Ballroom Marfa hosted Austin record collector Dominic Welhouse for a two-week residency called In My Room: Listening to Records in Marfa, Texas.

In the North Gallery, Franco Mondini-Ruiz presents a new, large-scale installation titled "Giant." This massive, baroque assemblage of found objects dominates the Ballroom's front gallery floor, expanding Mondini-Ruiz' signature vignettes of culturally-fused visual components.

Don Howard, an Austin-based filmmaker and professor of film editing at the University of Texas, will screen a series of films illustrating two of the primary sources of a documentary film's power: cinematography and editing.

Last fall, four of the world's top jazz improvisers combined forces for a performance at the Ballroom. Join us for a listening party of the album recorded that night.

Join us for an evening with John Waters, the filmmaker, author, and photographer based in Baltimore and New York City, who became famous as "the Pope of Trash" (William Burroughs) and the "King of suburban exploitation."

From the folk-influenced compositions of Bela Bartok and Gyorgy Ligeti, cellist Matt Haimovitz and DJ Olive embark on a journey from Hungarian/Romanian folk roots to American pop culture, blurring the boundaries between concert music and dance party.

Ballroom Marfa is proud to announced its first group exhibition devoted to emerging artists whose work is informed by their experience of urban and suburban life in contemporary American culture. Curated by Fairfax Dorn, You Are Here will be on view October 6 through February 27, 2006.