Seeding the Path<\/a>.”<\/p>\nFrom there, Friends of the Katy Trail also started to collaborate with the Dallas Museum of Art and new installations rotated in regularly. Now, curation on the trail is evolving.<\/p>\n
\u201cRather than presenting an individual work on a rolling basis, every two years we will invite a new curator to give a cohesive exhibition of 10-12 works along the full 3.5 mile corridor of the trail,\u201d Dillard Shufeldt said on Thursday. \u201cThis shifts the program from a series of strong, individual projects to a unified vision.\u201d<\/p>\n
The program is called the KTX Biennial and its first exhibition will debut next spring.<\/p>\n
‘Bringing museum quality art outdoors’<\/p>\n
Jovanna Venegas is the biennial\u2019s inaugural curator.<\/p>\n
Based in New York, Venegas has produced exhibitions at SculptureCenter in Long Island City and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in California. However, she hasn\u2019t put together a program outdoors before and jumped at the chance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe trail already has a set of users, two million visitors a year, that to me, is such a site of potential,\u201d she said. \u201dAs curators, I think we dream of moments like that to really bring art truly to the public and to a setting where it’s unexpected and it can be a surprise that hopefully is altering or really moving touching.\u201d<\/p>\n
She has a few invitations out to artists now, and is in the process of researching others. She plans to include some representation from artists in Texas.<\/p>\n
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Hadi Fallahpisheh’s exhibition “Guest” included four brightly colored steel sculptures. <\/p>\n
\u201cI really want to add to that sense of love that people already have for the trail and not impose \u2026 but bring in, hopefully, something that is truly pleasurable because I think we need those moments of pleasure right now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The original goal was to increase conversations about art in Dallas, Dillard Shufeldt said. It appears to be working.<\/p>\n
When her husband went to a conference in Las Vegas, a fellow attendee asked where he was from.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the guy says, \u2018Oh Dallas. Do you know the Katy Trail? They have this great art program, and they have all these really cool art installations on the trail.\u2019 And my husband was like, \u2018Yeah I think I know something about that,\u201d Dillard Shufeldt said.<\/p>\n
By bringing museum quality art outdoors, Dillard Shufeldt hopes that more people will be less intimated to check out art inside local museums and galleries.<\/p>\n
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