Category Archives: Dharma Beauty Pageant

First Prize: Griselda Castillo Second Prize: Michael Hatcher Third Prize: Layne Calabro Honorable Mention: Leslie Soule -Juried by Mairead Case- Griselda Castillo: how is a cypress like a peace officer? neighborhood trap  turns into neighborhood traps  when the cops can’t tell  the goodies from the baddies the world’s turned to ammunition caught the new american […]

Micaela Gutierrez-Tillet We love this excerpt from Micaela Gutierrez Tillet’s interview on the Voyage Dallas website. It’s a cool site, with profiling interviews of Dallas Culture Trailblazers, and more. Click here to read the full interview and visit more Voyage Dallascontent. Micaela Guiterrez Tillet: After moving to Dallas from Chicago in 2005, I was quickly moved […]

And the winners are: Click here Areola Eyes – I’m a Baddie by Carolina Reyes: View and get started! Guest Juror: Mairead Case  Submission Fee: $5 for contest entry. You may enter more than once. One submission per entry. Feedback/Critique from Mairead Case: $25 (Total payment: $30) Deadline: April 15, 2021. Contest:  1st Prize $100 plus interview & recording of […]

Monika Bowman Bell : In your sleep by black sheet curtains hung with tacks Monika Bowman uses imagery of the natural world to reflect riddles of the human mind within her visual, performative, musical and written works. She has showcased and performed all over Dallas since 2009. Camping, meditation, ocean waves on warm days, and […]

A brief summary of past DB productions and participants: Past shows took place over 3 day weekends of Augusts, 2004-7, to soldout audiences at Katherine Owens’s Undermain Theatre. Each artist contributed multiple vignettes, stitched into the fabric of the whole; and all relating to a central theme. The original production featured a core cast of Karen […]

“In the throws of the first covid quarantine, 2020, I returned to my life which had been shut down, anticipating a year of travel.  Mexico, the expected first leg, took me to Guadalajara, where I met a wonderful art compatriot, Lou Garza, Professor of art at Monterrey Tec, Guadalajara.  Apparent, after one month, my year […]

Web-Staged Performance Art TV Start writing or type / to choose a block Start writing or type / to choose a block The Dharma Beauty Pageant -WebStaged Performance Art TV- Due to the Pandemic: Due to the Pandemic: Due to the Pandemic:The previously scheduled production of The Dharma Beauty Pageant has been re-imagined into website-staged […]

“I am a writing coach, journalist, healing arts and grief recovery consultant, Black culture activist, artist and the (now) bald-headed founder of a collective that celebrates nappy hair! Through my consultancy The Writing Doula, I create content, edit, and help people give birth to the power of their words. I also conduct writing workshops that […]

Laney Yarber is an award winning Performance Artist from Dallas. This work was created as a presentation curated by faculty for the Guadalajara Tech Institute.

Carolina Reyes is visual and performance artist from NYC.