About To celebrate the reactivation of Ballroom’s latest commission, Haroon Mirza’s stone circle, Ballroom presented a very special program at the Crowley Theater. First we screened PASSAGE, a short film by artist and co-founder of the CineMarfa film festival, Jennifer Lane, which documents megaliths across the Iberian Peninsula. The screening was followed by a short […]
Ballroom Marfa is proud to announce our Tierra. Sangre. Oro Adobe Workshop, an education program for Marfa Independent School District high school students. This adobe brick-building workshop will be led by artist Rafa Esparza, and will give students from our community the opportunity to engage in a creative process steeped in regional history. Esparza’s program will open new channels of expression, encourage understanding and pride in Borderlands cultural
Concert def.sound performed for the opening reception of The Way You Make Me Feel on November 16th at WRONG Marfa. def is a frequent collaborator of Jibade-Khalil Huffman and the concert included a specially selected set to accompany the thematic content of Khalil’s installation.
Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s First Person Shooter is a complex visual collage that layers stock digital animation, video shot by the artist, bold text, and multichannel audio. The piece weaves together themes of anxiety, race, violence, overstimulation and boredom from a fractured palette of source material. Overlaid onto the imagery, a libretto-like text inflects the video’s barrage of stimuli, applying lyricism to episodes that intentionally frustrate conventional narrative expectations.
Exhibition Beatriz Cortez | Candice Lin | Fernando Palma Rodríguez Candelilla, Coatlicue, and the Breathing Machine was an exhibition that featured new work by three artists: Beatriz Cortez, Candice Lin, and Fernando Palma Rodríguez. The title refers to a facet of each artist’s contribution to the show, which ranged from wax pours to robotic storytellers […]
ABOUT Marfa Myths is an annual music festival and multidisciplinary cultural program founded in 2014 by nonprofit contemporary arts foundation Ballroom Marfa and Brooklyn-based music label Mexican Summer. With Marfa Myths, the two organizations bring together a diversity of emerging and established artists and musicians to work creatively and collaboratively across music, film, and visual […]
Workshop Ballroom Marfa and Agave Festival Marfa presented Tlacuilcopa – a workshop and exploration of Nahuatl with artist and activist Fernando Palma Rodríguez at Ballroom Marfa. Nahuatl is a widely-spoken indigenous language of Mexico and Central America that uses a writing system based on logograms – written characters and images that represent a word or […]
Summer Shake Up DJ Dada For 2019 DJ Camp Ballroom joined forces with Summer Shake-Up, offered by Marfa ISD in collaboration with other community partner organizations. DJ Camp was free with breakfast, lunch, and transportation to/from MISD provided. Students, grades five through eight, were invited to participate. Students learned skills directly on DJ equipment and […]
Screening + Q&A Ballroom Marfa and the Marfa Book Company presented a screening of the documentary The River and the Wall, followed by a Q&A with executive producer Nancy Sanders, producer Hillary Pierce, and associate producer Katy Baldack. The film follows five friends on an immersive adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands […]
Screening + Q&A Ballroom Marfa presented a free screening of Cassandro, The Exótico! with a special appearance from Cassandro; Q&A hosted by Sauvignon Blanca; and DJ set by Tokyo Bois. The film is a unique and intimate portrait of the eponymous lucha libre star who grew up in Juarez, Mexico. The program celebrated Cassandro’s life […]
Film Series Ballroom Marfa presents A Triptych of Films about Migration that consider the scale of human migration; the difficulties faced by migrants and asylum seekers; and the forces behind mass migration. The films include: El Mar La Mar, Island of the Hungry Ghosts, and Capernaum.
concert Ballroom Marfa welcomed Mdou Moctar to the Marfa Visitor Center for a free performance on Wednesday, September 18, 2019, in support of his latest album Ilana: The Creator.
Ballroom Marfa is pleased to announce Tierra. Sangre. Oro., an exhibition from artist Rafa Esparza. The program will include new installation, performance, and sculptural work from Esparza alongside collaborations and contributions from artists Carmen Argote, Nao Bustamante, Beatriz Cortez, Timo Fahler, Eamon Ore-Giron, and Star Montana.
Live DJ Set with Percussion Following the opening reception of Ballroom’s fall exhibition, Longilonge, with Solange Pessoa on November 15, UJI will be performing a DJ set with live percussion at Lost Horse Saloon.
Performance Ballroom presented Steve Reich’s 1967 composition Violin Phase, performed throughout the gallery by Jeanann Dara and Ben Russell during the opening reception of Ballroom Marfa’s 2019 fall exhibition, Longilonge, with Solange Pessoa. Violin Phase is a masterpiece of minimalist music, demonstrating Reich’s iconic phasing technique. The music itself is created from interactions between temporal […]
Exhibition Solange Pessoa Solange Pessoa Longilonge was the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of noted Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa. The show included new commissioned works that responded to the cultural and natural landscape in West Texas, alongside important existing pieces made in Minas Gerais, Brazil, where the artist lives and works. Pessoa’s […]
Apariciones / Apparitions by Carolina Caycedo Ballroom nominated Apariciones / Apparitions by Carolina Caycedo as the film selection for the 2019 season of Artists’ Film International (AFI). Organized in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery, London, AFI is a program that showcases international artists working in film, video and animation. Caycedo’s Apariciones depicts ghost-like dancers inhabiting the […]
Screening Ballroom Marfa presents a free digital screening of João Vargas Penna’s Landscape Film: Roberto Burle Marx on May 16th at 8pm CST through our Ballroom Marfa Film channel on vimeo. The film is a journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter, Roberto Burle Marx, best known for the iconic […]
Grammar of Gates / Gramática de las puertas by Miguel Fernández de Castro Organized in conjunction with Whitechapel Gallery in London, Artists' Film International (AFI) is a program that showcases international artists working in film, video and animation. Every year all participating institutions nominate a moving-image work from an artist living and working in their […]
ONLINE LEARNING DJ Bigface + DJ Dada Ballroom Marfa is excited to present DJ Camp, now in its 10th year, entirely online. The program is free and available to any kid that wants to join! In this new online iteration of DJ Camp, students will learn music sampling and mixing skills through instructional videos by […]
