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Archive for May, 2009

Saturday Spotlight: Wildflower Arts and Music Festival

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Today in the Art&Seek Saturday Spotlight, we head to Richardson for the Wildflower Arts and Music Festival.

Flipping the Switch with Twyla Tharp

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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. Danielle is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities at [...]

Pretend You Are Pollock

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Whether you’re the type that stays up late into the night trying to think of ways to revolutionize the art world or you’re the type that sleeps like a baby due to the total conviction that  abstract expressionism requires the artistic skills of an average first-grader, have I got the time killing website for you! Enter site:   http://www.jacksonpollock.org/ Drag [...]

Remembering Stephen Bruton on Sunday

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Friends and fellow musicians will gather on Sunday at McDavid Studio (301 East 5th St., Fort Worth) to pay tribute to Stephen Bruton. The Fort Worth musician died May 9 after a length battle with cancer. The event will get started at 2 p.m. and is free. For the full news release, keep reading:

The Majestic Competition

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Yesterday, we linked to Channel 8/WFAA’s report about how the Dallas Summer Musicals‘ contract with the city to run the Majestic Theater is expiring in June and how the DSM wasn’t eager to renew it on the same terms. Plus, there’s that new competition from the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. In TheaterJones today, [...]

Design the Art&Seek T-Shirt

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Earlier this week, Anne announced the contest to design the Art&Seek T-Shirt. And we’ve already begun to hear from the creatives out there. But there’s still plenty of time to get your design to us. With that in mind, I thought I would pass along a little online inspiration: eHow has a “How to design [...]

Friday Morning Roundup

THAT’S A QUARTER CENTURY!: Thursday night, supporters of Dallas’ Undermain Theatre gathered at DiTerra’s on Lower Greenville to celebrate the group’s 25th birthday. The video above is a good companion to the night, walking you through Undermain’s many successes. And there was a bit of news amid all the merrymaking. Artistic director Katherine Owens says [...]

AFI Dallas: A Look Back at the North Texas High School Shorts

If you missed the short films made by North Texas high school students when they played at last month’s AFI Dallas International Film Festival, we’ve combed the Internet and tracked down a lot of them. And it was worth the effort. We think you, too, will be amazed by these talented young filmmakers.

DIY: Etsy Dallas Spring Bash

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Guest blogger Lydia Regalado is an arts educator, crafter and blogger who writes about people who gather to make things. Cute crafts, quirky crafts, kids crafts, and couture crafts – Etsy Dallas’ Spring Bash is bound to have them all. ”The original Dallas craft collective,” Etsy Dallas is hosting its Spring Bash this Saturday at South [...]

Art&Seek Q&A: Photographer Alex Braverman

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Fort Worth photographer Alex Braverman discusses his twin photographic passions and his current show at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center as part of this week’s Art&Seek Q&A.

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