Sweet Pass Sculpture School is an alternative education program started by UT alumna Tamara Johnson (BFA in Studio Art, 2007) and her husband Trey Burns in conjunction with their outdoor art space, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park in Dallas, TX.
Six multidisciplinary artists selected through an open call traveled to Dallas for two weeks in June 2021 to explore the Texas Blackland Prairie through various site visits, readings, screenings, and lectures. Meeting with local cultural producers, they collectively explored Dallas and its surrounding landscape, considering the built environment and its entanglement with nature.
Nathalie Alfonso (Miami, FL), Susana Oliveros Amaya (Bogotá, Colombia), Brook-Lynne Clark (Dallas, TX), Isaac Dunne (Brooklyn, NY), UT alumna Emily Lee (BFA in Studio Art, 2019, Austin, TX), and Hélène Schlumberger (Houston, TX) will present their site responsive works, developed over the past year, in the group exhibition Bottomland. The exhibition will be on view from May 14 through September 24, 2022 at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, with various screenings, dinners, and special events.
Sweet Pass Sculpture Park is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2018 by Tamara Johnson and Trey Burns, as an extension of their own art practices, and is geographically located in a one acre lot in west Dallas. Programming highlights artists in an outdoor setting on a rotating basis with a focus on project-based exhibitions. Sweet Pass exists in the gaps between ideas of gardens, green spaces, and public spaces while supporting contemporary art dedicated to site, experimentation, and community engagement.