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Fort Worth Community Arts Center
After 22 years of incubating arts initiatives and empowering local artists and performers in Fort Worth’s historic Cultural District, Arts Fort Worth will wind down its management of the Fort Worth Community Arts Center at 1300 Gendy Street. Through its programming and services, Arts Fort Worth created a space for thousands of visual and performing artists to share their voice, deepen their practice, and grow their careers. The galleries, offices, theaters, and studios became vital spaces for the community to gather, produce, perform, connect to and experience the arts.
The circumstances that make managing the building untenable do not signal the end of Arts Fort Worth’s mission. The organization will continue incentivizing arts and culture programs through grants, engaging neighborhoods in producing one-of-a-kind works of art through the Fort Worth Public Art program. Arts Fort Worth will celebrate the local arts community through the Heart of Gold awards and introduce its first-ever local arts summit.
Frequently Asked Questions
When will programming stop?
Beginning in August, we will suspend a few of our own programs that were scheduled for production at the Arts Center. These include the Biennial exhibition and the remaining exhibitions selected through the Solo & Curatorial Proposal Open Call (SoCur) submission process, as well as the upcoming Art Aid workshop and world premiere theater production selected through the Original Works Series program.
How can I continue to support Arts Fort Worth?
In this next chapter, we will need your perspective and your participation. In the immediate future, you can:
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Share your voice in a Fort Worth Public Art public meeting on Monday, August 19 where we will discuss the 39 active projects taking place across our city.
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Help Arts Fort Worth expand its capacity to serve everyone in the 12th biggest city by becoming a monthly donor.
I’m scheduled to host an event, exhibition, or program at the Arts Center. What should I expect?
All clients who are under contract to rent facilities will still have a place to present at the Arts Center until December 31st, at which time we will need to close to the public in order to support transitions for the nonprofits who have offices and storage at 1300 Gendy.
All clients with an active contract or pending proposal will receive an email from our managing team confirming that your program can continue as scheduled if it is scheduled before January 1, 2025.
All clients with a program taking place on or after January 1 will also receive an email confirming cancellation. Deposits from cancelled contracts will be refunded.
For clients who have programs scheduled both before and after December 31 will receive both emails.
When will clients and subtenants transition out of the Fort Worth Community Arts Center?
Arts Fort Worth will begin transitioning clients and subtenants through December 31, 2024.
Timeline
August 1, 2024
Arts Fort Worth suspends the following programs:
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Original Works Series, including open calls for scripts, script reading presentations, and world premiere production
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Exhibitions selected through the SoCur: Solo & Curatorial Exhibition Proposals Call
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Arts Forth Worth 2024 Biennial exhibition
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Artist talks
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Art Aid workshop
August 19, 2024
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The regularly scheduled Fort Worth Art Commission meeting, including an overview the Fort Worth Public Art program’s annual workplan, will take place at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center
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All future monthly Art Commission meetings will take place at another location, to be announced
Fall Gallery Night, September 7, 2024, 9 a.m.- 9 p.m.
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Client programs will take place as scheduled, including Fort Worth Fringe Fest
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The Fort Worth Community Arts Center will participate in the Fort Worth Art Dealers Association (FWADA)’s Fall Gallery Night
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The Fort Worth Community Arts Center exhibitions scheduled for deinstallation will be extended pending artists’ approvals
January 1, 2025
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Arts Center galleries will close to the public
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All events and programs scheduled to take place after this date will be cancelled
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Remaining artist studios and nonprofit offices will remain open and accessible to sub-tenants and their stakeholders 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
April 1, 2025
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Sub-tenants of the Fort Worth Community Arts Center must relocate by this date
History at 1300 Gendy Street
Located at 1300 Gendy Street, Fort Worth Community Arts Center is part of the most architecturally significant museum districts in the United States. The striking modern Herbert Bayer building (with a later O’Neil Ford addition) opened to the public in 1954 as home to one of the most prestigious and oldest collecting organizations in the state of Texas, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. When, in 2002, the Modern moved down the street, the Fort Worth Community Arts Center opened. The building continues to exhibit world class art and support the performing arts for more than half a century.
For more information on the redevelopment of the Fort Worth Community Arts Center, click here.