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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 24

• National Art Educators Association Exhibition opens
• PDA Group Exhibition opens

Tuesday, September 25

• Art After 5 visits Trimble Studios
• COMMUNITY ART SHOWCASE opens
• Laura Lee McCartney, PhD Exhibition: Texas Fashion Collection opens
• Recycle Art Show
• Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (Lectures)

Thursday, September 27

• 25th Annual Dallas Videofest

Friday, September 28

• 25th Annual Dallas Videofest
• Fort Worth Music Festival
• McKinney Oktoberfest 2012
• Last Friday Gallery Night in Granbury
• Polarity (Chidsey & Corwin) opens
• VAL Western Days exhibit opens
• Western Days Show by VAL Members opens

Saturday, September 29

• 25th Annual Dallas Videofest
• Fort Worth Music Festival
• McKinney Oktoberfest 2012
• 2012 Pet Art Traveling Exhibit opens
• 2012 Texas Sculpture Association Juried Show reception
• Front Street Festival
• Not So Indifferent opens
• POETRY ART SHOW
• Sculptors Open House

Sunday, September 30

• 25th Annual Dallas Videofest
• Grand Prairie Arts Council 2012 Open Juried Art Show

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 24

• Dallas Area Fiber Artists
• Weatherford Art Association (WAA)
• Tuesday, September 25
• Embroiderers' Guild of America. Greater Dallas Chapter.
• Irving Art Association
• Plano Art Association

Wednesday, September 26

• Mineola League of the Arts
• Rockwall Art League
• Texas Pottery & Sculpture Guild

Thursday, September 27

• Desoto Art League
• Gainesville Area Visual Arts (GAVA)

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 24

• Carl Rohrs: THE MODERN CALLIGRAPHIC BRUSH
• Barbara McFarland Oil & Acrylic
• LGAA Free Drawing Session
• Pat Kochan Monday Watermedia Class
• Barbara Hentzen classes

Tuesday, September 25

• Carl Rohrs: THE MODERN CALLIGRAPHIC BRUSH
• 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 26

• 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 27

• ARLENEZART Pottery Classes
• Basic Class in Drawing
• Midtown Artist Studios Classes

Friday, September 28

• Encaustic workdays/workshops
• Gregory Beck FIGURATIVE SCULPTURE WORKSHOP
• Calligraphy Class - The Joy of Calligraphy
• FRIDAY ALL DAY ACRYLIC PAINTING Margie Whittington
• LGAA Free Experimental Art Group
• Watercolor with Bennie Wood

Saturday, September 29

• Encaustic workdays/workshops
• Gregory Beck FIGURATIVE SCULPTURE WORKSHOP
• Xanadu Gallery Artist Workshop: Starving to Successful
• Dina Gregory Pastel Workshop
• GAVA Jo Williams Watercolor Workshop
• Yupo Workshop with Bonny

Sunday, September 30

• Encaustic workdays/workshops
• Gregory Beck FIGURATIVE SCULPTURE 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, September 24

• IN GOD'S PRESENCE exhibit

Friday, September 28

• Kessler Pumpkin Patch and Street Fair

Sunday, September 30

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

Monday, October 1

• DHSG Biannual Juried Show - Continuous Threads

Saturday, October 6

• 2012 Richardson Civic Art Society Membership Show
• Art in October First Saturday

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

Thursday, November 1

• Mid Cities Fine Artists (MCFA) Members ONLY Judged Art Show