Step into the heart of Texas tradition with MUMENTOUS: Football, Glue Guns, Moms, and a Super-Sized High School Tradition Born Deep in the Heart of Texas. This captivating exhibit explores the evolution of Texas high school homecoming mums from their humble beginnings in the 1920s through today’s highly varied practices. The exhibit’s photography and narratives touch […]

Richard Ray and wife, Marty, are Dallas-based artists who often collaborate on ceramic works (Marty’s specialty) and paintings (Richard’s primary medium).  Richard and Marty’s unique collaborations  merge design, themes and skills to create finished works of art in both mediums. The collection of pottery and paintings by this husband-wife team will be on view in the […]

A Holiday tradition going on three decades  returns to Irving Arts Center as the galleries are transformed into a wonderland of spectacularly decorated Christmas Trees and student artwork. Finding inspiration in this year’s theme, “Sweet Dreams of Christmas” various community groups and schools will put their decorated trees on display. You can see them in […]

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Lane Banks: Geometric Paintings, on view in the Dupree Lobby Gallery at Irving Arts Center from Sept 14, 2024 through November 30, 2024 features the work of Dallas-based artist Lane Bank. His work is insistently abstract, mathematical, conceptual in origin and geometric in appearance.  It does not derive from perception, but is […]

Main & Focus Galleries Sept 14, 2024 – Nov. 9, 2024 Exhibition History and Background: Since 2001, each summer Irving Arts Center has held a non-juried exhibition featuring art created by our Art Connection members. During this show, artwork by students and professional and non-professional artists hangs side by side in the beautiful Main Gallery and […]

Due to construction and facility upgrades, the gallery walls will be bare until Sept 14.  Beginning Sept 14, the following exhibitions will be on display: The Art of Marty & Richard Ray Lane Banks: Geometric Paintings 24th Annual Art Connection Members Exhibition Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat from noon to 5PM Irving Arts Center’s galleries are open […]