100 Creatives

Pick Up the Print Edition This Week

By Lauren Smart
Apr 23, 2015

Dear Web Readers, It's been a minute since we wrapped up the 100 Creatives list, but this week the list of awesome Dallas people, with a few selected full interviews, runs in print. So, step away from your computer and grab one from the Dallas Observer boxes around the city...
100 Dallas Creatives Down, Thousands to Go

By Lauren Smart
Mar 30, 2015

Last May I sat staring into my laptop and a blank document stared back. One hundred can seem like such a daunting number. But some of the Observer's sister papers in cities like Phoenix and Miami had come up with 100 creative people to feature in an ongoing series, so...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 1 Shay Youngblood, Writer About Town

By Lauren Smart
Mar 30, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Shay Youngblood is an artist of several varieties. An author and playwright with numerous publications to her name, Youngblood began to write by reflecting on her tumultuous childhood and the women who raised her, or...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 2 Rodney Dobbs, Man Behind the Scenes

By Elaine Liner
Mar 23, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. It's been said that nobody leaves a theater humming the scenery. But if you've ever seen a show designed by Dallas scenic artist Rodney Dobbs, you might leave singing its praises. Dobbs' sets often help...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 3 Artists/Curators Michael Mazurek and Jesse Morgan Barnett

By Lauren Smart
Mar 20, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Over the span of four months at the beginning of 2014, the Dallas Biennial hosted 12 exhibitions, showing 50 artists. The art of DB14 was all over the city's map, and artists were both local...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 4 Lisa Robison, Designer with Purpose

By Amy McCarthy
Mar 18, 2015

Most of us wouldn't think that there is a lot of art to working in the nonprofit world, and that's probably a pretty fair assessment. Many agencies that work with struggling families are so focused on providing basic assistance like food and shelter that sometimes life's finer details aren't always...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 5 Kevin Rubén Jacobs, Irreverent Art World Organizer

By Lauren Smart
Mar 17, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Kevin Rubén Jacobs isn't your average Dallas curator. In a city that worships blue chip artists and lets money do most of the talking in the art world, Jacobs is far more interested in shaking...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 6 Contemporary Curator and Artist Danielle Avram Morgan

By Lauren Smart
Mar 11, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Danielle Avram Morgan is a photographer turned video artist turned curator, all of which she likely does a great deal better than the average person. Hers is a name you'll see around Dallas now that...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 7 Fashion Maven Julie McCullough

By Megan Radke
Feb 23, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Julie McCullough says that she "stepped into" fashion design but has been blazing quite a trail since arriving in Dallas in 2001. Originally from Michigan, McCullough moved to Chicago to attend school at Columbia College...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 8 Ben Fountain, Man of Letters

By Caroline Pritchard
Feb 20, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Ben Fountain is one of the most successful writers to call Dallas home. His 2007 collection of short stories, Brief Encounters With Che Guevara, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and his first novel, Billy Lynn's...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 9 Allison Davidson, Advocate for Art Accessibility

By Amy McCarthy
Feb 17, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. It's true that art is not just a beautiful part of life, but it can be valuable for mental development. And not just at young ages, but late into life. Even so, accessibility programs are...
100 Creatives: No. 10 Joshua Peugh, Choreographer to Watch

By Danielle Georgiou
Feb 6, 2015

Joshua Peugh's name is becoming familiar to those in the dance scene both here in Dallas and the wider world. With the amount of recognition he has received over the last year, it's safe to say that Peugh and his dance company, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, are having a pretty...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 11 Moody Fuqua, Music Community Organizer

By Nicholas Bostick
Jan 27, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Fresh off the 18th year anniversary party, the guys at Crown & Harp have a lot to be thankful for, particularly our next Dallas luminary, Moody Fuqua. Since 2013, Fuqua's been doing everything there, from...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 12 Gallerists Gina & Dustin Orlando, Boundary Pushers

By Lauren Smart
Jan 26, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Gina and Dustin Orlando are two cool cats. A few years ago, these two gallerists opened up Circuit 12 Contemporary, which quickly became a go-to space in the Design District, and their programming roster continues...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 13 Will Power, Playwright and Mentor

By Lauren Smart
Jan 23, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Since Will Power arrived in Dallas he's been busy. With a background in performance, writing and education, he's not just creating his own work but he's investing in the work of future generations. Originally commissioned...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 14 Janeil Engelstad, an Artist with Purpose

By Danielle Georgiou
Jan 22, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Janeil Engelstad is an artist. A photographer. A curator. An educator. A producer. A former Fulbright Scholar. A tea drinker. One of the busiest people in town. And she's turned that "busyness" into an asset...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 15 Carlos Alejandro Guajardo-Molina, the Book Guy

By Nicholas Bostick
Jan 20, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. One of the most exciting additions to hit Oak Cliff in 2014 was definitely The Wild Detectives. From the outside the place looks like any other house down 8th Street, but inside you'll find three...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 16 Ballet Queen Katie Puder

By Lauren Smart
Jan 19, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. A long time professional dancer with Metropolitan Classical Ballet, Katie Puder has spend much of her life in Dallas on her toes. And like a good dancer, when it was time to take a step...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 17 Artful Advocate Vicki Meek

By Danielle Georgiou
Jan 16, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. In the 1980s, Vicki Meek made her way to Dallas as an artist in residence for the City Arts Program, but she soon found that her calling lay in the administration side of the arts...
100 Dallas Creatives: No. 18 Gallerist Jordan Roth, the Art Scene Cheerleader

By Lauren Smart
Jan 13, 2015

Mixmaster presents "100 Creatives," in which we feature cultural entrepreneurs of Dallas in random order. Let's just skip to the point we'd like to make about Jordan Roth, shall we? If a gallerist is his artists' pimp, he isn't your typical gallerist. Because Roth, who runs the downtown Ro2 Art...

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