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  Dallas Screams 'Black Lives Matter' With a String of Projects

  January 21 at 4 a.m.

  Processing the collective trauma we've endured in the last year may be a difficult task, and local artist Yesi Fortuna wants to shine a light on the Black community by showing solidarity in the form of art. As a self-proclaimed ally, Fortuna knew she had to reach out to those...

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  Dallas Artists on the Ways the Pandemic Has Forever Changed Art

  January 14 at 4 a.m.

  Although they have never met, artists Kelsey Heimerman and Dudley Sanders have more in common than they know. At the same time, the two Dallas based painters could not have more contrasting lifestyles: Heimerman lives and paints in a beautiful loft in the hip part of Exposition Park, while Sanders...

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  The African American Museum's Hair Story Exhibition Grabs History by the Hair

  Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 4 a.m.

  Hair can be a deeply personal topic. For Oak Cliff artist LaShonda Cooks, its cause for reflection — about artistry and politics, especially for Black women. Recently, Cooks has been on a quest to collect stories about hair, resulting in Hair Story, an exhibition by seven artists at the African American...

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  Artist Agency Gossypion Investments Spreads Cheer! in Dallas

  Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 4 a.m.

  If there’s one positive thing we can take away from this year, it's that through the pain and hardship, new cheerful endeavors were born. Gossypion (Gossy) Investments, founded by Darryl Ratcliff and Maya Crawford, is an agency that aims to represent artists while helping communities and businesses thrive together —...

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  Old Friends Bobby Weiss and IZK Davies Collaborate for Ongoing Art Exhibition

  Friday, December 18, 2020 at 4 a.m.

  Two notable Dallas artists have ganged up against an artless pandemic world with an art exposition in Fair Park. Exposition Gallery's Ongoing exhibition, which is available by appointment only through the month of December, offers the works of Bobby Weiss and IZK Davies, just two old friends with a common love...

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  Third Space DFW Is Making Room for Queer Expression

  Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 4 a.m.

  The queer collective Third Space DFW wants to enhance LGBTQ voices, artistically and unapologetically, by developing a “queernormative” space. The Fort Worth art group, founded in 2019, has two exhibitions coming up this month: the virtual Once a Day Swallow a Small Sun, premiering Dec. 10 on thirdspacedfw.com, and an in-person...