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Three North Texas Artists Discuss Mentorship Across Generations
Three North Texas artists — Sedrick Huckaby, Riley Holloway and Doctor Eddie McAnthony — come together for a conversation about mentorship, “becoming yourself”, and maintaining an artistic practice. The intergenerational artists discuss how they learn from one another and what it means to sustain a creative life. This episode is part of Arts Docs, a documentary and conversation series profiling artists working across North Texas, exploring how place, history, and lived experience shape cultural production.
Glasstire’s Best of 2025
Glasstire names exhibitions by Francesca Fuchs, Jacob Hashimoto and Eli Ruhala in the top 25 exhibitions of 2025 list.
Where art meets science
Two new sculptures on Seldin Plaza expand dazzling art collection and inspire campus community.
Artists Sedrick, Letitia Huckaby host Kinfolk House fundraiser as tribute to grandmother
Fort Worth nonprofit Kinfolk House is holding a fundraiser at Talley Dunn Gallery to support its mission of bringing art to underserved communities.
Founded by artists and husband and wife Sedrick and Letitia Huckaby, the organization operates out of a 100-year-old historic home in Polytechnic Heights. Through exhibitions, events and educational programs, Kinfolk House merges art and community.
From material to memory: Oak Cliff artist preserves Latino stories, one stitch at a time
From material to memory: Oak Cliff artist preserves Latino stories, one stitch at a time
KERA’s Christian Vasquez visits Tina Medina’s studio and discusses the artist’s use of material, personal history and connection to culture. Watch the video above and read the full article below.
Women’s Work: Nida Bangash, Natasha Bowdoin, Arely Morales, Sarah Williams & Cynthia Mulcahy
Women’s Work was a group exhibition featuring the artwork of all of TDG’s represented women artists: Helen Altman, Nida Bangash, Natasha Bowdoin, Julie Bozzi, Pia Fries, Francesca Fuchs, Kana Harada, Letitia Huckaby, Eva Lundsager, Tina Medina, Vicki Meek, Melissa Miller, Arely Morales, Cynthia Mulcahy, Linda Ridgway, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Sarah Williams.
On March 8, 2025, artists Nida Bangash, Natasha Bowdoin, Arely Morales, Sarah Williams and Cynthia Mulcahy gathered for a fruitful dialogue about their respective practices.
Historical Connections: Working with Living Artists in the Museum Setting
Shirley Reece-Hughes, Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and Maggie Adler discuss collaborating with living artists on projects at the Carter, including Natasha Bowdoin, Leonardo Drew, Letitia Huckaby and more.
The Janus House: Talley Dunn on Curating Art in Frank Welch’s Iconic Spaces
In the ever-evolving dialogue between art and architecture, few conversations are as compelling as the one that unfolds when Talley Dunn enters the scene. An exceptional gallerist with a deep understanding of both disciplines, Dunn has long been a steward of artistic expression and curating spaces. Her latest venture—a collaboration with Stacy Jacobsen of SJ Studio to transform a Frank Welch-designed home into a living, breathing gallery. In this interview, Dunn reflects on the nuances of curating within Welch’s iconic spaces, the considerations that guide her selections, and the harmonious interplay between the art and the environments it inhabits.
Women to Watch 2024: Arely Morales
The seventh installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series, New Worlds, is presented by the museum with the integral partnership of our national and international outreach committees.
The exhibition showcases 28 contemporary artists who respond to our extraordinary times—the global pandemic, advocacy for social reform, and political division—by reimagining the past, presenting alternate realities, and inspiring audiences to create different futures.
Click below to read the interview with painter Arely Morales.
Art Influencers
Linda Ridgway was named one of Patron Magazine’s Art Influencers of 2024.
Women Artists Are Catching Up, but Equality Will Still Take a While
“An exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts features an array of artists sharing their views of an increasingly complex world.”
No Place Like Home: Kinfolk House as a Site-Specific Work
“Since opening to the public in early 2022, many exhibitions have been generated at Kinfolk House featuring artists who understand it is not a typical neutral site. . . It is a place with a history that invariably affects the art it contains.”
Artist Talk: Leonardo Drew
As part of the March 14, 2024, Second Thursdays, artist Leonardo Drew talked with Carter curator Shirley Reece-Hughes about his work commissioned for the Carter, Number 235T, and then participated in a Q&A with the audience.
Portraits of Persistence: National Portrait Gallery Spotlights Juneteenth Pioneers
The National Portrait Gallery event spotlighted the intertwined stories of art, history, and activism. Lee and Huckaby’s contributions continue to influence reflections on freedom and justice, their legacies enshrined in the gallery and hearts worldwide.
Vernon Fisher Breaking the Code Screening Q&A
On December 2, 2023, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth hosted a free film screening of Breaking the Code, immediately followed by a panel discussion moderated by former Chief Curator Michael Auping with Film Director Michael Flanagan and Artists Sedrick Huckaby and Linda Ridgway.
Breaking the Code is a documentary film about the life and work of Vernon Fisher. Enjoy this discussion about the film and Vernon Fisher’s impact on contemporary art.
Leonardo Drew: Fall 2023 Lenhardt Lecture
Fall 2023, Phoenix Art Museum presented acclaimed artist Leonardo Drew during the Museum’s Lenhardt Lecture, a key component of the David and Dawn Lenhardt Contemporary Art Initiative. Drew is known for using natural materials, such as wood, cotton, iron, and paper, and subjecting them to transformative processes like burning, rusting, and weathering to create sculptural works and freestanding installations that consider the cycle of life, decay, and rebirth.
Community activist and artist Vicki Meek isn’t slowing down anytime soon
She’s spent her life advocating for the Black community — and all underrepresented groups. Her latest endeavor is no different.
Talley Dunn Gallery Awards Latina Collective with its Equity in the Arts Fellowship
In 2020, the gallery launched the fellowship program to address some of the racial inequities in the art world, in which artists of color have been denied equal access to resources. . .This year marks a shift, as the gallery has selected a collective rather than individual artists to receive the fellowship.
The explosive, exquisitely composed art of Leonardo Drew is on display in the D-FW area
“It draws your eyes the minute you enter the the Amon Carter Museum of American Art: a force field of horizontal streaks lining the broad hall-like gallery straight ahead. . .In happy simultaneity, you can see much more of his work, from compact to expansive, at Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas.”
Ciara Elle Bryant, Tina Medina, Enrique Nevárez | 2022-23 TDG Equity in the Arts Fellowship
Meet the 2022-23 Talley Dunn Gallery Equity in the Arts Cohort: Ciara Elle Bryant, Tina Medina and Enrique Nevárez.
The Talley Dunn Gallery Equity in the Arts Fellowship is a yearlong instructional and professional development program for emerging Black and Indigenous artists and other artists of color. The fellowship provides artists with mentorship and resources to further their practice and artistic endeavors. Bryant, Medina and Nevárez each present a fresh, distinctive body of work emblematic of their outstanding respective practices in painting, installation, photography, and video. Enjoy this interview with each artist and learn more about the work in the exhibition.
View the group exhibition here.