Julia C. Butridge Gallery

The Julia C. Butridge Gallery is located in the heart of the arts district adjacent to the Long Center and Butler Park at the Dougherty Arts Center, a multi-cultural community arts center providing opportunities for creative expression to citizens for over 30 years. Visitors enjoy an exceptional 2,000 square feet of exhibit space in the main gallery, and an additional 480 square feet in newly renovated gallery space. The natural collision of creative activity at the arts center contributes to the gallery’s longstanding reputation among the arts community as an accessible and nurturing venue and incubator, ideal for emerging and established artists. The gallery is free and open to the public.

Call for Artists for the JCB 2021 Season

We encourage emerging and established artists to apply!
Proposals will be accepted October 7, 2019 – February 2, 2020

The Julia C. Butridge Gallery is now accepting Exhibit Proposals for the 2021 Season. Located at the Dougherty Arts Center in the heart of the arts district, the JCB Gallery is well known for its diverse exhibitions of artists and their work.

Submit online at: doughertyartscenter.submittable.com/submit

Current Exhibits

Sylvia Benitez – Recalling Memory/The Interior Lay
Reception: Saturday, November 16, 1pm – 3pm
Exhibit: Nov. 16, 2019 - Jan. 4, 2020
Artist Talk: Dec. 11, 2019

Sylvia Benitez is a nationally awarded artist and founder of Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association (GAGA), a nonprofit that serves South Texas women artists. Her new body of work will be on display at the Dougherty Arts Center beginning November 16, 2019. Be it the flight of wind, the roll of grass or the ripple of water, artist Sylvia Benitez captures what she recalls of the Texas landscape from memory. Following in Ash Can School Artist Robert Henri's tradition, she paints from a trained visual memory, allowing compiled visual observation to be captured onto her canvases.

Silvia Benitez

AVAfest
Austin Veteran Arts
October 12 – December 14, 2019
Artist Reception: Thursday, October 24, 7-9pm

The Austin Veterans Art Festival fosters creative expression to increase tolerance and feelings of love resulting in a decrease of aggression, anxiety, and depression in the veteran and veteran family population. Two exhibits will be on display that illustrate this creative healing process while reflecting the diversity in service. Pride In Service celebrates artists who identify as part of the LGTBQ+ community and Family Strong honors artists who have military family members and/or family living on base.

Upcoming Exhibits

Vivid
Lindsay Smith
December. 21, 2019 – February 22, 2020
Artist Reception: January 16, 7-9pm

Smith is an Austin-based artist with a focus on figurative painting. With her new series, VIVID, she represents the energy of tension within the human figure and uses brilliant color to highlight body movements that are often unnoticed.

Lindsay Smith

Cultivating Creativity
Dougherty Arts Center Annual Teaching Artists Exhibit
December. 21, 2019 – February 22, 2020
Artist Reception: January 16, 7-9pm

DAC staff inspires students by being examples of passionate creators and bringing their talents and encouragement into the classroom. Explore works from their own personal art practices and learn more about these creative instructors that cultivate Austin’s future artists.

Annual Teaching Artists Exhibit

2019 Gallery Season

Through a rigorous selection process involving an anonymous panel of jurors and final approval by Dougherty Arts Center Management, 22 exhibits have been selected for the 2019 Gallery Season and 5 artists have been selected to display as a Featured Artists in the Artist Resource Center.

2019 Gallery Season Flyer

2019 Featured Artists

Five local artists have been selected to exhibit an exceptional work of art in the Artist Resource Center, a place for emerging and established artists of all mediums to engage and collaborate.