Participating galleries / projects include:
Art Prostitute - Denton
Art Palace - Austin
Art Star - Houston
Diverseworks - Houston
Mighty Fine Arts - Dallas
Mulcahy Modern - Dallas
oh6 - Dallas
Pigeon-Stone Projects - Dallas
Plush - Dallas
Polvo - Chicago
Rudolph Projects ArtScan Gallery - Houston
Webb Art Gallery - Waxahachie

Online Texas art journal Glasstire will be present, and multiple artist and musician performances are slated to take place during the fair, which will open Saturday Nov. 12th with a preview from 4-7 pm, followed by a formal reception from 7-11pm, and an open day Sunday Nov. 13th from 12-5pm.

Admission is free and open to the public both days. For more information, please contact event co-organizers:
Randall Garrett / Plush - 214.498.5423
Cynthia Mulcahy / Mulcahy Modern - 214.948.9595
Sean Rudolph / Rudolph Projects Artscan Gallery - 713.807.1836

artists participating from polvo:
anna mayer
ayanna jolivet mccloud
edra soto
jaime mendoza
miguel cortez
odie rynell cash
juan compean


Below are some photos from this weekend:

more photos here:
http://www.juxtapoz.com/blogs/photos/archives/2005/11/casket_factory.html
http://www.plush01.com/roadtrip/cf_pix.html

Casket Factory '05 Dallas showed a different side of its art-world personality last weekend at Casket Factory '05, a happy-go-lucky hodgepodge of galleries selling their wares at Southside on Lamar. There was plenty of unusual form and action in place of what has become so usual for Dallas: paintings to match your sofa, lapidary planes of stripes or sundry abstract designs mounted on lustered industrial surfaces and the comfortable humdrum of monthly gallery openings. When Dallas is faced with the one-two punch of hipster art from Houston, Denton and Chicago, it struggles to hold its own. Ultimately, the city manages. Fifteen "institutions"--galleries, collectives, Web sites--collaborated in the art fair, mostly entry-level locales where young artists get their first leg up. Participants included Art Prostitute of Denton; Art Palace of Austin; Diverseworks, Glasstire and Rudolph Projects ArtScan Gallery of Houston; Mighty Fine Arts, the Pigeon-Stone Project, Mulcahy Modern, Oh6 and Plush of Dallas; Webb Art Gallery of Waxahachie; Polvo of Chicago; and Tom Sales' Pinky Diablo Trailer and the Amazing Hancock Brothers. It was an event of the almost. The gathering seemed to suggest that the Dallas art scene almost competes nationally. Regardless of national standing, though, there was some wacky art junk being hocked and cool tunes spun and spoken-word poetry slammed. The night's ad hoc feel was in part a result of being moved from the adjacent space of the Casket Factory to the Janette Kennedy Art Gallery inside the central building at the last minute. The move was unfortunate, as it seems to have tamed what promised to be a feral and raucous joining of the like-minded and freaked-out form. (Charissa N. Terranova)