Currently on display

  • Empowering through Visual-storytelling: Rascally Ravens Picture Book Process by Sheli Petersen

    Gough Gallery

    The exhibition features the visual-storytelling process of illustrator and educator Sheli Petersen, Texas Woman’s University Professor of Graphic Design & Illustration, for the picture book Rascally Ravens of Greystone farm, written by Patricia Petersen. Sheli and Patricia are life-long birders and a daughter-mother team who based their book on their direct observations of ravens in the wild.

    Learn about the step-by-step process of designing and illustrating a picture book. This includes designing characters and world-building from photographic references and life-sketches, storyboarding for planning and sequencing layouts, and applying traditional and digital techniques to finish the illustrations.

    Participate in the Rascally Ravens maker space and have one of your wildlife drawings included in the exhibition!

    View the video version of Rascally Ravens, with motion graphics by Texas Woman’s University graphic design majors Shayan Bangash and Ayah Shalabi, voice over by author Patricia Petersen, and soundtrack by Jon Petersen.

    Workshop Sign-Ups!

    Self-Publishing Workshop, November 8, 2025 - https://form.jotform.com/GDAC/rascallyr-self-publish-workshop

    Character Design Workshop, November 22, 2025 - https://form.jotform.com/GDAC/rascallyr-workshop-character-design

    Workshops are FREE & we request that you sign up prior to the event so that we know how many folks to set up for.

  • GDAC Permanent Collection Artworks

    Festival Hall

    In the earliest days of GDAC, as far back as 1969, original members of our organization established the beginnings of a small permanent collection of artworks. Some of the early pieces were acquired as purchase awards from the Fine Arts Festival of Denton, while later works were gifts or bequests from artists and local patrons of the arts.

    While GDAC no longer accepts or pursues additions to our permanent collection, we want to ensure the community still has the opportunity to enjoy the pieces that we have. Some of the works are on display around the building in perpetuity and others are hung in Festival Hall between exhibitions. Our staff is in the process of rebuilding the catalogue of our permanent collection artworks and researching further into the artists and their works to preserve their stories. The catalogue, still in progress, can be viewed here.

  • Denton ISD Presents: Dia de los Muertos

    Meadows Gallery

    Skulls, stories, and sacred colors; our Denton ISD high school Dia de los Muertos exhibition is a celebration of life, art, and memory. We invite you to experience the rich artistic traditions of the holiday as expressed through the creative lens of our community’s emerging young artists.

    In the gallery, visitors will find a community ofrenda to which you’re welcome to contribute the names of passed loved ones on the paper butterflies provided. There’s also a community art table where anyone is welcome to create their own artwork to add to the wall. For our littlest artists, we’ve provided coloring sheets specially designed by graphic design students at TWU.

    On display October 17 through December 13, 2025.