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ON VIEW IN THE OC3 GALLERY
DANIELLE ELLIS
ORACLE
THRU FEBRUARY 22, 2025
 Danielle Ellis, untitled, digital collage, 2025
An Oak Cliff native, Danielle Ellis’ work connects African Traditional Religion and history to the African diaspora through her work in digital collage, photography, and spiritual practices.
ORACLE encapsulates Ellis’ Brassfly Oracle Deck, a body of work she began developing in 2020. Presented as a suite of digital collage prints, the oracle deck is a celebration and commentary on African diasporic history and spirituality.
Danielle Ellis is an Oak Cliff native always ready to share her love of the arts with everyone at a moment’s notice be it painting live or holding workshops through her creative incubator Brassfly Studio. Her art education came from her parents, summer workshops at the South Dallas Cultural Center, attending Booker T. Washington High School of the Performing and Visual Arts and later The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She’s a member/producer of ArtLoveMagic, a member of We Here Collective and the Radical Love Collective. She is the creator of Mermaids Bring Water, a mutual aid initiative that provides clean water to communities in need with its focus on one of the last remaining Black Townships- Sandbranch, Texas and provided emergency bottled water to households across the metroplex during the Texan Winter Storm of 2020. Her work has been seen in multiple venues and events including the Dallas Museum of Art, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Latino Cultural Center, and the State Fair of Texas. She is a recipient of the 2023 Juanita J. Craft Artist Residency at the South Dallas Cultural Center.
ON VIEW IN THE STUDIO
LETITIA HUCKABY
BITTER WATERS SWEET - SELECTED WORKS
THRU FEBRUARY 8, 2025
 Letitia Huckaby
Ms. Woods, 2022
Pigment print on fabric with embroidery
71h x 41w inches
Bitter Waters Sweet is photographer and multimedia artist Letitia Huckaby’s carefully attentive and demonstrative contemplation of Africatown – its people, land, and history.
Letitia Huckaby has a degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma, a BFA in photography from the Art Institute of Boston (now the art school at Lesley University), and her Master’s degree from the University of North Texas in Denton. Huckaby has exhibited as an emerging artist at Phillips New York, the Tyler Museum of Art, The Studio School of Harlem, Renaissance Fine Art in Harlem curated by Deborah Willis, PhD, The McKenna Museum in New Orleans, the Camden Palace Hotel in Cork City, Ireland, and the Texas Biennial at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum. Her work is included in several prestigious collections; the Library of Congress, the McNay Art Museum, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, and the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Huckaby was a featured artist in MAP2020: The Further We Roll, The More We Gain at the Amon Carter Museum and State of the Art 2020 at Crystal Bridges Museum. Ms. Huckaby was a Fall 2020 Art Pace Artist in Residence and is represented by the Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas. Ms. Huckaby is the Co-Founder of Kinfolk House, a collaborative project space that inhabits a 100-year-old historic home, where community and art converge in the predominantly Black and Latina/e/o neighborhood of Polytechnic in Fort Worth, Texas and she is Texas Artist of the Year 2022.
She is represented by the Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas.
SPRING BREAK ART CAMP
 Spring Break Art Camp! Improv camp with Lauren Oxford is a week-long course in which kids ages 9-12 will learn to "follow the funny" and collaborate creatively in a judgment-free environment. Through play, campers can develop improv comedy skills like confidence, stagecraft, and active listening.
Lauren is a Dallas native whose improv journey began in the year 2001 as a high school senior. She currently performs with the mainstage casts at Four Day Weekend and Dallas Comedy Club, and troupes including Queso Queens, Surrender Dorothy, and Peanut Pony. Lauren is a graduate of improv programs as Dallas Comedy House and Stomping Ground Comedy and has a degree in Theatre from the University of Puget Sound. She has educated art, theatre, and writing students of all ages and abilities through her work with the Dallas Comedy Club, the Dallas Contemporary, VSA New Mexico, and Dallas Comedy House (RIP).
When she’s not teaching or performing improv, Lauren is a personal trainer at the YMCA and Beefcake City, an inclusive virtual fitness space.
Camp dates: March 10-14, 2025, 9 AM-12 PM (drop off is at 8:45 AM and pick up is at 12:30 PM)
Location: Oak Cliff Cultural Center, 223 W. Jefferson Blvd, Dallas, Texas 75208
HIP HOP WORKSHOP, Taught by T. Soup, Music by DJ Leo J
February 22, 2025, 1 - 4 PM
Schedule
1:00 - 2:30 PM, Hip Hop Workshop with T. Soup
2:30 - 3:00 PM, Q+A
3:00 - 4:00 PM, Hip Hop Community Session with DJ Leo J
Presented by Cypher Dallas Freestyle Education Program and powered by Battle Grounds @battlegroundsdtx and Dallas Culture @dallasculture
All Workshops are 100% FREE and open to the public.
SEE U SOON DALLAS ⭐️
 SWAN STRINGS AT OC3
TUESDAYS AT 6:30 PM * & SATURDAYS AT 11:00 AM 2024
Swan Strings Music Program is a 501c3 non-profit organization with a mission to provide free music education, community concerts and sound therapy services to North Texan individuals without access.
Questions? Contact Swan Strings at programs@swanstrings.com
* Thursday lessons will be moved to Tuesdays starting in November
Oak Cliff Cultural Center
223 W. Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75208
Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Phone: 214-670-3777
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