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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 22

• Jessica Strubel opens
• Senior Level Fibers Exhibition opens
• Adjunct Core Design opens

Tuesday, October 23

• Tuesday Evenings at the Modern (Lectures)

Thursday, October 25

• ArtOfficial Exhibition (Uniquely Dallas)
• International Artist Day
• Lecture by Photographer Mitch Dobrowner
• Pie in the Sky: HCAF Visual Arts Center's Annual Art Auction and Benefit Dinner

Friday, October 26

• Bead Fest Texas
• Last Friday Gallery Night in Granbury

Saturday, October 27

• Bead Fest Texas
• 36th Annual Huffhines Art Trails Festival
• Harvest Moon Festival
• 11th Annual Wildlife Juried Art Competition Traveling Exhibit opens
• Morir es un Arte: The Art of Death opens
• North Texas Blackland Prairie Artisan and Fibre Faire

Sunday, October 28

• Bead Fest Texas
• 36th Annual Huffhines Art Trails Festival
• Harvest Moon Festival

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 22

• Dallas Area Fiber Artists
• Weatherford Art Association (WAA)

Tuesday, October 23

• Embroiderers' Guild of America. Greater Dallas Chapter.
• Irving Art Association
• Plano Art Association

Wednesday, October 24

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

Thursday, October 25

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

Saturday, October 27

• Articrafters
• 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, October 22

• Ted Nuttall Watercolor Portrait Workshop
• Thomas Schaller Transparent Watercolor
• Barbara McFarland Oil & Acrylic
• LGAA Free Drawing Session
• Pat Kochan Monday Watermedia Class
• Barbara Hentzen classes

Tuesday, October 23

• Ted Nuttall Watercolor Portrait Workshop
• Thomas Schaller Transparent Watercolor
• 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 24

• Ted Nuttall Watercolor Portrait Workshop
• Thomas Schaller Transparent Watercolor
• 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
• "Plein Air Painting Landscapes" with Niki Gulley
• Inspired by Chihuly: Art Journaling

Thursday, October 25

• Ted Nuttall Watercolor Portrait Workshop
• Thomas Schaller Transparent Watercolor
• ARLENEZART Pottery Classes
• FRANK FRANCESE 3- Day Watercolor Workshop
• Basic Class in Watercolor
• Midtown Artist Studios Classes
• Silver Point Drawing Workshop

Friday, October 26

• Ted Nuttall Watercolor Portrait Workshop
• FRANK FRANCESE 3- Day Watercolor Workshop
• Encaustic workdays/workshops
• Kaligrafos Fall Retreat with Barbara Close
• Calligraphy Class - The Joy of Calligraphy
• FRIDAY ALL DAY ACRYLIC PAINTING Margie Whittington
• LGAA Free Experimental Art Group
• Watercolor with Bennie Wood

Saturday, October 27

• FRANK FRANCESE 3- Day Watercolor Workshop
• Encaustic workdays/workshops
• Kaligrafos Fall Retreat with Barbara Close
• Junanne Peck Encaustic / Monotypes Workshops
• Marilyn Bourbon Workshop
• Traci Hutton's Cats & Bats

Sunday, October 28

• Encaustic workdays/workshops
• Kaligrafos Fall Retreat with Barbara Close

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 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
• All-In TAC Show deadline
• 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

Saturday, December 15

• Exhibition proposals at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center