thegallery8680: will open its doors at 7pm 20|27 February | 6th March for RED 2026. The Finale of RED I see red I see red I see red After Hosting the Exhibition RED for 14 years we are making 2026 our last, hope you join us for this Finale Show. Thank You to all that have participated in previous shows they have been wonderful.

Thin Line Fest is a five-day multi-format art festival held March 18-22, 2026 in Denton, Texas. There are three primary festivals: Film, Music, and Photography. All selected artists are treated as VIPs at the festival and are therefore highly encouraged to attend. While the Photography Festival is competitive, this is unlike most contests you have entered. The 'festival' aspect is very important to us. Meaning the contest is rolled up into a physical event, where selected photographs are professionally printed and exhibited at one of our festival galleries. All selected artists are provided a VIP pass to the festival which offers special access to all programming.

Texas Photographic Society is honored to announce the call for entries for Backyard a themed, juried exhibition of places shaped by use, memory, and proximity, which will be juried by Judy Tedford Deaton, Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the Grace Museum in Abilene, TX. Entries due 1/26. Backyard will be exhibited at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Abilene, Texas. Artists working in all media are encouraged to submit work that examines the backyard as a constructed environment — shaped by human intention and natural forces — or as a psychological or symbolic space informed by memory and experience. The exhibition welcomes literal, abstract, documentary, and experimental approaches. Backyard will open at the Center for Contemporary Art in Abilene, Texas, on February 13th, 2026 and will continue through March 28th, 2026. A closing reception with the juror will be on March 28, 2026, time TBA.

We cordially invite all artists to submit proposals for AURORA's VAN 2026 program, taking place on the evening of April 17, 2026 at the AT&T Discovery District, during a one-night free public art event that will transform the outdoor site. Regional and national artists and collectives, aged 18 and above, are invited to propose their moving image artworks for the opportunity to be included in the 2026VAN program. We welcome innovative proposals that respond to our uncertain present marked by ecological, technological, and socio-political transformations. Submitted artworks should explore states of metamorphosis and in-betweenness, considering what we release, what we carry forward, and how we move through change. We’re particularly interested in works that engage with Dallas’s ongoing urban and ecological transformation and its impact on various communities. Artists should propose video artworks to be projected onto walls that are in vertical format, contributing to an immersive group exhibition that will offer visitors a chance to experience art in an unconventional setting.

Glasstire is pleased to announce the 2025 North Texas Art Writing Prize, a competitive award designed to find and highlight emerging arts writers in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth region. The winner of the Prize will be awarded $2,500 and their work will be published on Glasstire, the online publication for art in Texas. In addition, they will be celebrated at a reception in the spring of 2026. The winner, along with selected runners-up, will also be invited to participate in a Glasstire-led writing workshop this coming spring.

Are you a Texas artist working for social change? Become the ACLU of Texas’ next artist-in-residence and harness the power of your craft to boldly advance civil rights and individual freedoms for every Texan, no exceptions. The artist-in-residence develops their project with input from community stakeholders and direction from the ACLU of Texas. *Any artistic medium *10-month project *$30k for labor and materials *Priority issues: free speech and pluralism, LGBTQIA+ equality, and reproductive freedom *Deadline: January 31