On April 11, 1921, 100 Years ago, the Majestic Theatre first opened its doors as one of many vaudeville theaters of “Theatre Row,” Dallas’ historic entertainment center on Elm Street.

As the last standing theater of “Theatre Row”, the Majestic has hosted many figures such as Ginger Rogers, Mae West, Harry Houdini, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Jack Benny, Bob Hope and more. To this day, the Majestic continues to host concerts and movie nights.

The Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by architect John Eberson. Eberson was nationally known for his “atmospheric theaters,” including the Majestic, which often featured ceiling “skies” of mechanically controlled floating clouds and twinkling stars.

The Majestic Theatre was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It stands today as a reminder of the city’s architectural, social, and cultural heritage.

Centennial Poster OPEN CALL

Calling all Dallas-based visual artists, the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture (OAC) requests the submission of your qualifications to design a commercial-style movie poster for the Dallas Majestic Theatre Centennial and celebration.

Submission Deadline: Monday, May 3, 2021 at 5:00 PM 

After submissions in response to the request for qualifications, a panel comprised of arts professionals, community representatives, and OAC staff will review qualified submissions of Requests for Qualifications in May 2021.

Up to 4 artists will be asked to prepare their conceptual design proposal comprised of drawings, paintings, or digital renderings of the Majestic Theatre Centennial Poster. The artists selected for conceptual designs will be awarded $250 each. From the conceptual designs, one (1) artist will be awarded an additional $1,500 to complete the final design of the poster based on their conceptual design.

For more information on the project, guidelines, and to submit your qualifications, please visit https://bit.ly/MAJESTICCENTENNIAL

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The City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture’s Community Arts Division is requesting proposals from Non-Profit Organizations with ALAANA-focused programming for an 8-week residency!

Dallas Typology Map

The residency can be in-person or virtual, focusing on providing services in Districts 2-6, 8, and 10-13. These Districts do not have neighborhood cultural centers to connect arts organizations with new communities.

Special consideration will be given to proposals providing services in the pink and green areas of the Dallas Cultural Plan’s typology map. 

Using any arts discipline, the proposed residency projects must address art and culture and create access to artistic and cultural programming for the residents of Dallas.

Residencies must take place within the city limits of Dallas and must be completed by September 30, 2021.

TIMELINE

• Open for Submissions: February 23, 2021
• Info Session 1: Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at 12 PM
• Info Session 2: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, at 6 PM 
• Submission Deadline: March 17, 2021
• Panel Review: March 19-26, 2021
• Award Notifications: April 5, 2021

VIRTUAL INFO SESSIONS

• Info Session 1: Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at 12 PM
• Info Session 2: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, at 6 PM 

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If you are a visual artist or muralist who can envision a blank canvas in any space, this project is for you!

The Office of Arts and Culture and the Department of Code Compliance of the City of Dallas are embarking on a project to beautify our neighborhoods. This venture involves decorating a roll off container (20 feet in length and 7 feet in height) which will be displayed in various neighborhoods in the City of Dallas as it is requested for Community Clean-Up events.

This is an opportunity for artists to showcase their work around the city providing an artistic focal point in our Dallas neighborhoods as we enhance the look of our city one community at a time. Artists are welcome to submit proposals as individual artists or artist collectives.

HOW TO APPLY:

Artists/Collective must submit a short description of their proposed vision for a mural. Sketches are encouraged but not required. Up to 5 images of samples of previous works can be submitted for style references. Samples must be in a jpeg format.

AWARD:

The artist(s) selected will be awarded $3,500 to complete the mural/visual art piece.

Submit Your Proposal HERE

Submissions will only be accepted from artists with a residential or administrative office within the city limits of Dallas.

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Applications are open from November 3- November 30, 2020.

ArtsActivate 2021:

• is a project-based cultural funding program
• is open for proposals from non-profit arts/cultural organizations, social services organizations, individual artists, artist collectives and other eligible non-profit organizations
• will open for one round for projects taking place during the 2020-21 fiscal year (October 1, 2020 – September 30, 2021)

ACCESS APPLICATION PORTAL HERE

OAC Cultural Funding Programs staff will also be hosting 4 virtual events to help applicants with their applications or with any questions they may have. The 4 virtual events include two info sessions (one in English and one in Spanish) and two sets of office hours with both english and spanish speaking staff available to answer any questions!

ENGLISH INFO SESSION

SPANISH INFO SESSION

BILINGUAL OFFICE HOURS 1

BILINGUAL OFFICE HOURS 2

For more information on our Cultural Funding Programs department please visit www.dallasculture.org/cultural-funding-programs

Funding Programs is a division of the Office of Arts and Culture that is dedicated to providing funding each fiscal year (FY) to eligible artists, nonprofits, and Dallas residents who apply through our funding programs.

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The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs is now accepting applications from artists, arts educators, and designers for a second round of micro-residencies in City departments.

The goal of the residencies is for creative thinkers/artists to embed themselves in non-arts-focused City departments and offer creative innovations and solutions to improve their operations and processes. The residencies are not intended to create art FOR the Departments, but rather to bring different artistic perspectives or changes TO existing operations – to show that artistic and creative thinking is part of everything we do and that creative thinkers are valuable team members. The first round of residencies occurred in 2018 as part of the Dallas Cultural Plan. Reports and recommendations from those residencies can be found on pp. 33-37 of the Dallas Cultural Plan.

This round of residencies will be up to two weeks in duration and will offer a stipend of up to $2,000.

Applications are due by February 25, 2019. After review by a panel of City staff, Dallas Cultural Plan partners, and previous micro-residency participants, up to 10 finalists will be selected. A “meet and greet” interview meeting will allow City departments to meet and learn about the applicants and give feedback on their proposals, as well as for the applicants to learn more about the City Departments. After the “meet and greet”, applicants will submit present revised proposals, based on which the selection team will pick up to 5 artists, arts educators and/or designers for the residencies.

Selected artists will be notified by March 15th and publicly announced at the Dallas Arts Month Press Preview on Wednesday, March 27, 2019. 2018.

The Residency

The residencies can begin as early as April 1 and must be completed by May 31. A report-out event will be scheduled for early June. Each artist will be paired with a City department and will work to create a plan and schedule for approximately 80 hours on site. Residents will be provided with a desk or works space (as needed) within a specific City department in which they will complete the residency and will be paid a stipend of up to $2000. During this residency, residents will engage with City staff to:

• increase integration of arts, culture, creative thinking, creative placemaking and/or design within City activities, and
• identify opportunities for increased cross collaboration with the home department and the Office of Cultural Affairs, and
• identify where creativity is already present in the department, even when it’s not acknowledged as a creative practice.

Artists, arts educators, designers and other creative thinkers in all medias and/or forms are encouraged to apply.

Application Requirements

Applicants should demonstrate:

• A connection to the arts, culture and city of Dallas
• A strong interest in contributing to the strengthening of Dallas’s arts ecosystem (for example through thought leadership, advocacy, or entrepreneurship).
• Examples of work that exhibit an ability to thoughtfully explore topics relevant to the City departments where the residencies will be taking place, such as city policies, urban planning and design, literacy, the environment, housing, and more generally, the culture and identity of Dallas
• Applicants must be able to commit up to 80 hours to the City department they are paired with
• Applicants will be required to submit a final report of the residency and attend a report-out event in early June, 2019
• Applicants must live within the City of Dallas

Schedule

Applications open: February 6, 2019
Applications close: February 25, 2019
Notification of 10 finalists: March 1, 2019
Convening of finalists and City Departments for meet and greet: TBD mid-March 2019
Finalists announced: March 27, 2019
Residencies Occur: April/May 2019
Final Report-out: TBD early June 2019

Guidelines For Application

Applications must be submitted online here.

OCA is happy to support applicants in the completion of their applications at any point in the application process. All applicant questions can be directed to David Fisher at David.Fisher@dallascityhall.com

All applications will require:

1. Applicant Information: name, address, phone number, email and website (if applicable)
2. Applicant Bio (250 words)
3. Applicant’s Personal Statement and Residency Approach (no more than 750 words). Please be sure to include:
   1. Your experience as an artist, arts educator, and/or designer
   2. Your interest in working with the City of Dallas and any particular areas of interest within the City.
   3. Your experience with community engagement
   4. Your experience as a creative problem solver and/or bringing creative solutions to non-arts-focused systems or processes
4. Example(s) of Collaborative Project Management (no more than 500 words)
   1. Give specific examples of 1-2 projects where you collaboratively made something happen that benefited the participants, a neighborhood or community, and/or the arts ecosystem as a whole.
5. Work Samples and Descriptions: Artists can provide up to 3 work samples that demonstrate the quality, breadth and focus of your artistic work. Art samples should highlight community participation as part of process or art work product, and connect to the proposed project’s scope. All links and images should be compiled into one PDF, less than 10MB.
   1. Time-Based Media: Up to 2 of the work samples can be audio or video (through Vimeo, Soundcloud or Youtube). Do not include password-protected media links. The total time of audio or video submitted for all 3 media samples should not exceed 6 minutes. All links must be cued to the start time.
   2. Photo Documentation of Time-Based and Physical Work: Photos should be 72 DPI, no smaller than 800 pixels and no larger than 1100 pixels on the long side.
   3. For each work sample include:
      1. Title
      2. Year completed
      3. Medium
      4. Dimensions, if applicable
      5. URL, if applicable
      6. Role of the applicant in the work’s production
      7. Brief description of the work

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