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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, October 8

• Drawing and Painting Graduate Students exhibit opens
• FBCAA Baylor Healthcare Hospital Sale Show opens

Tuesday, October 9

• Elmer Taylor: A Retrospective "Welcome to My World, 1972 - 2012" opens
• Laura Nance: BFA exhibition opens
• Trinity Arts Guild 2012 Members Only Show opens
• Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (Lectures)
• Thursday, October 11

• "Ekphrasis: A Collaboration Among the Arts" 2012 Inaugural Conference
• 5th Annual 'Keller's Got Talent' reception
• Keller Gallery Walk
• Pie in the Sky Silent Auction Exhibition
 opens

Friday, October 12

• "Ekphrasis: A Collaboration Among the Arts" 2012 Inaugural Conference
• Geometric Gala 2012
• Monstrous Coupling: Opening Reception

Saturday, October 13

• "Ekphrasis: A Collaboration Among the Arts" 2012 Inaugural Conference
• HandleyFest
• White Rock Lake Artists' Studio Tour
• Art in the City Festival
• CADD Bus Tour
• Dragon.Open Art Walk
• Fall ArtsGoggle
• McKinney: Second Saturday on the Square
• Plano International Festival

Sunday, October 14

• HandleyFest
• White Rock Lake Artists' Studio Tour
• 26th Annual Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) reception
• 11th Annual Wildlife Juried Art Competition awards 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.

Monday, October 8

• Arlington Visual Arts Association
• Lake Granbury Art Association
• Mesquite Creative Arts Club
• Wise County Art Association, Bridgeport

Tuesday, October 9

• Fort Worth Calligraphers Guild
• Henderson County Art Club, Athens
• Visual Arts League of Lewisville

Wednesday, October 10

• Mid Cities Fine Artists (MCFA)
• Mineola League of the Arts
• Southwestern Watercolor Society

Thursday, October 11

• Art Club of McKinney
• Dallas Needlework & Textile Guild
• NorthEast Texas Fine Art Alliance, Terrell
• Quilter's Guild of Plano

Saturday, October 13

• Art Educators of North Central Texas (AENCT)
• Kaligrafos: The Dallas Calligraphy Society

Sunday, October 14

• North Texas Polymer Clay Guild
• Pastel Society of the Southwest

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, October 8

• LGAA Free Drawing Session
• Pat Kochan Monday Watermedia Class
• TAA Monthly Paint-in
• Barbara Hentzen classes

Tuesday, October 9

• Caddo Lake Workshop with Jo Williams
• ARLENEZART Pottery Classes
• Craft those Pins!
• Drawing - Beginner
• Midtown Artist Studios Classes
• Oil Painting - Beginner
• Quilter's Guild of Plano Community Sew Day
• TAC Life Drawing Session
• Teta Smith watermedia classes
• TUESDAY MORNING FREEHAND DRAWING Vern Johnson
• Watercolor with Bennie Wood

Wednesday, October 10

• Caddo Lake Workshop with Jo Williams
• ARLENEZART Pottery Classes
• Tom Francesconi Workshop
• 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, October 11

• Caddo Lake Workshop with Jo Williams
• ARLENEZART Pottery Classes
• Tom Francesconi Workshop
• Basic Class in Watercolor
• Midtown Artist Studios Classes

Friday, October 12

• Caddo Lake Workshop with Jo Williams
• Tom Francesconi Workshop
• Encaustic workdays/workshops
• Mickey Depre Quilting Workshops
• Calligraphy Class - The Joy of Calligraphy
• LGAA Free Experimental Art Group
• Watercolor with Bennie Wood

Saturday, October 13

• Encaustic workdays/workshops
• Mickey Depre Quilting Workshops
• Inspired by Chihuly: Art Journaling
• Second Saturday Workshops
• Society of Decorative Painters workshops

Sunday, October 14

• Encaustic workdays/workshops

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, 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

Friday, October 26

• Studio Eighty Charity Art Show

Saturday, October 27

• Studio Eighty Charity Art Show

Thursday, November 1

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

Thursday, November 15

• 2012 9 x 12 Works on Paper Show