DORF

DORF's mission is to build a village of artists, advocates, and innovators.

05/28/2026

DORF presents: 𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙁𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙨 | 𝙁𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙗𝙤𝙬𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮 Session I, June 1-27, 2026 — our inaugural summer residency that turns the gallery into a visible, working studio and public site of creative experimentation.

Fresh off sold-out Fusebox performances and completing her doctorate at UT Austin, Dr. Andie Flores enters the Fishbowl June 1–27 to create fabric sculptures, develop iconic characters through costuming + scripting, experiment with video, and dive deep into process — all visible through DORF’s glass walls (and streaming online via Twitch).

Throughout the residency, Flores will also host 𝙁𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙗𝙤𝙬𝙡 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡— collaborative sessions with guest artists exploring choreography, painting, tattooing, illustration, woodworking, music-making, and more.

💦 Programming Schedule
📍 𝙁𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙗𝙤𝙬𝙡 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡 at DORF
June 6 – Sam Mayer
June 13 – Mic Garza
June 20 – Carrie Fussell
June 27 – Kelsey Oliver

📍 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠 + 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙠
June 18 | 7–9 PM
Start at Carpenter Hotel, then walk with us to DORF to experience the evolving work in person.

Fishbowl Residency invites audiences into the messy, playful, vulnerable space of artistic process — where making becomes performance and creation unfolds in real time.

Learn more + follow along:
🔗 www.dorfworld.org/fishbowl

Fishbowl Residency is made possible through our partnership with Carpenter Hotel. These programs are free and open to all.

This project is supported in part by an Austin Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment, Carpenter Hotel, and DORF’s generous community of volunteers and donors.

Slides 1 + 5 – Photo courtesy the artist and Jade Skye Hammer
Slide 2–4 – Photos courtesy of the artist and Bill McCullough for Fusebox Festival

05/26/2026

☀️Join us this Saturday for a printmaking workshop with Milpa Press at Carpenter Hotel ✨

DORF is partnering with Carpenter Hotel () for a hands-on linocut workshop led by artist Paloma Mayorga (.mayorga) of Milpa Press (). In this intimate session, guests will learn the basics of linocut printmaking — designing, carving, and printing their own custom stamp inspired by the natural world. Whether new to printmaking or looking to deepen an existing practice, this workshop offers a thoughtful, tactile experience. Guests will leave with a one-of-a-kind handmade stamp and prints.

🗓 Saturday, May 30
⏰ 11 AM – 1 PM
📍 Carpenter Hotel
💵 $40 per person
🔗 Link in bio to purchase tickets

Family-friendly and open to all ages (kids welcome with a caregiver).

05/22/2026

🪟 LAST WEEKEND to see Homeward Bound at DORF! Open tomorrow from 12–5 PM at 218 S Lamar — spend some time with the exhibition before it closes.🚪

“The United States was built on and is bettered by immigrants bringing their homes to our shores, and Homeward Bound illuminates that reality – and all its complexity – beautifully.”
Caitlin Greenwood ( ) for The Austin Chronicle ( ),

𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘽𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 is a group exhibition featuring Josue Bessiake ( ), Esther Marie Hall ( ), and Bárbara Miñarro ( ), each exploring the layered and deeply personal concept of home – a timely and moving exploration of migration, identity, and belonging.

Photography by Colette Nicole

05/14/2026

DORF is proud to announce the inaugural season of 𝙁𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙗𝙤𝙬𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮 — our new invitational residency series transforming DORF’s gallery into a visible, working studio throughout Summer 2026.

This year’s inaugural residents are:

✨ 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 (Austin, TX) June 1–27
✨ 𝗦𝗮𝗺 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 (Austin, TX) Aug 10–Sept 5
✨ 𝗞𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 (Houston, TX) Sept 8–26

Working across performance and experimental theater, these acclaimed artists will inhabit DORF’s gallery as an active studio, production hub, and public-facing site of creative exploration.

Each resident artist or collective receives a $2,000 unrestricted stipend, artist talk stipends, curatorial support, and ongoing access to the gallery. Throughout the residency, DORF will host weekly Open Studio hours every Saturday from 12–5 PM, welcoming the public into evolving works in progress.

DORF’s partner Carpenter Hotel () is generously providing 3-weeks of complimentary lodging and pool passes for this season’s visiting artist, daily food and beverage stipends, 1-night stays for local artists and honorariums for artist talks and programming!

Named for DORF’s floor-to-ceiling glass walls, 𝙁𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙗𝙤𝙬𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮 invites audiences to witness artistic process unfolding in real time — where process becomes performance and the boundaries between private creation and public encounter dissolve.

🌏Learn more at www.dorfworld.org/fishbowl and through link in bio.

📍 DORF at Zilker Point, 218 South Lamar Blvd., Suite 140, Austin, TX 78704

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05/13/2026

Special DORF announcement coming tomorrow 🫧🐟 🫧

05/07/2026

Join DORF this Saturday at the ZACH Spring Market for a special Get Out the Vote! art activation with artist ANGRYCLOUD ()✨🗳️

We’re partnering with the League of Women Voters () to support voter registration, check registration status, share resources about voting rights, and help connect people with information about important upcoming local and national elections.

📍 ZACH Theatre, 202 S. Lamar 🗓 Saturday, May 9 ⏰ 3:30–7:30 PM

Come make art, get vote ready, and celebrate civic engagement with us! Then head over to DORF right next door - we are staying open until 7:30 pm to welcome ZACH market and Friends Fair (.art) artists and visitors! Hope to see you there :)

05/05/2026

Celebrate Mother’s Day through making ✨

DORF is partnering with Carpenter Hotel and East Side Pot Shop for a special ceramics workshop led by artist Rebeca Proctor. Participants will learn coil + pinch techniques to create small vessels, then select a custom glaze before pieces are fired offsite.

🗓 Saturday, May 9
⏰ 11 AM – 1 PM
📍 Carpenter Hotel
💵 $40 per person
🔗 Link in bio to purchase tickets

Family-friendly and open to all ages (kids welcome with a caregiver). Finished pieces will be ready for pickup at DORF two weeks later.

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05/02/2026

Thank you for including Homeward Bound in this week’s op 5! Come see the show until 5 today, or Saturdays 12-5 pm through May 23.

04/07/2026

𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙇𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙍𝙤𝙤𝙢𝙨: 𝘼𝙣 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 - Available to watch in full now at dorfworld.org 🌍🌎🌏

Josue Bessiake (), Jesus Treviño () and friends
Performance in Bessiake’s social sculpture, 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚: 𝙇𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙍𝙤𝙤𝙢𝙨
Friday, February 27th 2026

𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙇𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙍𝙤𝙤𝙢𝙨 is an interactive, collaborative public performance that references the shifting functions of confined spaces. Roughly modeled after Bessaike’s family’s earliest living quarters, the work centers on an ongoing conversation between performers and audience members.

In the performance, the performers embody one of the primary functions of a “little room”: that of a recording space. The music composed during the performance draws from the sounds often heard in these environments—the prattering of rodents between walls, family disputes unfolding in adjacent rooms, eavesdropping through thin partitions, and inadvertent interruptions.

Through these shared sonic and social experiences, 𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙇𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙍𝙤𝙤𝙢𝙨 seeks to create a sense of universality, highlighting common realities across cultures that inhabit and adapt to little rooms.

“Great things start in little rooms” - André Lauren Benjamin (André 3000)

04/04/2026

Thank you and Caitlin Greenwood () for your thoughtful, cogent review of 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘽𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙! “This is not an apolitical approach to immigration, and lays quite bare the dizzying and violent effects of America’s immigration policies.”

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218 South Lamar Boulevard
Austin, TX
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http://www.dorfworld.org/

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