Name: Talking Texas Art: Dallas-Fort Worth
Start: 2026-03-13T18:30:00-05:00
Location: The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Throughout 2026, as part of the publication’s 25th anniversary, Glasstire is organizing conversations in Dallas-Fort Worth, The Panhandle, West Texas, East Texas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, and The Valley. Each panel will feature artists, art critics, and arts professionals from the region discussing the area’s art and arts writing over the past two and a half decades.
The first Talking Texas Art event will be hosted at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth on Friday, March 13, at 6:30 p.m. Panelists include Anne Bothwell, Vice President, Arts at KERA; Christopher Blay, artist, curator, writer, former Glasstire News Editor, and Director of Public Programs at the National Juneteenth Museum; Benito Huerta, an artist, freelance curator, co-founder of the publication Art Lies, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Arlington; and Jordan Roth, co-founder and Director of the gallery Ro2 Art in Dallas. The panel will be moderated by Jessica Fuentes, Glasstire’s Editor-in-Chief. Read more about each of the panelists below.
Anne Bothwell is Vice President, Arts at KERA, the public radio and television station for North Texas. She oversees local arts, music and culture coverage on a variety of station platforms, including KERA FM, keranews.org, kxt.org, and wrr101.org. KERA’s arts journalists have won numerous awards for their work, including a national Edward R. Murrow award for video. Bothwell got her start in newspapers, with stints at The Dallas Morning News and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She has a journalism degree from Northwestern University. She’s grateful for all the artists she’s met, the shows she’s seen, and the stories she’s shepherded as an editor and observer of North Texas arts and culture for more than two decades.
Christopher Blay is an artist, curator, and writer. He is currently the Director of Public Programs at the National Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Previously he held the positions of Chief Curator of the Houston Museum of African American Culture, News Editor at Glasstire, and curator for the Art Corridor Galleries at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth. Blay is a contributing writer for Art in America, where he has published essays and interviews with artists David-Jeremiah, Julie Speed, and Jammie Holmes. As an independent curator, he recently organized David-Jeremiah: The Fire This Time at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Benito Huerta is an artist and freelance curator who holds a BFA from the University of Houston and an MA from New Mexico State University. He was co-founder, Executive Director, and Emeritus Board Director of Art Lies, a Texas art journal. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and former Director and Curator of The Gallery at UTA.
Jordan Roth is the co-founder and Director of Ro2 Art, a contemporary gallery in Dallas representing artists from emerging to established careers, with a strong focus on Texas. He and his mother, Susan Roth Romans, have mounted hundreds of exhibitions under the Ro2 banner — across gallery spaces, satellite locations, and pop-up venues — while also presenting at major art fairs. Roth comes from a family engaged in both the New York and Texas art worlds, including MJS International, an early contemporary gallery in Fort Worth. His current work includes ongoing research into sustainable models that strengthen long-term ecosystems for artists and galleries across the region.