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A new arts festival is coming to the Frio Canyon in Texas’ Hill Country. TerraTx Art Festival, running September 25–27, will feature new artworks by nine muralists and mosaicists. Throughout the event, works by artists will be installed along what will become a permanent 22-mile public art trail running from Leakey to
The Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) has announced an open call for its last round of Let Creativity Happen and City’s Initiative grants for the year. The grants are distributed in three rounds annually, inviting individual artists, arts nonprofits, and fiscally sponsored organizations to apply for funding for new projects
Passage Arts, a new arts nonprofit founded by longtime gallerist Kirk Hopper, is set to open in Dallas this fall. A reception on Saturday, September 19, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. for From the Old Growth, an exhibition of work by James Surls, will kick off its public programming. The space is a 7,500-square-foot […] The pos
The San Anto Zine Fest has announced its return, taking place at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio on Saturday, September 19. The one-day festival originated in 2017 at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, and moved to the San Antonio Central Library in 2018 and 2019 before converting to a “Snail Mail” […]
Discovery Green in downtown Houston has announced a new temporary public art installation to go on view beginning Tuesday, September 15, to coincide with National Hispanic Heritage Month. Fantastic Animals from México: Alebrijes and Nahuales will pay homage to Pedro Linares, the Mexican artist who popularized the anima
The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University has announced the seventh round of commissions for their Tent Series public art initiative. This academic year’s installation will include works by Houston-based artists Keliy Anderson-Staley, Preston Gaines, and Dario Robleto. Launched in 2020, the program annually comm
For nearly four decades, Gary Parker has occupied a unique position in the East Texas art community. Artist, educator, exhibition preparator, set designer, mentor, and advocate, Parker’s influence spans generations of artists who have passed through Stephen F. Austin State University and the broader Nacogdoches, Texas,
A former Ku Klux Klan headquarters in Fort Worth, vacant for years, will be converted into a new community center and performing arts venue by the winter of 2028. Transform 1012 N. Main St., a nonprofit organization cofounded and chaired by Ayesha Ganguly, purchased the 33,000-square-foot building in 2022 with the goal
As Glasstire celebrates our 25th anniversary, each month we’ll be publishing thematic content by our editors and contributing writers. Over the course of the year, our themes will touch on our early years, institutional pillars, artistic legacies, and more. In addition to newly written content, we are also mining our a
Gallerists are some of my favorite people in the business. They’re usually sensitive to artists and their quirks — part because they have a vested economic interest in their careers, part because they have whispered to many, and part because the good ones believe, more so than anyone, in the power art and artists hold
Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series of interviews with regular Glasstire contributors. We are excited to share about our writers and their various endeavors as a way for our readers to better connect with the voices that document, respond to, and shape the Texas art scene. Lucia Simek has long been a respec
There was something natural about the way Esther Pearl Watson’s most recent exhibition at Vielmetter Los Angeles, Celestial Road Trip, came together. After the recent death of her father, Gene Watson, a frequent figure in her work, Watson felt she entered a new era during the show’s creation and found herself tearing u
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