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 FTC Comedy Presents:
Thomas Nichols Live at OC3
Friday, November 21, 2025, at 8:00 PM (doors at 7:30 PM)
Thomas Nichols is a stand-up comedian based out of Dallas, Texas. His unique and whip smart observations span from everything to cartoons to politics to pineapple Fanta – the laid-back funnyman transitions seamlessly from one tightly crafted joke to the next within the course of a single set. Deadpan, hilarious, and wise beyond his years, Nichols is a nationally touring comic who’s been featured in the horror film Subferatu as Roosevelt. He’s also been a finalist in many comedy festivals like Funniest Comic in Texas Competition, Seattle International Competition and many more.
His unique brand of friendly, effortless cool and his quick wit have made him a favorite recurring guest at the most popular club across the country.
Nichols will be joined by Anna Barden (Organizer of the “Queen for a Day” Comedy Festival) and Nimesh Patel (Finalist of the “Funniest Comic in Dallas” Competition)
 Victoria Gonzales
Altars
On view: October 4 – November 7, 2025
Reception: October 18, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Gonzales’ work is intimately connected to her familial and cultural identity. Through mixed media painting and ceramics, her work explores the complex narratives hidden in the everyday – recalling and reshaping memories of family, ritual, and the landscape of her upbringing.
In her solo exhibition, Altars, she explores themes of identity, family dynamics, and the process of navigating the mundane and tragic circumstances of daily life. Drawing on her Mexican American upbringing and ties to Catholicism, Gonzales narrative works include symbolic elements from Catholic imagery and traditional metalwork found in the neighborhoods of her hometown. Her paintings depict the sharing of meals, tending to daily responsibilities such as caring for family chickens, connecting to nature and seeking spiritual connection through the lighting of candles. Intertwining these elements in triptych paintings embedded with traditional religious symbols, her reimagined altars emphasize community, unity, and daily routine as a new form of ritual and worship.
Currently based in Oak Cliff – Dallas, TX, Victoria Gonzales is a native of San Antonio, TX. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Baylor University in 2019 and her Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from the University of North Texas in 2022. She has exhibited throughout Texas including a solo show at Pencil on Paper Gallery in 2023 and Arts Fort Worth in 2022, as well as juried exhibitions with 500x Gallery, Art Room, Greater Denton Arts Council, the Center for Contemporary Arts, and others. In 2020, she was awarded first place in the Texas National Competition and Exhibition. Most recently she exhibited at William Campbell Gallery in Fort Worth, TX and the Dallas Art Fair. Victoria is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Tarrant County College Northwest.
 Bonny Leibowitz
Adventures in Plunderland
curated by Iris Bechtol
December 6, 2025 – January 10, 2026
Reception: December 6, 2025, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
at Oak Cliff Cultural Center
Focusing on nature as an “ever-evolving system intricately intertwined with human culture”, Leibowitz constructs hybrid objects and installations that blur boundaries between the manufactured and the organic. Her large-scale installations combine mangled steel, plastics, salvaged architectural materials, tree roots, and branches with photographs that become structures depicting the aftermath of demolished buildings and storms. Informed by post-naturalism and fragmented memories of land and place, her installations function as “facsimiles of nature” considering complex dynamics around environmental stories, histories and constructed narratives.
In conjunction with her show Adventures in Plunderland Leibowitz will present an outdoor installation Sightings from Plunderland at Trinity River Audubon Center, furthering the complex dialogue between humans and nature. The installation will be on view December 13, 2025 – January 10, 2026.
Originally from Philadelphia, Leibowitz lives and works in Dallas, TX. She studied at Temple University at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions nationally. In 2023, she was Visiting Artist at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Reviews of her work have been featured in notable publications including Southwest Contemporary Vol. 10 – Radical Futures, ArtSpiel and Modern Dallas. Leibowitz is a recipient of the Nasher Sculpture Center 2024 Nasher Artist Grant and was awarded a 2026 solo exhibition at Women and Their Work in Austin, TX.
Registration is requested for the artist talk and hike on December 13 at Trinity River Audubon Center.
Carolina Yáñez: Cutting Across
October 17 - November 8, 2025
The Dallas based Tejana artist Carolina Yáñez presents her multidisciplinary body of work in the exhibition Cutting Across. The show focuses on the links between materiality and identity. The exhibition is curated by Christine Burger and presented by FTC Comedy.
Artwork: Carolina Yáñez, Nuestra Señora de La Liberación, 2025. Upcycled denim and thread. Courtesy of the artist.
 
 Teatro Flor Candela Presents
Bailando con La Muerte
Saturday, November 8, 2025, at 7:00 PM
at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center
 Moon Shadow Open Mic
presented by Christopher Soden
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at 7:00 PM
at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center
We invite passionate poets to attend the first performance of Moon Shadow Open Mic presented by Christopher Soden. We will begin with a featured poet, after that the poets who have signed up for a 5-minute spot. We hope to see you there!
 Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art 2025
Meet Us Where We’re At
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, at 7:00 PM
at Spacy, 1300 S Polk #160a, Dallas, Texas 75224
Join us for a Dallas screening and conversation with Tamara Garrett who was featured in the video ‘Here We Are: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV,’ created by Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes for Day With(out) Art 2022: Being and Belonging.
The Oak Cliff Cultural Center and Spacy are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2025 by presenting Meet Us Where We’re At, a program of six videos that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.
The program features new work by Camilo Tapia Flores, Camila Flores-Fernández, Hoàng Thái Anh, Kenneth Idongesit Usoro, José Luis Cortés, and Gustavo Vinagre & Vinicius Couto.
A day of mourning and action that uses art to respond to the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis, Day With(out) Art encourages museums, universities, museums, and art institutions to present related programming on or around December 1, World AIDS Day. Because AIDS is not over!
*Image still from Hoàng Thái Anh's, The Sister’s Journey, 2025. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Meet Us Where We’re At.
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