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The Discovery Gallery
Our art exhibitions highlight environmental topics like organics, recycling, and sustainability. Carefully selected artists and exhibits align with the Gardens' mission, offering new perspectives on our connection to nature.
The Discovery Gallery is open to the public and a popular stop for school field trips. Many students, even those less interested in science or the butterfly house, become enthusiastic and curious in the gallery, engaging deeply with the exhibits.
Most of our exhibits feature art available for purchase.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
My art is the visual language of the soul, the heart. It is the transformation of a thought that takes form in an image, color or line. This thought then takes life and is born out of emotion. There is always an underlying narrative, an underlying thought to each image. There is the question of why the image was placed in a particular position, why a specific color was chosen to translate this thought and why the language of this thought is important. The answers come together to become the transformation of a though
The Soloist by Viola Delgado - 2024
Acrylic on Canvas - 36"x48"
Murals - EarthKeepers Multipurpose Room
Laney Green, former Greenhouse intern and entrant in our 2017 Mural Contest, installed a mural in our EarthKeepers Multipurpose Room in late August 2017. The mural covers 4 of the Texas eco-regions. Her design can be seen by all the school groups, scouts and summer campers that attend educational programs at Texas Discovery Gardens.
Outdoor Art
Areli Duran, an entrant in our 2017 Mural Contest, installed two murals in early August 2017. The murals cover the outdoor restrooms by the Greenhouse. The designs are visible from our new Hummingbird Garden.
Sculptures - Metal Butterflies by Byron Zarrabi
These unique welded butterfly sculptures can be found all around our front entrance.
Flap Your Wings by Pascale Pryor
This sculpture can be found between the Master Gardeners' Garden and the Shakespeare Garden. The perfect photo op!
The Gossip by Bjorn Wiinblad
Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Trammell S. Crow
Wiinblad (1918-2006) was a Danish painter, designer, and artist in ceramics, silver, bronze, textiles, and graphics. This sculpture can be found whispering to the trees in the Herkimer Overlook.
City of Dallas Public Art Program
Imago
“Imago,” a series of elegant hand-blown glass and steel hanging sculptures depicting the natural world, was installed September 2011 in our two-story lobby. Vancouver artists Michael Vandermeer and Cheryl Hamilton, with i.e. creative, had been fabricating pieces for the sculpture for a whole year.
Enter the vestibule of the Texas Discovery Gardens and look up to see the Flower Blossoms, the first of seven sculptures designed by ie creative depicting themes from the world of the insect biosphere that make up our newest public art installation, Imago.
Seven floating sculptures are made of hand blown glass flowers attached to polished stainless steel stems wrapped with wisps of mirror polished grass.
About ie creative:
The artist team, ie creative, works in a studio on Vancouver’s Granville Island, home to a large community of artists as well as the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Cheryl Hamilton is a conceptual artist with training in the technique of glass blowing from Alberta’s Red Deer College and Seattle’s Pilchuck Glass School. Her skills in glass forming have created magnificent and elegant floral forms in this commission.
Michael Vandermeer is a sculptor whose current artistic practice is informed by his training in Nuclear Physics and he continues to combine his remarkable aptitude for engineering, metallurgy, electronics and chemistry with his art.
About City of Dallas Public Art Program
The City of Dallas Public Art Program was established by ordinance in 1988. The ordinance provides that all appropriations for the City capital improvement projects include an amount ranging from .75% to 1.5% of the total project appropriation to be used for the design services of artists and the commissioning of artwork. Since its inception, the Public Art Program has been administered by the City's Office of Cultural Affairs and more than 80 public art projects have been commissioned and installed in Dallas For more information about the City of Dallas Public Art Program, consult the Office of Cultural Affairs.
