCa Studios

 

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

For more gallery openings see

• Jim Mathis announcements list: Dallas Art Openings: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DallasArtOpenings/
• Dallas Art News Openings
• KERA's Art&Seek Opening Receptions
• DallasArtsRevue's Arts Calendar
• Joel Sampson's Dallas/Fort Worth Art Gallery Openings 
• ModernDallas.net's Art Page (scroll down to art galleries)
• Pegasus News' Arts Event Openings

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Meetings and Demonstrations

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

Monday, June 25

Dallas Area Fiber Artists

 

Tuesday, June 26

Embroiderers' Guild of America. Greater Dallas Chapter.

 

Wednesday, June 27

Artists 'Round Texas

Texas Pottery & Sculpture Guild

 

Thursday, June 28

Gainesville Area Visual Arts (GAVA)

 

Sunday, July 1

Texas Area Artists

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, June 25

LGAA Free Drawing Session

Oil & Acrylic with Barbara McFarland

Pat Kochan Monday Watermedia Class

 

Tuesday, June 26

Bohlman Weekly Watercolor Class

PHOTOSHOP WORKDAY

TUESDAY SUMMER DRAWING WITH LIVE MODELS Vern Johnson

Watercolor with Bennie Wood

 

Wednesday, June 27

Acrylic with Kenneth Porter

LGAA Free Painting Sessions

Naomi Brotherton Wednesday Watercolor Class

WEDNESDAY EVENING ACRYLIC & OIL PAINTING Vern Johnson

 

Thursday, June 28

BUFFY'S CLAY CLASS THURSDAYS

 

Friday, June 29

Encaustic Fri./Sat. workdays/workshops

Calligraphy Class - The Joy of Calligraphy

FRIDAY ALL DAY ACRYLIC PAINTING Margie Whittington

LGAA Free Experimental Art Group

Watercolor with Bennie Wood

 

Saturday, June 30

Encaustic Fri./Sat. workdays/workshops

Acrylic with Kenneth Porter

Screenprinting Series

Squirrel Mop Watercolor

 

Sunday, July 1

FUSED GLASS & GLASS ON METAL - on demand

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