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'Truly staggering': Dallas arts and culture community loses more than $33M in first 2 ½ months of coronavirus closures

Nearly 650 artists and staff members were laid off or furloughed as a result, a coalition of arts advocacy groups said.
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New project from Dallas dance company connects history with current social justice issues

DBDT: Encore! uses dance and a 1968 Robert Kennedy speech to help illustrate the current pain people are feeling across the country.

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Local artists paint public murals, inspiring unity during period of unrest

A group of artists is painting murals on boarded buildings across North Texas. Many of the paintings are being left where properties were vandalized last week.
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How Dallas artist Gabriel Thomas is turning boarded buildings into galleries of hope

Nearly every day, he's been painting powerful portraits on Dallas' plywood, telling the stories of men, women and children who have died at the hands of police.
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Plano teacher uses TikTok to showcase artwork

Plano Biology teacher and contemporary artist, William Toliver has become quite the TikTok star showing us the many expressions of the "Quarantine Life" through art.