Frank Campagna

Amber Campagna is Deep Ellum Royalty and a Boundless Musical Spirit

As you've recently read in DC9, Amber Campagna's family is practically the subject of a new documentary on fallen Dallas musician Frankie Campagna Jr.'s local punk assembly, Spector 45. We got a chance to know Frankie Jr. pretty well here at DC9 over the years, as well as his father, Kettle Art Stud ... More >>

MasterMind Finalists: The Almost-Chosen Few

The MasterMinds Finalists: Part One

Winnowing down Dallas' growing, dynamic community of artists to three MasterMinds involved some tough choices. The process was like lining up at a vast buffet prepared by an outstanding chef: too many wonderful selections and too little room on our plates. On the way to naming the winners, our judge ... More >>

Rock ’n’ Roll Can Help

Nine Bands Confirmed For First Annual 45 Fest Set To Take Place on October 21 at Dada

The late, great Spector 45.​Hello Lover, Jim Suhler, The Mike Haskins Experience, The Marfalites, Dog Company, Here Holy Spain, The Assassins, The Phuss and Houston's The Sellouts are the first nine bands confirmed for the first annual 45 Fest, which will honor late Spector 45 members Frankie Camp ... More >>

Deep Ellum Artist Frank Campagna On The Intersection Of Music and Visual Art in Dallas

Welcome to Local Music'Mericans, where we meet the people in the local music scene that you don't see on stages.Frank CampagnaFrank Campagna's first mural, painted at age 16, was a 9-foot-by-12-foot rendering of a clown wearing a police uniform, sporting a badge that said "pig," and all in front of ... More >>

Next To The O's, The Reverend and Ronnie Dawson, Madison King Gets Deep Ellum Mural

Madison King will watch over you when you park at Deep Sushi. Or at least this mural will.​ Pop quiz, hot shot: Name all the artists who're currently honored with murals depicting their likeness in Deep Ellum.Hmm. Tough one. Off the top of my head, let's see: Erykah Badu, The Reverend Horton Heat, ... More >>

Looking Back, Locally

Remembering Frankie 45.

Details, Band Lineup Set For Thursday Night's Frankie 45 Memorial Concert at Club Dada

​In the days since the news of Frank Campagna Jr.'s death broke on Saturday, the outpouring of support in the community has been fairly overwhelming. Saturday night's gathering at Kettle Art was an especially inspiring scene, as the crowd, which numbered in the hundreds, spilled out of Frankie 45' ... More >>

A Sad, Sad Day For Deep Ellum and Dallas Music As A Whole: Frankie 45 is Dead at Age 24.

Alllison V. SmithRest in peace, Frankie 45.​Frank Campagna, Jr., known affectionately around town as Frankie or Frankie 45, died early this morning. The revered guitarist, bartender and performer was 24 years old. The cause of his death has not yet been released. The medical examiner's office has ... More >>

Five Years, Frankly

The other six MasterMinds Awards finalists are so good, the tough part was picking only three winners.

Dallas Observer Names Nine Dallas Artists as Finalists in Its First Annual Masterminds Award

This Festival Is Deep, Man

Digging Deep: Frank Campagna Gets His Due in Short Film Playing the Dallas Video Festival

Frank Campagna walking past the old Good Latimer Tunnel murals in a scene from Dig Deep​The Dallas Video Festival kicks off today at the Angelika Film Center -- we'll sneak peek a few offerings as it unspools over the coming days. But I did want to mention one highlight, titled Dig Deep, as it's p ... More >>

Deep Ellum, Once More a Work of Art

Hal Samples​This is but a sample of Hal Samples's photos taken Saturday afternoon and evening, as Frank Campagna and his band of artists were wrapping up the Deep Ellum Mural Project just a few weeks after kick-off. (The tunnel's gone; long live the tunnel!) Patrick M. is compiling the whole wingd ... More >>

Deep Ellum's Facelift Starts Tomorrow

Gloria LevarioCathey Miller is among the artists chosen by Frank Campagna to participate in the Deep Ellum Mural Project.Apologies for taking a few days too long to post our slide show from the Deep Ellum Mural Project kick-off, held Saturday night at Kettle Art in Deep Ellum, but better to post now ... More >>

A Mural Project Grows in Deep Ellum

The Deep Ellum Community Association's membership is concerned that what with all the talk of parking boots this week, the neighborhood's other big story kinda got lost this week. Which is? The Deep Ellum Mural project, to be spearheaded by the great Frank Campagna (Tiffany Kieran of the DECA refers ... More >>

A Reel Good Time Promised Tomorrow Night at Kettle Art

It's gonna be Saturday, oh, tomorrow, and you ain't got squat to do? Um, you will, actually, because it's time for Kettle Art to work the reels once again. That's right, you're spending Saturday on Elm Street.The Deep Ellum Enrichment Project returns with "Hopelessly Devoted to You II," the second a ... More >>

Spector 45's Frankie Campagna Isn't Shy About Speaking His Piece

More Power

Kettle Art shows off its eNeRGy

Spector 45 Celebrates Its Five-Year Anniversary At Dada Tomorrow Night

And This Little Piggie Went to All the Way ... to Victory Park ?

Frankenprints

See the pop art of Campagna

Black-Tie Art

Frank Campagna's Unofficial Rolling Stones Album Cover Art

The Reel History of Deep Ellum

Signs o' the Times: Campagna Takes His Rock Murals to the House of Blues

Aiding Deep Ellum's Evolution

Deep Ellum Still Keeps It Real

Beard-a-Fit was All Whiskey and Whiskers

Recovery Is A Must

The muralists of Deep Ellum are honored

Lots Cooking on the Kettle This Weekend

Put the Kettle to the Metal

Oh, Canada

Great white Deep Ellum

When You Think "Deep Ellum," Naturally You're Gonna Look to Canada. D'uh.

Art for Sale! Cheap! Very Cheap!

Frank-ly, It's Art

Listen With Your Eyes

Brewing Babes

Scope some eye candy at Kettle Art

Frank Campagna Says Good-Bye to An Old Friend

Off The Wall

A tagger gone legit struggles to pay for his past art sins

Horror Vision

Kettle Art cooks up some creepy

Deep Ellum Blues

Cooking in the Kettle

3 Times the Charm

"Howdy, Art Folks"

Tribute to Big Tex

Still life

The Deep Ellum Center for the Arts is celebrating its first year. If it can't figure out what it wants to be, it may also be its last.

Blink

Guerrilla tactics; The teacher as artist; Mastered disaster