Oak Cliff Cultural Center

01/07/2023

Registration is open for a new six week series led by multi-disciplinary artist and Serenity Specialist Tyler Morgan Each class in the series will include a brief breathing and movement meditation. Parents will be guided through artful ways to experience plant therapy while gaining insight to support their style of parenting.

This is a six-session series. Participants may register for a single session, all of the series or choose a few. Each session requires a separate registration. Details about each session are available by clicking on the registration link.

Tyler Morgan is a multidisciplinary artist and Serenity Specialist. She has 10+ years of childcare and child development experience. From working as an assistant at her mother’s childcare center to teaching in Montessori classrooms, she has gained years of experience in cultivating patience and connection with children and their parents. Tyler is certified in Montessori Core Principles, a licensed massage therapist and certified phytotherapist. The teachings in this unique parent support series is a blend of embodying wellness practices and the art of cultivating connection.
Link in bio for registration.

01/05/2023

Kalita Humphreys Theater Master Plan - City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture

Kalita Humphreys Theater Master Plan - City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture

A LETTER FROM DALLAS THEATER CENTER On December 27, 1959, fans of theater and architecture from around the world looked to Dallas, Texas, as a brand-new company, Dallas Theater Center (DTC), presented its first public performance. The play, Of Time and the River, was directed by the theater’s foun...

12/31/2022

The Oak Cliff Cultural Center is pleased to present Punjabi Cowboy, featuring the work of Dallas-based artist Usama Khalid. The exhibition runs January 14 – February 11, 2023 at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center and opens with a reception and communal Punjabi BBQ on Saturday, January 14, 6:00 – 8:00 pm.

A first-generation Pakistani-American, Khalid’s miniature paintings and self-referential sculptures address memory, identity, food, immigration, terrorism and Pakistani culture.
In Punjabi Cowboy, Khalid pays homage to immigrant fathers, who like his own, move their families in search of opportunity. The paintings layered with collaged photographs and fabrics “touch on pivotal moments in his father’s life”. Tender in their ex*****on, they embody the bond he has to Pakistan. His sculptural self-portraits further explore his Pakistani identity and the complex relationship to one’s homeland.

Unbound from working in the traditional mediums of art, Khalid began implementing cooking and social gatherings into his work as a graduate student. Alongside his exhibition of paintings and sculpture, Khalid will organize a communal gathering centered around Punjabi BBQ to coincide with the reception. Punjabi BBQ has its own identity fusing Texas brisket with Punjabi spices. Exploring the dichotomy of his identity as a Pakistani-American through food, Khalid feels he can “recall the joy of past family gatherings and bring a humanitarian aspect to his work”. It is an honoring of his father, his specific identity, and his homeland.

Usama Khalid was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1993, and raised in North Texas. He spent every summer in Pakistan through his childhood and teenage years. He received his BFA in painting from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2018, and his MFA in Intermedia from Southern Methodist University in 2021. Usama has presented his work in exhibitions, cookouts, and other events at the Dallas Museum of Art, SweetPass Sculpture Park, 500X Gallery and the Oak Cliff Cultural Center. He lives in Dallas, Texas with his fiancé and three dogs.

12/26/2022

Frequencies is back with an episode to close out 2022. Join us as we talk with our special guests about “THE BODY BEING” exhibit. Available to listen on SoundCloud, Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

12/22/2022

As we wind down 2022, we welcome you to participate in this short survey measuring the economic and social impact of arts and culture in the City of Dallas. Happy Holidays!

Have you recently attended an event at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center?
If so, please take a few minutes to answer questions about your attendance at a performance, event, or exhibit in this short survey. The survey is being conducted by the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture to measure economic and social impact of arts and culture on the City of Dallas. Your answers are anonymous. Thank you!

https://bit.ly/AEP6Survey

12/14/2022

Come see our current exhibition The Body Being before the holiday. Features video, performance, and Installation art by Danielle Georgiou, Taylor Cleveland, and Erica Felicella.
We will be closed December 24 - January 2. Normal hours will resume on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. We wish you a safe and happy holiday!

12/14/2022

12/02/2022

Meet artist Danielle Georgiou.
Danielle will have four videos in the exhibition, The Body Being curated by Iris Bechtol.
The exhibit opens Dec 3, 6-8pm

Danielle Georgiou is a multi-hyphenate artist and educator who works in dance, theatre, and performance and video art. Her stage and video work deal with puzzles found in femininity—vulnerability, deformity, and beauty. Her work has shown nationally across Texas, New York (Horton Gallery), California (Rogue Fringe Festival), Florida (Bosch Film Festival), Oregon (Portland’s Experimental Film Festival), and internationally in Germany (2nd Berlin Becher Triennial) and Scotland (Edinburg Arts Festival). In 2013, her dance theatre work, Pizzicato P***o, was selected for exhibition at the 2013 Texas Biennial. In 2014, Women and Their Work (Austin, TX) chose her for a solo show. The work in that show explored the effect of social media on beauty standards. In 2011, Georgiou created the Danielle Georgiou Dance Group (DGDG). Under DGDG, she has created a series of collaborative, devised dance theatre productions with a team of artists and dancers based in Dallas, TX. DGDG has performed across Texas, Oklahoma, and California.She received her Ph.D. in Humanities-Aesthetic Studies in 2018 from the University of Texas at Dallas.

12/02/2022

Meet artist Erica Felicella. Erica is premiering a new performance work for The Body Being curated by Iris Bechtol and opening December 3.

Erica Felicella is a practicing artist and arts professional that moved to Dallas over 20 years ago and lives in Oak Cliff. Her greatest passions are the arts, culture, and the community of North Texas. She works as an artist, curator, producer, organizer, and program developer. Her years of advocacy in Dallas have allowed her to form a deep bond in the North Texas arts sphere. Her current artistic practice includes endurance and durational based performance, site specific installation, and new media works. Her works dive into the depths of society through exploration of thoughts, ideas and a felt response of a collective whole. Felicella is currently the Executive Producer of Dallas based arts organization AURORA. She works alongside the founders to be a part of its growth and expansion.

12/02/2022

Meet the artist: Taylor Cleveland installing his new video sculpture for our next exhibition, The Body Being curated by Iris Bechtol and opening Saturday, December 3, 6-8 pm
Taylor Cleveland is an artist and creative director from and based in Dallas, Texas. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 with an emphasis in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation. His work has been exhibited internationally in many capacities including residencies, collaborations with brands, studios, & artists, and group exhibitions. Taylor's work is focused on technology's role in people's environments [physical and/or digital]. He explores this focus through mediums including but not limited to performance, video, projection, audio, music, animation, installation, code, and paint. Provocatively playful, his work immerses audiences within spectacles that seek to reconfigure material senses at physical, cultural, and individual levels.

12/02/2022

Office of Equity & Inclusion Art Exhibition - City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture

***CALL FOR ENTRIES***

The Office of Equity & Inclusion is looking for Dallas-based ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American) Artists to participate in an exhibition to be displayed in the Office of Equity and Inclusion at Dallas City Hall.

Submission deadline: Friday, December 9, 2022, by 5 p.m.
APPLY TODAY ⬇⬇⬇⬇

Call for Entries The Office of Equity & Inclusion is looking for Dallas-based ALANNA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American) artists to participate in an exhibition to be displayed in the Office of Equity and Inclusion at Dallas City Hall. Submission deadline: Friday, December 9, 2022, by 5....

12/01/2022

Day With(out) Art 2022: BEING AND BELONGING

Join us tonight at 7pm for this free video screening presented in partnership with for Day With(out) Art 2022 by presenting BEING & BELONGING, a program of seven new videos centering the emotional reality of living with HIV today.

The program features new work by Clifford Prince King, Jaewon Kim, Mikiki, Davina “Dee” Conner & Karin Hayes, Camila Arce, Jhoel Zempoalteca & La Jerry, and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas & Santiago Lemus.

Thursday, December 1, 7 - 8 PM The Oak Cliff Cultural Center is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) ART 2022 by presenting Being and Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the w...

11/22/2022

We will be closed November 24-26. Regular operating hours will resume on Tuesday, November 29. Check out our upcoming exhibitions and programs at https://occc.dallasculture.org

11/22/2022

We will be closed November 24-26. Operating hours will resume on Tuesday, November 29. Check out our upcoming exhibitions and programs at our link in bio.

11/15/2022

The Oak Cliff Cultural Center is pleased to present The Body Being, featuring the work of Dallas-based artists Taylor Cleveland, Erica Felicella, and Danielle Georgiou. The exhibition runs December 3, 2022 – January 7, 2023 at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center and opens with a reception for the artists on Saturday, December 3, from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Artist Erica Felicella will perform her durational work, Come Back from Goodbye during the reception.

Our bodies are policed by society and government alike. Battered by time and individual experience and co-opted into digital spaces as marketing tools for things we do not need. And yet, they are a miraculous phenomenon. And the act of living in them, though individual, is also interwoven. Curated by Iris Bechtol, The Body Being stems from an interest in the body as central to our human experience, which is rooted in a connection to others and the surrounding world. Twentieth-century French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty went mainly against the grain of his peers and emphasized the body, not the mind, as primary to our perception of the world. He says, “We know not through our intellect but through our experience.” How are these experiences central to our understanding of others? By weaving together the ideas of these three artists concerned with bodily experiences in a singular space, the exhibition encourages a re-looking at the “lived experience.” With the body at the core of how we understand being in the world.

Each artist in The Body Being explores the body across various lived experiences. Cleveland uses video, animation, and installation to consider the boundaries between the the body and technology. Georgiou mines the body and its memory to explore the changing perceptions of one’s body in relation to internal and external forces. Felicella welcomes her audience to “a place of healing and release” as she explores the profound experiences of loss through a durational performance.

Image Info:
Taylor Cleveland, Body in Flux, 2022
Erica Felicella, Resist, Re-Live, and Proceed, durational performance, 2020 (photo credit: Christian Vasquez)
Danielle Georgiou, The No of All Nothing, video, 2022

10/19/2022

Have you recently attended an event at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center?
If so, please take a few minutes to answer questions about your attendance at a performance, event, or exhibit in this short survey. The survey is being conducted by the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture to measure economic and social impact of arts and culture on the City of Dallas. Your answers are anonymous. Thank you!

https://bit.ly/AEP6Survey

10/04/2022

Fronteriza curated by opened to a great crowd on October 1st. If you missed it, we are open Tues-Sat, 12-6pm. Swipe to the end of the carousel for two more events curated by and aligned with the mission of Nuestra Artist Collective.

10/01/2022

Tonight! Opening from 6-8 PM in the OC3 Gallery and featuring a one night only artist performance at 7 PM in the OC3 studio.“Fronteriza” is the first in a series of traveling exhibitions focused on women artists living in Texas who contemplate the U.S. Mexico border. The exhibit is curated by Nuestra Artist Collective, founded in 2021 and based in Dallas, Texas. Participating artists are Melissa Gámez-Herrera, Karla García, Sara Herrera, Tina Medina, Analise Minjarez, Eliana Miranda, Tesa Morin, Lupita Murillo Tinnen, and Sarita Westrup. Each artist brings a different perspective from uniquely personal experiences depicted in various media and techniques, such as ceramics, fibers, textiles, painting, drawing, photography, video, and performance.
Tap our link in bio/exhibitions for more information.

09/21/2022

SATURDAY is World Cyanotype Day!! Learn this historic photography process and make your own unique cyanotype print. All materials are provided but feel free to bring botancial specimens to use for your print.
Saturday, September 24, 2 - 3 pm
Artist Instructor: Elizabeth Mellott

09/02/2022

Join us next Saturday, September 10 for this fun, free workshop presented by Oak Cliff artist Andrea Tosten. Andrea will demonstrate folding techniques and teach participants how to fold paper to create this beautiful little lotus box. Great for gift giving, holding special trinkets, or hiding treats! *all materials provided

09/02/2022

Artist talk: Angel Faz

In Conversation: Artist Angel Faz sat down with writer Ofelia Faz-Garza to discuss the work in their current exhibition "Dreamers" on view in the OC3 Gallery.

08/09/2022

Are you an artist? Love Photography? Check out this call for entry at Dallas Center for Photography. We will be working with Dallas Center for Photography to offer workshops to our community. Stay tuned!

NEW call for entry: Color Play
Color in a photo has its own personality. Choosing the placement and quality of those colors gives the image character and energy. Whether it’s vibrant hues or subtle pastels, the use of color can help tell your story through photography.

We invite photographers of all ages and skill levels to submit to DCP’s Color Play call for entry. Show how you utilize color in a powerful way to create emotion, tell a story, and add depth to your photographs. Cash prizes will be awarded and selections will be presented in an exhibition in the DCP Gallery in October 2022. There's also a youth category available!

Complete submission details: https://dallascenterforphotography.org/exhibitions/calls-for-entry/

08/09/2022

Our Tuesday Night Loteria at Oak Cliff Brewing is currently on pause.

We hope you will visit us for more engaging programming at our Jefferson Blvd. location.
Upcoming events include a workshop presented by Bishop Arts Theater Center and featuring cast of the play "Curse of the Puerto Ricans", an origami workshop presented by local artist Andrea Tosten, a celebration of World Cyanotype Day with a sun print making workshop, and the opening of "Fronteriza" an exhibit featuring the work of women artists living in Texas who contemplate he U.S. Mexico border through their art curated by Nuestra Collective.

08/09/2022

He's photographed the overlooked in Oak Cliff and Dallas. Now his photos sell for thousands

Don Tortellini coverage by KERA / Art&Seek!

In only three years, Don Tortellini has taught himself photography and become the first Black photographer to have his work displayed at the Dallas Arboretum.

08/06/2022

***CLASS FULL / REGISTRATION CLOSED***

Oak Cliff Cultural Center and AVANT Chamber Ballet present First Steps, a free 10-week series of dance classes on Fridays. The classes introduce rhythm and expression through movement to students in grades 1st through 5th. This class is taught by ACB professional dancer Caroline Atwell.

07/21/2022

The Oak Cliff Cultural Center staff shares their support and well wishes for the recovery of Dallas based artist Antonio "Tony" Lechuga who was seriously injured in a shooting while jogging near his home in Dallas.

Tony has worked tirelessly over the last year preparing for an immersive art installation in the OC3 Gallery scheduled to open in August 2022. One of the images you see is from a June 2022 studio visit of the work in progress and the other is one provided by Tony and is just a peek at of the completed work. If you know his work, you know these are quite beautiful and complex.

Though Tony's OC3 Gallery exhibition will be rescheduled, we will be thinking about him and his family every day. We look forward presenting Tony's exhibit at Oak Cliff Cultural Center in the future and seeing him continue to thrive as an artist.

Love Texas Art in Fort Worth will be hosting an event in support of Tony on Saturday, July 23 from 6-9pm. You can also see his paintings and installation at Love Texas Art through July 31.

07/20/2022

Y’all come out and give a warm welcome to Meow Wolf. Hear about the plans for their new installation coming to North Texas and provide community input.
Dallas Meeting Date: Thursday, July 28, 6:30 - 7:30 PM at Oak Cliff Cultural Center

07/14/2022

CALLING ALL MURALISTS!!!

The Office of Arts and Culture – Community Arts Division in collaboration with the Department of Code Compliance and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking muralists/visual artists to participate in the Hate Crime Reporting Mural Project.

Two artist or artist collectives will be selected to paint one mural each in the City of Dallas. The first mural will be located in the Bishop Arts District, and the second will be in the Oak Lawn/Cedar Springs areas. Proposals are requested under the following theme:

“Beautiful Communities: There’s No Space for Hate”

For more information click https://bit.ly/nospaceforhate_guidelines

Applications open on July 5th https://bit.ly/nospaceforhate_apps

07/05/2022

Thank you . Thank you Cara Mia Theatre. Damn, I love my city.

07/05/2022

CALLING ALL MURALISTS!!!

The Office of Arts and Culture – Community Arts Division in collaboration with the Department of Code Compliance and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking muralists/visual artists to participate in the Hate Crime Reporting Mural Project.

Two artist or artist collectives will be selected to paint one mural each in the City of Dallas. The first mural will be located in the Bishop Arts District, and the second will be in the Oak Lawn/Cedar Springs areas. Proposals are requested under the following theme:

“Beautiful Communities: There’s No Space for Hate”

For more information click https://bit.ly/nospaceforhate_guidelines

Applications open on July 5th https://bit.ly/nospaceforhate_apps

06/29/2022

✨We're hiring!✨
The City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture (OAC) is looking for Cultural Programs Coordinators, is that YOU??

APPLY TODAY! ⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/dallas?keywords=Cultural%20programs

06/23/2022

After Decades of Searching, 1898 Film of New Orleans Mardi Gras Is Found

An interesting read!

Believed to be the oldest film of New Orleans, the roughly two-minute movie shows both long-held traditions of the parade and rituals that have been changed or forgotten.

06/21/2022

Join us this Saturday!

ORGULLO OAK CLIFF is BACK!!!
Come and enjoy the Oak Cliff Cultural Center Pride & Market event, Orgullo Oak Cliff honors and promotes diverse Hispanic and Latinx culture. The event will host a day full of activities for the whole family that include Drag Queen performances, storytelling, Millennial Lotería, music, and a vendor market with local and small business specializing in unique merchandise, food, drinks, interactive activities and more.

06/21/2022

Tonight! Visit our sister center, Bath House Cultural Center, for a free show and great music.

Click on the post for more information ⬇️

Summer is here and so is a new free concert from our Lakefront Live! Concert Series.

You are invited to our semi-enclosed, indoor-outdoor performance space where we welcome the all-female mariachi band Rosas Divinas to the stage on Tuesday, June 21, at 7:30 PM.

Bringing the heart-felt style of mariachi music with their precise musical ex*****on is what sets these young women apart in a male dominated genre.

We have some seating available, but feel free to bring your chairs and blankets! More information about this concert and upcoming performances at https://bathhouse.dallasculture.org/lakefront-live-2022/

06/21/2022

Capoeira: Brazilian martial arts, dance and music!

Join us for a 4-part workshop series at Beckley-Saner Recreation Center presented by OC3! This program is free and open to participants 12 years of age and older.

Limited spots available! Sign up for your spot today at: https://occc.dallasculture.org/july-20-capoeira-at-beckley-saner-rec-center/