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 Beyond the Canvas:
A look at the stories, inspirations, and processes of the Adamson AP Art students
April 19-26, 2025 at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center
Reception: Saturday, April 19, 2025, 4:00-6:00 PM
This exhibit showcases the work of the students enrolled at Adamson in AP Art. Some students are working on a Drawing Portfolio while others are working on a 3-Dimensional portfolio. The topics of the student’s portfolios range from personal experiences and frustrations that come from being a young adult today, to showing growth and change, and exploring human emotion in a non-traditional way.
Artists:
Natalie Davila
Sophia Gonzalez
Emily Lopez
Areli Benitez
Samantha Diaz de Leon
Vanessa Gallegos
Brisa Gonazlez
Stephanie Guerrero
Natalie Herrera
Harley Hooper
Abigail Lopez
Katherine Ochoa
Natalia Perez
Yudinich Pineda
Ismael Rangel
Perla Tovar
Roberto Villa
ON VIEW IN THE OC3 GALLERY
ALIYAH CYDONIA
donia
March 15 – April 12, 2025
 Aliyah Cydonia’s solo exhibition donia, a contemplation on bloodlines, memory, and corporeal awareness, will open on Saturday, March 15, 2025 with a reception from 6 - 8 pm.
donia is an homage to lineage, a vein connecting the past. Paintings and a video depicting her ancestor Sedonia resurrect familial bonds and supplant her awareness of “lives lived before”. In another painting titled “The Pilgrimage” Aliyah depicts a Cake Walk, a dance that was originated by American Slaves; performing a mockery of the Waltz and other traditional European dances. Rendered in oil, the figures in the painting are faint providing a glimpse of ancestral memory hinting at the permeable connections in bloodlines.
Through research and reflection, her paintings and video installation in the exhibition experiment with the corporeal, attempting to access the information from the bloodline that is stored within her. She likens it to a journey, explaining “this series is an exploration of the pilgrimage going on in our bodies in relation to the experiences and the entropic memories from ancestors that are being stored in us”.
Aliyah Cydonia was born in 2002 in Dallas, TX. She is a recent graduate of The University of North Texas, achieved her BFA in Studio Arts with a concentration in Painting and Drawing. Cydonia has exhibited works at Daisha Board Gallery, Tureen, SP/N Gallery at the University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas Contemporary, the gallery at Richland DCCCD Campus, and Paul Voertman's Gallery. She lives and works in Dallas, TX. In 2022, Cydonia was awarded The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Funded by the Dallas Museum of Art. Cydonia, along with Hannah Baskin started a collective in 2021 called Anti Avant Garde Avant Garde. The collective has performed a performance piece, Cooperative Conundrum, at the Dallas Contemporary. In 2022, Cydonia traveled to Florence, Italy to attend a paint and drawing study abroad program. In 2023, Cydonia attended the New York Academy Arts undergraduate residency. In 2024, Cydonia was an artist in residency at Arts Mission Oak Cliff.
 COMING SOON TO THE OC3 GALLERY
Colette Copeland | Soundings:
Texas --Let Your Voice Be Heard
April 26 – May 24, 2025
Reception: April 26, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
The Oak Cliff Cultural Center a division of the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture is proud to present artist Colette Copeland’s Soundings, a collaborative, community-based experimental sound installation that amplifies historically silenced voices in Texas—specifically those of women, non-binary, and queer individuals. The exhibition will open with a reception on Saturday, April 26, 2025, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm.
For Soundings, participants were invited to choose a phrase or series of phrases that held deep personal meaning—words they wished to sound into the universe. Those who spoke multiple languages expressed themselves in all of them. Their voices were then woven together into a layered sonic composition, forming a chant-like symphony—part mantra, part reclamation—symbolizing collective power and resilience.
Soundings has been exhibited at the Sawyer Silos as part of Houston Sculpture Month (2023), ICOSA Gallery in Austin (2023), Under Construction Gallery in San Antonio (2024), Delta Triennial at Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (2024) and forthcoming at LHUCA at Texas Tech University (2025). The Oak Cliff Cultural Center marks the project's Dallas debut exhibition. The companion project Soundings:India has been exhibited at Arthshila Art Center in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India (2024) and at University of Texas at Dallas (2025).
Colette Copeland is an interdisciplinary visual artist and cultural critic/writer whose work examines prescient socio-political and cultural issues. Sourcing personal narratives, historical research and contemporary culture, she utilizes video, sound, photography, printmaking, performance and sculptural installation to bring awareness and engage in critical discourse. Her work has been exhibited in 34 solo exhibitions and 156 group exhibitions/festivals spanning 36 countries. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute in New York and her MFA from Syracuse University. She teaches contemporary art/studio practices and performance art at University of Texas in Dallas, Texas. She writes for Glasstire, and Arteidolia online publications. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Research Award for 2023/2024 to write about female contemporary artists in India who work with socially engaged issues, as well as an experimental sound project amplifying female, non-binary and queer voices.
 SWAN STRINGS AT OC3
TUESDAYS AT 6:45 PM * & SATURDAYS AT 11:00 AM 2025
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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