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Saturday, September 01, 2012

Monday, September 3rd, 2012 - Sunday, September 9th , 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!


Don't forget to check out our associated websites:

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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, September 3

  • Art From the Loom opens
  • Figure Drawings from Florence, Italy opens

Tuesday, September 4

  • Drawing and Painting at the College of Visual Arts and Design opens
  • Memories in Watercolor opens
  • Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (Lectures)

Wednesday, September 5

  • Art History Lecture
  • Cedar Springs 1st Wednesdays Wine Walk

Thursday, September 6

  • Bishop Arts District First Thursday
  • The Changing Face of Patronage

Friday, September 7

  • 9th annual Lakewood Summer Arts Faire
  • Art in the Garden at Fort Worth Botanic Garden
  • ArtLoveMagic's Art & Coffee
  • Dallas Arts District Public Tour
  • First Friday in Denton
  • Fort Worth First Fridays
  • HCAF Friday Painters reception
  • Madison Rhea reception
  • Whitmore First Fridays Art Show

Saturday, September 8

  • 9th annual Lakewood Summer Arts Faire
  • Art in the Garden at Fort Worth Botanic Garden
  • Society of Watercolor Artists 2012 Juried Members Exhibition reception
  • Dragon.Open Art Walk
  • HOPE Literacy Art Show Fundraiser reception
  • Irving's Main St. Event
  • MADE IN AMERICA reception
  • McKinney: Second Saturday on the Square
  • Texas: Bold and Abstract opening

Sunday, September 9

  • 9th annual Lakewood Summer Arts Faire
  • Art in the Garden at Fort Worth Botanic Garden
  • Portraits: Self and Other reception
  • 4th Annual National Pet Fine Art Juried Competition awards reception
  • Bernard Bortnick Exhibit reception



Poet Laureate Project reception

Lectures are also held at several local art museums:

For more gallery openings see

Meetings and Demonstrations

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

Sunday, September 2

  • Texas Area Artists

Monday, September 3

  • Association of Grand Prairie Artists
  • Corsicana Art League
  • Ellis County Art Association
  • Tuesday, September 4
  • Associated Creative Artists (ACA)
  • Visual Arts Guild of Frisco

Wednesday, September 5

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

Thursday, September 6

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

Saturday, September 8

  • Art Educators of North Central Texas (AENCT)
  • Colored Pencil Society of America, Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter
  • Kaligrafos: The Dallas Calligraphy Society
  • Society of Decorative Painters. Yellow Rose Chapter, Dallas

Sunday, September 9

  • North Texas Polymer Clay 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, September 3

  • LGAA Free Drawing Session

Tuesday, September 4

  • ARLENEZART Pottery Classes
  • Craft those Pins!
  • Drawing - Beginner
  • Midtown Artist Studios Classes
  • Oil Painting - Beginner
  • Teta Smith watermedia classes
  • TUESDAY MORNING FREEHAND DRAWING Vern Johnson
  • Watercolor with Bennie Wood

Wednesday, September 5

  • ARLENEZART Pottery Classes
  • Acrylic with Kenneth Porter
  • An Evening with Master Artist SAMBATARO critique
  • LGAA Free Painting Sessions
  • Naomi Brotherton Wednesday Watercolor Class
  • WATERCOLOR WEDNESDAYS--Margie Whittington
  • WEDNESDAY EVENING ACRYLIC & OIL PAINTING WITH VERN JOHNSON

Thursday, September 6

  • ARLENEZART Pottery Classes
  • Basic Class in Drawing
  • Creative Studio Night Workshops
  • Midtown Artist Studios Classes

Friday, September 7

  • Encaustic Fri./Sat. workdays/workshops
  • Calligraphy Class - The Joy of Calligraphy
  • Cinque Terre & Lake Como, Italy Painting & Photography Workshop
  • LGAA Free Experimental Art Group
  • Watercolor with Bennie Wood

Saturday, September 8

  • Encaustic Fri./Sat. workdays/workshops
  • Acrylic with Kenneth Porter
  • Society of Decorative Painters workshops


See also these listings:

For painting groups see: Painting, Drawing & Critique Groups

 


Deadlines 

Thursday, September 6

  • LGAA Fall 2012 Festival of Art & Sale

Friday, September 7

  • 2012 Art Hop
  • 2012 Art Uprising in West Village
  • 2013 Materials: Hard & Soft, National Contemporary Craft Competition and Exhibition
  • First Salmon Sculpture Competition

Sunday, September 9

  • 2013 CityArtCal Fine Art in Dallas Art Engagement Book
  • WAAS Gallery Juried Show

Monday, September 10

  • PAA's Multicultural Art Exhibit

Wednesday, September 12

  • 26th Annual Día de los Muertos exhibition

Thursday, September 13

  • Art in the City

Friday, September 14

  • Fall ArtsGoggle

Saturday, September 15

  • ArtOfficial Exhibition

Friday, September 21

  • ARLINGTON DOWNTOWN ARTS FESTIVAL

Monday, September 24

  • IN GOD'S PRESENCE exhibit

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



TO ADD AN EVENT, contact moderator@artgroupsdfw.com or use the Submission Form. All notices are moderated.

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