For your information we are publishing the links to websites of mainly nonprofit visual art groups in the area. They may or may not be participating in this site. To suggest additional links or corrections, please notify the Moderator by clicking on Contact on the menu bar above. Updated Dec. 2012.
This guide has six sections (with links to websites):
1. Nonprofit artist groups
2. Nonprofit art centers and arts councils
3. Informal or private artist groups
4. Gallery organizations
5. State or national level nonprofit artist groups
6. Other guides to art groups
Nonprofit artist groups in North Texas:
- American Institute of Graphic Arts, Dallas Chapter
- Arlington Visual Arts Association
- Art After 5
- Art Club of McKinney
- Art Connection (Irving Arts Center)
- Art Educators of North Central Texas (affiliate of the Texas Art Education Association) (blog)
- Artists of Eastland County (Pres.: Joy Conner - 254-629-3290 ejconner1111@sbcglonal.net; VP: Maria Beck - 254-629-8588 mariabeck@yahoo.com; Sec.: Martha Elliott - 254-442-1208 marthae227@yahoo.com)
- Artists 'Round Texas (Rowlett).
- ArtLoveMagic
- Art Professionals of Texas
- Associated Creative Artists (ACA)
- Association of Grand Prairie Artists
- Association of Oriental Arts (TAO)
- Association of Traditional Artists (no current information)
- Central Texas Watercolor Society (Waco)
- Coalition of Allen Visual Artists (C.A.V.A.)
- Colored Pencil Society of America, Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter
- Craft Guild of Dallas
- Corsicana Art League Contact: Barbara Jones mallie22@sbcglobal.net
- Creative Arts Center, Bonham
- Creative Arts Center of Dallas
- Cross Timbers Artists Guild
- Dallas Handweavers & Spinners Guild
- Dallas Area Fiber Artists
- Dallas Designing Dreams, South Side on Lamar; contact: designing-dreams@sbcglobal.net
- Dallas Needlework & Textile Guild
- Dallas Society of Visual Communications
- Dead Photographers Society
- Denton Quilt Guild
- DeSoto Art League
- Eastside Creative Arts Club, Fort Worth (dissolved Summer 2010)
- Electronic Graphic Artists of Dallas
- Ellis County Art Assocation and Fine Art Museum
- Embroiderers' Guild of America. Greater Dallas Chapter e-stitcher@gdcega.com
- Farmers Branch-Carrollton Art Association - rgabel@sbcglobal.net or 972-247-3543
- Fort Worth Calligraphers Guild
- Fort Worth Weavers Guild
- Gainesville Area Visual Arts, Gainesville
- Grapevine Art Project (GAP)
- Guild of Texas Paper Cutters, Fort Worth. For info call Patti Rooks 817-389-2430 or email prooks@windstream.net.
- Henderson County Art Club info: ruthom1946@gmail.com
- Irving Art Association
- Irving Quilt Guild
- Kaligrafos
- Lake Granbury Art Association
- Lancaster Art Club
- Lone Star Crafters Association, Weatherford
- Lone Star Film Society, Fort Worth
- Mid Cities Fine Artists (2nd Wed., Hurst Recreation Ctr) - contact Carolyn Kilgo Weinman @ 817-346-9012 or ck_weinman@yahoo.com
- Mineral Wells Art Association
- National League of American Pen Women - Dallas Branch
- North Texas Polymer Clay Guild
- NorthEast Texas Fine Art Alliance (NETFAA)
- Oak Point Art Society/a>, Aubrey
- Quilter's Guild of Dallas
- Quilter's Guild of Plano
- Pastel Society of the Southwest
- Plano Art Association
- Richardson Civic Art Society
- Rockwall Art League
- Sherman Art League contact nancy.hawkart@yahoo.com
- Society of Figurative Arts
- Society of Watercolor Artists (Fort Worth)
- Southwestern Watercolor Society
- Texas Area Artists
- Texas Artists Coalition (Fort Worth Community Arts Center - Elaine Taylor gallerymanager@fwcac.org)
- Texas Pottery and Sculpture Guild
- Texas Sculpture Association
- Texas Visual Arts Association (TVAA)
- Trinity Arts Guild
- Video Association of Dallas
- Visual Artists of Cedar HIll - contact bcb.art@sbcglobal.net or 972-291-8056
- Visual Arts Coalition of Dallas
- Visual Arts Guild of Frisco
- Visual Arts League of Allen
- Visual Arts League of Lewisville blog: http://VALtex.blogspot.com
- Visual Arts Society of Texas (formerly North Texas Area Art League)
- Weatherford Art Association
- Wise County Art Association, Bridgeport
- Yellow Rose Chapter of the International SDP (Society of Decorative Painters)
- Youth Artists of Texas, Keller
Nonprofit art centers and arts councils in North Texas
- Allen Art Alliance
- Arlington Arts Alliance
- Arlington Arts League
- Arlington Museum of Art.
- ArtCentre of Plano
- Artes de la Rosa, Fort Worth
- Art in the City, Haltom City
- ArtReach-Dallas, Inc.
- Arts Council of Henderson County. D. Samuel Neill Gallery
- Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County
- ARTSNET - Arts Council of Northeast Tarrant County (formerly Trinity Arts Foundation)
- ArtSpirit (explores the mysteries of spirituality through the arts)
- Balch Springs Visual & Performing Arts Alliance, Balch Springs
- Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas
- CityArtCal, Dallas
- City of Keller Public Art Program
- Dallas Arts District Alliance, Dallas
- Dallas Center for Contemporary Art (formerly D'Art, then Dallas Visual Art Center, or DVAC)
- Denison Arts Council
- Eisemann Center, Richardson
- Fort Worth Community Arts Center
- Five Hundred Inc. presenter of ArtFest and WineFest and supporter of the arts
- Forney Arts Council, Forney Facebook page
- Fort Worth Public Art
- Grand Prairie Arts Council
- Granville Arts Center Atrium, Garland (click on Garland Arts under Departments)
- Greater Denton Arts Council
- Greater Lewisville Arts Council
- Hill Country Arts Foundation
- Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc.
- Irving Arts Center
- Irving Black Arts Council
- Kemp Center for the Arts, Wichita Falls
- La Reunion (artist residency program in Oak Cliff)
- Latino Cultural Center
- Life in Deep Ellum (nonprofit community cultural center)
- McKinney Avenue Contemporary
- Mesquite Arts Center
- North Texas Business for Culture and the Arts
- North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
- PFAMILY ARTS
- Russell Farm Art Center, Burleson
Informal or private artist groups in North Texas:
- 500X Gallery (artists co-op)
- Art Attacks (guerilla art marketing from Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County)
- Art Conspiracy (fundraising group of artists)
- ArtFest (Memorial Day weekend event supporting the arts)
- Art Focus XC
- Artful Designs
- Articrafters (mixed media/altered group on Yahoo)
- Artisan's Studio-Gallery
- Artists' Showplace
- Art Patrol (painting in public spaces & events)
- ARTSgenY (for genY artists and art lovers)
- Association A.R.T.S. (professional artists & galleries based in Southlake and North Tarrant area)
- Canvas by Canvas
- Cedars Open Studio Tour
- Continental Gin Artists
- Creative Squat
- Dallas Artist Networking Group (Dang!)
- Dallas Arts Revue Member Artists
- Dallas Arts Salon
- Dallas Craft Mafia and DCM News blog
- Dallas Round Table Arts and Entertainment Group
- Dallas Scrapbooker Social Club
- Dallas Stampers
- Dallas Visual Arts Forum
- Deep Ellum Arts Festival
- DFW Cultural Events Group
- Etsy Dallas (artist cooperative)
- Etsy Denton (artist cooperative)
- Etsy Fort Worth (artist cooperative)
- F6 Gallery (Arlington nonprofit gallery)
- Faith Artists
- Friday Night Lights and Shadows (7-10 pm, Society of Figurative Arts, Addison) - model fee; contact: Gene Dillard 214-403-9171 gene@legacyportraitpainters.com
- Gallery VIII
- Just Art Group
- M Street Lakewood Artists Studio Tour
- Mid-Cities Fine Artist's Association ck_weinman@yahoo.com
- Mineral Wells All Art Assemblage
- Montague Institute of Art Nocona, TX
- North Dallas Artist Studio Tour
- North Central Texas Mixed Media Group (yahoo group)
- Oak Cliff Artisans (artist cooperative)
- Plaza Art Guild (Paris, Texas)
- 2nd Floor Gallery (alternative art space - the upstairs of the Panther City Coffee Shop at 2918 Berry Street in Fort Worth) contact: ken@otoolestudio.com
- Sofia Art Academy, north Dallas
- Studio 109 Fine Art (artist collective), Oak Cliff
- TexasWAX/Dallas Dallas Chapter of TexasWAX, devoted to encaustic painting
- Visual Arts League of Allen VisualArtsLeagueAllen@AllenArtsAlliance.org
- White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour
- Young at 'Art
- Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas (CAD)
- Dallas Art Dealers Association (DADA)
- Fort Worth Art Dealers Association (FWADA)
State- or national-level nonprofit artist groups:
- Art Professionals of Texas
- Artists of Texas (online gallery with groups shows at Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas)
- CASETA: Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art
- Lone Star Artist Guild (made up of art leagues within a 200 mile radius of Houston, Texas)
- National League of American Pen Women, Dallas and Fort Worth Branches
- Outdoor Painters Society (mainly Texas membership but a national organization)
- Texas Clay Arts Association
- Texas Lettering Arts Council
- Texas Photographic Society
- Texas Professional Photographers Association
- Texas Watercolor Society
- Texas Women's Caucus for Art
- VSA Arts of Texas
Other guides to art groups:
Art museums, galleries and centers in North Texas: a resource guide (from ArtGroupsDFW)
Dallas-Fort Worth Art Groups (from dfwart.com)
Dallas & Texas Visual Arts & Art-Related Organizations (from Dallas Arts Revue)
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