| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | Ancient Patterns - Threads of Time at Fort Worth Community Arts Center February 3-February 28, 2012 From Fay Jean Hooker's West Texas youth came many influences that inform her current body of work, "American Pattern Paintings: Wooden Quilts." She grew up surrounded by family quilts, primitive barn furniture, as well as the simple structures seen in old barns, country churches, and roadside farmhouses.
She begins by choosing a favorite quilt pattern, and develops the mathematical configuration for a wood grid prototype. The hundreds and sometimes thousands of individual pieces... | | 02/03/12-
02/28/12 | Fort Worth |
Tuesday Evening Series: Katie PatersonPresented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth February 28, 2012 Katie Paterson is a young British artist receiving a great deal of attention as a cross-medium, multidisciplinary, and conceptually driven artist who focuses on nature, ecology, geology, and cosmology in her work, using her skill and knowledge as an artist together with her limitless curiosity and tireless research to probe matters often left to science. | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 02/28/12 | Fort Worth |
Bonnie's Brush and Canvas BabesPresented by City of Keller at Keller Town Hall February 1-February 28, 2012 The beauty of history, nature and wildlife will be represented by the paintings of Bonnie's Brush and Canvas Babes during the month of February for the Keller Public Arts monthly exhibit. | City of Keller | 02/01/12-
02/28/12 | Keller |
Keep Dreaming with Jake Brittain and Scott DykemaPresented by Kimbell Art Museum at Kimbell Art Museum March 3, 2012 The Kimbell Art Museum presents "Keep Dreaming," a Children's Workshop. Children's book author Jake Brittain and creative illustrator Scott Dykema will guest-host this special program exploring how little ideas can grow into big dreams and even bigger accomplishments. A reading and related art activity will complement docent-guided gallery tours. | Kimbell Art Museum | 03/03/12 | Fort Worth |
Sundays Series: David WillburnPresented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth March 4, 2012 Artist and curator David Willburn presents a lecture. Sundays with the Modern offers unique perspectives on the Museum's architecture, permanent collection, and special exhibitions. Artists, art historians, critics, writers, and architects hold co | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 03/04/12 | Fort Worth |
| Drawing from the Collection Series: Margaret Meehan | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 03/04/12 | Fort Worth |
Tuesday Evening Series: Jill MagidPresented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth March 6, 2012 Writer and artist Jill Magid presents this Tuesday Lecture.
Jill Magid, a New York-based artist and writer, seeks platforms for working inside and outside of institutions, responding to their imposition, negotiation, and at times, capitulation of power. For Magid, this power is not a remote condition to contest, but rather something to manipulate by drawing it closer, exploiting its loopholes, engaging it in dialogue, seducing its agents, revealing its sources, infiltrating its... | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 03/06/12 | Fort Worth |
The Age of Impressionish: Great French Paintings from the ClarkPresented by Kimbell Art Museum at Kimbell Art Museum March 10, 2012 Visitors are invited to a program of talks inaugurating the opening of the Kimbell Art Museum's special exhibition The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark, in the Darnell Street auditorium, across Van Cliburn Way from the Museum. | Kimbell Art Museum | 03/10/12 | Fort Worth |
Tuesday Evening Series: Byron KimPresented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth March 13, 2012 Brooklyn-based artist Byron Kim is known for his monochrome paintings, born out of representation, that seemingly challenge their relationship to abstraction. Faye Hirsch describes his work in an interview with the artist for Art in America, "You see subtle variations of color within the fields. Recalling paintings by midcentury modernists like Rothko and Reinhardt, they feel like pure abstraction, but as always with Kim, have profound ties to the world. | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 03/13/12 | Fort Worth |
Visiting the Work of Jackson PollockPresented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth March 14, 2012 Wonderful Wednesdays is a program for families with young children, led by a docent and includes a gallery project designed by the education department. The tour and project focus on a few works in the Modern's collection. Registration is not required but a sign-up sheet is provided at the front desk the day of the program.
On this Wednesday, the group will visit the work of Jackson Pollock. | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 03/14/12 | Fort Worth |
| Family Fun Week | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | 03/13/12-
03/16/12 | Fort Worth |
Steve MurphyPresented by William Campbell Contemporary Art at William Campbell Contemporary Art February 18-March 17, 2012 An exhibition of new sculptures by Houston artist Steve Murphy will be on display. An opening reception will be held Saturday, February. The show will feature Murphy's geometric, three-dimensional forms of welded steel, lead, and wood. Abstract and largely minimalist, the pieces embody grace and movement while also exhibiting a controlled precision. | William Campbell Contemporary Art | 02/18/12-
03/17/12 | Fort Worth |
Tuesday Evening Series: Andrea FraserPresented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth March 27, 2012 Andrea Fraser, artist and professor, University of California Los Angeles, department of art, makes a presentation.
Andrea Fraser is an artist currently based in Los Angeles, California, where she is a professor at UCLA in the department of art. She also serves as visiting faculty for the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 03/27/12 | Fort Worth |
3 Under 30Presented by Amon Carter Museum of American Art at Amon Carter Museum of American Art March 29, 2012 Rebecca Lawton, Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, presents this Gallery Talk: . Get inspired as you learn about the great works created by Frederic Edwin Church, Arthur Dove, and John Singer Sargent during their twenties. | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | 03/29/12 | Fort Worth |
Biennial at Fort Worth Community Arts Center March 1-March 29, 2012 The North Texas Community is invited to bring one original artwork per person to exhibit in the 2012 FWCAC Biennial. The Biennial is an open exhibit - all may enter and will be shown. | | 03/01/12-
03/29/12 | Fort Worth |
| New Parents Tour | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | 03/30/12 | Fort Worth |
There's No Sun Shining ThroughPresented by Gallery 76102 at Gallery 76102 February 9-March 31, 2012 This one-person, site-specific exhibition explores personal disappointment, fear, dread, and despair. In the words of the artist, "I'm on the road to nowhere, except nowhere is somewhere, so I tell them I'm going somewhere and they say congratulations and I say thanks and goodbye and then off I go somewhere and off they go somewhere and everything is wonderful except I have nowhere to go and neither do they. And in the words of Thomas Bernard, excerpt from Frost, "The older you become, the... | Gallery 76102 | 02/09/12-
03/31/12 | Fort Worth |
Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America Through Galveston IslandPresented by Fort Worth Museum of Science and History at Fort Worth Museum of Science and History December 17, 2011-April 1, 2012 For many students of history, Ellis Island is synonymous with American immigration. Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America Through Galveston Island recalls an equally important island that served as a point of entry for hundreds of thousands of immigrants even before Ellis Island opened its port. The new exhibit chronicles The Port of Galveston's largely forgotten history as a major gateway to American immigration from 1845 to 1924. Forgotten Gateway builds on a growing scholarly and public... | Fort Worth Museum of Science and History | 12/17/11-
04/01/12 | Fort Worth |
Sundays Series: Thomas FeulmerPresented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth April 1, 2012 Listen to the lecture of Thomas Feulmer, artist, curator, and director of educational programming, The Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas. Sundays with the Modern offers unique perspectives on the Museum's architecture, permanent collection, and specia | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 04/01/12 | Fort Worth |
| Drawing from the Collection Series: Tim Best | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 04/01/12 | Fort Worth |
Tuesday Evening Series: Gregg BordowitzPresented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth April 3, 2012 Artist Gregg Bordowitz makes a presentation.
Writer and artist Gregg Bordowitz presents Testing Some Beliefs, an ongoing series of lectures/performances that consider the strength and longevity, as well as the present relevancy, of some personal and collective beliefs. | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 04/03/12 | Fort Worth |
Partners in PollinationPresented by Botanical Research Institute of Texas at Botanical Research Institute of Texas February 25-April 4, 2012 Partners in Pollination is an interactive exhibit that will explain the fascinating relationship between native plants and pollinators, the importance of this relationship in the balance of nature, and the ecological services that pollinators provide in your daily lives. | Botanical Research Institute of Texas | 02/25/12-
04/04/12 | Fort Worth |
| Butterflies in the Garden | Botanical Research Institute of Texas | 03/03/12-
04/08/12 | Fort Worth |
Butterflies in the GardenPresented by Fort Worth Botanic Garden at Fort Worth Botanic Garden March 3-April 8, 2012 "Butterflies in the Garden," the largest exhibit of live, exotic butterflies in north central Texas.
During the five-week exhibit, approximately 12,000 beautiful exotic butterflies of every hue and size will be released in the conservatory. Visitors can experience butterflies from Southeast Asia; North, Central and South America; and Africa. Among the more than 100 species of tropical butterfly species featured are the Archduke (Lexias pardalis), Paper Kite (Idea leoconoe), Great... | Fort Worth Botanic Garden | 03/03/12-
04/08/12 | Fort Worth |
| Tuesday Evening Series: Gary Rough | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 04/10/12 | Fort Worth |
The Shadow CatcherPresented by Amon Carter Museum of American Art at Amon Carter Museum of American Art April 12, 2012 Prior to the program, read The Shadow Catcher (2008) by Marianne Wiggins. At the museum, readers and museum educators will gather in the photography galleries to discuss how the book brings photography into the narrative while blending history and fiction. | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | 04/12/12 | Fort Worth |
Modern 'til Midnight 2012Presented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth April 14, 2012 The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is proud to announce the eighth Modern 'til Midnight on Saturday. An eclectic array of live music will be featured during the Modern's extended, late-night hours. In addition, guests will have the opportunity to enjoy unique gallery activities, films, and exceptional cuisine from Cafe Modern. | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 04/14/12 | Fort Worth |
Focus: Katie PatersonPresented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth March 4-April 15, 2012 Katie Paterson is known for multidisciplinary and conceptually driven work, with an emphasis on nature, ecology, geology, and cosmology. Many of Katie's installations have been the result of intensive research and collaboration with specialists as diverse as astronomers, nanotechnologists, and firework manufacturers. | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 03/04/12-
04/15/12 | Fort Worth |
Wild Flower Seed BallsPresented by Log Cabin Village at Log Cabin Village April 14-April 15, 2012 Come learn about sowing wildflowers and seeds the way their native ancestors did! Then you can help them toss the seed balls to plant their hillside for the spring and summer. | Log Cabin Village | 04/14/12-
04/15/12 | Fort Worth |
Tuesday Evening Series: Lucy LippardPresented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth April 17, 2012 This Tuesday's lecture is given by Lucy Lippard a writer, curator, editor, lecturer and activist.
Lucy Lippard is a distinguished writer, curator, editor, lecturer, and activist who has long been appreciated for her expansive scholarship and insight, having been one of the first to recognize the dematerialization of the work in art's movement toward conceptualism as well as an early champion of feminist art. | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 04/17/12 | Fort Worth |
| Notes of a Native Son | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 04/19/12 | Fort Worth |
| Young Masters | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | 04/22/12 | Fort Worth |
| Stitches in Time | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | 04/26/12 | Fort Worth |
Drawing from the Collection for ChildrenPresented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth February 5-May 6, 2012 Drawing from the Collection for Children is now double the fun! This spring, two program sessions will be offered, one for ages five to eight and one for ages nine to 12. Each free session is led by an artist who takes participants through informal drawing exercises in relation to works in the Modern's collection.
2/5 - John Alexander Taylor (ages five to eight) and Linnea Glatt (ages nine to 12).
3/4 - Adam Palmer (ages five to eight) and Michael Blair (ages nine to 12).... | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 02/05/12-
05/06/12 | Fort Worth |
Sundays Series: Wura-Natasha OgunjiPresented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth May 6, 2012 Sundays with the Modern offers unique perspectives on the Museum's architecture, permanent collection, and special exhibitions. Artists, art historians, critics, writers, and architects hold conversations and lead tours in the galleries.
Artist W | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 05/06/12 | Fort Worth |
| Drawing from the Collection Series: Matthew Cusick | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 05/06/12 | Fort Worth |
| Sharing the Past Through Art | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | 05/10/12 | Fort Worth |
| The Poem and the Image: A Conversation with Roberto Tejada | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | 05/10/12 | Fort Worth |
Frontier Forts Days in the StockyardsPresented by Log Cabin Village at Log Cabin Village May 11-May 12, 2012 It's time for us to help show life on the homefront! During this free, two-day heritage event, the Stockyards National Historic District is transformed into an authentic representation of Texas frontier life, and they have interpreters there to help tell the story. They still be here at the Village, too, though...so come visit them either place! | Log Cabin Village | 05/11/12-
05/12/12 | Fort Worth |
From Here to TherePresented by American Airlines C. R. Smith Museum at American Airlines C. R. Smith Museum January 14-May 12, 2012 Explore the science of how things move by land, sea and air at the C.R. Smith's new traveling exhibition, From Here to There. Visitors can turn up the heat to launch a colorful hot air balloon, operate an authentic canal lock system to move a boat from one water level to the next, and experiment with pneumatics, pulleys, hydraulics and levers to see what kind of mechanical advantage works best in this exciting hands-on exhibit! | American Airlines C. R. Smith Museum | 01/14/12-
05/12/12 | Fort Worth |
Romance Maker: The Watercolors of Charles M. RussellPresented by Amon Carter Museum of American Art at Amon Carter Museum of American Art February 11-May 13, 2012 More than 100 of the finest and best-preserved watercolors by Charles M. Russell (1864?1926) will be featured in this special exhibition. Never before have so many of these singular depictions of the Old West been brought together. Russell's advice to a fellow artist to "sinch your saddle on romance" defined his work, where vivid subjects culled from his own youthful experiences were fused with the power of his artistic imagination to create unforgettable images of the mythic American... | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | 02/11/12-
05/13/12 | Fort Worth |
Sea Dogs and Devil DogsPresented by Military Museum of Fort Worth at Military Museum of Fort Worth December 28, 2011-May 13, 2012 In Sea Dogs and Devil Dogs The Military Museum of Fort Worth presents stories of the US Navy and US Marines from the past 100 Years. The exhibit features artifacts and stories from the US Navy and US Marines from the First World War to the actions of current serving Sailors and Marines. Follow the Marines as they fought under the control of the Texas based US 2nd Infantry Division in France during 1917 and 1918, as the Navy battled on the high seas of the Atlantic. Learn about the... | Military Museum of Fort Worth | 12/28/11-
05/13/12 | Fort Worth |
| Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 05/17/12 | Fort Worth |
| New Parents Tour | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | 04/27/12-
05/25/12 | Fort Worth |
| Crafting from the Collection | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | 05/31/12 | Fort Worth |
Glenn Ligon: AmericaPresented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth February 12-June 3, 2012 Glenn Ligon: America is the first comprehensive, mid-career retrospective of Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), widely regarded as one of the most important and influential American artists to have emerged in the past two decades. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and curator Scott Rothkopf, in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition surveys 25 years of Ligon's work, from his student days until the present. | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 02/12/12-
06/03/12 | Fort Worth |
Gleen Ligon: AmericaPresented by Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth February 12, 2011-June 3, 2012 The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents the first comprehensive midcareer retrospective of Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), widely regarded as one of the most important and influential American artists to have emerged in the past two decades. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Whitney curator Scott Rothkopf, in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition surveys 25 years of Ligon's work, from his student days until the present.
Glenn Ligon: AMERICA... | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 02/12/11-
06/03/12 | Fort Worth |
| A Taste of Bohemia | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | 06/07/12 | Fort Worth |
| Storytime | Amon Carter Museum of American Art | 06/06/12-
06/13/12 | Fort Worth |
The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the ClarkPresented by Kimbell Art Museum at Kimbell Art Museum March 4-June 17, 2012 The Kimbell Art Museum is the sole American venue for this first-ever international touring exhibition of the renowned collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The 73 paintings in the exhibition include 22 Renoirs and 6 Monets, along with works by Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Bonnard. Among them are some of the most familiar masterpieces of the Impressionist era. | Kimbell Art Museum | 03/04/12-
06/17/12 | Fort Worth |
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