'In The Works' Panel Discussion

In The Works Panel Discussion

Saturday, 14 February 2026

1.00 pm - 2.00 pm

Free admission

161 Glass St, Dallas, TX

Join us for a panel discussion covering the second annual Dallas Contemporary North Texas Graduate Student Program. The annual initiative, launched in 2024, invites a cohort of North Texas Master of Fine Arts students in their final year of graduate work to exhibit at Dallas Contemporary after being selected by a visiting national curator. Initiated by Executive Director Lucia Simek, the program aims to advance the early careers of emerging artists schooled in the region by fostering healthy interactions and connections between students and renowned curators. 

Learn more about NTX Graduate Student Program here.

Second Annual Curator | Anna Katz, Senior Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Anna Katz is Senior Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), where her recent exhibitions include MOCA Focus: Takako Yamaguchi (2025); Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968 (2024); MOCA Focus: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio (2023); Long Story Short (2023); Judith F. Baca: World Wall (2022); Garrett Bradley: American Rhapsody (2022), organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor (2021); and With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985 (2019), which traveled to the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. She has recently contributed to volumes on Cynthia Carlson, Deborah Remington, and Christina Ramberg. From 2015 to 2017, Katz was the Wendy Stark Curatorial Fellow at MOCA. Previously a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 2008 to 2013, she holds a PhD from the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University and has taught art history courses at Pratt Institute, UCLA, Pomona College, and Occidental College.

Learn more about artists included in this year's exhibition here.

Image: Courtesy of Nadin Nassar.

Thanks to the support of the Eugene McDermott Foundation, Dallas Contemporary will continue to offer free admission through 2026. This program is supported in part by the city of Dallas Arts and Culture.