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Founded in 2018, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park is a 501(c)(3) organization located on an acre lot in West Dallas, TX.

10/06/2026

Oh hi! Remember us?

Join Tamara and Trey this Saturday, October 10th, from 10am–5pm at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for Sculpture ROCKS!, a hands-on artmaking activity and collective sculpture build responding to the museum’s collection.

Sweet Pass also collaborated with The Modern’s Education Department to design a new experience for the museum’s lobby during the month of October.

Come make some sculpture rocks with us, check out the kiosk, or just come and catch up! 🩷🪨

Tamara Johnson Trey Burns Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

11/12/2024

Come help us blow out the candle on this exhibition and say goodbye to the park! 🌋 Sculpture School: Concrete is closing this Saturday, Nov 16 from 3-6pm. Join us for hot dogs, cold beers, big hugs, and no tears (Tamara will probably cry).

Pictured: Ruka, Dalila Sanabria (2024)
Portland cement, rebar, steel, wood, wire, perlite, biochar, dirt, wild clay, straw, twigs, gravel, sand, fiberglass, burlap, canvas, propane tank, fire pit, LED light bulb, solar panel, battery, extension cords, iron oxide, copper sulfate

The 2024 Sculpture School Program was supported in part by The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the City of Dallas Office of Arts & Culture, The Arts Community Alliance (TACA), Nasher Sculpture Center, and the generous donations of our community.

11/04/2024

Dear Dallas,

As you may have heard, Sweet Pass is packing up and heading down the road toward new horizons. At the top, thank you. Thank you for six full course years. On a personal level, we got married, we bought our first home, we had a child, and all the while, built tremendous life-scale friendships. Professionally, we found success in learning to write grants, fundraise, and organize joy-driven exhibitions with something to say. We stand by the belief that starting this project was only possible in Dallas—the audience, the generosity, and the community of artists have been paramount.

The true Dallas is discovered—a series of places that > and once found, these places are held in fondness by the initiated. We like to think the park became one of these hidden corners, a glimmer beyond the bougie, on the periphery of the retail frenzy art market, where it could live freely, as itself—experimental, untethered, and filled with the warmth of shared vision and a love of sculpture.

We owe so much to the artists, the board members, the friends of the park, and the volunteers who schlepped and sweated alongside us. Also to the people who stumbled upon this place, bringing in a glow that only real discovery can give. Together, we built something rare: a proof of concept, a test kitchen, a sculpture project that has shone brightly.

Sweet Pass will continue, and while this chapter comes to a close, we will carry these years with us, grateful for these experiences and with tenderness towards our Metroplex memories.

Thank you Dallas,
Sweet Pass Forever🌱

11/01/2024

🍂Come say goodbye to the park as we close the gates on this project in Dallas. Save the date, Saturday - November 16th from 3 - 6pm.

10/18/2024

🍂Getting ready for Open Hours tomorrow (Sat 10/19) from 11am-5pm during Art Walk West 🔥

.atianasky .sanabria

10/17/2024

🍂Open Hours Saturday, Oct 19, 11-5 pm for our current exhibition “Sculpture School: Concrete”🌞

Pictured: detention; 32.77, -96.82 by Ariel Woods, the geographical coordinates in the title point viewers to the location of the North Tower Detention Center, which overlooks the Trinity River. For Wood, “by translating the architecture of a Dallas jail into the infrastructure of a detention basin, correlations between the materiality, austerity, and short-sightedness of both facilities may come into particular focus.”

The 2024 Sculpture School Program was supported in part by The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the City of Dallas Office of Arts & Culture, The Arts Community Alliance (TACA), Nasher Sculpture Center, and the generous donations of our community.

10/14/2024

Open Hours THIS Saturday, Oct 19, 11-5 pm during Art Walk West. Swing by the park to catch Sculpture School: Concrete — and ALL Sweet Pass T-shirts are on sale for $20 each.

Pictured: Tatiana Sky putting the final touches on “Guidepost” a concrete fountain tucked into the foliage of the park.
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The 2024 Sculpture School Program was supported in part by The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the City of Dallas Office of Arts & Culture, The Arts Community Alliance (TACA), Nasher Sculpture Center, and the generous donations of our community.

09/08/2024

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09/06/2024

It’s here! Sculpture School: Concrete opens tomorrow Saturday Sept 7, 3-7pm. See Tatiana Sky’s “Stray Pathways” and more works by Valentina Jager, Dalila Sanabria, and Ariel Wood. From the exhibition text:

“A vacant lot seems to ask its own questions about its history and future. The rowdy flora of the park are out of sync with the pulsing and manicured development of West Dallas. Whether we retreat, escape, linger, or dare the threshold, the works in this exhibition carve out spaces caught between time. Exploring themes of survival, identity, and the built environment’s impact, the artists encourage us to consider how we construct our realities and live within them, pointing to the gaps between nature and the industrial, the possible and the perilous.
Taking their findings and experience, this cohort of artists has poured their efforts into the program’s mold. Vibrating out the bubbles of doubt, they’ve removed the forms to unveil shells of desire. As their concrete cures over time, connections and shared ideas intertwine and solidify, becoming stronger and more stable through their entanglement.”
atianasky .sanabria

The 2024 Sculpture School Program was supported in part by The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the City of Dallas Office of Arts & Culture, The Arts Community Alliance (TACA), Nasher Sculpture Center, and the generous donations of our community.

08/08/2024

Sculpture School: Concrete opening Sept 7, 2024

Valentina Jager
Dalila Sanabria
Tatiana Sky
Ariel Wood

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This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, City of Dallas Office of Arts & Culture, TACA, and Nasher Sculpture Center 🙏

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402 Fabrication Street
Dallas, TX
75212

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http://www.sweetpasssculpturepark.com/

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