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Monday, August 20th, 2012 - Sunday, August 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, August 21
TAG Teachers, Students, New Members opens
Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (Lectures)
Friday, August 24
2012 Craft Party
p2: Ronald Watson reception
Saturday, August 25
Palette to Palate benefit - Art | Wine | Food
where is the power reception
Sunday, August 26
Poet Laureate Project reception
Poet Laureate Project 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
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.
Tuesday, August 21
Fort Worth Quilt Guild
LGAA Photography Meeting
Mineral Wells Art Association
Wednesday, August 22
Texas Pottery & Sculpture Guild
Thursday, August 23
Gainesville Area Visual Arts (GAVA)
Saturday, August 25
Articrafters
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 20
LGAA Free Drawing Session
Tuesday, August 21
Bohlman Weekly Watercolor Class
Linda Rowe: Oil and pastel classes
TAC Sponsored Life Drawing
Teta Smith watermedia classes
TUESDAY SUMMER DRAWING WITH LIVE MODELS Vern Johnson
Watercolor with Bennie Wood
Wednesday, August 22
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 24
Encaustic Fri./Sat. workdays/workshops
Calligraphy Class - The Joy of Calligraphy
LGAA Free Experimental Art Group
Watercolor with Bennie Wood
Saturday, August 25
Encaustics with Junanne Peck
Encaustic Fri./Sat. workdays/workshops
Acrylic with Kenneth Porter
Barbara Jones – Still Life/Oils 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
Deadlines
Monday, August 20
Portraits: Self and Other
11th Annual Wildlife Juried Art Competition
Tuesday, August 21
Portraits: Self and Other
Friday, August 24
Irving's Main St. Event
Friday, August 31
Grand Prairie Arts Council 2012 Open Juried Art Show & Sale
Peace Project Show
Monday, September 3
Bishop Arts Saturday Market
LGAA Fall Juried Show
Friday, September 7
2012 Art Hop
2012 Art Uprising in West Village
2013 Materials: Hard & Soft, National Contemporary Craft Competition and Exhibition
Sunday, September 9
2013 CityArtCal Fine Art in Dallas Art Engagement Book
Monday, September 10
PAA's Multicultural Art Exhibit
Wednesday, September 12
26th Annual Día de los Muertos exhibitio
Thursday, September 13
Art in the City
Friday, September 21
ARLINGTON DOWNTOWN ARTS FESTIVAL
Sunday, September 30
Rockwall Art League 2012 Fine Arts Show
Wednesday, October 3
Bishop Arts Saturday Market
Monday, October 8
Citation 2012 Exhibit
Wednesday, October 10
2012 Columbus Folk Fest Art Contest
- 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
TO ADD AN EVENT, contact moderator@artgroupsdfw.com or use the Submission Form. All notices are moderated.
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