Arts and Culture Texas magazine

Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving

Tara Munjee·November 8, 2025

Indefatigable Alexa. That’s the only way to describe Austin’s Alexa Capareda, whose professional artistic engagements include dancing, choreography, teaching, film, drawing, arts administration/organization, and now additionally, acting.

Austin Dance Texas Studio Theater

TX Studio: Candace Hicks’s Perfectly Practical Activism

Nancy Zastudil·November 4, 2025

“I'm sort of a frustrated writer, in a sense,” Candace Hicks tells me over Zoom. “And so, making artist books is a way of self-publishing. It’s also a way of making things permanent.”

Austin Texas Studio Visual Art

Texas Studio: Ballet Artist Silas Farley Makes the Joyful Leap to Dallas

Lindsey Wilson·October 19, 2025

Silas Farley likes to joke that he’s the “ultimate ballet nerd.”

Dallas/Ft Worth Dance Texas Studio

Texas Studio: Amanda Reyes is Working through It Onstage

Lindsey Wilson·September 18, 2025

On a warm Texas night, the cicadas buzz in harmony with the actors at Hip Pocket Theatre in Fort Worth.

Dallas/Ft Worth Texas Studio Theater

Imagination and Experience: Nathaniel Donnett Teases Out the Threads

MICHAEL MCFADDEN·February 18, 2025

“I think about how a traditional painting is compressed unto itself,” Nathaniel Donnett explained. “The object, ground, surface, texture, subject or non-subject, and the process of applying a substance that could be considered as paint.”

Houston Texas Studio Visual Art

Texas Studio: Listening Intently with Yvonne Chen

Sherry Cheng·February 14, 2025

Houston-based pianist Yvonne Chen seems to be doing everything everywhere all at once.

Houston Music Texas Studio

TX Studio: Emotions and Meaning Surface in Jessica Halonen’s Artworks

Nancy Zastudil·February 11, 2025

When Jessica Halonen answers my phone call from her studio in San Antonio, I’m dying to ask her about one thing: poison.

Austin San Antonio Texas Studio Visual Art

Farima Fooladi Paints as an Act of Preservation

Sherry Cheng·February 11, 2025

Swimming pools, tennis courts, a bridge, an arch, her daughter’s toy blocks are all recurring images in Iranian-born artist Farima Faloodi’s paintings and installations.

Houston Texas Studio Visual Art

Finding His Niche: Actor/Playwright Parker Davis Gray Carves Out His Place

Lindsey Wilson·January 30, 2025

Parker Davis Gray is not afraid to be weird. The SMU theater grad has played silly, sinister, sympathetic, and sometimes just plain psychotic on basically every professional stage in Dallas-Fort Worth since 2016; if he’s not taking a risk, he’s not satisfied.

Dallas/Ft Worth Texas Studio Theater

TX Studio: Héctor Guzmán Conducts a Life

Amy Bishop·December 18, 2024

There are certain moments in life that we look back upon and realize how pivotal they were. For Héctor Guzmán, it happened one evening in his early 20s after giving a performance of an organ concerto.

Dallas/Ft Worth Music Texas Studio