dallas museum of art and la reunion tx

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DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART AND
LA REUNION TX
MAKE SPACE FOR ARTISTS:
DESIGN-A-STUDIO
OPENS NOV 6TH

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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