FORT WORKS ART CELEBRATES 10 YEARS
Somehow against logic, economic, weather, construction, closed streets, a global pandemic, and the slow erosion that tales out most independent galleries, Fort Works Art is ten years old. If you’ve been with us since the very beginning or you just started following along, thank you. Whether you walked through our doors in year one or discovered us last week, your support, curiosity, and belief in what we do have made this milestone possible. We are deeply grateful to every artist, collector, neighbor, and friend who has been part of this story.
Fort Works Art is committed to bringing life, vitality and energy to the art scene in Fort Worth, TX. They are a resource for both seasoned collectors and the everyday individual. Existing somewhere between a gallery, a cultural center and a museum, Fort Works Art strives to continually evolve into its own entity, free from the traditional labels of the art world. They exist to support the arts, to give back to the community and to inspire youth.
WHERE ARE WE LOCATED?
Fort Works Art is a contemporary art gallery located at 2100 Montgomery Street in Fort Worth’s Cultural District, just across from Dickies Arena. Within walking distance from the Kimbell Art Museum, The Modern, and the Amon G. Carter Museum, FWA serves as a vibrant space for exhibitions, community events, and sometimes private art receptions, showcasing a dynamic range of local and national artists and helping to energize the city’s art scene. The gallery blends elements of a traditional gallery, cultural hub, and community center to engage both seasoned collectors and casual visitors alike.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Kate Simon: 50 Years of punk
anger is an energy
This fall, Fort Works Art is bringing the raw energy of punk to Fort Worth with Kate Simon: Anger Is an Energy , an exhibition of photographs by one of the photographers who was there before punk had a name.
Opening October 25, 5–8 PM, this exhibition brings together Kate Simon’s photographs from the streets, clubs, and inner circles of a cultural movement that changed music, fashion, photography, and everything around it. Simon didn’t photograph punk from the outside. She was there, camera in hand, as artists like The Clash, Sex Pistols, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, were becoming the people who would define an era.
CATALOGUES ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER. CONTACT THE GALLERY TO RESERVE YOURS TODAY.
KATE SIMON: 50 YEARS OF PUNK
On View: October 25 – January 9, 2027
Opening Reception: Sunday, October 25, 5-8 PM
Fort Works Art | 2100 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107
Kate Simon, The Sex Pistols, The Nashville Room, London, 1976, Contact the Gallery to Inquire
Image Credit: Greg Davis, Reflections at Qeswachaka, Peru, Photography, Contact the Gallery to Inquire
THE SILENT CUT:
A JURIED EXHIBITION PRESENTED BY GALLERY OF DREAMS AND FORT WORKS ART
From still images to moving narratives and work that exists somewhere in between, these artists approach storytelling through atmosphere, gesture, tension, memory, and image. Together, their work creates an exhibition built around what can be communicated without a single word.
Running alongside Anger is an Energy and the duration of the Lone Star Film Festival, this exhibition explores cinema's visual language through contemporary art.
THE SILENT CUT: A JURIED EXHIBITION
On View: October 25 – January 9, 2027
Opening Reception: Sunday, October 25, 5-8 PM
Fort Works Art | 2100 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
FORT WORKS ART PRESENTS: WES COKE
INSIDE A THOUGHT
ON VIEW: SEPTEMBER 19 - OCTOBER 17
Coke’s paintings begin with the human figure but are less concerned with depicting a specific story than with creating a space for observation. Opening on FWADA’s Fall Gallery Night, his subjects occupy moments that feel private or suspended, inviting viewers to consider what may be happening beyond what is immediately visible. The exhibition takes its title from this interior space; not a particular thought or prescribed perspective, but the experience of being somewhere within one. Coke leaves his paintings deliberately unresolved, allowing the relationship between figure, space and viewer to remain open.
Inside a Thought
On View: September 19 – October 17, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 19, 6–9 PM
Fort Works Art | 2100 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107