Glasstire counts down the highest 5 artwork occasions in Texas.
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James Surls, ”Watching,” (element), 2024, stay oak from LBJ Ranch and cedar base, 46.5 x 21.5 x 22 inches
1. Heard of G.O.A.T.’s
Surls + Locke Museum (Cleveland)
April 26 – June 22, 2025
From the Surls + Locke Museum:
“The Surls + Locke Museum is proud to announce its inaugural exhibition, Heard of G.O.A.T.’s. This landmark occasion celebrates the museum’s dedication to honoring distinctive Texas artwork and marks the start of its mission to encourage and join communities via artwork and nature. Curated by James Surls, the exhibition options works by 21 of Texas’ most distinguished artists, representing a variety of mediums, types, and creative legacies. Taking part artists embrace Terry Allen, John Alexander, Lynn Randolph, Sherry Owens, Billy Hassell, Sharon Kopriva, Ellen Tanner, Helen Altman, Ann Stautberg, James Drake, Invoice Haveron, Carlos Canul, Tracye Put on, Jack Massing, Julie Velocity, Charmaine Locke, Melissa Miller, Jim Love, David McManaway, Paul Manes, and James Surls.
Collectively, these artists showcase the depth and vibrancy of Texas’s artistic panorama. The exhibition explores themes of nature, psychology, and the human expertise, presenting works that spotlight the pure world, together with birds, flowers, bushes, and different natural types. As a celebration of the legacy and imaginative and prescient of James Surls and Charmaine Locke, Heard of G.O.A.T.’s is a testomony to essentially the most influential names in Texas artwork.”
A piece from “You Stretched Diagonally Throughout It: Modern Tapestry”
2. You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry
Dallas Modern
April 11 – October 12, 2025
From Dallas Modern:
“Dallas Modern is happy to current You Stretched Diagonally Throughout It: Modern Tapestry, a bunch exhibition that includes artists El Anatsui, Candice Lin, Diedrick Brackens, Sanam Khatabi, and extra, opening on April 11, 2025. Curated by Mexico-based curator Su Wu, You Stretched Diagonally Throughout It gives a consideration of tactility and picture in Twenty first-century tapestries, and the methods by which artists interrogate haptic sense, materials rigidity, and narrative in weaving.”
3. 2025 San Angelo Ceramic Invitational Exhibition and Symposium
San Angelo Museum of Superb Arts
April 23 – 27, 2025
From SAMFA:
“The 2025 San Angelo Ceramic Invitational Exhibition and Symposium occasions will happen April 23-27 and are hosted by the San Angelo Museum of Superb Arts, Angelo State College, The Concho Clay Studio, The Rooster Farm Artwork Heart, and the Mayer Museum. Supporting contributors are Downtown San Angelo, Inc., San Angelo Conference and Guests Bureau, The Artwork Spirit Collective, and Artwork in Unusual Locations.
The fortieth Annual San Angelo Ceramic Symposium that includes Workshop Presenters and Panelists, Ruth Wilson, Ariel Bowman, Eliza Au, and Bri Murphy will happen April 25 from 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm on the Robert and Nona Carr Schooling-Superb Arts Constructing in Room 101. The symposium is free and open to the general public.
Set up view of “Residence, Love, and Loss”
4. Home, Love, and Loss
Artwork Museum of South Texas (Corpus Christi)
February 14 – April 27, 2025
From AMST:
“The Artwork Museum of South Texas is proud to announce the opening of Residence, Love, and Loss, a deeply evocative exhibition that explores the cycles of household life and the common threads of human connection. This exhibition opens February 14, 2025, and runs via April 27, 2025.
Residence, Love, and Loss is the third in a sequence of American artwork exhibitions created via a multiyear, multi-institutional partnership shaped by the Amon Carter Museum of American Artwork as a part of the Artwork Bridges Cohort Program.”
Read a review of the exhibition here.
A piece from “Right here and There”
5. Here and There
St. Edwards College Superb Arts Gallery (Austin)
April 24 – Might 11, 2025
From St. Edward’s College:
“Right here and There options Savannah Berumen, Frances Brown, Sarah Calvin, Mary Alex Cole, Beth Davis, Ty Eivens, Melina Nicholas, and Nathan Spiers, whose works interact with the fluid nature of reminiscence, thought, and identification. By means of different mediums and approaches, the artists blur the boundaries between notion and actuality, previous and current, type and dissolution. Acquainted beliefs, whether or not private or societal, are questioned and re-examined, opening house for brand spanking new methods of seeing. Collectively, these works create room for brand spanking new understandings, reminding us that the thoughts isn’t fastened. On this house, the road between right here and there’s not a boundary however a continuing state of change, open to disruption, reconfiguration, and renewal.”
