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Southern Gateway Park:

A Bridge to the Future of Oak Cliff

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Say you’re driving from downtown Dallas to Austin. You’re heading south toward Waco on I-35, and just as you’re approaching the delightful giant giraffe statue signaling entry to the Dallas Zoo, the highway unexpectedly dovetails underground. Dallas is changing, and this particular change is good: It’s the coming of the Southern Gateway Park, the “heartbeat of Southern Dallas,” an economic and cultural game-changer for two growing neighborhoods that were once a unified Oak Cliff.

Construction of I-35 from Dallas to Austin was completed in 1967, taking out homes and businesses in the Tenth Street Historic District of Oak Cliff. Tenth Street was founded by former slaves after the Civil War, is one of Dallas’ oldest neighborhoods, and one of the few intact freedmen’s towns in the nation, receiving historic preservation protection in 1993.

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So when the Southern Gateway Deck Park opens in 2024, East and West Oak Cliff will be reunited in an exciting, stylish new five-acre public park that serves the whole city, with an expected 2 million visitors each year.

The economic benefits to the area could be profound.

HKS Architects was selected to define, design, and engineer the Park, while the Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation, a private entity, will manage. As

envisioned by the Foundation’s President and COO April Allen, Southern Gateway Park will become a showcase destination, bringing $1 billion in revenue in its first five years alone.

The development and design of the park—through its distinctive design features, iconic elements, native materials and textures, and vibrant colors—reflects the uniqueness of Oak Cliff, as well as extensive input from area residents,”

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Allen said. “Southern Gateway Park is truly by and for the community. We can’t wait to see this transformative place come to life and welcome residents and visitors alike.”

Allen is an Oak Cliff resident and a Harvard MBA. She hopes to use her business expertise to influence changes in Texas policy that will minimize property tax increases

for longtime residents—a realistic but negative side effect of the Park’s economic success The Foundation’s ambassador group, Southern Gateway Alliance, includes Ron Kirk and Mike Rawlings, two former Dallas mayors who jointly wrote a recent piece for the Dallas Morning News citing the surprising/not-surprising statistic that although the southern sector represents 10%

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of the tax base, it holds a whopping 60% of the city’s landmass. The park project will provide gathering spaces for a long-underserved populace while maximizing access for a region that truly loves its automobiles. The highway is the location.

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has been working on the foundational infrastructure since 2017. Landscape design will be steered by SWA Group,

a firm whose park experience boasts both the Dallas Arboretum and the Katy Trail, as well as Dubai’s World Expo and Bao’an Waterfront Cultural Park in Shenzhen, China (a masterpiece if ever there was one). Perhaps more impressively, SWA has already mastered the task of unifying a city—Lynwood, California—split in half by a freeway, and winning urban design awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects for their efforts. Though Klyde Warren Park over Woodall Rodgers

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Freeway has transformed the Dallas Arts District since opening in 2012, Southern Gateway will be far more than just a southern outpost.

Phase I of construction is the underlying deck structure, with completion slated for this year. Phase II will bring the park itself, complete with interactive water features, food trucks, an indoor structure for exhibitions, programs, and dining, and outdoor classrooms for local schools. There will of course be a playground, and a concert stage, plus

plenty of verdant spaces and a native landscape. The new bridge park will spread from and extend into Ewing to Marsalis Avenues, adding pedestrian walkways, a canopy of over 250 trees, and a framework for both hike-and-bike trails and a Dallas Streetcar line.

“One of the things that first struck me is that Oak Cliff didn’t look like the rest of Dallas,” said Chuck McDaniel, Managing Principal Architect of SWA Group and the Southern Gateway Park Design Team. “The topography,

escarpments, big trees, rolling streets and broad stream beds were exciting. The visual landscape has always meant a great deal to me as a neighbor and an architect.

Southern Gateway Park is a highly visible representation of its location.”

A collective capital investment for the Park is expected to surpass $250 million, but that also includes the master plan for the Dallas Zoo. The Foundation is currently driving a fundraising campaign with the added incentive of changing the Park’s surrounding zip codes from food

deserts to welcoming neighborhoods. Active partnerships with private entities and nonprofit organizations will be crucial to achieving that goal, and several major funders have stepped up already, including the ReesJones Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas, the Eugene McDermott Foundation, and the Rainwater Charitable Foundation. southerngatewaypark.org

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crystal vision

by Kendall Morgan

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Multidisciplinary artist Crystal Wagner explores the dialogue between architecture and nature with her site specific installations.

Embracing a delicate balance between the organic and manufactured worlds in her work, Wagner uses common chicken wire and colorful tablecloths as her raw materials. But what they end up as is something very different indeed.

“It’s not about the form itself,” she explains of her

aesthetic, “It’s about how it reorganizes the negative space. I didn’t want to make it about the spectacle of scale but find some delicate moments where it isn’t all mass.”

Wagner lets the room act as her canvas, telling her where and what her ultimate piece should be. Sometimes she hews to the azure shades of the sea and shore, and sometimes she embraces a verdant palette of a summer garden. For her current installation, “Sublime,” at Fort Works Art, every hue except white is in full Technicolor display.

Although no one can deny Wagner was born to be an artist, she came to the sculptural world via a roundabout path. Recognized at an early age for her talent, she utilized the shades and shapes of the natural world from the very start.

“My entire life, I’ve been interested in the intersection between curved and straight lines and what that looks like in the landscape or even animals or insects. When I was

a young girl, I used to do all these drawings of imaginary birds—creating something from components of birds that already exist, and I can still see the same language now that I had when I was a little kid.”

Because of those early drawings, she was awarded the opportunity to take a community college class on two dimensional design when she was just seven. At the same time, her maker father turned her bedroom into an artist’s studio, complete with a custom easel and flat-file storage.

Yet Wagner still wasn’t sure the artist’s path was for her.

Initially majoring in creative writing and art at Keystone College in Pennsylvania, she self-published an apocalyptic novel called “Crimson Sky” while earning her MFA at the University of Tennessee.

In college, the artist had focused on printmaking to embrace her love of line without being burdened by the expense of material, but it was clear a future in sculpture was her destiny.

“In the printmaking world, everyone is obsessed with technique, but the artwork is lost. I was losing a lot of who I was in that process, and who I am is an explorer. I’m interested in the world around me, so I started following my intuitive play in the studio. As I started diving into that process, the more I gave power to it, I found I was the custodian and could foster and create something even bigger.”

Initially working with Mylar, foam core, board and paper, she landed on her current materials of chicken wire and birthday party tablecloths, which she loved for their everyday quality. Because Wagner wants her carbon footprint to remain small, she’s used the same tablecloths as raw materials for a decade, unweaving and packing them away for the next project once each installation is completed.

In their latest guise at Fort Works, an explosion of color undulates in, around—and sometimes through—the gallery walls. And the reason this epic installation even exists is kismet.

Owner Lauren Saba initially met Wagner in 2015 in Miami, mounting her “Tropism” show of paper works in 2017. The

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gallerist always knew she wanted to bring Wagner back to construct a larger sculptural piece.

However, her budget didn’t allow for such an undertaking at the time.

Fast forward to the Covid lockdown when Wagner asked if she could stash some materials the artist had left behind in her extra space. Saba stored 20 five-by-two-foot tubes

of raw material in Fort Works’ back offices. As the world started to open, Wagner made an offer Saba couldn’t refuse.

“She said, ‘I’ll come and do an installation for you,’” recalls Saba. “Crystal is one of those people that everything is about feeling. She goes into the space and has to want to create something there. She remembered our space and loved it.”

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Says Wagner of Saba, “We just had so much in common, and she was just a wonderful human. She’s always been a champion of my work, and I had this material she was storing, so I was just like, now’s the time. We both felt people need to see imagination on a large scale because it’s been really heavy in the world.”

Saba, an artist herself, helped to raise money to mount “Sublime” via her non-profit Gallery of Dreams. Other funds

come from a $15 fee to view the work, and tickets can be purchased online. Tuesdays and Thursdays are free.

Pulling together an installation like this is backbreaking for Wagner, who spent 12 hours a day for 12 days without a pause to complete it. But that’s minor compared to what she’s created in the past.

Throughout her career, Wagner has crafted installations for NIKE’s The KOBE x Blackout Experience, the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, the United States Embassy, and Viacom—even the Flaming Lips. One of her more epic undertakings was adorning the medieval French fortress Chateau Belcastel’s facade with what looked like the world’s most beautiful lichen.

Wagner is typically on location from 12 to 16 hours a day for two weeks to make a piece. But, because she’s doing something she loves, she feels every moment is worth it—for the viewer and the artist herself.

“I really believe what I’m doing for my life, and I want to inspire other people to do what they believe. It’s not about the money; it’s about what you love. Find the thing you can’t stop thinking about because this is the one shot you’ve to live as the person you are supposed to be.”

“Sublime” by Crystal Wagner will be on display until Saturday, October 15, 2022, at Fort Works Art. fortworksart.com

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The playhouse most adults remember bear no resemblance to the wild and whimsical designs on display at Northpark Center. Architects and builders from around Dallas have come together to create dream playhouses will help fund real dreams for abused children.

and architects, creating nearly a dozen playhouses for the event. Playhouse designs for 2022 include everything from a lighthouse to a Mars spaceship and are sure to spark a child’s imagination and the imagination of those who are a child at heart.

The event sponsored by Crest Cadillac / INFINITI / Volvo raises critical funds and awareness for Dallas CASA and the child victims of abuse or neglect served by the agency.

This year, Dallas CASA has welcomed a host of builders

These playhouses can be won in a raffle with all proceeds from ticket sales benefiting children living in the protective care of the state. Dallas CASA volunteers will be on hand at NorthPark Center to sell tickets and answer questions

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about how to support children who have been abused or neglected and are living in foster care. For a chance to win a playhouse, raffle tickets are $5 each or five for $20, sold during the event at NorthPark Center and at DallasCASA.org.

Dallas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) trains and supervises community volunteers who advocate for

children who have been removed from unsafe homes.

Supported by professional staff, volunteers gather information and make recommendations to help judges decide the services each child needs to heal from trauma and the best outcome for a safe and permanent home.

For many foster children, a CASA volunteer is the only consistent, caring adult during a frightening and uncertain time.

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For the past forty two years, Dallas CASA has served more children than any of the more than 900 CASA programs nationwide. The program’s success is impressive.

In 2021, 1,539 Dallas CASA volunteers were assigned to advocate for 3,113 children in protective care.

CASA depends on the community’s generosity and commitment to make sure every child in need has a

CASA volunteer advocate. The Parade of Playhouses is just one way the program is funded.

The designers this year have out done themselves in their creativity and themes. These playhouses are not just for show, but are built to withstand real-world use by real children.

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One excellent example of this durability is The Lighthouse by LRO / Brian S. Easley Design. LRO’s creative lighthouse includes shiplap siding, a metal roof, Andersen windows, along with electrical wiring and lighting. LRO, a Park Cities residential home builder, has built a playhouse for Dallas CASA each year for the past 13 years and brings the same attention to detail to the playhouses as they do to full-scale residential construction.

On a more fanciful level is the Crest-atrium by CREST. The “Crest-arium” playhouse takes children on an

educational journey through freshwater and ocean fish.

Its foam floor is designed to look like waves. Swings designed like fishhooks hang from a fishing rod and special solar aquarium-like lighting. This playhouse promises lots of fishy fun.

Honoring the designer’s mother and her Dutch heritage is Fran’s Dutch Windmill by Butscher Construction. Fran’s Dutch Windmill, built by longtime playhouse builder Amy Butscher and her brother Reed.

The windmill features cedar siding cut in a fish scale

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pattern, and each window has a window box full of tulips.

The arched front door is, of course, a Dutch door. Your kids will be transported to Amsterdam in this fresh, fun house!

And speaking of fun houses, the Magic Hive by HKS / Brasfield & Gorrie / Woodhaus / Cherry Coatings uses the magic of light and reflection in a playhouse, inspired by fun houses. A kaleidoscope of colors bounces

around everyone curious to find the fun around every corner. The house is made of plywood, iridescent plastic and mirrored plexi-glass.

Aptly names is You Rock by Austin Commercial / Corgan. The You Rock playhouse is inspired by the desire for protection and safety for children. The outside is a rock, for children to rock-climb, while the inside is a cave with a built-in bed and desk and wall designed for cave

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drawings. The structure is metal and wood, meant to be strong and protective for years to come.

A modern twist on the old treehouse is Treehouse²

by JPI. The house is inspired by the designer’s hometown of San Paulo, Brazil. This playhouse cube, made of white oak, poplar and birch plywood and colorful paint, is simple and modern with pops of color, creating an environment to encourage kids imagination.

Less earthbound is To the Moon by Beck. What child doesn’t look at the stars and planets and imagine themselves being an explorer? The “To the Moon” rocket ship and playhouse celebrates Texas being a gateway to space travel. Made of heavy-duty plywood with flexible nylon rope that forms the outline of a ship, the rocket will allow children to access every part of the ship through climbing, play and imagination.

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One of my favorites is the Play-Go House by Hill & Wilkinson / Kimley Horn. Inspired by the design team’s childhood love of Legos, the Play-Go house is a dynamic structure that challenges children’s creativity as they develop their own ways to experience the structure. And it’s made of giant legos! What’s not to like?

For the basketball fan, there is Bolthouse by Dallas Mavericks / DPR. The Mavs Bolthouse includes a kid-sized hoop and blacktop for basketball play, a storage nook and bench, a slide and the Mavs logo proudly displayed on the side. This one will be fun for the whole neighborhood.

More minimalist is Cubes by Omniplan / Andres.

The “Cubes” house features brightly-colored interlocking blocks that allow children to explore in, on and around the house for maximum creative fun. Colorful and modern it would look great in a modern backyard.

For sci-if fans, there is Mars Attacks! Designed and built by Page/Balfour Beatty the Mars Attack! playhouse resembles an alien spaceship landed on earth. It includes ladder access to the inside of the playhouse and is ready for your human or alien to explore.

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// mars attacks! by page / balfour beatty

All these imaginative and amazing playhouses will be on display through July 31 at NorthPark Center. As I mentioned previously, raffle tickets are available at NorthPark or online at DallasCASA.org.

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SUMMER GROUP SHOW Valley House Gallery

ANA ESTEVE LLORENS Holly Johnson Gallery

2022 TDG FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION Talley Dunn Gallery

LIME IN DE COCONUT Conduit Gallery

LEARNING TO DRAW Barry Whistler Gallery

LEIGH MERRILL Liliana Bloch Gallery

NEW TEXAS TALENT XXIX Craighead Green Gallery

CARBON + GOLD PDNB Gallery

NATURALLY YOURS + INTERSECTIONS Galleri Urbane