Ballroom Marfa

@ballroommarfa

A creative force in the contemporary arts community for art, music & film. West Texas & beyond.
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PICNIC 🧺🦋🎶✨ May 14-17, 2026 A LIVE MUSIC EVENT ! GREEN-HOUSE / JJJJJerome Ellis / Mary Lattimore / Erin Schneider / Jake Xerxes Fussell / Rentboy / Los Thuthanaka / Mateo Galindo / Magic Tuber Stringband / Robert Fly / Grégoire Schaller / Justo Cisneros & Shea McGilvray | Poem Zero / Lucía Beyond & Jacob Cameron / Hotel Brotherhood / and more to come… Tickets are on sale now at the link in our bio. Locals DM for a discount. ❤️
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2 months ago
Our dream collaboration has finally happened! @ballroommarfa and @bordo.tx are teaming up to serve a one-day-only PICNIC dream! Join us on Saturday, May 16, from 12–2 PM in the @caprimarfa Gardens for a picnic and live performances by @beau.devereaux and @mooncloud222 . This PICNIC performance is FREE and open to the public! 🧺🍎 Baskets will be available for pickup at The Capri on Saturday, May 16. This special is limited and only 75 baskets are available. Place your order by Thursday, May 14. Order now at shop.ballroommarfa.org 💚 Each basket includes: - Ballroom Marfa’s PICNIC Tote Bag - Half or Whole Sandwich - Seasonal Fruit Salad with Honey + Lemon Zest - Italian Cheese Assortment - Mixed Olives and House-pickled Vegetables The PICNIC Tote Bag is designed by @evaclaycomb . Photo by @desertrays_marfa . PICNIC 🧺🦋🎶✨ May 14-17, 2026 A LIVE MUSIC EVENT ! Local ticket prices available now!
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PICNIC WEEKEND SCHEDULE 🛝🦋🌀 MAY 14-17, 2026 Ballroom Marfa invites you to PICNIC with us— We’re bringing together an adventurous mix of contemporary musicians, performers, and visual artists and setting their work against the expansive landscape in Marfa. The weekend will unfold across town, from Capri Marfa to Bull Room, the former cattle auction barn we’ve transformed into a performing arts space. PICNIC centers on an intimate, community-driven atmosphere where we’ll experience live music together in the Chihuahuan desert. We invite locals and visitors alike to gather, connect, and experience music, sound, and art… Way Out Here. We’ll try to keep the ants to a minimum. 🖤🐜
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First day of PICNIC was pretty lovely 🌅 Photos by @sarahmvasquez
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12 posters for @ballroommarfa & Picnic hot off the presses at @boxesmarfa ! Available as a full set at the festival this weekend. I had so much fun making these, wish I could kick up my heels at The Bull Room w all the pals this weekend! Yall go have a good time for me, 😘 from Tallinn.
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PICNIC ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🧺🦋 LOS THUTHANAKA Los Thuthanaka is a critically acclaimed 2025 self-titled debut album by the Aymara-American sibling duo @chuquimamani_condori and @j_chuquimia_crampton . Self-released on Bandcamp, the album blends Aymara musical traditions with experimental electronic, drone, and noise-rock, often described as a “cosmic ritual.” The sound is massive and hypnotic. LOS THUTHANAKA perform live this Saturday night, May 16 as part of PICNIC 🧺🦋🎶✨ $50 day passes available now~
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PICNIC ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🧺🦋 Poem Zero Poem Zero is a performance project led by multi-instrumentalists Justo Cisneros (@justo_cisneros ) and Shea McGilvray (@frotus ), based in San Antonio, TX. Merging Cisneros’ synthesizer work with McGilvray’s freeform saxophone and electronic processing, their live performances explore sonic thresholds and kinetic movement in real time. Independently and collectively, their collaborations include Artpace, Co-Lab Projects, Pease Park Conservancy, and Echo Bridge, reflecting a commitment to site-responsive practices that engage place, time, and transformation. Poem Zero’s “Elegy 4” unfolds as a live act of activation and genesis, channeling Marfa’s landscape through a transportive score. Poem Zero will perform live on Friday, May 15 as part of PICNIC weekend. See you there! PICNIC 🧺🦋🎶✨ May 14-17, 2026 Tickets are now on sale. Locals get 50% off. — Photo by Chelsea Von Peacock.
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Under Marfa Lights tonight @caprimarfa @ballroommarfa music at 7pm 📸 @laurelcoylephotographs
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14 days ago
☆ Our newest Limited Edition poster is here! ☆ Celebrating @ravenhalfmoon ’s exhibition, this 3-screen poster is designed by @mikeshermancreative and printed by @properprintshop . The palette draws from FLAGS OF OUR MOTHERS colors: Reds (after the Oklahoma soil), Blacks (referencing the natural clay native to the Red River), and Buff Creams. Limited edition of 100. 16.5 x 23.5 inches. Available online or in person at the Ballroom Marfa Shop. - Photo by Elena Hernandez-Peña.
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18 days ago
FREE COMMUNITY MEAL by Chef Nico Albert Williams Join us at Capri Marfa for a FREE Community Meal by Chef Nico Albert Williams, celebrating the opening of FLAGS OF OUR MOTHERS. This community meal draws on ancestral practices and will highlight Indigenous ingredients. FREE COMMUNITY MEAL By Chef Nico Albert Williams ☆ Saturday, May 2 at @caprimarfa ☆ 1-3 PM ☆ FREE @auntie_nico (ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) is a storyteller, chef, gardener, forager, and educator of Indigenous foodways. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Burning Cedar Sovereign Wellness, an intertribal nonprofit in Tulsa, Oklahoma, dedicated to supporting Native community health through connections to land, traditional foodways, and ancestral practices. A 2021 Greater Tulsa Indian Affairs Commission Dream Keeper’s Award recipient and 2022 Cherokee Phoenix Seven Feathers Award honoree, she also serves as a culinary diplomat for the U.S. Department of State Arts Envoy program. Her work has also been featured on Food Network, USA Today, Hulu, BBC, Cherokee Nation’s OsiyoTV, Smithsonian Institute, King Arthur Baking Co, and PBS among others. In her free time, she is in the Indigenous sludge metal band Medicine Horse with her husband, Kyle Williams Sr (Ponca, Otoe-Missouria, Ioway). This meal is free and open to all. Seating is limited and a ticket is required. Pick up your ticket at the USO or Ballroom Marfa Shop, or email [email protected]. MENU ++++ ++++ ++++ ++++ ++++ ++++ + SALAD OF SPRING GREENS (gf vv) wild onion vinaigrette, toasted seeds, shaved radishes + SUMAC ROASTED SPRING VEGETABLE MEDLEY (gf vv) + JUNIPER BLUE CORN MUSH (gf vv) topped with charred tomato + leek + PRAIRIE SAGE + ROSE HIP BRINED TURKEY BREAST (gf) + BRAISED VENISON CADDO TAMALES (gf) with sauce creole + STRAWBERRY COBBLER (gf v) topped with spicebush maple almond crust + BLACKBERRY TEA (gf vv)
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Join us Saturday, May 2 at 11 AM in the courtyard at Ballroom Marfa for an Artist Talk with Raven Halfmoon, joined by sculptor Tony Marsh and “Flags of Our Mothers” curators Amy Smith-Stewart and Rachel Adams. Hear directly from Halfmoon about her process, collaboration, and the journey behind this monumental exhibition, with a conversation moderated by Smith-Stewart and Adams. The talk will be followed by a free community meal by Chef Nico Albert Williams at Capi Marfa starting at 1 PM. ARTIST TALK with Raven Halfmoon featuring Tony Marsh, Amy Smith-Stewart & Rachel Adams ☆ Saturday, May 2 at @ballroommarfa ☆ 11 AM-12:30 PM ☆ FREE @tonymarshlb is Professor Emeritus at California State University Long Beach, where he led the ceramics program for over 25 years and founded the Center for Contemporary Ceramics. A 2018 United States Artist Fellow, his work has been exhibited internationally and is held in major museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA, and SFMOMA. @amy_smithstewart currently serves as the Diana Bowes Chief Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, where she has organized more than fifty-five exhibitions and projects since 2013. She has organized nearly one hundred exhibitions internationally, including more than fifty-five at The Aldrich, where she has also launched initiatives such as Aldrich Projects and The Aldrich Box. Her work centers on championing emerging artists and amplifying overlooked histories. @radams1982 is the Chief Curator + Director of Programs at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She previously held roles at University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Oregon Contemporary, and The Contemporary Austin. Adams’s practice is centered on fostering meaningful relationships with artists and advancing projects at the intersections of photography, installation, sound, performance, video, new media, and architecture. — Image credits: [1] Raven Halfmoon, photo by Kes Efstathiou, courtesy of Salon 94. [2] Tony Marsh, photo by Christopher Miles. [3] Amy Smith-Stewart, photo by Gloria Pérez. [4] Rachel Adams, photo by Sara Heidinger, courtesy of Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
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NIGHT BEATS LIVE AT CAPRI MARFA! @thenightbeats bring their Western psych sound to Marfa on Saturday, May 2. Led by Texas native Danny Lee Blackwell, the band blends captivating melodies with hypnotic rhythms, shaped by a deep commitment to craft honed through countless hours in the studio. Drawing from 60s garage rock, punk, and soul legends like Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, and Aretha Franklin, Night Beats has carved out a sound entirely their own. Close out @ravenhalfmoon ’s opening weekend with us at @caprimarfa and enjoy a night of FREE music in the high desert. NIGHT BEATS ☆ Saturday, May 2 at @caprimarfa ☆ Doors open 7 PM, music at 9 PM ☆ FREE — Photo by @cfaruolo .
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