2025 Call For Artists

The Julia C. Butridge Gallery is accepting exhibit proposals for the 2025 gallery season!
Located at the Dougherty Arts Center, the Julia C. Butridge Gallery is well known for its diverse exhibitions of artists and their work. There is no fee to submit an exhibit proposal and all related exhibits and events are free and open to the public.
Applications are open November 17, 2023 - February 4, 2024.
To submit please visit: doughertyartscenter.submittable.com/submit
On Display

Senderos del Desierto II
Salvador Rodriguez
November 11 – December 16, 2023
Artist Reception: Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 7-9pm
Salvador Rodriguez paints the magnificence of the deserts of Texas and beyond from great panoramic views. His studies take months and years of work including detailed research of the ecosystems, history, and myths of each environment in order to recreate their essence in stunning likeness.

Finding Wholeness
Alex Abbott
December 2, 2023 – January 27, 2024
Artist Reception: Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 7-9pm
Finding Wholeness illustrates the artist’s journey through the overwhelming darkness of the pandemic into sparkling present moments. Employing archetypal flora, fauna, and landscapes, the artist shares feelings of growth, decay, nostalgia and hope through dreamlike surrealism and crisp color realism.

Colored Sensations: A Synesthete’s Vision of Letters, Numbers & Time
Jenny Swannack
December 2, 2023 – January 27, 2024
Artist Reception: Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 7-9pm
Synesthesia is described as a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. Jenny Swannack is a synesthete, seeing letters, numbers, and time in color. Colored Sensations represents each month of the year and a certain date, reflecting the colors Swannack sees in each month and number.
Part of the City of Austin Parks & Recreation Department, Totally Cool Totally Art (TCTA) is a unique enrichment program providing free classes to Austin's teen community. Teens learn various art techniques by working directly alongside professional artists. View the TCTA 2021 Virtual Exhibit page to learn more about the program and see a sample of all they accomplished.
The Austin Parks and Recreation Department’s Division of Museums and Cultural Programs is launching ArtsResponders: Social Practice Responds to COVID-19. Discover the two artists selected by the Dougherty Arts Center, Caroline Walker and Sarah Wilson.