As part of the opening celebration for Data Deluge, the conceptual new media artist, programmer and performer R. Luke DuBois and multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer Bora Yoon, both based in New York, will perform an experimental work at the Capri on 2 March 2012.
Our 2012 spring visual arts exhibition, Data Deluge, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Reynard Loki, celebrates the beauty of information through sculpture, furniture, painting, photography, video and sound. Opening reception is 2 March 2012.
Ballroom Marfa welcomes singer-songwriter Eleanor Friedberger for a weeklong residency and recording session, culminating in a special performance on March 24, 2012 at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas. Josh Wise of the French Kicks opens.
Ballroom Marfa and Marfa Book Company are proud is present a lecture by Jens Hoffmann, Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, at 2 pm on 24 March 2012 at Marfa Book Company.
Ballroom Marfa and Transmission Events are proud to present At the Drive-In on Thursday, 12 April 2012 at the Capri in Marfa, Texas. Doors at 7 pm. Show at 8 pm.
For the second year in a row, we are pleased to present The Reading, a professionally staged screenplay presentation that spotlights a winning script from the 2011 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.
Ballroom Marfa, Marfa Public Radio, and the Marfa Book Company – with the Crowley Theater – combine to bring indie rock superstar Feist to Marfa, Texas, on Wednesday April 25.
Ballroom Marfa welcomes Brazilian pop sensation CSS to the Capri on May 27 for a public concert and grand finale to their 2012 Benefit Weekend.
On June 1 pianist Kimball Gallagher will perform an intimate concert at the Crowley Theater in Marfa. Children's concert at 2 pm; evening performance at 7 pm.
Pianist Kimball Gallagher performs a special interactive children's concert at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas at 2 pm, 1 June 2012.
For the third year, Ballroom Marfa will present its popular week-long DJ Camp from July 16 – July 20, 2012 with instructors Faith Gay and Javier Arredondo.
Ballroom Marfa is collaborating with Whitechapel Gallery, London for the fourth season of the film and video program, Artists' Film International. This year, Ballroom is proud to feature an installation by LA video artist Dan Finsel.
Ballroom Marfa is proud to present Dirty Projectors on 31 July 2012 at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas. Wye Oak opens.
Ballroom Marfa and Marfa Public Library are proud to present a new reading program, Book and a Movie, which focuses on novels that have been adapted into films. We will kick off the series with Never Let Me Go, a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, with a film directed by Mark Romanek.
Pianist Kimball Gallagher will offer free piano, guitar and songwriting lessons to Marfa children and adults of all ages, from 18 August until 28 August 2012 upon appointment.
Ballroom Marfa was pleased to have Carbon 13 artists Adriane Colburn and David Buckland visit art students at Marfa Senior High School as part of our Making Art Work program.
In conjunction with our ongoing partnership with the Washington Spectator, and our co-sponsors The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company, we are hosting our second Marfa Dialogues, which this year will address complex issues associated with environmental sustainability.
Our 2012 fall visual arts exhibition, Carbon 13, presents newly commissioned works by artists that propose a creative response to climate change aimed at stimulating discourse and a wider engagement with the climate debate. Curated by David Buckland. Opening reception on Friday, 31 August 2012.
A not-to-be-missed concert by legendary German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz on 18 September 2012 at the Crowley Theater in Marfa, Texas.
Ballroom Marfa was pleased to have musician Jason Adasiewicz visit bands students at Marfa Junior High School as part of our Making Art Work program.
