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Art Galleries
Creative Kids, OLo Gallery, Inc.
A non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts to reach disadvantaged youth, youth with disabilities and youth battling cancer. By opening children's minds to new and exciting experiences through art education, Creative Kids places an emphasis on immersing educationally underserved children, as well as children with special needs, in an array of activities in the arts, humanities, and creative fields that serve as an effective vehicle for instruction in all subject areas.
Come visit the new oLo Children's Gallery where we currently have works of art done by the youth involved in our programs. Mediums include printmaking, painting on canvas, multimedia and much more.
El Paso Art Association
The El Paso Art Association is the oldest art organization in El Paso celebrating 58 years of existence since it’s founding in 1949. The association serves to promote the visual arts in the El Paso region and provides services to it’s some 400 members by sponsoring several art shows, art classes and art workshops each year. The “Arts International” show held each October is the largest show of it’s kind in West Texas and Southern New Mexico attracting entries from over 100 artists each year and offering awards and guaranteed purchases in excess of $20,000 to winning participants.
Encaustic International Art Studio & Gallery
The gallery specializes in showing encaustic artwork, an ancient painting process using bees wax, by different local artists as well as by German artist Monika Romer and Brigitte von Ahn.
Call for opening hours and appointments.
The studio offers encaustic painting classes for groups and private lessons and special workshops, inquire by phone or email @ Bvonahn@elp.rr.com.
Galleries at the Memorial
Chamizal National Memorial exhibits artists whose work not only reflects the history and/or landscape of our border region, but also ties directly to the park’s mission of commemorating the amicable resolution of a long standing border dispute between the U.S. and Mexico. The Memorial strives to provide park visitors with ample opportunities to make meaningful connections to the park’s resources and history through the use of interpretive and education programs as well as through the visual and performing arts. Galleries include: Los Paisanos, Abrazons, and Borderland.
Glasbox
Glasbox is a facility that manufactures opportunities for the Creatively inclined. The name Glasbox implies transparency, which is an important quality in communities in general and business specifically. It also, superficially, describes our present physical space with all of the windows, but the best thing about it is that it opposes the idea of a “black box,” which, in some circles, denotes an inscrutable subroutine, or a part of a system which is excessively esoteric. We are a community of Creatives who welcome others to join in the creative process, breaking down the “fourth wall” that separates the audience from the performance.
Hal Marcus Sudio & Gallery
The Hal Marcus Gallery is owned & operated by local artist, Hal Marcus and his wife (Gallery Director) Patricia Medici and (Gallery Manager) Kelly Foss.
In 1985, Hal officially began his “art selling” career to compliment his habitual “art creating” life.
From meager beginnings in an attic, the gallery is now located to 1308 N. Oregon, a few blocks down hill from Providence Hospital. The blue house with an eye-catching yellow door has 2 floors of art. Across the street, conveniently located, is Hal Marcus’ home, and Art Studio.
Hal Marcus is all about promoting Local Art. Along with his artwork, the gallery also carries work from area artists; Daniel Padilla, Teresa Fernandez, Francisco Romero, Mauricio Mora, Mark Paulda, Willibald de Cabrera, Friar Vincent Petersen, and Bill Sullivan.
“If you don’t know your past- you don’t have a future.” Hal Marcus is known to say. That belief fuels the gallery’s mission of the education and promotion of Early El Paso Art. Works from notable artists such as Manuel Acosta, Bill Rakocy, Jose Cisneros, Eugene and Fern Thurston, Tom Lea, amongst many others, are on continual display and for sale.
Hal Marcus is an El Paso native. He enjoys travel, owns 2 dogs, and loves chocolate.
His Studio (across the street from the gallery) is available for personal tours.
San Elizario Art Galleries
Located in the historic San Elizario district, galleries include: Main Street Mercantile, Golden Eagle Gallery, Alberto Escamilla, Amado Pena, and more.
Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts
The Rubin Center houses three galleries devoted to the exhibition of contemporary art by recognized artists from around the globe. Located just south of Sun Bowl Stadium in an original campus building renovated in 2004, the Rubin Center brings to El Paso recent and compelling ideas in the visual arts. Admission is free.
Sunland Art Gallery
Sunland Art Gallery is a cooperative Gallery sponsored by the El Paso Art Association showcasing the original artwork of our members: Southwestern Art, Traditional Realism, Impressionism, Contemporary, Abstract, Sculpture, Ceramics, Jewelry, Miniatures & Greeting Cards.
UTEP Art Department
The Main and Glass Galleries in the Department of Art at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) host more than ten contemporary art exhibitions each year in conjunction with lectures by visiting artists. This program fosters the understanding of avant-garde visual art and its relationship to positive social change. Exhibited artists include Enrique Chagoya, Jean Lowe, Margo Sawyer, Willie Varela, and Eddie Dominguez, amongst others. All events and exhibits are free and open to the public. Located at the University of Texas at El Paso.