This Fall, artist Adela Andea’s site-specific installations will be on-view at the Center for Contemporary Arts! Andea is serving as the 2024 juror for the Center for Contemporary Arts National Juried Exhibition (CCAN) which will also be on-view.

Join us in celebrating Cuban-American artist Rolando Diaz as he shares his body of work depicting the horses of the biblical Revelation.

Texas Photographic Society is proud to announce the call for entry for By Hand: Alternative Processes, our fifth exhibition featuring hand-made photo-based imagery created using alternative photographic processes and historical printing methods. Our juror is acclaimed artist, educator, writer, and editor Christina Z. Anderson. This call is open to artists of all levels internationally.

By making the ordinary extraordinary, I seek to make the overlooked emerge instead as a resplendent focal point. In embracing the power of textiles as a fine art form, this installation seeks to bridge the divide between traditionally gendered crafts and elevate the status of soft sculpture within the realm of contemporary art.

The Center for Contemporary Arts is proud to present the 14th Annual juried Intercollegiate Student Art Competition for area college and university students!

The competition is open to students of Abilene Christian University, Cisco College, Hardin-Simmons University, McMurry University, Texas State Technical College, Angelo State University, Howard Payne University, Midwestern State University, South Plains College, and Tarleton State University. Entries may be submitted in any medium as long as the finished piece meets the size and weight restrictions of the category.

Through the lens of my camera, it has been my passion to observe the world around me. My friend and I recently completed an "Around the World in 80 Days: 81 and Still on the Run" adventure going to all 7 continents and seeing as many of the World's Wonders as possible. I use my photography to serve as a window into the world. There is a profound artistic beauty throughout the world, in the stunning landscape, the magnificent manmade structure, and capturing the feelings on the faces of the people I meet.

Sloane-Duncan’s paintings explore the tensions between public and private, and question whether we can ever fully be known by another person. She investigates the strategies we as humans use to veil or mask our truest selves and the reasons why we hold back and keep parts of ourselves private, even from those closest to us. The self-portraits raise questions essential to Sloane-Duncan’s practice: How and why do we use personal embellishment to shape others’ views of ourselves? Are self-adornment and interior decor forms of expression or manipulation? 

From the fall of 2019 to the spring of 2022 I lived in Spain working as an English language teacher in elementary schools. Six months into my experience the COVID-19 pandemic hit and choosing not to return to the U.S. meant the rest of my time on the Iberian Peninsula would have an added layer of complexity. Along with the expected challenges brought on by linguistic, cultural and bureaucratic differences, the pandemic and all the restrictions put in place by the Spanish government to help curb it opened me up to a deeper level of solitude than I was already in as an expat.

“My own personal memory as a dancer contributes to the existing space I am creating through experiences of discipline, practice, balance, and relaxed fluid faculty of control. I try to capture this through various materials, the movement of my own body as well as the memory of movement that can become distorted and transparent. I enjoy using various materials such as charcoal, chalk pastel, acrylic and textured surfaces.”

The West Texas Photographic Society (WTPS) is a group of photographers ranging from hobbyists to professionals. They promote the enjoyment of photography and enhance the creative ability of the Abilene photographic community. Their annual member exhibition will feature photography from their current membership.

Four up-and-coming artists will exhibit art that portrays the feelings and experiences of young queer individuals. Artworks will not follow a central theme but instead aesthetically align.

Ruhala’s exhibition will be a site-specific installation comprised of thirteen (4’x7’) panels of drywall which will visually envelop the space of Gallery 4. The subject of the site-specific installation is primarily Eli and his former partner’s dog companions standing in for them. Documenting them is evidence of the artist’s family, and through the action of drawing and painting a meditation on love is taking place. This narrative, cued by Ruhala’s complex visuals and intertwined figures will provide insight into queer domesticity.

In celebration of Earth Day, two local artists are creating an exhibit featuring trash, plastic, and other recycled materials at the Center for Contemporary Arts. Refuse Reformation, a two-person exhibition opening at the Center in late March, are works created by Kari Perkins and Larla Morales. The art featured in the exhibition is made entirely from recycled materials and reclaimed plastics. Unitedly, the artists wanted to create an exhibition that sends a message: one about the overuse of plastics and underutilized resources.

“In the last few years, I have spent a lot of time at Lake Kirby photographing birds. My exhibit will feature Birds of Lake Kirby, highlighting the variety and beauty of winged wildlife that can be seen around the shoreline.

While showing bird photos to people in Abilene they often respond with something like, “That was at Kirby? I had no idea those birds were out there!” I want to use this exhibit to promote Lake Kirby Nature Park and raise awareness of the wildlife, especially birds, that can be see there “