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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 17

• Centers of Influence: Dallas's Mexican American Barrios and Its Leaders
 opens
• Push Pinhole Show opens
• Vendedores Ambulantes: Prints and Drawings from Study Abroad in Mexico by Linda Lucía Santana

Tuesday, September 18

• Thomas Meninkos: BFA, Printmaking opens
• Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (Lectures)

Wednesday, September 19

• PAA's Multicultural Art Exhibit reception

Friday, September 21

• 2012 Art Uprising in West Village
• Edith Baker Art Scholarship Award Ceremony

Saturday, September 22

• 2012 Art Uprising in West Village
• 2012 49th Annual Southwestern Watercolor Society Membership Exhibition reception
• 2012 Texas Sculpture Association Juried Show opens
• DADA Fall Gallery Walk
• Deep Ellum Art Walk
• INEZ VAN LAMSWEERDE & VINOODH MATADIN Pretty Much Everything opening
• K8 Hardy opening
• Live LGAA Benefit Auction
• Myth & Magic: The Artwork of Gerald McDermott
 opens
• Peace Project Show
• Roxy Art Fest
• "Focal Point" reception

Sunday, September 23

• 2012 Art Uprising in West Village

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.

Monday, September 17

• Dallas Handweavers & Spinners Guild
• Sherman Art League
• Society of Watercolor Artists

Tuesday, September 18

• Farmers Branch-Carrollton Art Association
• Fort Worth Quilt Guild
• LGAA Photography Meeting
• Mineral Wells Art Association
• Richardson Civic Art Society

Wednesday, September 19

• Mineola League of the Arts
• Visual Arts League of Allen (VALA)

Thursday, September 20

• Artists of Eastland County
• Irving Quilt Guild
• Visual Artists of Cedar Hill (VACH)

Saturday, September 22

• Fort Worth Weavers 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 17

• Harold Frontz Oil Painting Workshop
• Barbara McFarland Oil & Acrylic
• LGAA Free Drawing Session
• Pat Kochan Monday Watermedia Class
• SWA Critiques
• Barbara Hentzen classes

Tuesday, September 18

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

Wednesday, September 19

• Harold Frontz Oil Painting Workshop
• ARLENEZART Pottery Classes
• FIGURE DRAWING 1 with Michael Mentler
• LGAA Free Painting Sessions
• Naomi Brotherton Wednesday Watercolor Class
• WATERCOLOR WEDNESDAYS--Margie Whittington
• WEDNESDAY EVENING ACRYLIC & OIL PAINTING WITH VERN JOHNSON
• Thursday, September 20
• Harold Frontz Oil Painting Workshop
• ARLENEZART Pottery Classes
• Midtown Artist Studios Classes

Friday, September 21

• Harold Frontz Oil Painting Workshop
• Encaustic workdays/workshops
• Art Biz Lift Off Workshop
• Calligraphy Class - The Joy of Calligraphy
• LGAA Free Experimental Art Group
• Watercolor with Bennie Wood

Saturday, September 22

• Harold Frontz Oil Painting Workshop
• Encaustic workdays/workshops
• Art Biz Lift Off Workshop
• Carl Rohrs: Extensive Pen Techniques
• DADA Panels: "How Do I Get In and Do I Want To?"
• Junanne Peck Encaustic / Monotypes Workshops
• Painting Flowers and Landscapes in Watercolor
• 9:00pm
• Angel Quilt workshop

Sunday, September 23

• Harold Frontz Oil Painting Workshop
• Encaustic workdays/workshops
• Carl Rohrs: Extensive Pen Techniques

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, September 19

• PSSW 2012 National Juried Show

Friday, September 21

• Community Art Showcase
• ARLINGTON DOWNTOWN ARTS FESTIVAL

Saturday, September 22

• Community Art Showcase

Sunday, September 23

• Community Art Showcase
• NEW CROP: 500X College Expo

Monday, September 24

• IN GOD'S PRESENCE exhibit

Sunday, September 30

• Rockwall Art League 2012 Fine Arts Show
• VAGF 2012 Fall Member Show: art'em
• Rockwall Art League 2012 FALL ART SHOW

Monday, October 1

• DHSG Biannual Juried Show - Continuous Threads

Wednesday, October 3

• Bishop Arts Saturday Market

Saturday, October 6

• 2012 Richardson Civic Art Society Membership Show

Monday, October 8

• Citation 2012 Exhibit

Tuesday, October 9

• Trinity Arts Guild 2012 Members Only Show

Wednesday, October 10

• 2012 Columbus Folk Fest Art Contest

Thursday, October 18

• Rockwall Art League 2012 FALL ART SHOW

Saturday, October 20

• Morir es un Arte: The Art of Death