Guest Blogger Tina Aguilar teaches Humanities and Cultural Studies at Brookhaven College School of the Arts.
This week, I made a trip to the House of Blues to hear about the International House of Blues Foundation’s (IHOFB) Action for the Arts Initiative, called “Music and Imagination.” It’s a collaborative project with local artists and area [...]

A DEPARTURE IN FORT WORTH: Just six months into the job, the director of artistic planning and communications for the Van Cliburn Foundation has left her post. Janice Mayer tells the Fort-Worth Star Telegram, “I can’t talk anymore about it as I’m seeking legal counsel, and I don’t want to compromise myself.” The Cliburn Foundation [...]

FUNNY STUFF: Without Tex Avery, there’d be no Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny. And perhaps, without North Dallas High, there’d have been no Tex Avery. Students there are competing to create the best mural honoring the work of one of the school’s most famous alums. I learned that Avery is credited with take, double take [...]

Guest blogger Danielle Marie Georgiou is a Dance Lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington where she serves as the Assistant Director of the UT Arlington’s Dance Ensemble. She is also a member of Muscle Memory Dance Theatre – a modern dance collective.
Last summer, I was asked to be the Assistant Director of the [...]

Guest Blogger Tina Aguilar teaches Humanities and Cultural Studies at Brookhaven College School of the Arts.
If you don’t know the corner of Young Street and Park Avenue, it is part of the heartbeat of Downtown Dallas. That is where The Stewpot Art Program is located. The day I went to The Stewpot, it had [...]

Having successfully — finally — brought Dallas Contemporary into its large new warehouse-industrial space, executive director Joan Davidow will retire from her position at the end of May.  A bit of a surprise, to say the least — but that delay may have been the last straw, as it were.
The former head of the Arlington [...]

Panorama is a relatively new, bilingual, European, architecture newspaper (it’s published in English and Spanish). It’s put out by the same folks who publish the future arquitecturos competitions, but calling Panorama a “newspaper” is a bit of a stretch because although it’s got the big, broadsheet layout (with what seems like glossy color photos),  it, [...]

Guest blogger Gail Sachson owns Ask Me About Art, offering lectures, tours and program planning. She is Vice-Chair of the Cultural Affairs Commission and a member of the Public Art Committee.
This past week, I was easily convinced that Dallas actually is the new New York of the art world – or the next Florence, as [...]

Guest blogger Brad Ford Smith is a Dallas artist and arts conservationist.
On Friday at 11 a.m. the doors will open for the second annual Dallas Art Fair. But as I write this, it’s 10p.m. on a Wednesday night, so I thought I would share some thoughts about last year’s Dallas Art Fair …
Simply stated, the [...]

Guest Blogger Tina Aguilar teaches Humanities and Cultural Studies at Brookhaven College School of the Arts.
My conversation about the Lochwood Branch Library continues this week with North Texas sculptor Rex Kare, whose work is on display in the library. He joins the legion of North Texas public artists who offer their creative and [...]