EXHIBITIONS
The Museum of Street Culture collects and presents photographs, drawings, paintings, sculpture, historical artifacts, audio recordings, films, videos, ephemera and interactive media. Temporary exhibitions in Encore Park will involve guest curators and feature local artists and musicians alongside those who have received regional, national, and international recognition.

Past Exhibitions

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Tiny in her Halloween costume, 1983, Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark © Mary Ellen Mark

Looking for Home:
A Yearlong Focus on the Work of Mary Ellen Mark

October 1, 2017 – December 2018
The Museum of Street Culture, in association with the Mary Ellen Mark Foundation, featured 30 years of Marks' photographs of Erin Blackwell Charles, a.k.a. Tiny. The installation in Encore Park presented a series of curated exhibitions tracing the life of Tiny, a 13-year-old runaway teen when Mark first encountered her in Seattle, Washington, in 1983, while Mark was working on a story for Life magazine. After the article was published, Mark continued to document Tiny's life.

​Future Exhibitions

Deep Ellum and 508 Park
​The Emergence of the Dallas Recording Scene


​Texas Blues, Western Swing and Mexican music in the 1920s and 1930s

Curators: Pat Bywaters and Alan Govenar

Art of the Street, 1970-Present


​Photographs, Graffiti, Murals and Zines

Guest curator: Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs, Museum of the City of New York

Texas Regionalism
Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from Dallas Collections


​Guest curator: Sue Canterbury, The Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art, Dallas Museum of Art

Pete the Tramp
The Changing Image of the Homeless in Art and Popular Culture


The historical and cultural context of C.D. Russell’s cartoon strips “Pete the Tramp,” started during the Great Depression and syndicated nationwide.

Extraordinary Ordinary People
American Masters of Traditional Art


​Guest curator: Marsha MacDowell
A journey across America through the lives of individuals whose creativity is rooted in their cultural identity and community. Each of the artists is a recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship, the nation’s highest honor in folk and traditional art.

New Assemblage


Organized in association with the Nasher Sculpture Center

Contemporary sculptors and homeless artists, utilizing found objects to create  site specific works at Encore Park in the street, amphitheater, community garden, and the 508 Park building.
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