About
Centraltrak is in the historic and newly renovated Fair Park Station Post Office Building in Deep Ellum, a revitalizing neighborhood and hip alembic chamber for creativity and artistic happenings. The name Centraltrak comes from the rich history of Deep Ellum. Because of the proximity of the Houston and Texas Centraltraks, the neighborhood was also known as “Centraltrak.” In choosing this name, we pay homage to the cultural history of the area – the fact that Deep Ellum was an area settled as a “freedmens’ town” by former slaves after the Civil War and that it was an entertainment, retail, and industrial hub.
Centraltrak is a multi-purpose arts building, with four live-work loft spaces for artists, eight studios for UT Dallas MFA students, and a gallery. We host four visiting artists, three international or national artists from outside of Texas and one Texan. Artists are selected by a committee of senior faculty of the School of Arts & Humanities at UT Dallas and members of the curatorial and educational staffs of the Dallas Museum of Art. The artists carry out projects in the space of Centraltrak and public realm of DFW, exhibit their work, and give public lectures for periods varying from two weeks to twelve months. As part of its expansive vision of art as experimentation and intellectual inquiry, Centraltrak hosts an ongoing lecture series and a full exhibition calendar for the on-site gallery coordinated by Kate Sheerin.
Application
The Residency is open to applications from national and international artists working in new media, performance, installation art, sound art, theory, criticism and creative writing, architecture, urbanism, painting, drawing, and sculpture. As the only university-backed artists residency in DFW, Centraltrak creates an ongoing and robust intellectual infrastructure to support the diverse arts institutions of DFW.
Download the Artist-Only Application here
Download the Graduate Student Application here.
Application deadline is March 15, each year.
