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Art Quest Pleasant Grove is just one week away!

Head down to Trinity River Audubon Center on Saturday, June 6, to take part in the first of our free and family-friendly Art Quest scavenger hunts, this edition spanning the Pleasant Grove area. The ceramic and neon sculptural artwork ‘Nopal del Sur: Camino Sagrado’ by Dallas-based artist Hermila Cuevas will be awarded to the winner!

📅 Saturday, June 6, 2025
⏰ 5 - 9pm
📍 Trinity River Audubon Center

AURORA has partnered with Los Primos, Trinity River Audubon Center, and Gallery 86 to kick off the evening with a community gathering. This year, Art Quest is revealing the first performative clue in collaboration with Teatro Dallas at 5:50 pm.

To register, head to our dedicated Art Quest webpage (link in bio) where you can find more information on this event!


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Art Quest 2026

Art Quest is an art scavenger hunt and event program run by AURORA taking place in 3 Dallas neighborhoods–join us for each event date to win outstanding artworks by regional artists!

📍Pleasant Grove: June 6, 5-9pm

📍South Dallas: July 18, 10am-2pm

📍Bachman: Special workshop edition with Karla Ramirez-Santin: August 1, 1-3pm at Bachman Branch Library

Art Quest 2026 is made possible with the support from The Eugene McDermott Foundation, , The MR & Evelyn, Hudson Foundation, , Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District, The Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation, HEB/

Art Quest Pleasant Grove is just one week away!

Head down to Trinity River Audubon Center on Saturday, June 6, to take part in the first of our free and family-friendly Art Quest scavenger hunts, this edition spanning the Pleasant Grove area. The ceramic and neon sculptural artwork ‘Nopal del Sur: Camino Sagrado’ by Dallas-based artist Hermila Cuevas will be awarded to the winner!

📅 Saturday, June 6, 2025
⏰ 5 - 9pm
📍 Trinity River Audubon Center

AURORA has partnered with Los Primos, Trinity River Audubon Center, and Gallery 86 to kick off the evening with a community gathering. This year, Art Quest is revealing the first performative clue in collaboration with Teatro Dallas at 5:50 pm.

To register, head to our dedicated Art Quest webpage where you can find more information on this event!

https://dallasaurora.com/ART-QUEST

Thanks so much to everyone involved in our ‘Intro to DJing’ workshop this weekend, led by Dallas favorite DJ Leo J! It was a blast to get together with so many enthusiastic members of our community.

Hosted at Gallery 86, the session guided participants through the basics of DJing—from cueing and mixing, to creating their own blend. As well as developing skills in creative self-expression, the workshop championed deepening our community connections through music and technology.

Images: Can Turkyilmaz

Art Quest Artist Spotlight on Hermila Cuevas 💫
Pleasant Grove: June 6

On June 6, we invite you to the first of our Art Quest 2026 scavenger hunts, this time spanning across the Pleasant Grove neighborhood! Join us to play along, following clues and racing to win an original artwork by Dallas-based artist Hermila Cuevas!

📅 Saturday, June 6, 2025
⏰ 5 - 9pm
📍 Trinity River Audubon Center

Cuevas is a Mexican-American artist with indigenous roots whose practice explores how ancestral memory intersects with the contemporary experience. Her works are part of Cuevas’ process of reconnecting with her lineages, transforming absence into presence through adaptive and responsive mixed media works.

‘Nopal del Sur: Camino Sagrado’ by Cuevas is a ceramic and neon sculptural work inspired by Mesoamerican cosmology, migration, and ancestral systems of navigation. The sculpture reinterprets the concept of the sacred directional tree through the form of the nopal cactus, reworking the narrative to become a Southern directional marker. This is your chance to win ‘Nopal del Sur’!

To register your attendance and check out the full program, go to our website at dallasaurora.com/ART-QUEST. We can’t wait to play along with you at this free, fun, and family-friendly art event!

Spend just 2 hours making Bachman Lake Park cleaner, greener, and more beautiful for everyone 🌿☀️

Join us this coming Saturday from 8–10 am for a community clean-up filled with fresh air, sunshine, good conversation, and hands-on impact. Supplies provided — just bring yourself and a willingness to help!

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/4uhDdBH

🗓 Saturday, May 30
⏰ 8–10 am
📍Bachman Lake Park
3500 W Northwest Hwy, Dallas, TX 75220
Meeting Location: Parking Lot

Bachman Lake Park Beautification Sign Up Thank you for your interest in joining AURORA to help beautify Bachman Lake Park on Saturday, May 30th, from 8–10 AM. All cleanup supplies will be provided. To help us prepare the right amount of equipment, please complete the short sign-up form below. We appreciate your support in keeping our com...

Thank you The Dallas Morning News for sharing the exciting news about our Art Quest 2026 program, including our collaboration with Teatro Dallas!

Art Quest turns Dallas neighborhoods into interactive art experience Aurora's fifth annual Art Quest returns this summer with interactive scavenger hunts, artist-led workshops and other art events held in Pleasant Grove, South Dallas and Bachman.

This year, Art Quest is getting a theatrical twist: Teatro Dallas joins us in Pleasant Grove and South Dallas with live performances that bring the Art Quest scavenger hunt clues to life.

Participants will encounter, interpret, and interact with the performative moments designed to guide, surprise, and deepen the storytelling behind each quest, transforming the experience into a dynamic, multi-sensory adventure.

Register to join Art Quest on June 6, from 5–9 pm in Pleasant Grove and be among the first to experience this immersive mix of public art, performance, and neighborhood exploration, brought to you by Teatro Dallas and lead artist Luzcarina.

Plus: Registered participants will receive complimentary Meow Wolf tickets to experience their interactive museum in Grapevine. Please note, these tickets can only be physically received at the Art Quest event.

Register for Art Quest Pleasant Grove here: https://bit.ly/4uyFqsQ

Visit AURORA's website to learn more about Art Quest 2026: https://dallasaurora.com/ART-QUEST

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Art Quest 2026

Art Quest is an art discovery program run by AURORA in 3 Dallas neighborhoods.

📍Art Quest: Pleasant Grove on June 6, 5–9pm
Trinity River Audubon Center, Gallery 86, and Los Primos

📍Art Quest: South Dallas on July 18, 10am–2pm
African American Museum of Dallas

📍Workshop: Bachman on August 1, 1–3pm
Bachman Branch Library

Art Quest 2026 is made possible with the support from The Eugene McDermott Foundation, Office of Arts and Culture, The MR & Evelyn Hudson Foundation, The Moody Fund for the Art, Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District, The Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation, and HEB/Joe V’s Smart Shop.

Art Quest, our annual art scavenger hunt program, returns to Dallas this summer. We want to shout out the three neighborhoods and the incredible partnering organisations that Art Quest is pairing up with:

📍Pleasant Grove on June 6, 5–9pm
Trinity River Audubon Center, Gallery 86, and Los Primos

📍South Dallas on July 18, 10am–2pm
African American Museum of Dallas

📍Bachman on August 1, 1–3pm
Special workshop edition with Karla Ramirez-Santin at Bachman Branch Library

Alongside the two scavenger hunts and a workshop, there will be community gathering events at each of the locations with a range of activities, including arts and crafts and artist meet-and-greets, as well as representatives from some of the amazing arts, culture, and community organisations in each area so you can learn more about the programming they have coming up.

Stay tuned here and on our other socials for more information on Art Quest! Or, you can check our website in the meantime at dallasaurora.com/Art-Quest.



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Art Quest 2025 is made possible with the support from The Eugene McDermott Foundation, Office of Arts and Culture, The MR & Evelyn Hudson Foundation, The Moody Fund for the Art, Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District, The Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation, HEB/Joe V’s Smart Shop