The Waco Committee for People with Disabilities is partnering with Art Center Waco to host the Disability in the Arts Exhibit. We will kick of the month-long exhibit featuring artists with disabilities with a celebration on July 18th! We are also conducting an “Open Call” for emerging or established artists that would like to have their work displayed in the exhibit.  All disabilities and all types of art will be included. We will also have opportunities for performances during the celebration on the 18th of musicians, dancers, or poets with disabilities that would like to participate.

The Latino Cultural Center is seeking work that demonstrates strong artistic quality and engages the community for the 2027 calendar year. Proposals should include stage of production, plans for public programming such as workshops and/or lectures, and layout plans. All mediums and experience backgrounds are welcome to apply. Visit: lcc.dallasculture.org/propose-an-exhibition for more information

The Dallas Latino Film Festival, hosted by the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas, Texas, celebrates the creativity, diversity, and storytelling power of Latino filmmakers and voices from across the globe. Located in the heart of the Dallas Arts District, the Latino Cultural Center has served the community for over 23 years as a space dedicated to arts, culture, and creative exchange.

This inaugural festival aims to showcase compelling short films that highlight the experiences, perspectives, and artistic innovation of Latino creators. By bringing together emerging filmmakers, established industry professionals, and film enthusiasts, the festival seeks to foster community, conversation, and collaboration within the growing Texas film industry.

Selected films will be screened at the Latino Cultural Center as part of a curated program featuring filmmaker Q&A sessions, panel discussions with industry professionals, and networking opportunities for creatives and audiences alike.

As the film industry continues to expand throughout Texas and the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the Dallas Latino Film Festival hopes to serve as a platform where new voices are discovered, stories are celebrated, and filmmakers can connect with the broader creative community.

We welcome submissions from filmmakers of all backgrounds whose work explores themes of culture, identity, community, and storytelling. Follow the link for filmfreeway submission and guide.

“12 Squared” Reclaimed Fiber Art Call For 2026 Fall Fort Worth Gallery Night

The 12 Squared Exhibit with The Fiber Revival at The Grackle Art Gallery will feature reclaimed fiber works created by DFW artists exploring the art of using reclaimed clothing and various recycled fibers to create works of art. This vivid and dramatic textile show will feature the works displayed in a grid of the 6 color groupings.

The focus of the 6 individual fiber works of 12” X 12” X 2” is the color of the reclaimed fiber. The colors for the projects are: BLUE, PURPLE, RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, and GREEN. Artists are encouraged to explore any variety of fiber techniques and can use multiple techniques in each work. You can use reclaimed objects, paint or any other elements in your works, but the over work should visually be mainly reclaimed fiber.

There is no theme other than color, size and materials used. You are free to create each work in a different way, with a personal subject or not, with a personal theme or not. This is a challenge to create, play, explore and experiment with reclaimed fiber techniques in each of the 6 works.

The only frames that will accepted are Da Vinci Pro Ultra Smooth Panel 12"x12", 2" Deep. These frames can be purchased at jerrysartarama.com. All works must have works permanently mounted to the frame and have d-rings and hanging wire ready for installation.

This challenge is open to any DFW artists. Artists selected must be able to pick and drop off works and are encouraged to attended the 2026 Fall Gallery Night event.

Space is limited and artists are encouraged to submit early.

“Well, Well, Well” is a group exhibition examining the contradictions surrounding health, wellness and the systems designed to sustain us. Inspired by the 2015 issue of Harvard Design Magazine, the exhibition brings together artists to consider the body as something adaptive and deeply entangled within social, political and economic structures.

While anatomical diagrams and wellness culture often present the body as orderly and optimized, lived experiences carry a far more complex reality. Bodies leak, fail, recover and persist within systems that both support and constrain them. Taking its title from a phrase that signals surprise, irony or suspicion, “Well, Well, Well” positions wellness as an unstable terrain shaped by things like power, infrastructure and perception.

The exhibition will be developed through an open call model, inviting artists to respond to both the conceptual framework and the spatial conditions of the Cedar Union’s Boedeker building. This exhibition will be mounted in the “pink room,” whose flesh-like tiles and textured ceilings resonate with the exhibition’s focus on the body and its constructed environments.

Selected works will be chosen based on conceptual alignment and their capacity to generate conversation within the space.

Applications are open now through August 15.

We are always looking for new artists to display in Historic City Hall Arts & Cultural Center. Our center is located in the heart of downtown Lake Charles, Louisiana. We have three gorgeous floors of gallery spaces in our 1911 courthouse-turned-art center, where we host traveling exhibitions, regional/local artists, community events, cultural programming, educational field trips/guided tours, and visual and performing art workshops inside and on the grounds of our historic property.