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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 15

• Senior Level Drawing and Painting exhibit opens

Tuesday, October 16

• 2012 Richardson Civic Art Society Membership Show awards
• Mandy Cave: BFA exhibition opens
• Mary Tomas Lecture
• Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (Lectures)

Thursday, October 18

• 2nd Annual TEXAS CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
• Slocum Street Style Night

Friday, October 19

• 2nd Annual TEXAS CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
• SWS 2012 Fall Paint-out
• Autumn de Forest exhibit openings
• Dallas Galleries Showcase Geometric Art reception

Saturday, October 20

• 2nd Annual TEXAS CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
• SWS 2012 Fall Paint-out
• Autumn de Forest exhibit openings
• 2nd Annual Artseen Studio Tour in Frisco
• Worldfest 2012
• Dallas Arts District Public Tour
• Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
• Gallery at MIDTOWN ArtsFest
• girlShow 2012 REWIND
• Rockwall Art League 2012 FALL ART SHOW reception
• The Rockwall Art League 2012 Fine Arts Show reception

Sunday, October 21

• 2nd Annual TEXAS CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
• SWS 2012 Fall Paint-out
• 2nd Annual Artseen Studio Tour in Frisco
• Worldfest 2012
• The Open Show @ Art Hotel Gallery 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 15

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

Tuesday, October 16

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

Wednesday, October 17

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

Thursday, October 18

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

Sunday, October 21

• Artists 'Round Texas

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 15

• Carol Nelson Metals and Mixed Media
• Barbara McFarland Oil & Acrylic
• LGAA Free Drawing Session
• Pat Kochan Monday Watermedia Class
• Barbara Hentzen classes

Tuesday, October 16

• Carol Nelson Metals and Mixed Media
• 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, October 17

• Carol Nelson Metals and Mixed Media
• ARLENEZART Pottery Classes
• FIGURE DRAWING 1 with Michael Mentler
• LGAA Free Painting Sessions
• Naomi Brotherton Wednesday Watercolor Class
• SLR Photography Basics: Intermediate SLR
• SWA Critiques
• WATERCOLOR WEDNESDAYS--Margie Whittington
• WEDNESDAY EVENING ACRYLIC & OIL PAINTING WITH VERN JOHNSON

Thursday, October 18

• Carol Nelson Metals and Mixed Media
• ARLENEZART Pottery Classes
• Day of the Dead Jewelry
• Midtown Artist Studios Classes

Friday, October 19

• Encaustic workdays/workshops
• Betsy Morgan Workshop Casket Etui and Gustav's Grafitti
• Calligraphy Class - The Joy of Calligraphy
• LGAA Free Experimental Art Group
• Watercolor with Bennie Wood

Saturday, October 20

• Encaustic workdays/workshops
• Betsy Morgan Workshop Casket Etui and Gustav's Grafitti
• Nancy Medina Painting Texas Flowers
• Brotherton Saturday Watercolor Workshops
• Inspired by Chihuly: Paper Collage
• Irving Quilt Guild Workshops

Sunday, October 21

• Encaustic workdays/workshops
• Nancy Medina Painting Texas Flowers

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 

Thursday, October 18

• Rockwall Art League 2012 FALL ART SHOW

Saturday, October 20

• Collage, Printmaking, & Assemblage Exhibit
• Morir es un Arte: The Art of Death

Monday, October 22

• Festival of Trees deadline

Friday, October 26

• Studio Eighty Charity Art Show

Saturday, October 27

• Studio Eighty Charity Art Show

Thursday, November 1

• People's Choice Art Exhibit and Sale
• Mid Cities Fine Artists (MCFA) Members ONLY Judged Art Show

Friday, November 2

• People's Choice Art Exhibit and Sale

Thursday, November 15

• 2012 9 x 12 Works on Paper Show