The Arts District is a performing and visual arts district in

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. It is located south of State Thomas; southeast of

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; north of the City Center District; west of

Bryan Place Bryan Place is a neighborhood in Old East Dallas, Texas (USA). It is east of the Arts District of downtown and the State Thomas neighborhood, north of Deep Ellum, south of Cityplace and west of Munger Place. Its boundaries are generally consi ...

; and east of the West End Historic District. It is bounded by St. Paul Street, Ross Avenue, Spur 366 (

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), and the

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/ I-45 (unsigned I-345) elevated freeway ( Central Expressway). (Previously the district extended east only to Routh Street, but a 9 March 2005

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City Council approval extended it east to I-345.) The Arts District is the founder and member of the Global Cultural Districts Network. The district is 68

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s (0.28 km²) large and is home to some of Dallas’ most significant cultural landmarks including facilities for visual, performing, and developing arts.

Arts District venues

The Arts District is home to 13 facilities and organizations including The Annette Strauss Square, the Belo Mansion/Dallas Bar Association, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Theater Center, Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Nasher Sculpture Center, St. Paul United Methodist Church, Fellowship Church, and the Crow Museum of Asian Art housed in a portion of the Trammell Crow Center. In addition, multiple other organizations perform in the District on an ongoing basis. This includes everything from concerts to outdoor festivals, to lectures, youth education programs, and more. * AT&T Performing Arts Center ** Annette Strauss Square ** Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre ** Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House * Moody Performance Hall *

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (BTWHSPVA) is a public secondary school located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, United States. Booker T. Washington HSPVA enrolls students in grades 9- 12 and ...

Crow Museum of Asian Art The Crow Museum of Asian Art is a museum in downtown Dallas, Texas, dedicated to celebrating the arts and cultures of Asia including China, Japan, India, Korea, Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines, from an ...

Dallas Museum of Art The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In the 1970s, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Art ...

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center is a concert hall located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). Ranked one of the world's greatest orchestra halls, it was designed by architect I.M. Pei and acoustician Russell Johnson's ...

Nasher Sculpture Center Opened in 2003, the Nasher Sculpture Center is a museum in Dallas, Texas, that houses the Patsy and Raymond Nasher collection of modern and contemporary sculpture. It is located on a site adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art in the Dallas Art ...

Klyde Warren Park Klyde Warren Park is a public park in Downtown Dallas, Texas. The park is over the Woodall Rodgers Freeway, and opened in 2012. It is named for Klyde Warren, the young son of billionaire Kelcy Warren who donated $10 million to the development of ...

Other structures

* Belo Mansion / Dallas Bar Association * Cathedral Santuario de Guadalupe *

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(formerly the Moorland YMCA) *

Fellowship Church Fellowship Church (FC) is Baptist Evangelical multi-site megachurch located in Grapevine, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth, that is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. FC's lead pastor has been Ed Young since its opening in 1989. H ...

(Downtown Campus) *

Trammell Crow Center Trammell Crow Center is a 50-story postmodern skyscraper at 2001 Ross Avenue in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas. With a structural height of , and to the roof, it is the sixth-tallest building in Dallas and the 18th-tallest in the ...

* St. Paul United Methodist Church

Transportation

Trains

Light rail

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: , , , and ** St. Paul Station (''in City Center District'') **

Pearl Station Pearl Street/Arts District station (formerly Pearl station) is a DART Light Rail station located in Dallas, Texas. It is located on Bryan Street, east of Pearl Street, in the City Center District. It opened June 14, 1996, and is the easternmost ...

(''in City Center District'')

Streetcars

* McKinney Avenue Transit Authority M-Line runs from McKinney Avenue south down St. Paul Street to Federal Street, east along Federal to Olive Street, and north on Olive back up to McKinney.

Highways

Spur 366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway) * US 75

Central Expressway/ I-45

I-45 connection (unsigned I-345

I-345)

Education

The Arts District is served by the

Dallas Independent School District The Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD or DISD) is a school district based in Dallas, Texas ( USA). It operates schools in much of Dallas County and is the second-largest school district in Texas and the seventeenth-largest in ...

. One school, the

, is located in the Arts District. Residents of the Arts District north and east of Akard Street are zoned to Sam Houston Elementary School. Residents south and west of Akard are zoned to Hope Medrano Elementary School. All Arts District residents are zoned to Thomas J. Rusk Middle School and North Dallas High School.Dallas ISD

. (Maps: ES:''
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.) Retrieved 31 December 2006.

References

External links

Dallas Arts DistrictCity of Dallas Planned Development (PD) district documents — Arts DistrictAT&T Center for the Performing ArtsMoody Performance HallBooker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual ArtsBooker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Advisory BoardDallas Museum of ArtMorton H. Meyerson Symphony CenterNasher Sculpture CenterKlyde Warren Park
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