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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, August 14

• Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (Lectures)

Thursday, August 16

• P.A.I.N.T. Exhibit opens
• Tranquil Blue by Insun Mitchell reception

Friday, August 17

• Frank Sowells Presents Perspectives reception
• HeARTbeat Invitational Art Exhibit reception

Saturday, August 18

• Dallas Arts District Public Tour
• Photography Show by VAL Members opens

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

Meetings and Demonstrations

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

Monday, August 13

• Lake Granbury Art Association
• Mesquite Creative Arts Club

Tuesday, August 14

• Henderson County Art Club, Athens
• Visual Arts League of Lewisville

Wednesday, August 15

• ArtLoveMagic Open House
• Visual Arts League of Allen (VALA)

Thursday, August 16

• Artists of Eastland County
• Irving Quilt 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, August 13

• LGAA Free Drawing Session

Tuesday, August 14

• Bohlman Weekly Watercolor Class
• Linda Rowe: Oil and pastel classes
• Quilter's Guild of Plano Community Sew Day
• Teta Smith watermedia classes
• TUESDAY SUMMER DRAWING WITH LIVE MODELS Vern Johnson
• Watercolor with Bennie Wood

Wednesday, August 15

• Acrylic with Kenneth Porter
• LGAA Free Painting Sessions
• Naomi Brotherton Wednesday Watercolor Class
• WATERCOLOR WEDNESDAYS Sandy Rabbit
• WEDNESDAY EVENING ACRYLIC & OIL PAINTING Vern Johnson

Friday, August 17

• Nancy Medina Painting Summer Flowers
• Encaustic Fri./Sat. workdays/workshops
• Calligraphy Class - The Joy of Calligraphy
• LGAA Free Experimental Art Group
• Watercolor with Bennie Wood

Saturday, August 18

• Nancy Medina Painting Summer Flowers
• Encaustic Fri./Sat. workdays/workshops
• Acrylic with Kenneth Porter
• Brotherton Saturday Watercolor Workshops
• Caroline Ratliff – Pastel Workshop
• Cathy’s Quarterly Creativity Retreat Day
• Irving Quilt Guild Workshops

Sunday, August 19

• Nancy Medina Painting Summer Flowers

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

Deadlines 

Wednesday, August 15

• Calls for entries and artist opportunities. Click on Art Deadlines Calendar to see full details and links or for more deadlines.
• Royal Lane Baptist Church Art Festival Show