There’s always something happening at the Dougherty Arts Center! Take part in a variety of events including theatre performances, gallery openings, and workshops!

Recalling Memory/The Interior Lay
Sylvia Benitez
November 16, 2019 – January 4, 2020
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 16, 2019, 1-3pm

Be it the flight of wind, the roll of grass or the ripple of water, artist Sylvia Benitez captures what she recalls of the Texas landscape from memory. Following in Ash Can School Artist Robert Henri's tradition, she paints from a trained visual memory, allowing compiled visual observation to be captured onto her canvases.

Join us on Saturday, November 16, to celebrate this beautiful exhibit with the artist and enjoy light refreshments.

Delve deeper into these Texas landscapes on Wednesday, December 11, as Benitez discusses her process and the discipline required to paint from collected images in her mind.

Artist Talk with Sylvia Benitez
December 11, 2019 at 7pm

Sylvia Benitez is an artist and curator who spent her formative art years in NYC (1980 -2000). She now lives outside Seguin, and works in San Antonio TX, Texas. As a recognized installation artist and painter, she is the recipient of many national awards and is the president and founder of The Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association (GAGA), a nonprofit serving women artists from south Texas. Explore Benitez’s current exhibition RECALLING MEMORY/THE INTERIOR LAY and listen in at 7pm as the artist discusses her career path from emerging to established artist and champion of the female creative voice.

Ballet East Dance Company Presents “Seis Voces”
November 30, 2019 at 8pm
December 1, 2019 at 2pm and 8pm

Ballet East Dance Company will present the new work of six choreographers, Melissa Villarreal, Aurelio P. Rodriguez, Dixon Mena, Juan P. Flores, Miguel Marroquin and Sharon Marroquin. All ages are welcome. Tickets can be purchased by emailing mendestein@hotmail.com or by visiting balleteast.org

Image Courtesy of Ballet East

Artist Resource Center Professional Development Workshop Series
Artist Self Care Workshop
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
6:30-8PM

The Artist Resource Center at the Dougherty Arts Center is pleased to offer FREE Professional Development Workshops for Artists!
 
Building and maintaining a career as an artist can be rewarding but overwhelming. Taking the time to take care of yourself will keep you on the right path to success. Learn tips and techniques for keeping your mental and physical health as an artist on track.

Sanctuary Yoga will be joining us with their A Guide To Mindfulness: Your Stress Relief Toolkit workshop.

This workshop is for anyone who is open to receive tools to manage stress in their lives. With our fast-paced and plugged-in culture, it takes commitment and practice to slow down and calm our overstimulated nervous systems. This workshop will offer you a variety of mindfulness tools to help cope with the demands of our daily lives. Everyone is welcome to participate.

Recalling Memory/The Interior Lay
Sylvia Benitez
November 16, 2019 – January 4, 2020
Artist Talk: December 11, 2019,  at 7pm

Be it the flight of wind, the roll of grass or the ripple of water, artist Sylvia Benitez captures what she recalls of the Texas landscape from memory. Following in Ash Can School Artist Robert Henri's tradition, she paints from a trained visual memory, allowing compiled visual observation to be captured onto her canvases.

Join us on Saturday, November 16, to celebrate this beautiful exhibit with the artist and enjoy light refreshments.

Delve deeper into these Texas landscapes on Wednesday, December 11, as Benitez discusses her process and the discipline required to paint from collected images in her mind.

Date Night @ The DAC: Salsa!
December 18, 2019
7-9pm
Free

Shake off that holiday stress with a little bit of salsa! Enjoy a free salsa dance lesson from a professional instructor with live music by Abe the Assassin and tasty snacks. You are sure to leave with a little more spice and sass in your step and a smile on your face.
 

Salvage Vanguard Theater presents Works Progress Austin: Fumbling for the Knob by Jay Byrd
December 20, 2019
7pm
Free

Fumbling for the Knob is an (almost) solo performance in progress. This workshop reading features object puppetry, original music, irreverent humor, and heart wrenching honesty. Fumbling for the Knob is Jay Byrd’s theatricalized experimental memoir about closets. Closets of the mind; the closets where we hide our shameful secrets; the closets we’re forced into by family or society.
Fumbling for the Knob is produced in coordination with the Dougherty Arts Center through the City of Austin’s Artist Access Program. Tickets are free and can be reserved at www.salvagevanguard.org/tickets/
 

Vivid - Lindsay Smith
December 21, 2019 - February 22, 2020
7-9pm
Free Artist Reception: January 16, 2020, 7-9pm

Shake off that holiday stress with a little bit of salsa! Enjoy a free salsa dance lesson from a professional instructor with live music by Abe the Assassin and tasty snacks. You are sure to leave with a little more spice and sass in your step and a smile on your face.