Art Installations
Exemplary works of art from the Museum's collection are the foundation of the installations in the Center for Creative Connections (C3). The themes and ideas from the works of art are presented throughout the Center for further investigation, hands on art-making, and creative responses.
Currently on View
Show Off Your Photographs!
Past Exhibitions
Community Partner Response Installations
Currently on View
Central to our mission in the Center for Creative Connections is providing opportunities for our visitors to connect with works of art from the Museum's collection. The works of art on view in C3 are accompanied by a variety of interactive components that both offer information and prompt a response.
Show Off Your Photographs!
You are invited to contribute photographs to the Center for Creative Connections (C3). Upload your photographs to our Flickr group (see guidelines below).
Red is the color of love, passion, and beauty, as well as danger, war, and fire. It can be deep and brooding or bright and vivid. Show us how you capture the color red. Need inspiration? Take a moment to explore the many ways that artists have used the color red in works in the DMA's collection online and when you visit the Museum.
Upload your photographs here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/dmaseered
Guidelines for submission:
• Feel free to submit multiple photos.
• Both color and black-and-white images are welcome.
• The higher the resolution, the better to show off your photos.
• It is our intention to include all images; however, the DMA staff reserves the right to omit submissions that are inappropriate in nature.
• By submitting your photograph, you allow the DMA the right to display it on a monitor within the exhibition and on the Museum’s website. Your name will not be attached to the image.
• Special Note: In order to have your photos appear in a Flickr Group, you must first create your own personal Flickr account, and that personal account must have at least five images uploaded on it. Please check your account and allow others to download images, and if necessary, upload a few more images to ensure your photos are included in the C3 groups.
Past Exhibitions
Encountering Space
September 25, 2010–Fall 2012
Center for Creative Connections
We take up space. We move in space. We encounter space. Closed spaces and open spaces, full spaces and empty spaces—these can affect us differently, both physically and emotionally. These same reactions can be a part of our experiences with the space of a work or art.
Artists change space. Just as artists make choices about how they use color, lines, and shapes, they also make choices about how they use space. As you move through this exhibition and view works of art from varying physical distances and perspectives, think about how the artists use space and give you a way into their art. Reflect on your responses to the spaces you encounter in art, as well as those you encounter in your everyday life.
Monitor Wall Visitor Photo Submissions:
TEXAS SPACE - On view in C3 September 2010-February 2011
DESIGNED SPACE - On view in C3 March-September 2011
FILLED SPACE - On view in C3 October 2011-March 2012
PEACEFUL SPACE - On view in C3 April-October 2012
POSITIVE/NEGATIVE SPACE - On View in C3 November 2012 - January 2013
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The Living Room
July 27–September 24, 2010
Center for Creative Connections Temporary Location, Tower Gallery, Level 4
During the summer of 2010, the Center for Creative Connections moved into the Museum’s fourth-floor Tower Gallery as construction began on a new exhibition, Encountering Space. To continue to serve visitors and the community, artist Jill Foley was brought in to create a dynamic installation for the Center’s temporary "home away from home.”
Jill Foley is a Dallas-based artist who creates large-scale imaginary-type spaces to host her puppet-like figural sculptures and her paintings and drawings. She has used recycled cardboard to create naturalistic forms and makeshift home furnishings to surround visitors in an active living space. Foley wanted to create an inviting space like that of a living room that reflects the personality of C3. She was also inspired by the DMA's collections and the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection period rooms on Level 3. Throughout the summer, Foley and the C3 staff hosted participatory programs, happenings, and performances in the gallery. Visitors created artwork to contribute to the space, reflecting the involvement of the community.
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Materials & Meanings
May 3, 2008–July 25, 2010
Center for Creative Connections
What do the materials of works of art mean to artists? What do the materials of works of art mean to you? Materials & Meanings, the inaugural exhibition of eight works of art selected from the Museum’s encyclopedic collection, focused on the materials from which a work of art is made and on the meanings associated with those materials to both the artist and the viewer.
Materials can have powerful meanings for the artist who selects and manipulates them as part of the creative process. You bring your own experiences with materials when you look at a work of art. The works of art in this exhibition were from different cultures and time periods, but all are made from materials that suggest meanings to the artist and perhaps to you.
Please click here for the official press release.