White Rock Lake Bath House Cultural Center

shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileTexas

on the east shore of White Rock Lake, east of downtown Dallas

White Rock Lake Bath House Cultural Center

Name: White Rock Lake Bath House Cultural Center — on ceramic tile, by WenderVista
Brand: WenderVista

— art moderne white, holding the lake's morning light.

— Texas wall art on a ceramic tile, made to order

from $22

$58

6 × 6 in, glossy, hidden mount · all sizes, murals and mounts ↓

Finished by hand in Knoxville. Free US shipping over $75, on your wall in about ten days. Damaged in transit? Free replacement within 30 days; other returns within 30 days. Returns · Contact

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.

— Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.

— On the nightstand, catching the morning.

— shown in a slim black floating frame · 6 × 6 in

— bring it home

White Rock Lake Bath House Cultural Center, on ceramic.

Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.

What kind of piece?

One tile — square or rectangle.

How big?

the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand

6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb

Surface finish

A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.

How it sits

A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.

$58

Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.

— size

6 × 6 in

15 cm

— weighs

1.6 lb

solid in the hand

— surface

ceramic, hand-finished

art rests beneath a thin glossy finish

— from

Knoxville, TN

our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies

— start a Coaster Set

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

— comes gift-ready

Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.

— or build a grouping

Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.

— a note from the studio

“A 1930 Art Deco bathhouse on White Rock Lake, kept after the swimming closed and turned into a small cultural center in 1981. Two theaters, a gallery, classrooms upstairs. The white stucco still reads the way the architects meant it to, sharp against the cottonwoods and the long quiet pull of the lake. — from the studio

from the studio

— about White Rock Lake Bath House Cultural Center

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.

— the place

The Bath House Cultural Center sits at 521 East Lawther Drive in Dallas, on the east shore of White Rock Lake. The building opened in 1930 to serve swimmers when the lake was a public beach, designed in a streamlined Art Deco idiom by the architects Flint and Broad. After swimming was banned in the early 1950s the structure stood empty for years; in 1981 the city of Dallas converted it into one of the first municipal art centers in the southwest, with a small theater and a rotating gallery upstairs.

— informed by Wikipedia

— the stone

Streamline Moderne in white stucco, flat roof, ribbon windows, a stepped parapet that catches the afternoon sun. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, one of the few surviving Art Deco public works left in Dallas from the WPA era. The lines stay clean against the live oaks at the water's edge. Inside, the original terrazzo floors and steel-frame windows remain, refit around gallery walls and a 116-seat black-box theater that sit where the changing rooms used to be.

— informed by City of Dallas — Bath House Cultural Center

— the visit

The center opens Tuesday through Saturday with free gallery admission; theater tickets run by show. Programming leans local — Dallas-area painters, photographers, and small theater companies rotate through the season. Parking is free along Lawther Drive, and the White Rock Lake trail passes within fifty feet of the front doors, so a gallery stop pairs naturally with a walk or a ride around the 9.3-mile loop. The cottonwoods along the shoreline turn yellow in late November, and the white building reads cleanest then.

— informed by City of Dallas — Bath House Cultural Center

— where

United States · Dallas, Texas

— within

White Rock Lake Park

— position

32.8320° N · 96.7240° W

— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.

at the lake

White Rock Lake

city lake

3 km S

Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden

botanical garden

3 km SW

Lakewood

neighborhood

White Rock Lake Bath House Cultural Center

White Rock Lake

Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden

Lakewood

— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about White Rock Lake Bath House Cultural Center — and about bringing the piece home.

— about the place

A small municipal arts center on the east shore of White Rock Lake in Dallas, run by the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, with a gallery, a 116-seat theater, and classroom space.

The Art Deco bathhouse opened in 1930 to serve swimmers when White Rock Lake was a public beach. It was converted to a cultural center in 1981 after sitting unused for nearly thirty years.

Because that is what it was. From 1930 into the early 1950s the building held changing rooms, lockers, and showers for the lake's swimming beach, which the city closed for water-quality reasons.

Yes. The Bath House Cultural Center was added to the National Register in 1995 as a rare surviving example of Streamline Moderne public architecture in Dallas from the WPA era.

Rotating gallery exhibitions by Dallas-area artists, small theater performances in the 116-seat black-box space, and the building's original terrazzo floors and steel-frame ribbon windows from 1930.

Gallery admission is free during open hours, Tuesday through Saturday. Theater tickets vary by show. Parking along Lawther Drive is free, and the lakeside trail passes directly in front of the building.

— about the piece in your home

It carries well for them. The Bath House is the landmark on the east shore — every loop of the 9.3-mile trail passes it. A Small or Medium with a handwritten note from the studio lands clean.

The clean white-stucco geometry and lake-light palette sit comfortably in Mid-Century Modern, Texas Modern, and Coastal-modern rooms. It also reads well in a softer, lived-in eclectic interior with warm woods.

Yes, it fits the current pull toward Texas Modern and quiet Mid-Century — Art Deco architectural detail rendered as wall art is steady in design press, and the colour stays neutral enough to live with for years.

Above a standard sofa, a single Large reads well; for more presence, a 4-tile Mural. Above a console table, a Medium is usually right. A 9-tile Mural is the choice for a full feature wall.

Yes, in the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both are designed for vertical installation in humid rooms — backsplashes, shower walls, powder rooms. The Glossy finish is for framed work in drier rooms.

A microfibre cloth and clean water. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, so it will not lift with normal household cleaning. Avoid abrasives.

Yes. Reid Wender curates the WenderVista atlas from the studio in Knoxville, and every tile in the collection is original studio work. We do not license outside imagery.

— if this one stayed with you