DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART PARTNERS WITH LA REUNION TX ON A DESIGN COMPETITION AND PROGRAM
Dallas, TX – October 15, 2008 -- On November 6, 2008 the Dallas Museum of Art and its community partner La Reunion TX will launch Make Space for Artists: Design-A-Studio in the Tech Lab of the Museum’s newly opened Center for Creative Connections. This design contest and program aims to transform the Tech Lab into an inspiring digital exhibition–community response project space. For it, museum visitors are invited to think about studio spaces where artists of any kind—painter, dancer, writer, sculptor, musician—do their creative work. How might a studio be different if the artist is a writer or photographer or sculptor? Is natural light desired or required? Where will the artist keep his or her tools and materials? What materials will be used in the design of the space and why?
Visitors will have the opportunity to consider these questions and others as they design a dream studio that will fit within a 16 foot cubic space. Contest entries will be submitted as drawings and visitors may choose between traditional media—site drawings, pencils, and pens—and digital media, such as laptop computers equipped with Google Sketch Up software and tutorials. Additionally, the Tech Lab will be filled with a variety of materials to aid visitors in the creative process: images of artists’ studios (representing artists in the Museum’s collections and local artists), thoughts on artists’ work spaces and architecture, design materials, and books. A digital presentation created by Dallas’s Corgan MediaLab will be projected in the space to feature the winning designs from La Reunion TX’s Make Space for Art. Held in early 2008, Make Space for Art was an international juried competition that focused on the complete future facility to be built on La Reunion’s 35-acre site in Oak Cliff.
Make Space for Artists: Design-A-Studio is an invitation for community input on the shaping of artist studios at the La Reunion site. All design entries submitted to the Make Space for Artists contest will be displayed in a variety of ways, including Flickr—an online community for sharing photography and video. The contest will run in the Tech Lab of the Center for Creative Connections from November 6, 2008 to February 12, 2009. At the close, the submissions will be juried and several winners selected. Cash prizes will be awarded and contest winners will be honored at a public event February 19, 2009 at the Dallas Museum of Art. A suite of public programs including Google Sketch-Up workshops and panel discussions with topics ranging from famous artists’ studios to architecture will coincide with the design contest.
About the Dallas Museum of Art
The 23,000 works of art in the Museum’s encyclopedic collections span 5,000 years of history and represent all media with renowned strengths in the arts of the ancient Americas, Africa, Indonesia and South Asia; European and American painting, sculpture and decorative arts; and American and international contemporary art.
The Dallas Museum of Art is the anchor of the Dallas Arts District and serves as the cultural magnet for the city with diverse programming ranging from exhibitions and lectures to concerts, literary readings, dramatic and dance presentations, and a full spectrum of programs designed to engage people of all ages with the power and excitement of art.
The Dallas Museum of Art is supported in part by the generosity of Museum members and donors and by the citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas/Office of Cultural Affairs and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
In 2008 the Dallas Museum of Art opened the Center for Creative Connections, a unique learning space that provides interactive experiences with works of art and artists for people of all ages. Located in the heart of the Museum, this dynamic space includes a gallery, a theater, an art studio, a tech lab, and an early learning area. Works of art from the Museum’s diverse collections are brought together in an environment designed to stimulate curiosity, inquiry and reflection. The Tech Lab in the Center for Creative Connections is a space where art and technology merge, providing opportunities to experiment and create using the rich content of the Museum’s collections and current technologies. It functions as a workshop and studio space for classes, a multimedia gallery venue, and a social hub for engaging with digital resources and interactives.
About La Reunion TX
La Reunion TX is creating an arts residency in Dallas that will host artists in both new and traditional media for periods ranging from one week to one year. In exchange for short-term living quarters and studio space, artists will be expected to give back to the community through programs, exhibits, performances and installations. Artists working in all media will be encouraged to apply. The residency will be built on a 35 acre site in Oak Cliff and will be as green and off-grid as possible, modeling sustainable living. In addition, the business plan has an eye toward long-term sustainability not only with the facility but also with the bottom line. La Reunion TX seeks to transform the community through art and create lasting social change in Dallas.
Currently, La Reunion TX offers several programs utilizing both the land and the organization’s gallery space in the Design District of Dallas. Art Chicas Unidas is a collaborative program with Dallas Art Dealers Association and Girl Scouts of NorthEast Texas that teams high school aged girls with female mentor artists. Tree Carving is a program to turn dead and dying trees on the 35 acres into decomposing sculptural works. Scriptwriting for Graphic Novels explores the relationship between writers and illustrators with Dallas’ thriving comic book community.
The Make Space for Art call for entries attracted 68 designers from 19 countries submitting ideas for our future facility. The jurors for Make Space for Art were Mark Gunderson, AIA of Ft. Worth; Dr. Richard Brettell of UT Dallas; Louise Harpman of UT Austin; Max Levy, FAIA of Dallas; and Rick Lowe of Project Row Houses in Houston. Winners of Make Space for Art include: first - Bang Dang of Dallas, Texas; second - Michael Panacci of Brooklyn, Ontario, Canada; third - Lucia Perez and Ines Fernandez of New York, New York; sustainable - Sofia Fernandes and Tiago Carvalho of Portugal. MSA was sponsored by Perkins-Will, Barry Whistler Gallery, Preservation Tree Services, and City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs. Hardcover catalogs featuring all the plans from Make Space for Art are available for purchase.
About Corgan MediaLab
Corgan MediaLab provides animation, motion graphics, visual effects and architectural visualization services for a diverse range of clients. Since 1997, this studio of creative artists has expanded their portfolio from architectural visualization to include broadcast, film and game cinematics.
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