“I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey…”

Let's do the Time Warp again at the Rocky Horror Drag Show Movie Viewing Party! Some of your favorite local drag performers will take the stage shadow cast–style!

Costumes are highly encouraged and prop bags will be available for purchase at the door! Dust off your corset, heels and fishnets and give yourself over to a night of absolute pleasure.

Doors - 8:00 PM. Showtime - 8:30 PM

This event is for ages 18+. Purchase tickets here!

Ballet Folklorico Raices de Oro presents "Fiesta Folklorica de Denton: Bailes de Nuestra Herencia." You're invite to celebrate Hispanic cultural arts and heritage at the dance showcase featuring six local groups with dancers ranging from juvenile to adult.

This event is free and open to the public. Food trucks will be available outside.

Denton based Artist Fundamentals will host a free Community Concert here at GDAC! The program has been aided by local players, educators, and other professionals to provide a unique experience to aspiring artists. This year's event will be a special recognition of local Denton residents and descendants of Quakertown, the original Freedman town situated on what is commonly known as the Civic Center Park.

Our Community concert will feature Cassandra Berry, Katina Stone-Butler, Shelley Carrol, Austin Crawford, members of Fingerprints, Ardina Lockhart and others. The concert is free and open to the public. We do accept donations to help with the cost of future camps and programming. All ages are welcome.

Call 214-295-6115 for more details.

About Artist Fundamentals:
Artist Fundamentals is a Denton based organization whose mission is to support and further local creativity by providing educational activities to school age youth and business training to local independent artists. The program is designed to include various art forms and operates on four primary pillars common to all:

1. Basic Fundamentals of the Art Form

2. Auditions

3. Community Opportunities and Connections

4. Basic Business Fundamentals

Our curriculum is designed to help local artists with both hands-on instruction and virtual interaction with seasoned professionals. Learn more and get involved by visiting our website.

Vinyl Vibes Creative Social is back! Bring a vinyl or two and a creative project you’ve been working on, or something you’ve been meaning to start! 

Let’s get crafty and spin some records!  

Come out for an open skill-sharing creative gathering providing a casual, supportive atmosphere for those interested in fiber art. Feel free to drop in and out of workshop sessions at your leisure.

To learn more about Sew Gold, visit their website.

Meetings are held at GDAC at least once a month.

Welcome Paper Chair Studios cofounder and Executive Director, Joshua Steven Bryant, and treasurer, Max Marshall as our next Back Door Residents!

Joshua Steven Bryant is an artist and educator based in Denton, TX. He makes interdisciplinary sculptures and paintings that stem from experiences with disability through chronic pain that left him largely immobile for two years. From that time spent reliant on seating, chairs have become a symbol across his work. Bryant’s process is a blend of abstraction and conceptualism, heavily intuitive and a way for him to process his experiences and research. He earned his MFA from the University of North Texas. Bryant co-founded Paper Chair Studios and teaches studio art for UNT.

Max Marshall is an artist, curator, and educator based in Fort Worth, Texas. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art with an emphasis in Sculpture from Texas Christian University in 2024 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas in 2015. In her work, Marshall questions how mainstream mythologies are created, how they influence contemporary life, and why specific mythologies persevere over others. She is currently the co-owner and co-director of Giant Runt, an artist-run gallery in Fort Worth, TX.

Visit Joshua and Max at Back Door Residency during Arts & Autos: Art Car Alley on Friday, September 11th, from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Back Door Residency is made possible by support from Greater Denton Arts Council.

📍 The entrance to Back Door Residency is on the side of the Patterson-Appleton Arts Center facing Hickory Street. At this time, Back Door Residency is not wheelchair accessible due to the age of the building. Paper Chair + GDAC are working to make the space ADA accessible in the future.

Come celebrate where art meets the road as local art car artists and visiting “cartists” from Houston bring their one-of-a-kind creations to Denton. The evening begins with an Art Car Drive around the Downtown Denton Square, followed by a celebration back at GDAC featuring live music by Raised Right Men, a cash bar provided by Union Bear, and the chance to meet the artists and see their incredible art cars up close.

Want to make some art of your own? Help us transform a Community Art Car or add your creativity to our graffiti painting area. Spray paint, gloves, and masks will be provided, but you’re welcome to bring your own supplies.

Local artist Daren Fagan has transformed reclaimed automotive parts into 11 inventive, one-of-a-kind sculptural trophies for this year’s Arts & Autos. Featuring dynamic and whimsical assemblage works, Fagan breathes new life into engine crankshafts, gears, and mechanical components, converting raw steel and chrome into striking figurative and geometric art. Visitors can view these exceptional pieces in Festival Hall starting September 8 until they take center stage as part of the Art Car Alley on September 11. On Saturday, the sculptures will be awarded to the winners of the Arts & Autos car show. Be sure to stop by and admire Fagan’s craftsmanship up close before these unique awards hit the road!

To learn more about Arts & Autos or get involved, visit their website.

While you’re here, be sure to check out the Open Studio for Paper Chair Studios’ current Back Door Artist in Residence! More information here.

Join Interfaith Denton for their fourth annual art show and auction fundraiser, The Magic of Giving. The evening will include the artwork reveal, auction, and cocktail reception. Who will win Best-of-Show and People’s Choice? Attend to find out!

Individual tickets are $34.00 each and include entry, 5 voting rickets, hor d’oevres, live music, photos, and fun. Step up your evening experience with a VIP table ($600.00) including 8 reserved guest seats, two bottles of wine and goodies, 5 voting tickets per seat, and snacks. If affiliated with a business, VIP’s will have their organization logos included in the slide show and on the Interfaith Denton website. A cash bar will be available at the event.

Get your tickets here!

We’re thrilled to display an incredible selection of surreal ceramic and mixed media sculptures from artist Misty Gamble for her exhibition, Of Flesh & the Feminine, in Meadows Gallery. The evening will feature live piano music, light refreshments. and a cash bar provided by Union Bear. Gamble will be holding an artist talk followed by an audience Q&A.

To learn more about Gamble and her work, visit her website here.

Want to hit the dance floor with new moves and new confidence? Here We Go Dance by Rhea Brock is introducing beginner friendly dance lessons in the Foxtrot!

No partner? No problem! Individuals dancers are welcome and can dance with other class participants.

To register, contact Rhea at 214-797-5922. Registration fee is $15 per person for 1 lesson or $50 per person for all 4 lessons in the session. Participants can pay the registration fee over Zelle at 214-797-5922or Venmo @RheaBrock.

Want to hit the dance floor with new moves and new confidence? Here We Go Dance by Rhea Brock is introducing beginner friendly dance lessons in the Foxtrot!

No partner? No problem! Individuals dancers are welcome and can dance with other class participants.

To register, contact Rhea at 214-797-5922. Registration fee is $15 per person for 1 lesson or $50 per person for all 4 lessons in the session. Participants can pay the registration fee over Zelle at 214-797-5922or Venmo @RheaBrock.

GDAC’s Signature Exhibition, 30 Under 30, is back to showcase the talents and vision of the next generation of profesional artists from across Texas. You’re invited to mix and mingle with these incredible emerging artists at the official opening reception. To preview the artworks and see the artists’ statements, click here.

This event is free and open to the public!

Want to hit the dance floor with new moves and new confidence? Here We Go Dance by Rhea Brock is introducing beginner friendly dance lessons in the Foxtrot!

No partner? No problem! Individuals dancers are welcome and can dance with other class participants.

To register, contact Rhea at 214-797-5922. Registration fee is $15 per person for 1 lesson or $50 per person for all 4 lessons in the session. Participants can pay the registration fee over Zelle at 214-797-5922or Venmo @RheaBrock.

Come out for an open skill-sharing creative gathering providing a casual, supportive atmosphere for those interested in fiber art. Feel free to drop in and out of workshop sessions at your leisure.

To learn more about Sew Gold, visit their website.

Meetings are held at GDAC at least once a month.

Vinyl Vibes Creative Social is back this Thursday! Join us at GDAC with Analog Society on August 6th, 6-8 PM. Bring a vinyl or two and a creative project you’ve been working on, or something you’ve been meaning to start! 

Let’s get crafty and spin some records!  

Please join us in celebrating this year’s selection of artworks in the Visual Art Society of Texas’s Annual Members Show!

Want to hit the dance floor with new moves and new confidence? Here We Go Dance by Rhea Brock is introducing beginner friendly Salsa dance lessons! No experience or partner needed -- you'll learn the essential steps, easy turns, rhythm and confidence-building moves in a relaxed environment. Come enjoy great music, meet new people, and experience the energy and excitement of salsa from your very first class!

To register, contact Rhea at 214-797-5922. Registration fee is $15 per person for 1 lesson or $50 per person for all 4 lessons in the session. Participants can pay the registration fee over Zelle at 214-797-5922 or Venmo @RheaBrock.

KUZU FM and Recycled Books’ annual REVOLUTION RECORD CONVENTION is back for 2026! It will host a full day of local, regional, and national vendors of collectible vinyl records, posters, memorabilia, and other forms of music media. There will be live entertainment, DJs, panel discussions, special appearances, food trucks, beer, and more! General admission (11am) into the record convention is FREE to all the public after early bird hour (10am) is complete.

Pssst: If you purchase Early Bird Tickets to the Revolution Record Convention, you also receive entry to REVOLUTION 9 at RGRS that same night! Click here for more information and to purchase Early Bird tickets.

Here We Go Dance by Rhea Brock is introducing beginner friendly line dance lessons! Join us for a fun, easy way to get moving--no partner required. You'll learn simple step patterns to upbeat music in a relaxed, supportive environment. We break eveything down step-by-step so you can build confidence, coordination, and rhythm. By the end of the class, you'll be dancing along with the group and having a great time!  

PLEASE NOTE:  THIS IS A BEGINNER CLASS FOCUSING ON VERY SIMPLE, BASIC LINE DANCES. $10 per person for 1 lesson.

To register, contact Rhea at 214-797-5922. Participants can pay the registration fee over Zelle at 214-797-5922 or Venmo @RheaBrock.

Want to hit the dance floor with new moves and new confidence? Here We Go Dance by Rhea Brock is introducing beginner friendly Salsa dance lessons! No experience or partner needed -- you'll learn the essential steps, easy turns, rhythm and confidence-building moves in a relaxed environment. Come enjoy great music, meet new people, and experience the energy and excitement of salsa from your very first class!

To register, contact Rhea at 214-797-5922. Registration fee is $15 per person for 1 lesson or $50 per person for all 4 lessons in the session. Participants can pay the registration fee over Zelle at 214-797-5922 or Venmo @RheaBrock.

Come out for an open skill-sharing creative gathering providing a casual, supportive atmosphere for those interested in fiber art. Feel free to drop in and out of workshop sessions at your leisure.

To learn more about Sew Gold, visit their website.

Meetings are held at GDAC at least once a month.

Happy Independence Day, everyone! Enjoy the summer sunshine and whatever kinds of celebrations you have planned. See you next week for our normal business hours!

Come belt your favorite tunes with some of our favorite Denton personalities at All Star Karaoke benefiting both GDAC and Kuzu Radio. Whether you plan on taking the stage yourself to sing your go-to karaoke song or just to sit back and laugh, we guarantee a good time!

Grab your tickets here!

The Denton Juneteenth Celebration is once again hosting festivities here at GDAC including a Poetry Slam with an incredible lineup featuring Black Ceasar, Brandon Puryear, Dawn, Lovely B, Tro Juan Henderson, and Terrance Reed. There will also be pop-up art exhibition in Festival Hall for a limited time only, showcasing works from GDAC member Baylee Robichaux!

See more Juneteenth Celebration events, workshops, and other programs here.

Come out for an open skill-sharing creative gathering providing a casual, supportive atmosphere for those interested in fiber art. Feel free to drop in and out of workshop sessions at your leisure.

To learn more about Sew Gold, visit their website.

Meetings are held at GDAC at least once a month.