What I love about La Reunion Texas is that it was just an idea a very short while ago, that no idea is too big (international architecture competition) or too small (Art Chicas Unidas), that Catherine and Sarah Jane said "let's do it" and they did and they got everyone else involved. In the world of nonprofits all of this is miraculous.   
-Diana Marquis, Advisor

LRTX is important to me because I believe in the potential it holds - the potential to open up a collaboration of artists, community, and the environment in a my little corner of the world: Oak Cliff.
-Stephanie Hindall, Advisor

I am involved because I am selfish. I want a retreat in my own backyard and I want to be able to see artists and children collaborate.   
-Lisa Taylor, Board Vice President

Having the kids from The Students in Conservation Association engaged in La Reunion's quest to heal and nurture the land this summer was so special. How energizing to see all those gung-ho smiles as day after roasting day they came back to work, learn and teach!  I'm so happy to be a part of the La Reunion project. As a Dallas native, it is thrilling to see this effort to grow and maintain an artist residency on reclaimed land come to life right in our own backyard. Great people plus great vision equals great works and great results.
-    -Sharon Van Buskirk, Advisor

LaReunionTX is one of the most important visionary arts organizations in the DFW area for the 21st century  – connecting artists, environmentalists and supporters of social justice on one lovely 35 acre gift of nature.
    -Rebel Calhoun, Advisor

The programs provided by La Reunion are so creative and imaginative that it's thrilling just to be a part of it.  Seeing someone's way, way, WAY outside the box ideas coming to life makes volunteering an absolutely awe inspiring experience. Thanks for letting me be a part of the excitement that is La Reunion!
-    -Helen Manning, Advisor

My favorite part about LRTX? Seeing the collaboration between LRTX and the SCA develop into a beautification of existing trails and the creation of new space for art/artists and the community to enjoy. We're off to a good start. I look forward to seeing what the future holds.
-    -Lisa Tatum, Dallas Field Office Manager, Student Conservation Association

There is this grass roots organization called La Reunion TX which has big plans to create a multi disciplined artist residency on some of the most beautiful acreage in Oak Cliff. Since its conception almost 4 years ago, LRTX has made an important impact on the Dallas art community as well as promoting Dallas as a city for progressive culture.
-    -Brad Ford Smith, Artist, Make Space for Artists Juror

The relationship DISD's Secondary Visual Art Department has with La Reunion TX can be contained in the notion of "transcendence."  The experience of picking up the scattered objects- for us, the area's gifts- has engaged all of our urban students in a truly visceral, physical, sensual and active experience of nature's wonders.  These findings continue to prompt our students on toward a creative, imaginative, and critical threshold many are experiencing for the first time.  The students have learned that to speak in the language of nature itself, is to exist in the present tense. That to transcend appearance is to experience..... Being itself.....  what can be more authentically artistic?
-    -Laura Sohm, DISD Secondary Visual Art Coordinator

The La Reunion site is a wooded and peaceful place of refuge, Dallas' own Walden Pond, where you can literally get lost in the native trees, happen upon wildlife, and admire the subtly integrated artwork that graces the greensward. There is a collective power there that I am honored to have contributed to, and I look forward to its continued growth and realization as an artist community and residence.
-    -Tyler Sharp, Artist

Being part of Make Space for Artist at the DMA as a juror and teaching Google Sketch-Up this past year to workshop & competition participants and organizers was an unbelievable experience, incredible and enriching. I had the opportunity to collaborate with talented Architects and artists from all ages, which motivated me to connect with local artists. What I love about LRTX is the enthusiasm, leadership, and dedication from their Board and founders to bring Dallas Artists and provide them with an inspirational residency environment much needed to the artist community of Dallas.
-    -Mara Salas, Make Space for Artists juror

When an artist is looking for a place in Dallas where anything seems possible, the site at La Reunion can work that kind of magic. I like walking on the furthest path and imagining what came before the freeways, the office buildings, even before the first light rail. Maybe one day, the light rail will return! Or footpaths! La Reunion encourages that kind of time travel.
-    -Kael Alford, Artist

LTRX provides a unique opportunity to support north Texas artists in a creative environment.
-    -Hedy Helsell, Advisor

My favorite thing about LRTX is just being there. It feels like a kind of secret garden. It is rare that there is a space, especially in a city like Dallas which exists for such pure motives. I am involved because it is essential for me to have something so positive in my daily experience. It is important for Dallas in that it acts as a weight on the side of sanity, creativity and adventure (or maybe that’s just me again:)
-    -Oliver Bradley, Artist

LRTX is magic. You wouldn’t believe the sheer volume of coincidences and serendipity.  LRTX is innovative collaboration at its finest.
    -Sarah Jane Semrad, co-founder, Executive Director

Work on the LRTX site is really play. The raw state the property offers - the springs, ponds, topography and even found detritus - All seem to give us plenty of quiet impetus and inspiration with which to meld our individual visions into what I'm proud to state will be an ephemeral yet bold artistic palimpsest.
-    -Kevin Obregon, Artist

The best thing about La Reunion this year was the evident progress and strong momentum made towards getting something built on the wonderful site.  La Reunion is important because not only will artist residences on a heavily wooded site be one of a kind in Dallas, but the ongoing process that is pushing that forward is generating new ideas and garnering awareness along the way.
-    -Bang Dang, Make Space for Art winner, Make Space for Artists Juror

La Reunion has made me believe that there IS a reason to live in Dallas.
-    -Kevin Nash, Advisor

In 2009 hundreds of people visited the new La Reunion enchanted wood - most for the first time - during our 2nd annual exhibit of organic site-specific sculptures and spring open house, 3rd annual Art Chicas Unidas program mentoring female high school students, and an inaugural fall concert series. La Reunion also continued to form strategic new partnerships with non-profits including Resolana (an inreach program helping incarcerated women) and The Stewpot (First Presbyterian Dallas' ministry to the homeless in downtown), exhibiting original artwork by the clients they serve. The conversations among our guests and participating artists, musicians, and volunteers have sparked further dialogue and ongoing relationships. If we can do this much without buildings, electricity, and plumbing, how much more will we be able to foster when we have low-impact, high-performance artist housing, studios, and a community living room on our site?    -Catherine Cuellar, co-founder, Capital Campaign Chair
  
Dozens of local artists have banded together to turn the overgrown garden into a masterpiece.
    -Cynthia Izaguirre, Channel 8 News
 
Oak Cliff is a soulful place in it own, but La Reunion breathes a whole new life into the cosmocultural pulse of its contributions.
    -Edie Brickell, Singer Songwriter and Oak Cliff native

LaReunionTX gives birth, nurtures and protects wild.  Hidden for centuries, destroyed by man and discovered by the young. The origins of innocence, the language of simplicity, the music of light.
-    -Michael Daum, Advisor

La Reunion TX puts Dallas on the map of world class cities supporting the arts through people who embrace the arts as a necessary element of life.
-    -Jamie Baker, Board Member

Art is magic utopian collective action that haunts the polis. La Reunion haunts Dallas.
-    -Dan Hughes, Board Member

LRTX: a place for sensible shoes and big ideas!
    -  Albert Schebarth, Artist