past projects & archives
Please enjoy these show posters and promos from the Spiderweb archives! Since 2012, we’ve hosted 80+ creative showcases and productions.
Poems recorded for the radio! Visit our Bandcamp page to listen to past recordings.
Songwriting Scholarship & Compilation Album (Released on Vinyl)
13 musical artists. 13 original tracks. Lots of breakfasts. Recorded at Shiny Sound Recording Studio. Artwork by Joe Duncan.
Wake & Bake with Spiderweb Salon
Welcome to the place where the culinary collides with the creative!
2021
Our 2021 artist residency program provided a place for creatives to focus, recharge, connect, and create new work.
Exploring listening and improvising through various exercises and will have the occasional guest leader/conductor. The goal: to cultivate a supportive environment to explore listening as a community, music making, and risk taking.
2020
2020 was a time of tremendous grief for so many, which is why we gathered together (digitally) to continue our annual tradition of collective mourning as the year came to a close.
Spiderweb Salon + PRIDENTON 2020: Virtual Showcase
PRIDENTON 2020: Queer in it Together! This year's events were virtual and we showcased artistic performances by local queer and trans creatives on YouTube Live. The show was free, but we encourage you to tip our amazing performers!
2019
Collective Connection at the Dallas Museum of Art
Explore the possibilities of curiosity, identity, and community in collective | connection by C3 Visiting Artist Collective, Spiderweb Salon at the Dallas Museum of Art. For our installation in C3 (Center for Creative Connections), fifty poets, writers, actors, and musicians wrote and recorded audio experiences inspired by works of art from the museum’s collection.
Photos from Spiderweb Salon’s collective | connection opening reception in Sept. 2019 at the Dallas Museum of Art by Frank Darko.
Lei Lei’s L.O.V.E. - The Love Revolution Continues
Photos by Frank Darko from the EP release of Lei Lei Lashawn’s L.O.V.E. at Spiderweb HQ
The Love Revolution Continues + Shiny Sound Recording Studio
Table Manners: First Course took place on May 25, 2019, a part of Spiderweb Salon’s ongoing #PLEASED project, a hyper-collaborative performance hybrid.
Spiderweb Salon Loves PriDENTON
Did you know your favorite creative collective is powered all year long by the efforts of LGBTQ+ artists & allies? This project was a community collaboration during 2019 Pride Month to celebrate and support local queer artists, zine culture, and love in all its beautiful forms.
but the things we have are really nice
Video project featuring 50 artists. Footage shot by Brad Holt our first night at the new Spiderweb HQ. Music by Forever & Everest. #PLEASED
Spiderweb Salon's 7th annual winter formal, a radical costume party and carnival of creativity, where we set intentions for 2019, cleansed ourselves of any negativity clinging from the year before, and celebrated us as a unified creative collective. We also released our new collaborative zine about magick & mystery: THE BOOK OF SHADOWS!
2018
Our feature series celebrates local artists, writers, and creators, including Lorelei K, Isabel Crespo, Sarah Ruth, Conor Wallace, Sebastian Páramo, Lisa Huffaker, Taylor Barnes, Sean Enfield, Anjelica Fraga, and Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam.
Introducing #PLEASED, our newest hyper-collaborative creative production! Is it a performance piece? Yes. A musical? Yes. An intimate reflection of the current state of the world? Yes. Is it a dance recital? Yes. A poetry reading, perhaps? Yes. A prayer? Yes. A hug? Yes. Your new favorite song? Yes. A party? Yes. Art? Yes. Life? Yes. Quiet? Yes. Loud? Yes. All of this and more!
2017
Spiderweb Salon: The Literary Podcast
Produced in collaboration with Pariah Art in Dallas, TX, and hosted by courtney marie, The Literary Podcast featured poetry and interviews with many poets and writers, including Paula Jane Mendoza, Candy, Darin Bradley, Colin Winnette, Kendra Greene, Rage Almighty, Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi, Ben Clark, R. Flowers Rivera, and Merritt Tierce.
Spiderweb Salon's Harvest Masquerade
Spiderweb Salon brought back the magic with our FIFTH ANNUAL MASQUERADE at Dan's Silverleaf, an evening of poetry and performance, music and mystery, art and adventure!
Spiderweb Salon's Five-Year Celebration Showcase
Spiderweb Salon turned five years old! We celebrated this amazing half-decade of creativity and community with a fabulous party. Ella Minnow headlined this party for their ten-year reunion show.
Spiderweb Salon at Deep Ellum Lit Hop
Spiderweb Salon hosted a showcase during Deep Ellum Lit Hop on June 3, 2017 in Dallas, Texas.
Spiderweb Salon had a lot of fun for national poetry month! check out the poets we've featured over the course of the month here AND the beautiful photos from our Poetry Party that went down on April 22 at Wine Squared.
Spiderweb Salon teamed up with Wine Squared, Thin Line Fest, and many of DFW's best poets & writers to bring an excellent evening of poetry, performance, and celebration.
Spiderweb Salon Loves You was a series of new collaborative works performed at The Wild Detectives in Dallas, Texas on February 14, 2017.
2016
We threw a fake wedding called Spiderwed Salon and it was one of the most beautiful events ever. There was a food fight and a great deal of tears and laughter. No one got married, as far as we could tell.