Fort Worth Public Art wants your stories! When you submit pictures, videos, or stories, they will become a part of ‘Fabled,’ a public art project by AREA C projects for the new Fort Worth Public Library's Vivian J. Lincoln Library branch! Fort Worth Public Library and the artists are collecting your memories and impressions of Fort Worth that will become an ever-changing part of the artwork All types of submissions are welcome, even recipes and letters!
Submit your stories by going to fwpublicart.org
While on the Fort Worth Public Art website, you can learn more about the 'Fabled,' Area C Projects, and other public art projects taking place in the city and how you can get involved!
The exhibition 'placeshifting' presents three video works by multi-media artists Jiatong Yao and Zach Nguyen, exploring the relationships between personhood and technology.
In this clip of 'I am Watching You,' Zack Nguyen reflects on his fear, anxiety, and exhaustion caused by virtual meetings during the pandemic. Concealing his identity with an augmented reality glass mask, Nguyen performs as a mysterious computer watching people’s lives and fear during isolation in their personal space through his red eyes.
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Works by Jiatong “Tong” Yao and Zach Nguyen
On view December 18-29, 2022
All 16 of the Original Works Series readings are on our YouTube channel! Steve Weaver tells us a bit about his play, 'Old Enough to Kill.'
My play, Old Enough to Kill, is rooted in a family road trip from Ohio to California in 1970. Somewhere around Pecos County, Texas we stopped for lunch at a primitive roadside rest. It was on a hill next to a two lane highway overlooking a vast and very alien looking landscape. I don't remember many details other than the smell of the pit toilet and a dinner plate sized giant spider hanging on the fence but what stuck with me most was the feeling of isolation.
That rest stop became the starting point for 'Old Enough To Kill.' I had no main characters, no plot, no story, just that rest stop. The feelings of isolation and loneliness it invoked led to Skylar and Ed, two high school seniors at the end of their time together and the start of their adult lives. Graduation is an uncertain stage in every person's life but in 1970, the year of the play, it was complicated further by the war in Vietnam and the near certainty of being drafted to fight. Although the draft has long since ended, today's teens face a similar dilemma; the social and political battles continue to rage and expectations are high. Old Enough to Kill explores how two independent individuals negotiate their futures in a world insisting on conformity.
Check out all the plays featured in the Original Works Series artsfortworth.org/original-works-series
'Some Passions' by Joshua Reiman will close February 26th so don't miss your chance to see these! His short films offer an array of lush landscapes with characters that guide audiences through layered conceptual ideas about art, history, and popular culture.
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Join us as we talk with artist Katherine Akey, whose current exhibition "Darkness Shall Cover Me" can be found at the Arts Center through October 30th. Her work addresses adventure, the human spirit, and the negative space in personal and collective memory.
Learn more about Akey and her work at fwcac.com/post/darkness-shall-cover-me
Celebrate Indigenous People's Day with Artist Talk with Angela Faz and Dr. Lauren Cross as they discuss Faz's ""The Grammar of Animacy."
From Faz's artist statement:
Who is water? If water could talk, what would they say? What might the West Fork and Clear Fork River bodies remember when meeting the great Arkikosa River (Trinity River) in Dallas? The Grammar of Animacy is the foundation of the work with the New Stories: New Futures project called "Remembering: Water has a memory."
The exhibition's title, The Grammar of Animacy, was derived from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a scientist and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
In Braiding Sweetgrass, the author describes how English does not give us many tools for respecting animacy. In English, one is either a person, place, or thing. Our grammar boxes us in by our choice of reducing a non-human being to an "it," or we assign gender inappropriately as he or she. Where are our words for the existence of another living being? This work explores the animacy of the river and their tributaries.
Boxed Lunch with Martha Peters
Welcome to this episode of Boxed Lunch! This series of conversations and lunches features the artists of New Stories: New Futures, a public art event taking place at Will Rogers Memorial Center August 20-21.
Fort Worth Public Art is celebrating its 20th anniversary and Martha Peters, the Arts Council’s Director of Public Art, has been instrumental in its development and success. She will share insights about this highly collaborative field and talk about her latest project for Pioneer Tower that will premiere on August 20-21.
Boxed Lunch with Angela Faz:
This episode of Boxed Lunch features Angela Faz, a multidisciplinary artist focusing on racial justice, art disruptions, and the reclamation of public space. This series of conversations features the artists of New Stories: New Futures, a public art event taking place at Will Rogers Memorial Center August 20-21.
Faz has achieved international recognition for their Collective Care hand-carved print upon being selected for Amplifier’s 2020 Global Call for Art. Amplifier Global Call was juried by a panel of senior members of the arts community from the Guggenheim and Tate Modern. Collective Care was recently included in the Prints & Photographs Division Online Catalog at the Library of Congress to preserve this historic moment in our country.
In 2019, Faz, along with eight other women and gender non-conforming folks, created Our City, Our Future (OCOF) to shift the nexus of power in Dallas. While working with OCOF, they met Nora Soto and co-founded Nopalistxs. Nopalistxs is a self-funded activist art collective focused on illustrating injustices and creating art disruptions that comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. Faz also volunteers with civic-minded groups in Dallas to create visionary and inspirational art to inspire dialogue and transformation.
Faz lives in Dallas’ Oak Cliff neighborhood with their two fabulous cats and one heart-meltingly cute dog.
Coming August 20-21, the Arts Council of Fort Worth and AURORA present a public exhibition curated by Lauren Cross featuring works by North Texas artists who work with technology-based art. New Stories: New Futures, will support the debut of two large-scale new media installations by internationally renowned artists Refik Anadol and Quayola. Anadol’s and Quayola’s artworks will be projected onto the sides of Pioneer Tower in the Will Rogers Memorial Center. The project is part of Fort Worth Public Art, a City of Fort Worth program managed by the Arts Council of F
Boxed Lunch with Ciara Elle Bryant:
Welcome to Boxed Lunch! This series of conversations features the artists of New Stories: New Futures, a public art event taking place at Will Rogers Memorial Center August 20-21. In this episode we welcome Ciara Elle Bryant, a multidisciplinary artist using photography, video, and installation to explore Black culture in the new millennium.
Bryant’s art and curatorial practices center around documenting and preserving the Black experience. Her recent solo exhibitions at RO2 Gallery, the Nasher Sculpture Center, and ex ovo/ Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, featured an ongoing installation project Server. Server is an installation of Bryant’s data archive, featuring imagery and audio familiar to her personal Black experience.
Bryant received their MFA from Southern Methodist University in 2020 after graduating with a BA in Art and Performance from The University of Texas at Dallas in 2016.
Coming August 20-21, the Arts Council of Fort Worth and AURORA present a public exhibition curated by Lauren Cross featuring works by North Texas artists who work with technology-based art. New Stories: New Futures, will support the debut of two large-scale new media installations by internationally renowned artists Refik Anadol and Quayola. Anadol’s and Quayola’s artworks will be projected onto the sides of Pioneer Tower in the Will Rogers Memorial Center. The project is part of Fort Worth Public Art, a City of Fort Worth program managed by the Arts Council of Fort Worth.
Learn more about New Stories: New Futures at https://fwpublicart.org/new-stories-new-futures/
Boxed Lunch with Jessica Fuentes
This series of Boxed Lunch features the artists of New Stories: New Futures, a public art event taking place at Will Rogers Memorial Center August 20-21.
This episode of Boxed Lunch features Jessica Fuentes- artist, educator, and community advocate. Her art explores concepts of time, memory, home, and culture through printed and projected layered images in spaces and built structures. She was a member of the ACTUnited artist team that was commissioned to create the temporary public art project Coming Home.
Over the last decade of working in the museum education field, Jessica was instrumental in the development of the C3 Visiting Artist Project and the Carter Community Artists initiative. She has collaborated with cross-departmental teams; supervised staff, interns, and volunteers; created systems of evaluation, organization, and project management; and implemented DEAI training and strategies.
Jessica serves on the board of Make Art with Purpose (MAP), the Education Planning Committee for the Smithsonian Latino Center, and as Western Region Representative for the Museum Division of the National Art Education Association. In her downtime, she can usually be found with her daughters out in nature, enjoying an art museum, or making art in their home studio.
Coming August 20-21, the Arts Council of Fort Worth and AURORA present a public exhibition curated by Lauren Cross featuring works by North Texas artists who work with technology-based art. New Stories: New Futures, will support the debut of two large-scale new media installations by internationally renowned artists Refik Anadol and Quayola. Anadol’s and Quayola’s artworks will be projected onto the sides of Pioneer Tower in the Will Rogers Memorial Center. The project is part of Fort Worth Public Art, a City of Fort Worth program managed by the Arts Council of Fort Worth. Learn more about New Stories: New Futures at https://fwpublicart.org/new-stories-new-futures/
Boxed Lunch with Sedrick and Letitia
Welcome to this episode of Boxed Lunch! This series of conversations and lunches features the artists of New Stories: New Futures, a public art event taking place at Will Rogers Memorial Center August 20-21. Letitia and Sedrick, Huckaby of Huckaby Studios, are an artist team that represents images of Black families, communities, and culture in Fort Worth.
Letitia’s work is included in several prestigious collections: the Library of Congress, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, and the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection at Scripps College in Claremont, California. She has also created public art projects around the DFW metroplex including the 4th Street Trailhead at Trinity River in Fort Worth, the Ella Mae Shamblee Branch Library in Fort Worth, and the Highland Hills Branch Library in Dallas.
Sedrick’s formal education in art started at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. He then transferred to Boston University (BFA, 1997), where he received extensive academic training in studio art. Huckaby has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including a Guggenheim award, and Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and a Lewis Comfort Tiffany Award. For graduate studies, he went to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut (MFA, 1999). Most recently, he was named the Texas State Artist for 2018. His works are in many collections across the country and at the American Embassy in Namibia.
Coming August 20-21, the Arts Council of Fort Worth and AURORA present a public exhibition curated by Lauren Cross featuring works by North Texas artists who work with technology-based art. New Stories: New Futures, will support the debut of two large-scale new media installations by internationally renowned artists Refik Anadol and Quayola. Anadol’s and Quayola’s artworks will be projected onto the sides of Pioneer Tower in the Will Rogers Memorial Center. The project is part of Fort Worth Public Art, a City of Fort Worth pr
Boxed Lunch with Raul Rodriguez,
Raul Rodriguez is a photographer, artist, curator, and educator from Fort Worth, Texas investigating communities and cultures like skateboarding, boxing, and Lucha Libre, as well as social justice topics linked to the Latino identity. Raul joins us for this series of conversations and lunches features the artists of New Stories: New Futures, a public art event taking place at Will Rogers Memorial Center August 20-21.
Raul graduated with a BFA from the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design with a focus in Photography. His work has been exhibited in galleries and spaces including the Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Works Art, The Oak Cliff Cultural Art Center, Southern Methodist University, and the Latinx Project at New York University. He has worked with museums and organizations like Make Art with Purpose, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. In 2020, Raul received the Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Grant for his photographic community platform, Deep Red Press focusing on underrepresented artists in Texas.
Coming August 20-21, the Arts Council of Fort Worth and AURORA present a public exhibition curated by Lauren Cross featuring works by North Texas artists who work with technology-based art. New Stories: New Futures, will support the debut of two large-scale new media installations by internationally renowned artists Refik Anadol and Quayola. Anadol’s and Quayola’s artworks will be projected onto the sides of Pioneer Tower in the Will Rogers Memorial Center. The project is part of Fort Worth Public Art, a City of Fort Worth program managed by the Arts Council of Fort Worth. Learn more about New Stories: New Futures at https://fwpublicart.org/new-stories-new-futures/
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