Visual Art League of Lewisville

Dallas School of Music 2004 Festival Exhibits

August 2nd, 2004

For the last few years, the Dallas School of Music (www.musicked.com), located at 2650 Midway Road (corner of Midway \& Trinity Mills) in Carrollton has a festival where they invite artists to exhibit their work. Eugene Cantera with Dallas School of Music has contacted us to participate this year. (He saw information about VAL in the newspaper). See his letter below and let me know if you are interested in participating. — Elaine

Visual Art League Members,

The Dallas School of Music Inc. has scheduled its Fall Art Festival for Saturday, September 11. Over the past 4 years the school has festival participants from around the country display their work in a wide variety of mediums including the quilts of national award winner Barbara Oliver-Hartman to the wire sculptures of Bart Soutendjyk. We have invited members from both the Plano and Dallas Guilds and even have had pieces from the traveling exhibits of the Dallas Museum of Art on display.

This year, award winning childrens authors Dan Hale and Matthew LaBrot will be signing books and Border’s Books and Music is scheduled to have on hand with art books and CD’s for sale.
The festival actually spans 3 or 4 main events over the course of 2 full months. We install the work during the week of September 7-10 and the kick off concert (where our music students perform) is on Saturday September 11 from 4:30 to 6 PM. There is usually a small reception to follow. On October 9 the faculty of DSM perform at our annual Gala and on November 13 our adult students perform on an evening that we call ‘Musicking’.

These three events give the artwork maximum exposure though this year there may be as many as 5 events during this period.We would love to have members of the Lewisville Visual Arts League participate this year. I would be happy to work with you to coordinate the collection and delivery of art if need be.

Anyone interested in purchasing artwork is put directly in touch with the artists. We have had some success in selling pieces and obtaining some commissions for artists. Best of all, it’s a chance to expose our 600 students and families to some terrific talent in visual arts and give some exposure to the artists. I look forward to hearing from you!

Eugene Cantera — PartnerThe Dallas School of Music, Inc. 972-380-8050 ext. 207

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