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.