Ballroom Marfa is excited to announce our participation in the second iteration of No Soul for Sale, A Festival of Independents, which will be hosted by the Tate Modern, London as part of its 10th anniversary celebrations.
Ballroom Marfa presents an evening under the stars with Grouper, the recording and performing project of Liz Harris, on May 30, 2010. Musician and artist Adam Bork opens the show.
Join us September 17-19, 2010 for our first conference about the border, Marfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa.
Join us September 18, 2010 at Padre's Marfa for La Santa Cecilia, playing as part of our Marfa Dialogues conference. 9 pm. Free!
Ballroom Marfa is pleased to announce the opening of Immaterial, an exhibition that will focus on the physical and psychic tensions between form, color, and space across varied visual and structural mediums. Open October 2, 2010 - February 20, 2011.
Join us for a live music performance by Ty Segall, followed by a DJ set by Boom Bip, on October 2, 2010, in honor of our Immaterial opening.
On Saturday, November 20, 2011, Ballroom Marfa presents The Rat Trap Ball featuring Austin band, The Royal Butchers. It's a dance party!
For our second annual New Year's film program, we'll show Jean Cocteau's avant-garde film The Blood of a Poet, accompanied by a live score by Eluvium, at the Masonic Lodge on January 1, 2011.
Please join us this Monday, January 10, 2011, for a panel discussion, "Red-Haired Stepchild: Making Visual Art in New Orleans," with curator Dan Cameron and artists Skylar Fein, Srdjan Loncar, and Dan Tague, from our upcoming exhibition, The World According to New Orleans. The Masonic Lodge, 6 pm.
Please join us for a special performance by three-time Grammy Award-winning solo guitarist, Sharon Isbin, on Monday, February 14, 2011 at the Crowley Theater. Doors open at 6 pm; show begins at 6:30 pm.
We are honored to host visiting guitarist Sharon Isbin at Marfa Jr/Sr High School as part of our ongoing program, Making Art Work, on 14 February 2011.
Join us this spring break for our Student Haiku Poetry Workshop, hosted by visiting artist Dan Tague and arts educator Mallory Jones, from 15-17 March 2011.
Join us for a live music performance by Little Freddie King, on 18 March 2011, as part of our The World According to New Orleans opening weekend.
In the spring of 2011, Ballroom Marfa will collaborate with curator Dan Cameron on the exhibition, The World According to New Orleans, which focuses on artists living and working in New Orleans, LA.
On March 26, 2011, please join us for performances of The Reading, a professionally staged screenplay presentation that spotlights a winning script from the prestigious 2010 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.
On April 18, 2011, our Texas Biennial artist Alyce Santoro will visit Marfa Jr/Sr High School as part of Making Art Work.
Ballroom Marfa is pleased to participate in this year's Texas Biennial with the artist Alyce Santoro, who will present her project, The Synergetic Omni-Solution, 29 April to 01 May 2011.
Ballroom Marfa and Marfa Book Company are proud to present an evening with the Cass McCombs Band on Friday, 8 July 2011, at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas. Pink Nasty opens the show. Doors at 8:30 pm; tickets $10.
Grouper Limited Edition 7-inch Ballroom hosted musician Liz Harris, aka Grouper, for a recording residency at Ballroom Marfa. During her stay, she made field recordings and recorded tracks at Marfa Recording Company, which appear on this limited-edition 7-inch (only 500 pressed). Side A is titled "Water People" and Side B is "Moving Machine." The 7-inch […]
