Save the Date!

Artists Enclave of Denton County and the Greater Denton Arts Council will present Cups & Chords, the latest installment of their ongoing popular open mic series at the Patterson-Appleton Arts Center.

This time, we invite participants to consider the question “What Matters?” and to answer through the work they perform. Denton’s own A Rhythm of Poets will be our featured guests.

The open mic event is open to the public. Artists in any medium from Denton County and beyond are welcome to participate.

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.

The artist talk for exhibition Generations in Conversation is here! Join us for an enriching conversation as we explore the deep and interrelated topics highlighted in this year's show.

Hear from artists over 60 and under 30 as we explore themes such as living between borders, the metaphor of ghosts and the body, science and art's relationship to the environment, revisiting childhood fantasy and magic, queer identity and relationships, and more.

This year's featured artists in our talk will be:

Phil Samson - @phil.samsonart
Kelly Stribling-Sutherland - @kelly_primitives
Ham Berman - @hamburger4art
Maria Esswein - @a_glass_of_esswine
Selena Mize - @selenammize
Dan Wiley - @eatinginsectng
Jesus Trujillo - @@imjoniibass

Small bites and light refreshments will be served! See you there.

Learn the basic working properties of non-ferrous metals used in artisan jewelry fabrication with brass and sterling silver. Create your own set of stacking rings and a pair of textured earrings!

Local artist and metalsmith, Kristen Kendrick Bigley of KKB Metal Studio, will guide you through the steps to properly size and solder a set of stacking rings out of brass and sterling silver. There will also be materials and tools available to create simple brass textured earrings, paired with silver ear wires.

Please dress comfortably and bring readers if you need additional magnification for detailed work. Workshop will be held at Denton County Brewing Co. Get tickets here! Can’t make it to the Crafts & Drafts night but still want to support the Art-o-Mat fundraiser? No problem, donate through our GoFundMe page!

For information about the KKB Metal Studio visit www.kkbmetalstudio.com.

Back again is Generations in Conversation, a GDAC signature exhibition! The artists, who are either 30 years old and younger or 60 years old and older, are using their work to bridge the distance between two generations often seen in opposition to each other socially, culturally, and sometimes politically.

We invite you to the official opening reception to enjoy this thoughtful, diverse selection of work. The artist talk is postponed at this time.

Generations will be on display from July 19 to September 20.

We are absolutely thrilled to announce the opening of "Intersections, Voices in Feminist Art" exhibition, which features five installation artworks by Aubree Dale, Christine Irving & Suzi Manrique, Karla Ramirez-Santin and Robyn Rozelle.

Accompanying the installation exhibit in the hallway outside of the gallery, next to our library, hang four self-portraits by TWU students from professor Dr. Agatha Beins's "Art, Activism and Social Justice" course who reflect on and explore facets of identity and self.

These works explore a wide range of topics including the body, social media, motherhood, homemaking, safe spaces, disability and accessibility.

Join us for an enriching artist panel discussion about the work and its themes during the opening reception, on Thursday, July 17th.

Panel Talk: 5:30 - 6:30 PM

Receptions: 5 - 8 PM

Installation Artists:

@aubree._.dale @ifyouknewsuziq @art_by_kfrs @raabynraazelle & Christine Irving

Portraiture Artists:

Micha Damon, Katie Jordan, Taylor Hilley-Carroll, and Agnes K. Browning

Intersections will be on display from July 5 to August 30th.

This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date!

Join us for the for a night out at Denton County Brewing Company to help raise funds for Denton's own Art-o-mat art vending machine. We began a go fund me page a few months ago for this project, and many amazing supporters donated to the cause. This is the second of 3 workshops that will be held at DCBC to help get us across the finish line!

The evening will include learning the craft of Suminagashi, or Japanese floating ink. Participants will learn the history and cultural significance of this art form and practice techniques that include layering colors, guiding patterns, and capturing their marbled creations on various papers. Tickets include all supplies needed for the workshop as well as 2 drink tickets. Come have a night of creativity and laughter and help support an awesome cause for Denton arts!

Grab your tickets here! To learn more about Art-o-Mat machines, visit the locator website to find them across the country. Can’t make it to the Crafts & Drafts night but still want to support the fundraiser? No problem, donate through our GoFundMe page!

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.

GDAC will be closed for the Fourth of July, starting with early closure of PAAC on Thursday 7/3 at 5pm. Normal business hours will resume Saturday, July 5. See you then!

In partnership with iconic Recycled Books & Records, KUZU 92.9 FM will host their annual REVOLUTION RECORD CONVENTION at the Patterson-Appleton Arts Center in the heart of downtown Denton June 28, 2025.

This cost-free family-friendly event will feature local, regional, and national vendors offering collectible vinyl records, posters, memorabilia, and other music media. Live entertainment will include DJs, a panel discussion and special guest appearances.

Attendees can order personalized screen-printed gear from local merchant Pan Ector Industries, grab a drink from Union Bear Brewing, or snack on food from local food trucks.

For those who would like to browse before the crowds, Early Bird tickets for $10 provide one hour of exclusive entry from 10am-11am. Doors open free to the general public at 11:00am and the event will run until 5pm.
Event details, including information on how to become a record vendor, are available at kuzu.fm/revolution.

The Golden Triangle Woodturners present their biannual community show, this year titled Nature's Spin on Functionality. Join us in celebrating the master craftmanship from Denton’s finest woodworkers!

The exhibition will be on view from June 13 - August 9, 2025.

We invite you to the Juneteenth Poetry Slam, hosted by the Denton Juneteenth Committee! Tonight is all about the art of spoken word so please join us in honoring our communities writers. Preshow provided by Lady Cass and the Fellas.

Join us for the official opening reception of the Denton Juneteenth Celebration Art Exhibit in Festival Hall! We’ll be featuring artists Tyra Goodley and Jedaiah Love Vann as well as music from the one and only Fingerprints band.

For more events and workshops, visit the Denton Juneteenth website.

Today’s Sew Gold has been moved from it’s usual time to 1 - 3PM.

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.

Musician Chris Teal performs compositions from his 2018 album "Analog Dreams" with a band featuring area professionals and students. Supported by a microgrant from the Greater Denton Arts Council and additional funding from the Institute for Creative Music, this concert will also include a discussion of social, cultural, and philosophical concepts that inspired the album and have developed into a personal musical philosophy.

Join us for the for a night out at Denton County Brewing Company to help raise funds for Denton's own Art-o-mat art vending machine! We began a go fund me page a few months ago for this project, and many amazing supporters donated to the cause. This is one of 3 workshops that will be held at DCBC to help get us across the finish line!

The evening will include a cookie making class by the amazing Mandy Metts, who will lead participants through the steps to make an iconic "rat Kroger" cookie complete with royal icing. Included with your ticket are all supplies needed for the workshop as well as 2 drink tickets. Come have a night of creativity and laughter and help support an awesome cause for Denton arts!

Click here for tickets! To learn more about an Art-o-mat machine, visit: www.vendinglocator.com/blog/art-o-mat-locations

Visit the Art-o-mat GoFundMe page!

For our June First Friday, we’re welcoming the Grupo Folklorico Alumnas de Oro once again for their showcase of different grupos folkloricos from North Texas schools!

You’re invited to join us for this celebration of traditional folk dancing. Food will be available for purchase during the showcase and admission is free!

Returning to the PAAC for their summer concert is the Denton Community Band. Conducted by Carol Lynn Mizell, the band will be performing scores from Movies, Musicals, Marches, & More! Compositions include Overture to “Candide,” highlights from Wicked, March of the Royal Trumpets, among many others.

Admission is free, so please join us for an afternoon of music from our friends and neighbors here in Denton. See the concert flier here.

Back again in Gough Gallery is the Visual Art Society of Texas’s signature exhibition, 175-Mile! Join us in celebrating the opening of this year’s selection of works, accepted from artists within a 175 mile radius around Denton. As a juried show, winners will be announced at the reception.

Directed by Jordan Fuchs from choreography developed in collaboration with Melissa Sanderson, Configure is a 90-minute performance installation for 10 dancers created for an audience free to come and go as it likes. Featuring pairs of dancers engaged in a meditative alignment of bones and body shapes, Configure is as much a visual spectacle as a performance, challenging borders between visual and performing arts, between dance and sculpture. It is  performed to an original sound score by the Denton-based composer Leoncarlo Canlas.

Featuring the dancers: Annalise Boydston, M.J. Bryce, Daniel Garcia, Whitney Geldon, Ethan Gonzalez, KD Milligan, Ashley Petersen, Lily Sloan, Kiara Tyalor and Breana Young

Format: A durational performance installation for an audience free to wander through the space and come and go as they like. One night only!

The performance, supported by a 2024 GDAC ARTIST MICRO-GRANT is free!

Jordan Fuchs is Professor and Head of the Dance Division at Texas Woman’s University, the founder of the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival and a former Fulbright Specialist. His choreography for stage, screens, museums and outdoor spaces is grounded in improvisational practice, specifically the bias towards disorientation, sensation and process of contact improvisation. His choreographic research focuses on the crafting of relationships between dancers, whether spatially through the use of counterpoint or through the touch-based partnering. More recently his research has focused on language-based prompts for movement generation and on blurring boundaries between the visual and performing arts through dance as sculpture, painting and photograph. His choreography has been presented across the US and internationally in Europe, Asia and Australia. He holds a BA in Religion from Oberlin College and an MFA in Choreography from Ohio State University. www.jordanfuchs.org, @jfchs11

Join us for a fun and hands-on needle felting workshop led by artist and University of North Texas student, Lera Watts! Whether you're a beginner or have some experience, this welcoming session will guide you through the basics of needle felting.

Lera will lead a live demonstration where you'll learn how to create an adorable bumblebee to take home with you! This workshop is free to attend and all materials are provided.

Spots are limited, so reserve yours now!

Sign up for the workshop here.

Next on the walls of Festival Hall is the Artists Enclave’s Ten & Now exhibition celebrating 10 years of the Enclave! More details to come.