Updated on December 22, 2020 at 2:17 pm
Kitchen Dog Theater
When Terry Loftis looks back at the arts community in 2020, three words come to mind: inspiring, endurance and optimism. Loftis, the President and Executive Director of The Arts Community Alliance (TACA), announced $200,500 in grants to 30 Dallas arts organizations persevering through the coronavirus pandemic.
2020 is Loftis’ first calendar year to serve as TACA’s president and executive director. When he officially took over the job in late 2019, his goals included making TACA relevant, putting the arts advocacy group in a position of leadership for the arts community and cultivating art.
The pandemic accelerated those goals. “COVID comes along and just says, ‘Everything that you have planned and everything you didn’t have planned is now in play. Ready, set, go!’” Loftis said. “We’ve been running a gauntlet, but the upside to that is a lot of the long-term objectives I had set for TACA, we’ve already
DALLAS â Paris native Aaron Z. Tobin will become the 112th president of the Dallas Bar Association in January, according to an announcement by the 148-year-old organization of more than 11,000 lawyers in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
The son of the late Dr. Morris Tobin and Chris Norton, former Paris nurse practitioner, now lives in Dallas and credits the foundation he received at North Lamar for his success as an attorney.
âI would not be where I am today if it were not for the teachers at North Lamar,â Tobin said, recalling the help he received from chemistry teacher Trudy Hilliard during his freshman year at University of Texas-Austin.
Ongoing, an exhibition at Exposition Gallery.
Ryann Gordon
This is Davies’ fourth collaborative show at Exposition Gallery. Though he’s become known by his work with institutions such as the Dallas Mavericks and the Dallas Museum of Art, it’s joint projects with artists he knows and trusts, like this one, that define him.
“I knew we were going to be close friends from the start, Weiss says of his co-conspirator. As far as this gallery goes, it’s cool how it just happened organically. He had the gallery and I jumped on it.”
Over the years, the duo has worked on a sole mural together, used each other’s studios for workspace from time to time principally, they ve remained friends and mutual fans.
Dallas curator Brandon Kennedy says the art scene needs to ‘come up with new models’
After wearing many hats, including at the Dallas Art Fair, Kennedy has landed at Galerie Frank Elbaz and is speaking candidly about his unconventional life in art.
Brandon Kennedy, director and partner at Galerie Frank Elbaz in the Dallas Design District, curated the gallery s current show, titled “Pre Sent Tense.”(Brandon Wade / Special Contributor)
With a résumé as stacked as Brandon Kennedy’s, it almost helps to ask what job he hasn’t had around Dallas. He was for a time the most public figure at the Dallas Art Fair, after working in rare books and contemporary art for Heritage Auctions and Dallas Auction Gallery, respectively.
Dallas artist Desireé Vaniecia digs into her family history in her first solo show
Her larger-than-life portraits and other works are on view at Conduit Gallery.
Desireé Vaniecia s Love and Happiness, a 2020 flashe-on-canvas painting, is among the artist s works on display at Conduit Gallery through Jan. 2.(Desireé Vaniecia)
2020 has been a surprisingly rewarding year for Dallas-based artist Desireé Vaniecia.
This spring, Vaniecia received the Dallas Museum of Art’s Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award, given annually to Texas artists under 30. The funding allowed her to complete a series of new paintings for her first solo show at Conduit Gallery, titled “Been on My Way.”