With its mission to promote, support and connect Texas women in the arts, Texas Vignette will present its 7th annual Vignette Art Fair this weekend, Oct. 2-4, at On The Levee in the Design District. This year’s juried show is curated by arts leader Maggie Adler and free and open to the public.

The fair features artists who are both emerging and internationally acclaimed from across the state, Vignette Art Fair 2025 will feature more than 100 works by 55 women artists – spanning mixed media, sculptures, ceramics, paintings, printmaking, photography and more.

Founded in 2017 by Jessica Ingle, Texas Vignette is a nonprofit organization that works to close the gender disparity gap as female artists continue to be underrepresented in museum exhibitions, acquisitions and galleries compared to their male counterparts. The inaugural fair took place during Dallas Arts Week, April 5-9 in 2017, at the former Women’s Museum Building in Fair Park, and was curated by the Dallas Museum of Art’s Chelsea Pierce. The event was on hiatus in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID but returned the year after to Dallas Market Hall. This year, the event debuts in the Design District.

The Vignette Art Fair is submission-based and curated exhibition-style with all sale proceeds going directly to the artists.

Adler has more than 20 years of experience in the art world as a curator, speaker, writer, mentor, nonprofit fundraiser and organizational leader. She spent more than a decade as Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Prior to the Carter, she held posts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Addison Gallery of American Art. Adler now serves as an independent curator.

“I choose to serve as the 2025 Vignette Art Fair curator, a fair that celebrates women artists, because I believe representation matters,” Adler said of her position at this year’s event. “Every person who identifies as a woman should be able to envision a world in which who they wish to be is possible. I look forward to fostering their creativity and amplifying their voices for them and for the future.”

North Texas artists include Christine Adame (Lake Dallas), Anne Allen (Fort Worth), Martha Anderson (Fort Worth), Sophia Anthony (Dallas),Jessica Baldivieso (Dallas), Dr. Valerie Bennett Gillespie (Dallas), Emily Budd (Dallas), Han Cao (Dallas), Anese Eun Cho (Dallas),Brenda Ciardiello (Fort Worth), Ariel Davis (Fort Worth), Maria Esswein (Euless),Alisa Eykilis (Frisco), Diana Fortin (Carrollton), Michelle Cortez Gonzales (Fort Worth),Desiree Griffith (Dallas), Christina Hahn (Dallas), SooMi Han (Lewisville), Brynn Higgins-Stirrup (Garland), Veronica Ibarguengoitia (Denton), Carrie Iverson (Arlington), Felicia Jordan-Jones (Dallas), Gaurii S Kumaar (Frisco), Nancy Lamb (Westworth Village),Laura Lawson (Dallas), Casey Leone (Fort Worth), Ebony Lewis (Grand Prairie), Alexandra Light (Fort Worth), Claudia Maysen (Keller), Katherine Miller (Allen), Anjali Pai (Coppell), Ximena Peryea (Southlake), Martha Peters (Fort Worth), Jessica Raff (Dallas), Karla Ramriez-Santin (Farmers Branch), Anna Redman (Lucas), Kelsha Reese (Fort Worth), Robyn Rozelle (Frisco), Marianna Seaton (Highland Village), Anna Smith (Denton), Corrie Thompson (Fort Worth), Ellen Frances Tuchman (Dallas), Sharmeen Uqaili (Richardson) and Carolina Yáñez (Dallas).

Other artists include Keliy Anderson-Staley (Houston), Connie Arismendi (Austin), Fernanda Compean (El Paso), Clair Gaston (Round Rock),Candace Hicks (Nacogdoches), Mileah Lorenz(Longview),Lorena Morales (Sugar Land), Annette Palmer (Magnolia),Elvia Perrin (Austin), Brady Sloane Duncan (Abilene) and Graciela Socorro (Katy).

The fair opens Friday, Oct. 3, from noon-7 p.m. through Saturday, Oct. 4, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The fair launches with a ticketed Preview Benefit party on Thursday. The night features an open bar, small bites, a raffle and a first look at the art with tunes by DJ Wild inthe Streets.

For more information, visit TexasVignette.org.

–Rich Lopez

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