Community Exhibitions

Go van Gogh and the Dallas Museum of Art School Partnership Programs collaborate with students, teachers, and community groups to create special exhibitions in the Museum's FINA Foundation Gallery and Gateway Gallery Discovery Space to showcase local and budding artists.

Discovery Space Exhibitions

The World of Mộng-Lan
January 30–August 28, 2005

Inspired by abstract art, colors, nature, and photography, Mộng-Lan shows three large-scale paintings from a series she created in the 1990s and several photographs of landscapes and peoples from her trips. The Artist-in-Residence Partnership brought Mộng-Lan, a published poet and painter, to the Dallas Museum of Art for a three-week period. Over 730 students benefited from this program during the 2004–2005 school year. Mộng-Lan worked with four groups of twenty-five middle and high school students at the Museum using works of art as inspiration.

Artistic/Urban Development: Mural Art Program in the Bishop Arts District
October 17, 2004–January 23, 2005

This exhibition followed thirteen talented high school students as they created five community murals in Oak Cliff's Bishop Arts District, and showed the artistic development of the students and the District through photographs documenting the process. A video produced by Cara Mía Theatre documenting the project accompanied the exhibition. The Mural Art Program was organized by Arte Oak Cliff and the Ice House Cultural Center in collaboration with the Dallas Museum of Art, Good Space, and Bishop Arts District merchants.

About the Mural Art Program

The Mural Art Program is currently seeking applications for the 2005 Mural Art Program, which will extend from May through September. Fifteen artists between the ages of 14 and 18, as well as apprentice positions for students age 18 and older, will be chosen.

Click here for more details and to download an application for the 2005 Mural Art Program. If you are unable to open this file, please send an e-mail to arteoakcliff@yahoo.com with “Mural Art Program” as the subject. Please bring your application and portfolio to the Ice House Cultural Center, 1000 W. Page, Dallas 75208 (call 214-670-7524 for Ice House Cultural Center hours). Application submission deadline is Saturday, April 23, 2005.

During the summer of 2004, Go van Gogh partnered with Arte Oak Cliff, the Ice House Cultural Center, Good Space, and Bishop Arts District merchants in a project that resulted in five outdoor murals in the Bishop Arts District. Thirteen students between the ages of fourteen and eighteen were selected through an application process to design and create four large-scale murals and restore one merchant’s exterior signage.

For more information on the Mural Art Program, contact Melissa Nelson, Manager of Community Outreach, at 214-922-1230. Visit goodspace.com and bishopartsdistrict.com for information about the Bishop Arts District.