Design on Dragon returns for its fifth year on Thursday, Nov. 5 6-9 p.m. Live music, food and drinks will be part of the FREE street celebration, that will be part of the new First Thursdays on Dragon. Shuttles will be available for transportation. For more information call (214) 647-5681 or visit www.DragonStreetDallas.com. Proceeds from the event will benefit Big Thought.

Design on Dragon spotlights the great variety of art galleries, antique stores and home décor stores found on one street in Dallas: Dragon Street.  Visit Craighead Green Gallery, Banks Fine Art, HCG Gallery, Joel Cooner Gallery, Antique Floors, Art of Old India, Artizen Fine Arts, Inessa Stewart Pittet Architecturals, Dallas Flooring & Design, Martin & Martin Design and Samuel Lynne Galleries.

In the heart of Dallas’ Design District, near Oaklawn and 35, Design on Dragon is produced and sponsored by Modern Luxury Dallas, Park Place Motorcars, Three Sixty Events, Cork and the Dragon Street Association.

ABOUT MODERN LUXURY DALLAS

Modern Luxury Media, LLC (“Modern Luxury”) is the largest publisher of city-regional magazines in the United States, currently publishing 34 magazines across 13 major metro markets including: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Dallas, Houston, Washington DC, Atlanta, Honolulu, San Diego, Orange Co., CA. and Napa/Sonoma, CA. Focused on “luxury lifestyle” including fashion, jewelry, dining, travel, design, automotive, art and architecture, Modern Luxury specifically targets the affluent reader. Modern Luxury magazines distribute more than 1 million copies nationally each month, reaching more than 5 million readers per month.  The company was founded by brothers Michael and Stephen Kong in 1993 in the city of Chicago.

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The Texas Voices, a professional adult vocal chamber ensemble, is looking for new members for its next season.  Auditions are being held by appointment beginning June 10 through August 7 at the Resurrection Lutheran Church in Plano for both women’s and men’s parts.

Auditions will include one solo, preferably classical; sight reading of a choral part; pitch pattern matching and vocalization to determine range and intonation.

Rehearsals for the chamber chorus will take place Tuesday evenings (time to be determined) at the Church at 1919 Independence Parkway, near West Park Boulevard in Plano. The Texas Voices is a 24-voice chamber chorus, which performs four subscription concerts each year.

To make an appointment, contact artistic director, Alan Dyer, at 972-801-2532 or adyer@thetexasvoices.org. For more information about The Texas Voices, visit www.thetexasvoices.org.

About The Texas Voices
Founded in December 2002, this 24-voice ensemble celebrates the choral tradition with a rich variety of music, from sacred to secular, classic to contemporary. Artistic Director Alan Dyer has gathered skilled singers from a broad range of backgrounds to create the first professional chamber chorus specifically serving North Dallas and Collin County. Dyer brings to the combination a musical sensitivity that places The Texas Voices among the top echelon of choruses nationwide. The chorus performs four concerts each year.

About Alan Dyer, Artistic Director
Alan Dyer has been a choral director, performer, and educator in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for more than 20 years. In addition to directing The Texas Voices, Dyer is a member of the music faculty at Texas Woman’s University, is a music associate at First Unitarian Church of Dallas, and the principal accompanist of the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas. Dyer earned a master of music degree from Southern Methodist University and Bachelor of Arts degree in piano performance from Dallas Baptist University. He also has completed doctoral courses at the University of North Texas. Dyer is active in the American and Texas Choral Directors Associations.

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PanAmerican ArtProjects is pleased to present a solo show of work by  Santa Fe artist Ted Larsen.  The opening reception is Saturday, Oct. 18 from 5-8 p.m. at 1615 Dragon Street, in the Design District of Dallas. Call 214-522-3303 for information or visit www.panamericanart.com. The gallery is open Tuesday- Saturday 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. The exhibition will close Nov. 15.

ABOUT TED LARSEN
In his second solo exhibition with us, Larsen delves further into his exploration of assemblage and found materials.  Larsen finds new purpose in these materials and re-identify their meanings, ultimately giving new context to the idea of Ready-Mades.

Continuing to use the detritus of society found in abandoned buildings, salvage yards, and old industrial plants, Larsen’s new work alternates between the pristine and the vandalized, the minimal and the expressionistic. Using a range of techniques that include tree saps mixed with over-layed wooden structures, compressed steel objects, and fabricated constructions, Larsen explores the formal qualities of containment and repression.  Fascinated with the authenticity of the materials, he endeavors to elevate them to a higher level and transform them into something better.  Larsen believes it is his duty as an artist to address the world’s current philosophical and theological issues in an aesthetic vehicle to stimulate a dialogue that may have the power to rectify our problems.  Larsen will choreograph the installation, moving the work off the walls and onto home-made pedestals to emphasize the anti-heroic and anti-hierarchical nature of his aesthetic.

In 2008, Larsen received a grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the New Mexico Museum of Art acquired one of his works from the exhibition “Art on the Edge” curated by Elizabeth Sussman of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and he was included in the Southwest Biennial at the Albuquerque Museum.  Larsen was also featured in solo exhibitions at Eight Modern in Santa Fe and OK Harris Gallery in New York.  Larsen’s work appears in private and public collections across the country.

About PanAmerican ArtProjects
Pan American Art Projects specializes in art of the Americas with the mission to build a bridge between North and South American cultures by presenting and exhibiting artists from both regions concurrently. We deal with emerging to established artists, as well as secondary market paintings, sculpture, and works on paper.
Originally Pan American Art Gallery, in 2006 we modified our name to reflect our expansion and evolution into a dynamic contemporary art venture. In December 2006 we opened a 4,500 square foot space in the Wynwood District of Miami, which features two exhibition rooms, a video box, sculpture garden, and an apartment with a studio for visiting artists.  In September 2007, the Dallas gallery opened in a new location in the Dallas Design District at 1615 Dragon St.

The galleries are active members of the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas and the Wynwood Art Association.