Neighborhood-wide free event in multiple locations across the Cedars just south of downtown Dallas, TX. Presented by the Cedars Open Studios non profit organization and the generous sponsorships of local creatives, businesses, and organizations.

#cedarsdallas

*Featured artwork is "Bliss" by Cedars artist, Jennifer Christy

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Get ready for something new! New City Park is a creative space within @oldcityparkdallas. Join @modestmuseum with the following artists who will be showcasing installations, sculptures, video art in the outdoor space near Old City Park. This event is free and open to the public.

Featured artists:

@allikdesign

@brandymicheleadams

@chuckandgeorge

@christina._.vasquez

@colettemedia

@glengauthier

@yxxjixtxng

@lauradavidsonart

@lauraonsale

@modestmuseum

@potteryforthepeopleoc

@itszacknguyen

Cedars Open Studios organization presents Cedars Sessions featuring Jenny Keller and Tonda Howard

Join us for an exciting evening of art at Cedars Sessions featuring Jenny Keller and Tonda Howard from the Artists@1808! This in-person event will take place on Friday Aug 18, 2023, 6:00pm -9:00pm at 1808 South Good Latimer Expressway, Dallas, TX 75226. Get ready to immerse yourself in the vibrant local art scene and experience the creativity of talented artists.

artistsat1808.com/jenny-keller

artistsat1808.com/tonda-hill

At Cedars Sessions, you'll have the opportunity to engage with the artists, explore their private studios, and gain insights into their creative processes. Whether you're an art enthusiast or simply looking for a fun night out, this event promises to be a memorable experience.

Enjoy complimentary beverages & hors d'oeuvres during this free event. Parking is available onsite and overflow parking is available on South Good Latimer. Please park as directed when you arrive.

Seating is limited. RSVP required.

This Cedars Sessions event is sponsored by and co-hosted by Good Coworking. Learn more about their creative shared workspace at goodcoworking.co

Cedars Open Studios is dedicated to supporting neighborhood artists, their initiatives, and promoting the vibrant arts culture of the Cedars community in Dallas, TX.

The MAC is pleased to announce Woman, Life, Freedom – a group exhibition featuring works by Iranian women artists. Woman, Life, Freedom is presented collaborating with Joe McCauley Gallery, Heartland Community College.

The exhibition will be on view December 10th — January 7th, 2023, at the gallery’s main location, 1503 S. Ervay Street.

An opening reception will be held Saturday, December 10th from 6 – 9 PM.

TRASCENDANCE is the first formal exhibition of the extraordinary dance photographs created by noted photographer, Kent Barker. For the past year, Kent has focused his lens on professional company members within the Dallas & Ft. Worth area, building a body of work that shines a light on the deep level of talent that resides there.

"I studied dance at a top level academy from age 6 to 21. It was the first real passion of my youth...and returning to it now, as a mature artist, is such a rewarding completion of life's circle. My love and understanding of the art form has now combined with the technical knowledge and refined vision acquired from a 40+ year career in photography. The result is imagery that transcends, elevates and inspires."

All of the prints have been made by the artist himself and are offered in limited editions.

The opening is on Saturday, Dec. 10 from 3:00 to 6:00 pm. The gallery is open 7 days a week and the work will be on view from Dec. 7 thru Jan. 15.

Saturday, November 19, 2022, 11 AM to 6 PM at various art-centric locations across the Cedars neighborhood. Closing reception to follow at Old City Park, Dallas, TX 75215. #cedarsdallas

Founding members of the annual fall open studio tour will be in attendance at the closing exhibit which also includes live music and food trucks. The tradition of the event was started two decades ago by a group of artists living and working in the area, and continues to this day now coordinated by the nonprofit organization under the same name, and sponsored by local organizations, businesses, and creatives in the community. Admittance is always free and transportation is provided.

The non profit arts organization, Cedars Open Studios is pleased to announce the October 2022 Cedars Sessions exhibit and talk featuring the work of artists Rick Maxwell and Jay Bailey, both past members of the Cedars Open Studios November Tour, celebrating 20 years this year. The Cedars Sessions event will take place Sat, October 1, 6-9pm at Maxwell Studios 1419 Griffin St. E. Dallas, TX 75215.

The studios will open early at 5:30pm for a preview. Artist talks start promptly at 6:00pm. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres and beverages provided. Seating is limited, free tickets must be reserved using the Eventbrite link.

*Since this studio is not ADA accessible, the CNA zoom account will host a stream of the event. More information posted soon. If you prefer to join us online, please email us directly info@cedarsopenstudios.org for the link.

Featured Artists:

Rick Maxwell

Rick Maxwell is an internationally recognized artist based in Dallas, Texas. Born Richard Allen Maxwell on October 5th, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. He moved to Temple, Texas in the summer of 1968 and graduated from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas with a Bachelor in Arts in 1971 and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas with a Masters in Fine Arts in 1975. He taught for the Dallas County Community Colleges from 1975 through 2008 on four of their seven campuses. He earned a Minnie Piper Stevens Award for excellence in teaching in 1981 and a Faculty of the Year Award in 1999. From 2008 to 2018 he served as Executive Dean of the School of Arts at Brookhaven College. Maxwell has maintained a studio in the Cedars neighborhood on the Southern rim of downtown Dallas since 2002.

His sculptures and drawings which reflect a unique sensibility to natural forms are in major art museums and public and private collections including: the Dallas Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum, Prudential Corporation, Omni Corporation, City of Dallas, Dallas Collages, Exxon Corporation, Marriott Corporation, Jordan Vineyards and the Atlantic Richfield Company. @rick.maxwell

Jay Bailey

Inspired by memory and fragmentation, Jay Bailey makes paintings and drawings which create a fabric of images unique to his time and place in the American West. He references a landscape of grand mountains, dramatic skies, deteriorating casinos, hidden underground music venues, dirt country roads, and western and frontier folklore.

His paintings are collections of seemingly discordant marks, lines, blooms, and brush strokes which fall together in a singular voice. With a style influenced by the spirit of cut and paste photo collage, digital video distortion, and blind contour drawings, his images reside on representing the edge of where a thing is and isn’t.

His compositions give space to see strange things and hear silence...

He lives and works in Dallas, Texas. @jaybaileyart

#cedarsdallas #cedarsopenstudios #dallasart #texasart

www.cedarsopenstudios.org

The MAC is pleased to present three new solo exhibitions including work by Morgan Grasham, Sarah Lasley and Laura J. Lawson.

In conversation for the first time at The MAC, Grasham, Lasley and Lawson provoke a novel reconsideration of the natural, augmented and astral environments that surround us today.

"Memory Beast" promotes an interspecies dialogue wherein viewers can envision a sustainable and symbiotic future. Through video and installation, Morgan Grasham creates an intimacy between man and beast, dissolving the dichotomy presupposed therein.

In "Venus and Mars: Climates in Dialogue", Laura J. Lawson also facilitates dialogue, not between our Earthly companions, but instead, our astral neighbors. Lawson takes on the role of a whimsical-cartographer, transposing aerial images of Venus and Mars into striking representations of celestial grandeur.

"Welcome to the Enclave" explores the uncanny a little closer to home. In collaboration with Brenna Palughi, Sarah Lasley looks at the relationship between augmented and virtual reality, Anglo-American domesticity and ecological disaster. "Welcome to the Enclave" dissects a glitchy vision of a suburban meta-verse to confront histories of Indigenous subjugation in American culture and the conflicted intersections of race and gender.

Across three exhibitions, the artists stage poignant interventions into the viewer’s sense of place against the slippery landscape of contemporary life.

"Memory Beast", "Welcome to the Enclave" and "Venus and Mars: Climates in Dialogue" are on view from September 10 through October 8, 2022, with an opening reception Saturday, September 10 from 6 to 9 pm.

The Janette Kennedy Gallery presents Flora, a solo exhibition of paintings by Claire Moore. The exhibit will run from Saturday, September 10 through Thursday, September 22.

This series of paintings was inspired by a return to nature prompted by the pandemic and her return to Texas following over a decade in New York City. As health concerns regarding indoor gatherings escalated, the amount of time many spent outdoors grew. Long walks and new hobbies like gardening provided solace and a reprieve from stress, grief, and the monotony of domestic environments. Extended periods digging in the soil and tending a garden, coupled with a sense of confinement as we sheltered in place, inspired new tightly cropped compositions investigating previously overlooked details of plant life. Dense foliage envelops the canvas simultaneously evoking comfort, akin to the pressure of a weighted blanket, and claustrophobia. In light of the extreme weather we’ve experienced in North Texas in recent years as our climate continues to change, the plant life featured in these works has also come to symbolize the resilience of the natural world and people in times of duress.

“Not so private collection” is a one night group show featuring 13 international artists. The exhibited works are borrowed from a local private collection and include painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and mixed media.

The event is hosted by SITE. a mobile gallery project focused on the viewing of art over the sale of art. Also present at the event will be a special mixed media installation by SITE.

The event opens on Saturday, August 20th at 7pm and will be held at 1517 Gano street, Dallas, TX. Refreshments will be available.

Two back to back group exhibitions of selected work curated by Bonny Leibowitz.

Bonny Leibowitz curates two mixed media group exhibitions presenting artists, who have worked with her by booking time to develop their art, learn new materials and techniques, deepen concepts, brainstorm ideas and/or construct installations and exhibitions. Bonny calls these sessions One on Ones and here we see just some of the amazing pieces by the artists who have worked with her. Artists can book a few hours, monthly consultations, or several days in the studio for these powerful in-depth sessions in a multitude of 2D and 3D explorations.

Ro2 art is thrilled to announce CHAOS 8!, the return of the gallery’s signature invitational summer small works show.

The eighth edition marks the return after a two year hiatus. Presenting works by over 150 artists, the show includes those from the gallery roster and invited guest artists from North Texas and beyond. Hung in true salon-style, entering the main space will feel like an embrace from the art community.

ONE ON ONE...TOGETHER

Two back to back group exhibitions of selected work

curated by Bonny Leibowitz.

JOIN US FOR THE GROUP 1 OPENING RECEPTIONS

SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2022, 12PM-7PM

SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2022, 12PM-4PM

Janette Kennedy Gallery at Southside on Lamar

1409 Botham Jean Blvd #105

Bonny Leibowitz curates two mixed media group exhibitions presenting artists, who have worked with her by booking time to develop their art, learn new materials and techniques, deepen concepts, brainstorm ideas and/or construct installations and exhibitions. Bonny calls these sessions One on Ones and here we see just some of the amazing pieces by the artists who have worked with her. Artists can book a few hours, monthly consultations, or several days in the studio for these powerful in-depth sessions in a multitude of 2D and 3D explorations.

GROUP 1: Brad Ellis, Diane Harper, Dominique Simmons,

Donna Zarbin-Byrne, Gloria Drumm, Jeanne Neal, Joey Brock, Kathy Aldridge, Lisa Moriarty, Liz Mitchell, Lydia Gowens, Pilar Uribe, Susan Caroline Justus, Trey Hoffmann, Lisa Walker

Save the date for the opening receptions from GROUP 2

Saturday, August 13th, 2022, 12pm-7pm and

Sunday, August 14th, 2022, 12pm-4pm

ONE ON ONE...TOGETHER

Two back to back group exhibitions of selected work

curated by Bonny Leibowitz.

JOIN US FOR THE GROUP 1 OPENING RECEPTIONS

SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2022, 12PM-7PM

SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2022, 12PM-4PM

Janette Kennedy Gallery at Southside on Lamar

1409 Botham Jean Blvd #105

Bonny Leibowitz curates two mixed media group exhibitions presenting artists, who have worked with her by booking time to develop their art, learn new materials and techniques, deepen concepts, brainstorm ideas and/or construct installations and exhibitions. Bonny calls these sessions One on Ones and here we see just some of the amazing pieces by the artists who have worked with her. Artists can book a few hours, monthly consultations, or several days in the studio for these powerful in-depth sessions in a multitude of 2D and 3D explorations.

GROUP 1: Brad Ellis, Diane Harper, Dominique Simmons,

Donna Zarbin-Byrne, Gloria Drumm, Jeanne Neal, Joey Brock, Kathy Aldridge, Lisa Moriarty, Liz Mitchell, Lydia Gowens, Pilar Uribe, Susan Caroline Justus, Trey Hoffmann, Lisa Walker

Save the date for the opening receptions from GROUP 2

Saturday, August 13th, 2022, 12pm-7pm and

Sunday, August 14th, 2022, 12pm-4pm

Ro2 Art is proud to present Cheryl Finfrock: The Ties That Bind. The exhibition will run from June 18 through July 15, 2022, with an opening reception held at Ro2 Art in The Cedars, located at 1501 S. Ervay St, Dallas, TX, 75215 on Saturday, June 18 from 7-10PM.

In her newest solo exhibition, The Ties That Bind, Cheryl Finfrock introduces her most recent body of work, which contains unconventional fiber materials such as thread, string, hair, and rope woven through to connect the pieces together in an allusion to Greek mythology. Finfrock explores her figures in relation to themselves and to the greater theme of storytelling while referencing the Three Fates. This series depicts figures in solitude in empty rooms which often reflect back on the subjects’ seclusion. The rooms then act as vessels for human thought and contemplation, leaving the viewer pondering her figures’ next actions.

Ro2 Art is proud to present Ken Craft: Departmental Standard on Empathy Displacement and Universal Salvage, an exhibition featuring deeply personal and possibly distressing paintings in a variety of media. The show will run from June 18 through July 15, 2022 at Ro2 Art in The Cedars, located at 1501 S. Ervay St, Dallas, TX, 75215. Further, an opening reception will take place Saturday, June 18 from 7-10pm.

Motivated by his experiences as a firefighter, Ken Craft has developed a body of work around his love and compassion for our world while further exploring the scars life leaves on us all, both mentally and physically. In a job where the only certainty is putting his body on the line to save the lives of others, Craft is prompted to explore how life requires we all put ourselves on the line for what we cherish, and the discomfort which comes from taking those risks. He explores the mutual compassion for his occupation and the world around him, asking his audience to reconsider their idea of empathy. As an artist his work proves to be a manifestation of these complex relationships between safety and sacrifice, his personal and primary reason for these choices being love.

In this multi-media exhibition, Williams confronts misassociated accounts of creation with the roles and identity of descendants of the African Diaspora. She presents in its place, an account of origin derived from recent dreams of The Nest, and an astral projected journey through The Black (W)hole. With various characters in this visional narrative, the showcase combines 2D works with large-scale 3D sculptures and conceptual wearable garments. The visual impact of the installation serves as a symbolic reference of Black people relied upon for source, but otherwise invisible. This account of creation shifts the narrative of assigned value by presenting an unexpected connection between Dark Matter, said to hold the Multiverse together and the descendants of the Diaspora.

After almost two decades of celebrating Dallas & North Texas history under the name Dallas Heritage Village, the oldest park in Dallas embraces its roots and returns to their former name Old City Park in a special celebration on Juneteenth.

To commemorate Juneteenth, Dallas Heritage Village invites the community for a special day of events including special discussion about the Yellow Rose of Texas by acclaimed storyteller Michael Brundy, a special plaque unveiling which honors emancipation in our Gano Farmstead, Black Dallas History tours, and showings of Soul Rep Theatre film, Harriet Mason Reflections all day long.

Ro2 Art is proud to present Ken Craft: Departmental Standard on Empathy Displacement and Universal Salvage, an exhibition featuring deeply personal and possibly distressing paintings in a variety of media. The show will run from June 18 through July 15, 2022 at Ro2 Art in The Cedars, located at 1501 S. Ervay St, Dallas, TX, 75215. Further, an opening reception will take place Saturday, June 18 from 7-10pm.

Motivated by his experiences as a firefighter, Ken Craft has developed a body of work around his love and compassion for our world while further exploring the scars life leaves on us all, both mentally and physically. In a job where the only certainty is putting his body on the line to save the lives of others, Craft is prompted to explore how life requires we all put ourselves on the line for what we cherish, and the discomfort which comes from taking those risks. He explores the mutual compassion for his occupation and the world around him, asking his audience to reconsider their idea of empathy. As an artist his work proves to be a manifestation of these complex relationships between safety and sacrifice, his personal and primary reason for these choices being love.

Ro2 Art is proud to present Cheryl Finfrock: The Ties That Bind. The exhibition will run from June 18 through July 15, 2022, with an opening reception held at Ro2 Art in The Cedars, located at 1501 S. Ervay St, Dallas, TX, 75215 on Saturday, June 18 from 7-10PM.

In her newest solo exhibition, The Ties That Bind, Cheryl Finfrock introduces her most recent body of work, which contains unconventional fiber materials such as thread, string, hair, and rope woven through to connect the pieces together in an allusion to Greek mythology. Finfrock explores her figures in relation to themselves and to the greater theme of storytelling while referencing the Three Fates. This series depicts figures in solitude in empty rooms which often reflect back on the subjects’ seclusion. The rooms then act as vessels for human thought and contemplation, leaving the viewer pondering her figures’ next actions.

Closing for exhibit ‘Country Mile’ by Chris Wright Evans. In this exhibition, Brooklyn-based photographer and 2021 CADD Fund winner, Chris Wright Evans, lends an exploratory view onto the American interstate highway system: its regulars, notable sites, and commercial detritus. For the first time since their publishing, fifty-five photographs from his book, of the same name, are on view exclusively at the MAC. His body of work reimagines the cultural legacy of America’s highway system and the social and economic hubs built on its shoulders. Continuing the legacy of photographers like Dan Graham and his 1966-67 series, Homes for America, Evan’s breaks up the commercial grid of rural America into conceptually incisive still lifes, landscapes, and portraits.

In Light’s first solo exhibition Transitive Nightfall, the title is derived from the classic song Dark Star by the Grateful Dead and is meant to be a glimpse into his creative process and influences. The entirety of these pieces are made working into the night and serve as a public diary. All pieces are meant to serve as comforting abstractions for the viewer to take solace and find a moment of peace within. There are no intentional forms or figures within them. Only the hope of restful nights and beautiful mornings.

Ro2 Art is proud to present Peggy Wauters: Recomposed. The show will run from May 7th through June 4th, 2022

For Recomposed, Peggy Wauters mines magazines, brochures and various documents to find imagery, from fragments of human faces to animals and architecture, which are disambiguated from their original, for use as devices in her new “recomposed” paintings and prints. By reworking these objects, she brings new perspective and energy to them, while creating imagined realities. In her dense new paintings, the world seems to be turned upside-down, full of humanoid creatures and strange landscapes. In a series of accompanying prints, the artist combines attributes of various people in order to create new identities.

Ro2 Art is proud to present Bartosz Beda: Two Minutes Before Midnight. The show will run from May 7th through June 4th, 2022, with an opening reception held at Ro2 Art in The Cedars, located at 1501 S. Ervay St, Dallas, TX, 75215 from 7-10PM.

For the exhibition, Two Minutes Before Midnight, Bartosz Beda introduces new paintings which explore humankind and the issues that societies grapple with from the past to the present. Bartosz poses questions juxtaposing the indoctrination of children in schools with the looming threat of the end of the world. In his artist's statement Beda states that “‘warnings’ and emptiness of life itself, where individualism and narcissism are a commodity and not a prophecy of failure.” This statement is a clear representation of the overwhelming dread that wars, climate change, and the rapid change of the human condition can cause.

In Light’s first solo exhibition Transitive Nightfall, the title is derived from the classic song Dark Star by the Grateful Dead and is meant to be a glimpse into his creative process and influences. The entirety of these pieces are made working into the night and serve as a public diary. All pieces are meant to serve as comforting abstractions for the viewer to take solace and find a moment of peace within. There are no intentional forms or figures within them. Only the hope of restful nights and beautiful mornings.

Ro2 Art is proud to present Bartosz Beda: Two Minutes Before Midnight. The show will run from May 7th through June 4th, 2022, with an opening reception held at Ro2 Art in The Cedars, located at 1501 S. Ervay St, Dallas, TX, 75215 from 7-10PM.

For the exhibition, Two Minutes Before Midnight, Bartosz Beda introduces new paintings which explore humankind and the issues that societies grapple with from the past to the present. Bartosz poses questions juxtaposing the indoctrination of children in schools with the looming threat of the end of the world. In his artist's statement Beda states that “‘warnings’ and emptiness of life itself, where individualism and narcissism are a commodity and not a prophecy of failure.” This statement is a clear representation of the overwhelming dread that wars, climate change, and the rapid change of the human condition can cause.

Ro2 Art is proud to present Peggy Wauters: Recomposed. The show will run from May 7th through June 4th, 2022

For Recomposed, Peggy Wauters mines magazines, brochures and various documents to find imagery, from fragments of human faces to animals and architecture, which are disambiguated from their original, for use as devices in her new “recomposed” paintings and prints. By reworking these objects, she brings new perspective and energy to them, while creating imagined realities. In her dense new paintings, the world seems to be turned upside-down, full of humanoid creatures and strange landscapes. In a series of accompanying prints, the artist combines attributes of various people in order to create new identities.

For the exhibition, Lucid,' TJ Griffin explores the world of the unconscious mind. The artist revisits scenes from lucid dreams via the visualization of a maze. TJ takes a modern approach to dream interpretation by using geometric abstraction in a way that forms a literal map, leading viewers through his subconscious. Using high chroma, complementary colors this body of work makes for unsettling color combinations that seem only possible in the dream realm.

Using small objects as markers make for a relief sculptural quality to the paintings. As the scenes and choices of Griffin’s lucid dreams are examined it becomes clear that these paths to memory become key symbols for the overwhelming flow of information that is now a part of modern life.