Calling artists, presses, publishers, galleries, and bookstores: vendor applications for the 2026 Dallas Art Book Fair open December 1. Submit your application between December 1 (12:00 AM CT) and January 1 (11:55 PM CT) for consideration to participate in DABF (March 21–22, 2026; Preview Night March 20).

Application link and guidelines go live on December 1. Stay tuned for details.

DC Process Tour: Chris Wolston
Sunday, 30 November, 2025
1:00 - 2:00 PM
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Join us for a guided tour through our current exhibition, Chris Wolston: Profile in Ecstasy, with a focus on the material and process Wolston uses to create his work. This tour is recommended for those who are curious about the material choices artists make and how they inform the overall impact of the work.

DC Process Tour: Pam Evelyn
Saturday, 29 November, 2025
1:00 - 2:00 PM
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Join us for a guided tour through our current exhibition, Pam Evelyn: Salvaged Future, with a focus on the material and process Evelyn uses to create her work. This tour is recommended for those who are curious about the material choices artists make and how they inform the overall impact of the work.

DC Stories Tour: Pam Evelyn + Chris Wolston
Sunday, 23 November, 2025
1:00 - 2:00 PM
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Join us for a guided tour through our current exhibitions, Pam Evelyn: Salvaged Future and Chris Wolston: Profile in Ecstasy, with a focus on the individual artists and their careers. This tour is recommended for individuals who are interested in how an artist's personal narrative can influence their practice, and how a viewer's own stories might find new meaning through art.

Third Thursday After Hours
Thursday, 20 November, 2025
5:00 - 8:00 PM
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

On select Third Thursdays, DC stays open until 8.00 pm! Enjoy extended hours, music, plus 2 complimentary drinks from our sponsors with registration.

Third Thursdays represent our commitment to accessibility, ensuring that those unable to visit during regular hours can still experience our exhibitions. By opening our doors on these designated days, we provide an opportunity for broader public engagement, especially for individuals who may have conflicting schedules or reside outside the area. It's our way of extending a warm welcome to everyone, regardless of their constraints, fostering greater inclusivity and community connection.

DC Context Tour: Pam Evelyn
Saturday, 15 November, 2025
1:00 - 2:00 PM
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Discover how painting becomes a site of transformation in Pam Evelyn: Salvaged Future. This guided tour offers an in-depth look at how Evelyn’s abstract canvases merge gesture, memory, and materiality. Explore works that unfold as emotional landscapes—textured fields of time, touch, and reflection.

DC Context Tour: Chris Wolston
Saturday, 15 November, 2025
1:00 - 2:00 PM
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Discover how design becomes a vehicle for imagination in Chris Wolston: Profile in Ecstasy. This guided tour offers an in-depth look at how Wolston redefines furniture, sculpture, and installation as ecstatic forms. Explore works that blur function and fantasy, weaving together queer desire, material fluency, and environmental urgency.

Rouge Coffee Pop-Up at Dallas Contemporary
Saturday, 15 November, 2025
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (or until sell-out)
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

We're pleased to share that our friend, Rouge Coffee, will be popping up at Dallas Contemporary.

Enjoy specialty coffee beverages and pastries—serving 11:00 AM–4:00 PM (or until sell-out).

Saturday, November 15

11am-4pm (or until sell-out)

Sunday, November 16

11am-4pm (or until sell-out)

We invite you to stay awhile and visit our current exhibitions Pam Evelyn: Salvaged Future and Chris Wolston: Profile in Ecstasy after the pop-up. Admission is always free.

Stroller Tour at Dallas Contemporary
Wednesday, 12 November, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Free Admission
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Taking place on select second Wednesdays of the month before we open to the public, parents and caregivers are invited to bring children up to 5 years old for a guided stroll through our current exhibitions.

The stroller tour is a time in which conversation, questions, and animated babies are encouraged!

Second Sundays at DC: Zine Workshop with Chelsea Akpan
Sunday, 09 November, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Free for members, $15 for nonmembers
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

We are thrilled to invite you to an evening dedicated to showing our appreciation for current members + experience the perks of a DC membership.

This month, join us for a hands-on zine making workshop led by Chelsea Akpan.

Learn the basics of zine making and how to make your own zine using a single piece of paper. This workshop is perfect for artists of all skill levels who have an interest in zines, paper goods and sequential storytelling. By the end, you will walk away with your own zine and some new skills to bring with you on your next project!

We are deeply grateful for your commitment to our museum – your support ensures that DC remains always different, always free.

Looking to become a member? Membership tiers begin at just $50 and include free admission to all Second Sundays at DC events.

The Dang Spot Pop-Up Residency at Dallas Contemporary
Sunday, 09 November, 2025
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (or until sell-out)
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

We're pleased to share that our friends, The Dang Spot, will popping up at Dallas Contemporary.

Enjoy specialty coffee and matcha beverages, plus exclusive seasonal drinks—serving 11:00 AM–4:00 PM (or until sell-out).

Saturday, October 11 + Sunday, October 12

11am-4pm (or until sell-out)

Saturday, November 8 + Sunday, November 9

11am-4pm (or until sell-out)

We invite you to stay awhile and visit our current exhibitions after the pop-up. Admission is always free.

The Dang Spot Pop-Up Residency at Dallas Contemporary
Saturday, 08 November, 2025
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (or until sell-out)
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

We're pleased to share that our friends, The Dang Spot, will popping up at Dallas Contemporary.

Enjoy specialty coffee and matcha beverages, plus exclusive seasonal drinks—serving 11:00 AM–4:00 PM (or until sell-out).

Saturday, October 11 + Sunday, October 12

11am-4pm (or until sell-out)

Saturday, November 8 + Sunday, November 9

11am-4pm (or until sell-out)

We invite you to stay awhile and visit our current exhibitions after the pop-up. Admission is always free.

Dallas Contemporary's Fall 2025 Exhibitions Opening Celebration
featuring solo presentations 'Pam Evelyn: Salvaged Future' and 'Chris Wolston: Profile in Ecstasy'

Friday, 07 November 2025
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Free admission, complimentary drinks (21+)
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

On Friday, 07 November from 7.00 - 9.00 PM, join us for the celebration of our fall exhibitions. Be among the first to view Salvaged Future and Profile in Ecstasy, plus, enjoy music by DJ .CLOUDED and complimentary drinks.

Known for her expansive, abstract canvases that explore nature, the body, and materiality, Pam Evelyn’s work is characterized by dense layers and rich textures, created through an intuitive process that translates her lived experiences into vibrant, dynamic compositions. Evelyn's works are deeply engaged with the legacy of Abstract Expressionism while maintaining a distinctly contemporary sensibility.

Chris Wolston explores the ecstatic potential of form, where decoration becomes a mode of expression and function yields to fantasy. Drawing from Art Nouveau, pre-Columbian symbolism, and architectural excess, Wolston blurs the line between the sculptural and the domestic. Iconic works like his terracotta and Nalgona chairs appear alongside new creations, forming a richly layered narrative that revels in material transformation, bodily gesture, and the wild, seductive force of nature. Featuring lighting and furniture, the exhibition offers a dynamic and immersive expression of Wolston’s evolving practice.

Membership Mixer + Happy Hour at Ladylove Lounge & Sound
Friday, 24 October 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
310 W Seventh St. Dallas, TX 75208

Join us for Dallas Contemporary’s Membership Mixer + Happy Hour at the iconic Ladylove Lounge & Sound in the Bishop Arts District!

This special evening is your chance to:

• Connect with fellow members over craft cocktails

• Meet new friends who share your love for art

• Learn about the perks of a DC membership

• Enjoy the vibrant atmosphere of one of Dallas’ favorite spots

Whether you’re a current member or curious about joining, this event is the perfect opportunity to mingle with our community and experience the spirit of Dallas Contemporary. Bring a friend, your curiosity, and your love for art—we’ll bring the good vibes.

Happy Hour Specials

$2 off signature cocktails

$1 off beer

$2 off wine + sake

$10 off wings

DC EMPTY: Water Work
Saturday, 18 October 2025 | 4:00 PM

$10 GA | Free for Members
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Dallas Contemporary’s performance and film programming series DC EMPTY continues with Water Work, a duet by dance artists Lauren Kravitz (Dallas, TX) and Shantel Prado (Queens, NY).

Water Work draws inspiration from American cultures surrounding water. From pool decks to beach shores and the communal rituals tied to leisure, sport, and gathering around aquatic spaces. Through a mix of improvisation and movement inspired by synchronized swimming and water athletics, the work ebbs between organic fluidity and sharp athletic form.

Created in collaboration with Tina Lee (set design), Yve Bee (costume design), Junlin He (costume design), and Silas C. Edgar (sound design), Water Work envelops audiences in the textures, sounds, and gestures of shared water environments.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Lauren Kravitz is a Dallas-based freelance dance artist, alumna of Booker T. Washington HSPVA and NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and founding contributor to Agora Artists. She has performed nationally with Seán Curran Company, Take Dance, and Indah Walsh Dance Company.

Shantel Prado is a Queens-based dance and video artist, graduate of NYU Tisch and the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, and co-creator of duet works with Kravitz. She also serves as Marketing Manager, the Mark Morris Dance Group.

DC EMPTY: Water Workshop & Artist Talk
Saturday, 18 October 2025
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Free Admission
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Dallas Contemporary’s performance and film programming series DC EMPTY continues with Water Work, a duet by dance artists Lauren Kravitz and Shantel Prado, and draws inspiration from American cultures surrounding water.

This workshop invites folks to dive into the world of Water Work through movement and group discussion. Kravitz and Prado will guide you through simple embodiment exercises, finding ebbs and flows unique to our own bodies, then end the movement portion with some creative play-time, exploring repetitive wave patterns and poolside postures. We'll save the last 30 minutes for an informal Q&A. No previous dance experience necessary. Come make waves and friends!

DC EMPTY: Water Work
Friday, 17 October 2025 | 8:00 PM

$10 GA | Free for Members
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Dallas Contemporary’s performance and film programming series DC EMPTY continues with Water Work, a duet by dance artists Lauren Kravitz (Dallas, TX) and Shantel Prado (Queens, NY).

Water Work draws inspiration from American cultures surrounding water. From pool decks to beach shores and the communal behaviors tied to leisure, sport, and gathering around aquatic spaces. Through a mix of improvisation and movement inspired by synchronized swimming and water athletics, the work ebbs between organic fluidity and sharp athletic form.

Created in collaboration with Tina Lee (set design), Yve Bee (costume design), Junlin He (costume design), and Silas C. Edgar (sound design), Water Work envelops audiences in the textures, sounds, and gestures of shared water environments.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Lauren Kravitz is a Dallas-based freelance dance artist, alumna of Booker T. Washington HSPVA and NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and founding contributor to Agora Artists. She has performed nationally with Seán Curran Company, Take Dance, and Indah Walsh Dance Company.

Shantel Prado is a Queens-based dance and video artist, graduate of NYU Tisch and the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, and co-creator of duet works with Kravitz. She also serves as Marketing Manager for the Mark Morris Dance Group.

The Augustus Owen Foundation Presents: Ailbhe Ní Bhriain in conversation with Dr. Katherine Brodbeck

Sunday, 12 October, 2025
Doors: 4:30 PM
Talk: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Free Admission
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Sponsored by the Augustus Owen Foundation, this event is the first in a series of education programming at Dallas Contemporary designed promote cross cultural dialog.

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain is an Irish artist working with film, computer generated imagery, collage, tapestry, print and installation. Ní Bhriain’s work is rooted in an exploration of imperial legacy, human displacement and the Anthropocene. These intertwined subjects are approached through an associative use of narrative and a painstakingly crafted visual language that verges on the surreal. She sidesteps directive positions and familiar binaries, exposing instead the layers of ambiguity and contradiction embedded in these fraught issues. The resulting worlds she creates are at once idiosyncratic, irresistible and deeply unsettling. Her work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and regularly involves collaboration with musicians and composers.

Dr. Katherine Brodbeck is the Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Image credit: Ailbhe Ní Bhriain 'Interval II', 2025. Jacquard tapestry, cotton, wool, silk, Lurex, edition of 3 + 2AP. 280 x 376 cm / 110.2 x 148 in.

Second Sundays at DC: Matcha Workshop
Sunday, 12 October 2025
10.00 AM - 12.00 PM
Free for members, $20 for nonmembers
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

We are thrilled to invite you to an evening dedicated to showing our appreciation for current members + experience the perks of a DC membership.

This month, join us for a hands-on matcha making workshop led by The Dang Spot—perfect for both beginners and tea lovers alike. This small group experience is designed to help you build a deeper understanding and appreciation for this vibrant green tea.

In this workshop, you’ll:

• Learn how to make a smooth microfoam and master the W/M whisking technique using the 3-2-1 method

• Taste and compare three distinct matcha variations to discover your personal flavor profile

• Create your own matcha drink customized to your taste

Whether you're looking to improve your at-home matcha skills or just want to enjoy a fun, interactive experience, this workshop is a great way to connect, learn, and sip something delicious.

We are deeply grateful for your commitment to our museum – your support ensures that DC remains always different, always free.

Looking to become a member? Membership tiers begin at just $50 and include free admission to all Second Sunday Membership Mixer events.

Lecture Series: ‘You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry’
Saturday, 11 October, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Free Admission
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Join us for the final installment of this compelling three-part lecture series presented in conjunction with Dallas Contemporary’s current exhibition, You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry. Each session is facilitated by local Art History professors who delve deeper into the ideas and histories that shape the works on display.

In this third and final lecture of the series, Tiffany Floyd will discuss Yto Barrada's Geological Time Scale as part of the artist's larger interests in the political constructions of history.

Tiffany Floyd is currently a lecturer of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of North Texas (Denton, Texas). She received her PhD in Art History from Columbia University with a dissertation centered on understanding the relationship between Iraqi modern art and the country's rich antique past. Her dissertation was a co-winner of the 2022 Middle Eastern Studies Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award. Tiffany’s research interests include the politics of archaeology and time, petromodernity, postcolonial theory, modes of affective reception and the destruction/preservation of Iraq's cultural heritage. She has participated in several field projects, including the Modern Art Iraq Archive (2010-2011) and the Getty-funded Mapping Art Histories in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (2020-2023). Her forthcoming publication, entitled Absence and Ruin in Hanaa Malallah’s The God Marduk, is an object biography that contextualizes Iraqi artist Hanaa Malallah’s art book The God Marduk (2008).

Stroller Tour at Dallas Contemporary
Every 2nd Wednesday of the Month
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Free Admission
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Taking place on select second Wednesdays of the month before we open to the public, parents and caregivers are invited to bring children up to 5 years old for a guided stroll through our current exhibitions.

The stroller tour is a time in which conversation, questions, and animated babies are encouraged!

DC Members | Happy Hour + Artist Studio Tour with Carmen Menza
Sunday, 05 October, 2025
3:00 PM

DC Members are invited to an intimate happy hour and private walkthrough of Dallas-based interdisplinary artist Carmen Menza's private studio. Enjoy sipping wine while viewing past works, current works, getting a BTS look at an artist's private studio, and an exclusive opportunity for Q+A with Menza. Members are invited to bring a +1 to this event.

"I am continually interested in the way we perceive things in the world around us and the persistent qualities of both beauty and vulnerability in life. As an artist, I am driven to create work that investigates what and how we see by challenging our perceptions, perspectives, and assumptions. My work explores themes of perceptual phenomena, transformation and agency utilizing mediums including light, video, music composition and language. My working methods embrace obscuring the materials within my work, pushing us to reaccess what we first see, and transforming the materials into spaces of reflection and empowerment."

About Carmen Menza

Carmen Menza is an interdisciplinary artist creating fine art and technology-based installations utilizing light, language, interactive software, and music composition. Her work explores themes of time, perception, current political and social climates and human connection.

Her installations have been created for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas Aurora Light & Sound Festival, Meow Wolf, UTSW Clements University Hospital, RO2 Art, Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art, Octavia Art Gallery and more. Her films have screened at the Dallas International Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, and KERA. She is a TACA New Works Fund Grant recipient, a Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs - Arts Activate Grant recipient and a Cedars Union Artist Residency recipient. She is a founding member of Texas Vignette, a non-profit organization that amplifies the work of women artists throughout Texas. She received her BFA in jazz guitar performance from the University of North Texas. Learn more here.

Images by Kevin Todora, "Patterns of Disturbance" at Ro2 Art Gallery.

Lecture Series: ‘You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry’
Saturday, 04 October 2025
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Free Admission
161 Glass St. Dallas, TX

Join us for a compelling three-part lecture series presented in conjunction with Dallas Contemporary’s current exhibition, You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry. Each session is facilitated by local Art History professors who delve deeper into the ideas and histories that shape the works on display.

In this second lecture of the series, Amy Freund will address the long history and unpredictable futures of tapestry - as a technical achievement, as a political tool, and as a means of spinning raw animal and vegetable materials into human (and non-human) art.

Amy Freund is an associate professor and holds the Kleinheinz Endowment for the Arts and Education Endowed Chair in art history at Southern Methodist University. She is a specialist in eighteenth-century European art, with particular interests in the history of portraiture and in the visual representation of animals. Her most recent book, Noble Beasts: Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Century French Art, which will appear with Yale University Press in 2026, analyzes the representation of masculinity, animality, and political agency in hunting art.

Coming up:

Tiffany Floyd, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at UNT, will lead subsequent lectures on October 11.

Join our tour to explore artists' material choices and processes, and see how they shape the impact of their work. Perfect for the curious.

The Dang Spot, will pop up every Saturday and Sunday in September. Enjoy specialty beverages and an exclusive new drink each week—serving 11:00 AM–5:00 PM (or until sell-out).

Saturday, September 6 — 11:00 AM–5:00 PM (or until sell-out)

Sunday, September 7 — 11:00 AM–5:00 PM (or until sell-out)

Saturday, September 13 — 11:00 AM–5:00 PM (or until sell-out

)Sunday, September 14 — 11:00 AM–5:00 PM (or until sell-out)

Saturday, September 27 — 11:00 AM–5:00 PM (or until sell-out)

Sunday, September 28 — 11:00 AM–5:00 PM (or until sell-out)

Join us for a compelling three-part lecture series presented in conjunction with Dallas Contemporary’s current exhibition, You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry. Each session is facilitated by local Art History professors who delve deeper into the ideas and histories that shape the works on display.

In this first lecture, Dr. Lori Diel will contextualize some of the works in the exhibition through a discussion and consideration of the primacy and sacrality of textiles in the ancient Americas and Latin America.

Lori Boornazian Diel is the L.H. Favrot Professor of Humanities in the Department of Art History at Rice University. Her teaching focuses on the art of ancient and colonial Latin America, while her research considers how visual works created by Aztec artists in the years after the Spanish invasion and imposition of Hispano-Christian rule could be used as tools of persuasion, reconciliation, and identity formation under a colonial system. Her second book, The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late Sixteenth-Century New Spain (2018), was awarded the Roland H. Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Her most recent book, Aztec Codices: What They Tell Us about Daily Life (2020), uses images from Aztec codices to explain different facets of life in Aztec society. Diel has also published essays that consider specific Aztec pictorial manuscripts as well as the role of women in Aztec history.

Coming up:

Amy Freund, Associate Professor and The Kleinheinz Family Endowment for the Arts and Education Endowed Chair in Art History at SMU, and Tiffany Floyd, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at UNT, will lead subsequent lectures on October 4 and October 11.

The Dang Spot, will pop up every Saturday and Sunday in September. Enjoy specialty beverages and an exclusive new drink each week—serving 11:00 AM–5:00 PM (or until sell-out).

Saturday, September 6 — 11:00 AM–5:00 PM (or until sell-out)

Sunday, September 7 — 11:00 AM–5:00 PM (or until sell-out)

Saturday, September 13 — 11:00 AM–5:00 PM (or until sell-out

)Sunday, September 14 — 11:00 AM–5:00 PM (or until sell-out)

Saturday, September 27 — 11:00 AM–5:00 PM (or until sell-out)

Sunday, September 28 — 11:00 AM–5:00 PM (or until sell-out)

DC GALA AFTER PARTY

Saturday, 20 September 2025

10:00 PM - 12:00 AM

Tickets are $150 for non-members and $75 for members.

Complimentary drinks (21+)

161 Glass St.

Attire: Cocktail

Every fall, we proudly host our annual gala, a festive evening that raises essential operating funds for the museum. These funds are crucial for us to continue presenting cutting-edge contemporary art through our exhibitions, performances and public programs—all offered with free admission.

We want to celebrate with you—our vibrant community that brings life to every opening, program and exhibition. Following DC's 2025 Gala, we will keep the celebration going with an afterparty hosted by Shyboy, the soon-to-open hi-fi bar redefining Dallas nightlife. From 10:00 PM to midnight, Shyboy will transform DC’s own generous space into an immersive experience.

The evening will feature a live set by GE-OLOGY, the Brooklyn-based record collector, house & disco DJ legend, and acclaimed producer for the likes of Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Jill Scott, De La Soul, and Yukimi Nagano (Little Dragon). Shyboy will serve its signature hi-balls, craft cocktails, and soft-serve ice cream throughout the night.

All ticket sales from the After Party directly sustain Dallas Contemporary’s mission to advance the discovery and appreciation of the art of this moment and to foster innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration in the arts.

By attending the gala, bidding in our auction, celebrating at the after party or making a donation, you’re not just supporting an event—you’re investing in the future of Dallas Contemporary.