Texas Ballet Theater's (TBT) mission is to create, present, and tour world-class ballet, from classical to cutting-edge, and promote its appreciation, accessibility, and technical mastery among students, pre-professionals, and audiences of all ages.

Texas Ballet Theater's (TBT) mission is to create, present, and tour world-class ballet, from classical to cutting-edge, and promote its appreciation, accessibility, and technical mastery among students, pre-professionals, and audiences of all ages. Texas Ballet Theater proudly serves as a leader for the arts and cultural vibrancy of North Texas, operating as the only dual-resident company for both the Winspear Opera House on the AT&T Performing Arts Center Campus in Dallas and Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth. TBT increases access to the arts and arts education through high-quality training, professional ballet performances, and Community Enrichment programs that partner with local school districts to connect marginalized populations with ballet. In the previous season, TBT served nearly 121,000 individuals across North Texas. Founded in 1961, TBT just completed its 63rd year. In 1995, predecessor organizations, Dallas Ballet and Fort Worth Ballet, consolidated to form the Fort Worth Dallas Ballet. In 2003, Artistic Director Ben Stevenson, O.B.E. began his tenure, and the organization rebranded as Texas Ballet Theater. In 2023, Tim O’Keefe began his tenure as Artistic Director. Texas Ballet Theater School (TBTS) has locations in Fort Worth, Dallas, and Richardson. In a typical year, TBT employs more than 380 individuals and operates out of administrative offices and studios in Fort Worth, Dallas, and Richardson, performs at resident venues in Fort Worth and Dallas, and provides ballet education programs at no cost to Title 1 schools in school districts throughout the region. As the region’s premier ballet company, Texas Ballet Theater serves North Texas through the organization’s three priority areas of art, access, and education. Community Enrichment Programming - TBT offers four Community Enrichment programs, each meant to address unique needs in our community. CityDance, Student Experiences, Dance Extension, and Adaptive Dance programs deepen the opportunities to learn and expanding our reach to serve a greater number of students. TBT partners with healthcare professionals at Children’s Healthcare System to facilitate Adaptive Dance classes for Texas Ballet Theater School students with Down syndrome and similar diagnoses. TBT's Community Enrichment programs specifically target youth in under-resourced areas. Our CityDance program, an after-school initiative, provides ballet instruction to over 1,400 students across North Texas, with nearly 90% of these students being people of color. Each CityDance participant receives a complimentary ticket to a mainstage performance for themselves and a parent or guardian, allowing both generations to enjoy the art of ballet together. Over 33,000 students and 200 adults attended these performances this past year.

Honoring 80 years of operatic excellence and embracing the future of classical music, culture and innovation in Fort Worth

About Fort Worth Opera Established in 1946, Fort Worth Opera is the oldest continually running opera company in Texas and one of the oldest opera companies in the United States. Our mission is to engage, educate, and entertain through the transformative power of opera. We are dedicated to fostering a love for the arts in our community, with a special focus on educational outreach and community engagement. Throughout Fort Worth Opera's 2025–26 season, the company celebrates its milestone 80th anniversary with a dynamic lineup that honors its storied legacy. The season opens with a rare stateside concert appearance by internationally acclaimed tenor Jonathan Tetelman at TCU's Van Cliburn Concert Hall. Audiences will then experience Philip Glass’ groundbreaking La Belle et La Bête (Beauty and the Beast) at the historic Ridglea Theater—a mesmerizing fusion of opera and film that transforms Jean Cocteau’s cinematic masterpiece into a multimedia spectacle. As the holidays approach, the company will bring Gian Carlo Menotti’s beloved classic Amahl and the Night Visitors to life at Stage West. The spirit of Fort Worth’s rich cultural heritage shines through in Cowboys and Culture, a concert of Western-themed repertoire performed by Metropolitan Opera heldentenor Clifton Forbis at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. The season also features the triumphant return of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at Bass Performance Hall. About Fort Worth Opera's Education and Community Engagement Programs Fort Worth Opera's acclaimed education programs engage nearly 41,000 students annually through live, interactive opera performances in K-12 schools across North Texas. Designed to reduce barriers and expand access, the program brings high-quality arts experiences directly to youth in underserved and culturally diverse communities. This season, the department will present The Three Little Pigs in elementary and middle schools. For families across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Fort Worth Opera will present the world premiere of the bilingual children’s opera Anam the Witch and Beatriz the Beautiful, and in December, Wintersong, a festive concert of seasonal music. This season, as Fort Worth Opera deepens its connection with local high school students and aligns its educational programming with Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards, the company proudly presents Project: Opera—a 30-hour in-school residency at three Tarrant County high schools. Students explore Shakespeare and Charles Gounod's opera Romeo and Juliet through vocal training, reflection, and scene study, working alongside Fort Worth Opera's Resident Artists and educators. Project: Opera features a partnership with the Suicide and Crisis Center of North Texas, integrating the organization's Teens Can Survive program, and also features a collaboration with the Welman Project to build our sets and props using 90% recycled materials. Each residency culminates in a fully staged performance on each campus and a final co-production with students from all three high schools and TCU Opera Studio students on the stage of Van Cliburn Concert Hall in late spring. The company's Hattie Mae Lesley Resident Artist Program furthers the company's mission by offering intensive professional development and regional performance opportunities to emerging opera singers selected through a nationwide audition process. In our most recent season, four Resident Artists served as performers, teaching artists, and ambassadors at schools and community events across the region. Fort Worth Opera's comprehensive programs continue to enrich, educate, and inspire audiences of all ages—advancing our belief that opera is for everyone. Mission Our Mission at Fort Worth Opera is to educate, entertain, and expand the horizons of current and future audiences and artists through variety and artistic integrity. Fort Worth Opera is committed to maintaining the highest possible standards of equality; to embracing diversity, giving voice to qualified people of all genders, races, and orientations, on and off the stage. ​Our vision is to bring the communities of Fort Worth and North Texas closer together through inclusive musical experience, to cultivate young singers into the next generation of opera stars, and to be a world-renowned venue for new and innovative operatic works.

The Kimbell Art Museum officially opened on October 4, 1972. The Kimbell Art Foundation, which owns and operates the Museum, had been established in 1936 by Kay and Velma Kimbell, together with Kay’s sister and her husband, Dr. and Mrs. Coleman Carter. Early on, the Foundation collected mostly British and French portraits of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By the time Mr. Kimbell died in April 1964, the collection had grown to 260 paintings and 86 other works of art, including such singular paintings as Hals’s Rommel-Pot Player, Gainsborough’s Portrait of a Woman, Vigée Le Brun’s Self-Portrait, and Leighton’s Portrait of May Sartoris. Motivated by his wish “to encourage art in Fort Worth and Texas,” Mr. Kimbell left his estate to the Foundation, charging it with the creation of a museum. Mr. Kimbell had made clear his desire that the future museum be “of the first class,” and to further that aim, within a week of his death, his widow, Velma, contributed her share of the community property to the Foundation. With the appointment in 1965 of Richard F. Brown, then director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as the Museum’s first director, the Foundation began planning for the future museum and development of the collection, both of which would fulfill the aspirations of Mr. Kimbell. To that end, under the leadership of its President, Mr. A. L. Scott, and in consultation with Ric Brown, the nine-member Board of Directors of the Foundation—consisting of Mrs. Kimbell; Dr. Carter; his daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Ben J. Fortson; Mr. C. Binkley Smith; Mr. P. A. Norris, Jr.; Mr. J. C. Pace, Jr.; and attorney Mr. Benjamin L. Bird—adopted a policy statement for the future museum in June 1966, outlining its purpose, scope, and program, among other things. That statement remains to this day the operative guide for the Museum. In accordance with that policy, the Foundation acquires and retains works of so-called “definitive excellence”—works that may be said to define an artist or type regardless of medium, period, or school of origin. The aim of the Kimbell is not historical completeness but the acquisition of individual objects of “the highest possible aesthetic quality” as determined by condition, rarity, importance, suitability, and communicative powers. The rationale is that a single work of outstanding merit and significance is more effective as an educational tool than a larger number of representative examples. Two aspects of the 1966 policy in particular would have the greatest impact on changing the Kimbell collection: an expansion of vision to encompass world history and a new focus on building through acquisition and refinement a small collection of key objects of surpassing quality. The Kimbell collection today consists of about 350 works that not only epitomize their periods and movements but also touch individual high points of aesthetic beauty and historical importance.