…  and by that I mean North By 35 (as in I35). We speak of Denton, and Denton music.
I shared an e-mail exchange with Chris Flemmons of the Baptist Generals; he is also an organizer of the conferette (a cute conference):
Is this the first NX35?
Well, it was a profile-building Denton Music afternoon party in Austin [...]

On the night of her 40th birthday, Paula J. Sanders was named the winner of TeCo Theatrical Productions’ 7th Annual New Play Competition. Like Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer prize winning Wit, Ms. Sanders’ play The Valiant Never Taste of Death focuses on the individual’s fight for life in the face of a cancer diagnosis. As Grand Prize [...]

Artists who like money now have until March 13 to submit an application package for the Dallas Museum of Art’s annual Awards to Artists. There are three separate awards with differing age and residency requirements, but each award can have multiple recipients (and usually do). Not only will you, Winning Artist, receive money, but the [...]

The winning design for Make Space for Artists: Design a Studio.

Amy Wynne and Mark Leveno began their adulthoods in engineering and advertising, respectively. But they ultimately found a united calling as a duo in architecture. After spending time in the smog of Los Angeles, they now belong to Dallas. As the creative team behind the winning design of Make [...]

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Artist Brad Ford Smith was preparing for an opening at Mighty Fine Arts when I visited his studio to shoot the video above. Rather than a grouping of several works, Brad did a single installation using “a stack of old watercolor paper, a pair [...]

The reincarnation of a car garage into an artist’s studio is a romantic American tradition. Think Garage Band, the software (or the real deal).
Our newest contributor to Artist Studio Tour is sculptor and collagist James Michael Starr, whose work has shown all over the United States, as well as Paris and New Zealand. He is represented [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Winning design of Make Space for Artists: Design a  Studio
 The ideal plan of a 16-square-foot artist’s space was revealed  Friday night in the Center for Creative Connections as the Make Space for Artists: Design a Studio competition ended. And the winner is … duo Amy Wynne and Mark Leveno, who are no strangers to winning Texas design [...]

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As part of this evening’s Late Night at the Dallas Museum of Art, the winner of the Make Space for Artists: Design a Studio competition will be announced. In honor of the competition’s grand finale, Art&Seek brings its Online Studio Tour to video.
First Installment: [...]

Tania Rivas claims to write songs in an effort to understand the inner workings of the male mind. While lesser songstresses would have deserted this futile effort after about 10 minutes, Tania has graced the Wicked Wednesday night playbill of Jack’s Backyard for the full month of February and performs tonight. Sharing the stage with her pal [...]

“Wobble” by Diane Sikes, at 500X

The life of the artist – survival job by day, making art by night (and weekends). What can an artist do to pay the bills that a) won’t crush her soul and b) might even fuel those creative fires a bit? Many find the solution in arts education, usually [...]