Art House Dallas Blog

 

Welcome to the Art House Dallas blog. We hope you’ll come visit often to stay up to date on the latest and greatest news and how to get involved.  As part of our Art House community, we want to keep you posted on our building progress for the new Art House, introduce you to some of our friends pursuing creativity for the common good, and pass on details about our events as well as other DFW events hosted by partner organizations you won’t want to miss out on. We’re glad you stopped by, make yourself at home. 

 

Tuesday
Feb142012

Art House Dallas Guest Blog: The Disciplined Life

Guest Blog

I attended my first Art House Local event last night, a quarterly meeting of creative Christians birthed out of Art House America. Dotting the DFW landscape, multiple groups met to discuss Carey Wallace’s short article On Discipline. As I tweeted the night before, it’s an incisive read, like a doctor who wounds you for your own good…

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Tuesday
Jan312012

Film Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

It’s difficult to talk about Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close without mentioning the bad press it’s received. Just take a moment to look at some of the negative blurbs listed for it on Rotten Tomatoes…

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Tuesday
Jan312012

The Diversity of Creativity

Diversity of Creativity

“So what’s your area of creativity?” she asked me casually after exchanging names for the first time at St. John’s Wood last Thursday night. Her question was a fair one considering our purpose for hosting the Art House Exchange. In fact, my new friend was doing exactly what we hoped people would do at our monthly pub gathering for creatives…

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Thursday
Jan262012

Art That Challenges: Aesthetic Challenges

Art That Challenges: Aesthetic

This is the second in my series of articles about art that challenges and how we respond to it. In my previous piece, I laid out several categories of challenges art can present us with. The first category is Aesthetic Challenges—that is, art that may be opposed or offensive to our tastes or that may confront our ideas about what beauty is and what art should be.

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Tuesday
Jan242012

My Favorite Films of 2011

My Favorite Films of 2011

On account of the fact the 2011 Oscar nominations were officially released today, we asked one of our movie critics for a list of his favorite films from the past year. Needless to say, he delivered. The following is a list of favorites from Andrew Welch…

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