Dallas College Gallery, Theatre and Live Events

05/26/2026

We’re paving the way for your summer break this week with a play festival at Mountain View!

Weekly Events May 24 - 30
5/30| Rod Wilson 24 Hour 10-Minute Play Festival
⏰ 7pm-9pm 📍 E127 (Performance Hall)

05/13/2026

Tomorrow, May 14th from 6pm-7:30pm, enjoy presentations from our two spring residency candidates, Lo**ta Khugayeva .paint and Emily Olshevski . Listen to the artists’ insights on their creative careers, connection to Dallas College, and overall artistic process. A Q&A will follow the artist presentations. Light snacks and a cash bar will be available during the event. This residency and reception is hosted in partnership with the Hilton Anatole Dallas.  Admission is free, but we ask that you do RSVP beforehand (link in bio). Find us at 2201 N Stemmons Fwy Dallas, TX in the ETC! Lounge.

05/06/2026

Dallas College’s April Arts Month flew by! Our Galleries & Collections team wants to thank YOU for all your amazing artwork, participation, and community engagement in all our events. With 18 events supported by the Gallery & Collections team and over 50 events overall including our performing arts and other live events, you joined us for art tours, receptions, festivals, workshops, and fashion showcases. Let us know your favorite events with and be sure to tag us !
 
We can’t wait to do it all over next year!
 
Have questions or interested in future shows and events? Visit our Visual Arts Calendar (link in bio) or email us at [email protected]

05/02/2026

May is blooming with different concerts and events!🌼💃🎵
 
💐Weekly Events 5/3-9🌻
5/5 | Founders’ Foyer Art Reception
📍Dallas College Administrative Offices 1601 Botham Jean Blvd
⏰5:30pm-7pm
 
5/5 | RLC Honors Music Student Recital
📍F102 (Performance Hall)  ⏰12:30pm
 
5/6 | EFC Concert Series: Jazz Ensemble
📍F117  ⏰1pm-1:50pm
 
5/6 | RLC Guitar Concert
📍F102 (Performance Hall)  ⏰7:30pm
 
5/6 | BHC Dallas College 60th Anniversary Concert Featuring one of the Founding Musical Ensembles: The Brookhaven Big Band
📍C210 (Performance Hall)  ⏰7:30pm
 
5/6 | CVC Commercial Music Recital
📍E126 (Performance Hall)  ⏰1pm-1:50pm
 
5/7 | CVC Choral Day Grand Finale Concert
📍E126 (Performance Hall)  ⏰6:30pm
 
5/7 | EFC ‘The Arts’ Open House
📍Building F  ⏰9am-3pm
 
5/7 | NLC Music Student Recital 
📍P302 Performance Hall)  ⏰6:30pm
 
5/7-8 | EFC Dance Show
📍F210 (Performance Hall)  ⏰7:30pm
 
5/7-10 | Theatre Brookhaven Presents: The Trial by Franz Kafka, Adapted by Straton Rushing
📍C205 (Arena Theatre)
⏰5/7-9 7:30pm
⏰5/10 2:30pm
 
5/9| RLC Campus Concert Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Dallas College
📍F102 (Performance Hall Concert)  ⏰7:30pm

04/30/2026

Dallas College Art Department—Brookhaven Campus is proud to announce the opening of “Unframed Unapologetic”, a site-specific group installation featuring the work of student artists under the curatorial direction of Professor Jen Gassiraro . “Unframed Unapologetic” represents a bold departure from traditional watercolor application. 
 
This large-scale collage installation rejects the limits of the frame and the “preciousness” of the medium, instead allowing vibrant, hand-cut botanical forms to sprawl across the gallery’s architecture. The work explores the tension between delicate material and dominant physical presence. Jen Gassiraro guided the cohort through the collaborative assembly process, pushing the artists to consider how individual fragments can develop in to a singular rhythmic environment. Under her direction, the students transformed hundreds of individual watercolors into a sprawling takeover that directly interacts with the gallery space. The show will be on display until May 1st and is located in D128, our Secondary Space Gallery.
 
Interested in taking the class? Look for ARTS2366 Watercolor Class in the Dallas College Course Catalog.
 
Artists included in the show: Sandra Douglas, Theodore Houston, Diana Krompass, Kelaome Kvale, Sung Lee, Young Lee, Judy Parr, Stephen Potter, Gertraud Reed, Judy Shaw, Mary Stack, Renee Taken, Christiane Tunnell, Jim Wright

04/28/2026

Join us Tuesday May 5th from 5:30pm-7:00pm at the Dallas College Administrative Offices to celebrate our talented student Founder’s Foyer winners! 
 
Selected winners: 
BHC - Myra Walker 
CVC - Lien Anh Nguyen 
ECC - Ella Ybara  and Israel Resendiz 
EFC - Claire Wing, Azurichaily Mcdowell-Araizan, and Guliana Mendez 
MVC - Iseah Calderon and Sarahi Galvan 
NLC - Paola Morales, Teresa Starnes, Kimberly Martinez, and Oluwabunmi Fasoro 
 
The Founders’ Foyer, made possible through a gift by founding DCCCD Board Vice-Chair Margaret McDermott, strives to reflect Mrs. McDermott’s visionary dedication to the highest standards of artistic excellence for the seven-college (now campus) district over the past four decades. The Founders’ Foyer Art Exhibit showcases the art of current students enrolled in the Visual Fine Arts Program at Dallas College and its campuses. Art is displayed in the Founders’ Foyer and throughout the Dallas College headquarters. Artists receive a small stipend for each work chosen in the exhibit as well as publicity and an opportunity to sell their work.
 
Have questions or interested in future shows and events? Visit our Visual Arts Calendar (link in bio) or email us at [email protected]

04/22/2026

Join us next week at Plaza of the Americas for the reception of Stephen Lee’s Elegance of Complexity! The event will take place from 5pm-7pm in our Artspace of the Americas gallery located on the Lobby floor of the POTA. Listen to the journey and inspiration behind Stephen’s steeled forms. 📍600 N Pearl St Dallas, TX
 
From the artist:
“Visual language is no different from that of sound or taste. When intent registers strongly, primal feeling precedes understanding, as it does with music and food. I am fascinated by and attuned to this part of the craft.
 
I build as though I’m drawing in space. In forged steel, each hammer strike becomes a mark, not unlike pointillism in painting. Layering and carving mortar becomes its own form of impasto. Steel and mortar are my primary materials because they let me fabricate intuitively, edit freely, and avoid rigidity. This process honors the time and decisions the work lives through, resulting in handmade textures that aim to embody authenticity and vulnerability.”
 
Brought to you by Dallas College x Plaza of the America’s “Artscape of the Americas”. Have questions or want to know more about future events? Visit our Visual Arts Calendar (link in bio) or email us at [email protected]

04/16/2026

Join us Wednesday, April 22nd from 12pm-2pm to celebrate Richland’s “The Blue of Distance” Visual Arts Faculty & Staff Show! Hosted at the Brazos Gallery, C140. Faculty and staff members are given a space to display their works to the Dallas College community in a creative and collaborative way— inviting engagement and conversation about the works of artists at varying levels of their careers. 
 
Participating artists include: Aaron Thomas, Aditi Samarth ,Roy Cirigliana, Randall Garrett , Stephanie Kim .art , Amy Henson , Melba Northum .northum , Kimberly Russell, Keith Williams .art , Pablo Cruz .a_cruz , Heather Valcik , Marian Ichaso de Lefeld , Joel Murray , and Brian Zimmerman .
 
The show will be up from March 23rd until May 1st. Campus galleries are open Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm. Have questions or want to know more about our events? Visit our Visual Arts & Events Calendar online (link in bio), or email us at [email protected]

09/04/2025