Trevor tries out the snare drum, coached by UNT’s Chris Mullins.
At 10 am on a Saturday morning, you would not expect to find college students awake, much less brimming with excitement at hanging out with a bunch of elementary school kids, but that’s exactly what I found last weekend at the Greater Denton Arts [...]

Thursday night at Plano’s Courtyard Theater, The Arts of Collin County Commission assembled a small but passionate crowd to inspire fundraising efforts for a new 124 acre “world class arts park and performance hall.” Where might the sprawling suburb cities of Allen, Frisco and Plano manage to fit such a mecca? If you’ve ever tried [...]

Best boy grip Sloane Schoeneberg on the set of Exposed.
Actors are being coiffed, grips are hauling equipment between sets, Joey Stewart is barking at his crew, and Jon Keeyes is being a great guy. This could describe a lot of film shoots that have taken place in North Texas in the past 10 or so [...]

In the early 1970s, Willem de Kooning was widely considered a once-great has-been whose career had peaked and faded away. He grew unfashionably old, and though he never stopped painting, he nonetheless fell out of favor with the changing tastes of the time. As his 70th birthday neared, de Kooning reinvented himself as a sculptor, [...]

Sculptors Jay Silber (left) and Etty Horowitz discussing art in front of Barbara Hepworth’s Squares with Two Circles (Monolith) at the Nasher Sculpture Garden.

The Texas Sculpture Association celebrated 25 years of supporting and cultivating North Texas’ thriving community of sculptors. The three-day event included parties, tours, lots of food, and a Saturday symposium which I [...]