Photography of Vignette Art Fair installation, courtesy of Sheryl Lanzel, © Sheryl Lanzel Photography, 2025
This weekend, Vignette Art Fair returns to the Dallas Design District with a statewide survey of work by women artists working across Texas. Now in its eighth year, the juried fair brings together 60 artists selected from a record 233 applicants. Curated by Alison de Lima Greene, Isabel Brown Wilson, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the 2026 edition includes 98 works spanning painting, photography, collage, woodwork, archival pigment prints, and laser-cut paper.
Presented by Texas Vignette, the fair holds a special place in the state’s art calendar. Rather than organizing artists around gallery representation, the exhibition is entirely submission-based and devoted exclusively to women artists. Just as significantly, 100 percent of proceeds from artwork sales go directly to the artists.
Jessica Ingle founded Texas Vignette in 2017 in response to the persistent underrepresentation of women within museum exhibitions, collections, and commercial galleries. The annual fair has since become both a platform for discovering artists from across the state and a concentrated look at the breadth of practices developing within Texas.
North Texas is particularly well represented this year, with artists coming from Dallas, Fort Worth, Denton, Plano, Richardson, Arlington, Frisco, Grand Prairie, Carrollton, Allen, and surrounding communities. The lineup includes Dallas-based artists Danielle Georgiou, Eliana Miranda, Lara Moffat, Bao Nghi Ngo, Carroll Swenson-Roberts, and Ellen Frances Tuchman, alongside Fort Worth artists Alexis Andrade, Sadie Harrison-Fincher, Casey Leone, Martha Peters, Ivette Ramos Levy, and Hermila Cuevas.
The fair also extends well beyond North Texas. Participating artists include Bennie Flores Ansell, Karen Eisele, Kelly Moran, and Peri Sutherland of Houston; Connie Arismendi of Austin; Candace Hicks of Nacogdoches; Dina Perlasca of El Paso; Ruth A. Keitz of Los Fresnos; and others working throughout the state. That geographic reach has become central to Vignette’s identity. Rather than offering a snapshot of a single city or scene, the fair brings artists who might otherwise rarely appear in the same room into conversation.
Vignette Art Fair is open to the public for free Friday, Oct. 2, from noon–7 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. at On The Levee, 1108 Quaker St. in Dallas. Ticketed previews take place Wednesday, Sept. 30, and Thursday, Oct. 1, from 6–9 p.m.
For more information, visit texasvignette.org.