The Arts District is a performing and visual arts district in

downtown Dallas Downtown Dallas is the central business district (CBD) of Dallas, Texas, United States, located in the geographic center of the city. It is the second-largest business district in the state of Texas. The area termed "Downtown" has traditionally ...

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. The district is 118

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s (0.47 km) large and is home to some of Dallas’ most significant cultural landmarks including facilities for visual, performing, and developing arts. It is located south of State Thomas; southeast of Uptown; north of the City Center District; west of Bryan Place; 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 Interstate 45 (I-45) is a major Interstate Highway located entirely within the U.S. state of Texas. While most primary Interstate routes which have numbers ending in "5" are cross-country north–south routes, I-45 is comparatively short, ...

(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 a member of the

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. In 2025, ''

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'' named the Dallas Arts District as the best art district in America for a creative escape for the second consecutive year.

Arts District venues

The Arts District is home to 18 facilities and organizations including The Annette Strauss Square, the Arts District 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, First United Methodist Church, Margot & Bill Winspear Opera House, Dee and Charles Wyly Theater, Moody Performance Hall, the Green Family Art Foundation, 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 consistently throughout the year. This includes everything from concerts to outdoor festivals, to lectures, youth education programs, and more. *

AT&T Performing Arts Center The AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, Texas, preliminarily referred to as the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, is a $354-million multi-venue center in the Dallas Arts District, Dallas, Arts District for performances of opera, musical ...

** Annette Strauss Square ** Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre **

Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House is an opera house (one of four venues in the AT&T Performing Arts Center) located in the Arts District, Dallas, Arts District of Downtown Dallas, downtown Dallas, Texas (United States, USA). Designed as a ...

Moody Performance Hall The Moody Performance Hall (formerly Dallas City Performance Hall) is a performing arts venue located in the Arts District of Downtown Dallas, Texas, USA. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) in collaboration with the Architect of ...

* Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts *

Crow Museum of Asian Art The Crow Museum of Asian Art is a museum with two locations in the Dallas, Texas, area. It is dedicated to celebrating the arts and cultures of Asia including China, Japan, India, Korea, Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar a ...

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 A ...

* Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center *

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 Dal ...

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* First United Methodist Church (Dallas, Texas)

Other structures

* Arts District Mansion / Dallas Bar Association *

Cathedral Santuario de Guadalupe The National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish language, Spanish: Catedral Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe) or just simply Cathedral Guadalupe is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Ca ...

Dallas Black Dance Theatre Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT) is the oldest continuously operating dance company in Dallas, Texas. For nearly half a century, DBDT has performed across the United States and around the world. In 2024, Dallas voters approved a $1.25 billion bo ...

(formerly the Moorland YMCA) * Trammell Crow Center *

* St. Paul United Methodist Church

Transportation

Light rail

* DART: , , , and ** St. Paul Station (''in City Center District'') ** Pearl/Arts District Station (''in City Center District'')

Streetcars

* MATA:

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:The M-Line Trolley is a

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that provides service between

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in Uptown and St Paul station in

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. Service is free. :The M-Line features 40 dedicated stops serving key destinations including: the West Village, McKinney Avenue,

, the Dallas Arts District, four historical cemeteries, and the State Thomas historic neighborhood.

Highways

Spur 366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway) * US 75

Central Expressway/ 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, United States. It operates schools in much of Dallas County, Texas, Dallas County and is the second-largest school district in Texas and t ...

. One school, the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, 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 North Dallas High School is a public secondary school located in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, Texas, United States. It enrolls students in grades 9- 12 and is a part of the Dallas Independent School District. As of 2017, the principal administ ...

.Dallas ISD

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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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