Concert Ballroom Marfa hosted Maria Minerva in the courtyard on Thursday, July 6, 2017. Her performance was preceded by a “sunset tent” set by W. Creeves, and the evening featured visual accompaniment by VJ Mellow Arms. Wienertown, the latest contender on the Marfa culinary scene, served hot dogs. This event was free and open to […]
Screening + Q&A Ballroom Marfa presented a screening of Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Sam Wainwright Douglas, artist Raven Chacon, and producer David Harstein. Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film follows art collective Postcommodity as they strive to construct Repellent Fence, a two-mile long […]
Discussion Ballroom Marfa, in collaboration with the Judd Foundation and Marfa Solar System, hosted Freedom Solar Power for a Marfa Solar Social in the Ballroom courtyard. Members of Sun Power and Freedom Solar spoke on the benefits of renewable energy, regional solar rebates, and solar power technology. Ballroom’s collaboration with Freedom Solar grew out of […]
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.
Concert MEN performed at the opening reception for Tierra. Sangre. Oro. MEN is a Brooklyn-based band and art/performance collective led by Le Tigre’s JD Samson and Michael O’Neill. MEN believe in the radical potential of dance music and its power to demand liberties through invention and play. This was the group’s first performance in several […]
About Ballroom nominated Serpent Rain by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman for the 2017 season of Artists’ Film International (AFI). Serpent Rain screened at Marfa’s Crowley Theater along with 12 videos from around the world. The international program was looped into a day of drop-in screenings. This was followed by the feature presentation […]
Ballroom Marfa is proud to present San Cha — Tragame Tierra Thursday, February 15. Join us for a evening of delicious and painful love songs from LA-based artist and musician.
Ballroom Marfa and Mexican Summer bring their annual music festival and multidisciplinary cultural program back to Marfa for 2018.
Exhibition Center for Land Use Interpretation | Megan May Daalder | Tara Donovan | Nance Klehm | Postcommodity | Emilija Škarnulyte | Sissel Marie Tonn with Jonathan Reus As well as objects and loans from David Brooks, the Center for Big Bend Studies | the Chihuahuan Desert Mining Heritage Exhibit | Earthworks | Rafa Esparza […]
Summer Shake Up DJ Bigface | Si Mon Cecilia Emmett Ballroom joined forces with Summer Shake Up, offered by Marfa ISD in collaboration with other community partner organizations for DJ Camp 2018. The summer camp was free with breakfast, lunch, and transportation to/from MISD provided. Students grades five through eight were invited to participate. For […]
Concert Mary Lattimore and Julianna Barwick returned to Marfa to fill the Ballroom courtyard with their mysterious and cosmic tones at sunset on Tuesday, July 17. The show was free and open to the public. All proceeds from donations and poster sales benefited Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center.
Field Workshop Borderlands Research Institute | Dixon Water Foundation Ballroom collaborated with Sul Ross State University’s Borderlands Research Institute (BRI) to host a day of citizen science with a field workshop and discussion on threatened grassland birds at the Dixon Water Foundation’s Mimms Unit. The workshop included a hands-on catching and banding demonstration, followed by […]
Free Exposure Soil Tasting – that's right, soil tasting – with artist, activist, and ecologist Nance Klehm. The program will take place on Thursday, August 23 at the Capri in Marfa, Texas.
Also known as geophagia, the practice of eating earth or soil-like substrates such as clay or chalk has a deep anthropological history and is practiced by various cultures around the world. For this program Klehm will collect soil from various locations around Marfa and guide participants through a tasting, explaining what minerals and biological processes cause the different 'notes' and flavors.
A Walk Through the Ponderosa Pines Davis Mountain Preserve | Nature Conservancy Ballroom hosted a walk through the Davis Mountain Preserve with The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) lead state ecologist Charlotte Reemts. Ponderosa pine populations have drastically decreased in the Davis Mountains, so Reemts and TNC have partnered with Texas A&M University to carry out ‘Operation […]
Screening + Star Party Ballroom Marfa presented a free screening of Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light at the McDonald Observatory. The film was complemented by free entry to the evening’s Star Party and a chance to learn more about the McDonald Observatory’s participation in the Giant Magellan Telescope. Nostalgia for the Light documents the […]
Casa Perez Ranch Day Ballroom Marfa Botanical Collage Workshop This Botanical Collage Workshop was part of the Judd Foundation’s 2018 Ranch Day, an open house at Casa Perez with guided visits of the Ranch, live music & BBQ, and a talk by Aimee Roberson, Coordinator of the Rio Grande Joint Venture for the American Bird […]
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.
