Karen Erxleben Weiner Collection

Collection Overview

Title: Karen Erxleben Weiner Collection
Creator: Weiner, Karen Erxleben
Dates: 1990–2005
Collection ID:  SC–002
Extent: 0.5 linear feet
Language: English          
Access/Use Restrictions: No restrictions on access or use.
Preferred Citation: Karen Erxleben Weiner collection, SC–002, Dallas Museum of Art Archives, Texas
Repository: Dallas Museum of Art Archives, 1717 N. Harwood Street, Dallas, Texas 75201

Biographical Note:

Karen Erxleben Weiner is the founder and director of The Reading Room, which presents monthly exhibitions and programs that explore the intersection of text and image. Weiner is a founding member of Dallas Artists Research and Exhibition (DARE), which became The McKinney Avenue Contemporary. She was also the manager of the University of Texas at Dallas Southside Artist Residency, which became CentralTrak, and was an original staff member of the Dallas City Arts Program, which became the Office of Cultural Affairs. As a media-based artist, she has exhibited at 500X Gallery, Arlington Museum of Art, Women & Their Work/Austin, and University of Texas at Dallas.

Scope and Content Note:

The collection contains material collected by Weiner in the course of her involvement with Dallas Artists Research and Exhibition (DARE), The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC), and the University of Texas at Dallas’s Southside Artist Residency. Collection material is primarily publications and ephemera and one artwork.

Administrative Information

Acquisition: Donated by Karen Erxleben Weiner in September 2012 in conjunction with the History of Contemporary Art in Dallas research project (2011–2013), funded by the Texas Fund for Curatorial Research. Deed of gift signed November 5, 2012.

Processed by: Hillary Bober, November 2012

Box and Folder List

Box 1

Folder 1: Dallas Artists Research & Exhibition (DARE) Newsletter, No. 2–8, Summer 1990–Spring 1992

Folder 2: Dallas Artists Research & Exhibition (DARE) Newsletter, No. 10–13, April 24, 1994, Winter 1993–Winter 1994

Folder 3: The MAC Board of Directors Notebook, Fall 1998 (Includes agenda for board orientation meeting, September 22, 1998)

Folder 4: University of Texas at Dallas, Southside Artist Residency (South Side on Lamar gallery announcements and other gallery announcements featuring residency artists)

Folder 5: "UTD Southside Artist Residency: The First Two Years, 2003–2005" (2 copies)

Box 2

Item 1: T-Shirt: DARE logo printed in white on a black shirt

Item 2: T-Shirt: The MAC logo printed in blue on a white shirt

Item 3: Exquisite Corpse, drawing by Susan Magilow, Frances Bagley, and Barbara Vessels (The drawings were raffled off to those attending the opening of The MAC. This drawing is 3 x 6 ft.)