5 Art Events for Your Weekend: December 16-18

Extreme Ornament Help-CreateVetro Glassblowing Studio & Gallery 701 S. Main St., Grapevine Ongoing Wednesday through Dec. 31 It’s like Etsy but saucier: Back by popular demand, the Extreme Ornament Help-Create series allows participants temporary immersion in the ancient art of glassblowing with a jolly, seasonal twist. Each participant selects colors…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend: December 8-11

Media Burn 2016 Streamed live here 6 p.m. Thursday Well, this is interesting. On Monday, a mysterious email began circulating around the Dallas art community. In part, the short message reads, “On December 8, a group of Dallas college students will attempt to destroy the internet from [redacted location].” The…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend, December 1-4

FEATURE: Goode, Tanchak, Winkler Goss-Michael Foundation 1305 Wycliff Ave., Suite 120 Opening reception 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday For the debut of Goss-Michael’s FEATURE series, the space will transform into a shrine devoted solely to three Texas-based artists: Jenaro Goode, Keer Tanchak and Paul Winker. Each is interested in surface,…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend: November 17-20

Courtney Hamilton: Kickin’ the Tire 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday Eastfield College — H100 Gallery 3737 Motley Drive, Mesquite How do we decide what is worth keeping and what is disposable? Like most of us, artist Courtney Hamilton’s answer is equal parts aesthetic preferences and fuzzy sentimentality. Influenced by an…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend: November 11-13

Radioee.net: Solario 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday The Pollock Gallery at SMU 6101 Bishop Blvd. Radioee.net is a nomadic, online, bilingual radio transmission dedicated to themes like mobility, migration and transportation. The program is set to occur in tandem with the…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend, November 4-6

Synecdoche: Midge LynnHaley-Henman Gallery 422 Singleton Blvd. 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday Dallas-based Midge Lynn chose the title Synecdoche to describe her process of capturing a particular moment in the life of the model. Lynn is a conceptual artist who plays with the world of everyday objects and people, the…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend: October 28-30

Cellular Level6 to 8 p.m. Friday William Campbell Contemporary Art 4925 Byers Ave., Fort Worth Cellular Level, an exhibition of new works by acclaimed Fort Worth artist John Holt Smith, opens Friday at William Campbell Contemporary Art. While any mention of “stem cells” is often surrounded by controversy, Smith’s paintings…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend, October 21-23

Jay Shinn: Air Space Barry Whistler Gallery 315 Cole St., Suite 120 6 to 8 p.m. Friday If you know what a decahedron is, you are probably either A) a high school geometry teacher or B) the artist Jay Shinn. Shinn uses the 10-faced, three-dimensional wooden shapes as canvasses for…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend, October 14-16

FIVE: Ties That Bind The Art Room 2712 Weisenberger St., Fort Worth 6-9 p.m. Friday Sibling rivalry. Mommy issues. Crazy aunts. Local artist Deedra Baker explores these themes and more at FIVE: Ties That Bind, a one-night show featuring portraits, still lifes and landscapes that document the nexus of three…

5 Art Events for Your Weekend: October 7-9

Closing: Ryder Richards’ Invisible Hand and Artists Anonymous7 p.m. Friday Beefhaus 833 Exposition Ave. Friday night is the last chance to catch Ryder Richards’ Artists Anonymous at Beefhaus. This particular breed of AA is an open session where addicts (the art kind) who’ve hit rock bottom (in the art sense)…