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Long before the first painting is hung or the first glass of wine is poured, the crew at Historic Fort Worth<\/a>, Inc. is busy doing what they\u2019ve always done best \u2014 making something out of nothing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Each September, in the basement of a downtown office tower, they transform concrete floors and construction fencing into one of the city\u2019s most distinctive art shows.\u00a0\u201cPreservation is the Art of the City\u201d<\/a>\u00a0began as a scrappy fundraiser. Still, it has grown into a crucial lifeline for both artists and the 501(c) (3), keeping the city\u2019s historic preservation alive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew about the Fort Worth Circle Artists \u2014 a group that fueled an art movement here \u2014 and thought, what if we keyed off that?\u201d says Jerre Tracy, executive director of Historic Fort Worth, Inc. \u201cIt became more than just keeping the lights on. It became about building community.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Held September 4\u20136 in the lower level of the First on 7th building at\u00a0500 W Seventh St.\u00a0\u2014 once the home of the First National Bank \u2014 the 2025 edition features paintings, photography, sculpture, and mixed media by a curated mix of returning and first-time artists. The work hangs on freestanding panels of Modu-Loc fencing \u2014 the kind you\u2019d expect at a construction site \u2014 lending the space an improvised, industrial energy that mirrors the show\u2019s scrappy origins.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the closure of the Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Tracy and her team found themselves without a venue and few viable options. Then one morning over coffee at Buon Giorno, someone spotted a solution across the street. \u201cWe looked out and saw the construction fencing,\u201d Tracy says. \u201cIt looked like something we could hang art on. That\u2019s how we became portable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

That portability, it turns out, is part of the magic. Over the years,\u00a0\u201cPreservation is the Art of the City\u201d\u00a0has been mounted everywhere from the Fort Worth Central Library to the Fort Worth Woman\u2019s Club. What\u2019s stayed consistent is the show\u2019s mission: to support artists and historic preservation in equal measure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Each year, a jury selects eight to twelve new artists from a call that goes out to more than 6,000 subscribers. They\u2019re folded into a lineup of returning exhibitors, with every piece of art priced and hung by hand. The show operates on a model that ensures sustainability for both sides: artists keep 65 percent of every sale, while Historic Fort Worth receives the other 35 to fund its operations and advocacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That structure means artists don\u2019t have to undersell their work to participate. \u201cIt has made the art show relevant to artists and the art show relevant to Historic Fort Worth,\u201d Tracy says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s featured artist is Carolyn Natishyn, a Dallas native whose classical training in piano, music theory, and art history informs her richly textured paintings. Honorees Mary Kathryn Anderson and Warren Gould will be recognized for their longtime support of the arts and local preservation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though the event now includes cameras and hired security, the spirit of accessibility remains. Friday and Saturday admission is free to the public, and the space encourages a casual kind of intimacy \u2014 visitors stop to chat with artists, swap stories, and occasionally walk out with something they didn\u2019t know they needed until they saw it hanging under fluorescent lights.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And for all its challenges, \u201cPreservation is the Art of the City\u201d continues to prove that creativity and cultural stewardship aren\u2019t separate things in Fort Worth. They\u2019re two sides of the same canvas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has made the art show relevant to artists and the art show relevant to Historic Fort Worth,\u201d Tracy says.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long before the first painting is hung or the first glass of wine is poured, the crew at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,1037,2677,2576,7371,42198,7372,1580,10763,5921,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-103034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-artists","11":"tag-event","12":"tag-fort-worth","13":"tag-fort-worth-history","14":"tag-fortworth","15":"tag-fundraiser","16":"tag-stephen-montoya","17":"tag-style","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-top-story","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114938554865323390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}