Updated: May 19
In my last post, I discussed building construction beyond Earth using 3D printed technology. Back on Earth, there is a newly completed building modeled after a Quaker meeting house that utilizes more traditional construction techniques but also hosts technology, including computer programs, algorithms and lighting arrays that support a special art installation by artist James Turrell. Raised as a semi-observant Quaker in southern California, James Turrell began working with light as an artistic medium in the late 1960s. This is arguably the best kept secret In Texas, and you may find yourself asking, Where can I enjoy this experience of light, time and space?
Sponsored by the Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundation and operated by Entrada of Texas, Keith House was designed by Michael Bennett at Bennett Partners with a retractable standing-seam metal roof and stone exterior walls repurposed stone from a Keith family home in Wichita Falls.
Photo courtesy of Keith House
Within the building, there is a square room of neutral color with a large square aperture in the ceiling, in which the sky is framed by a thin, knife edge of white ceiling, known as Skyspace. Many of Turrell’s works, including his Skyspaces, draw attention to light as a presence itself rather than as an incidental source of illumination of other objects. Time is also an important element to Turrell’s Skyspace installations, as the light sequence begins before sunrise and before sunset. As the light in the sky changes color, so does the light sequence in the room to accentuate the change in the sky.
The light sequence is dynamic but meditative and allows the viewer to experience the sky as never before imagined. It is a celebration to the sky to both welcome and bid farewell to the day. The Keith House Skyspace titled Come to Good is the ninety-ninth Skyspace installation completed by James Turrell. I invite you to Keith House to experience it for yourself.
Keith House is located at 4814 Edwards Ranch Rd, Fort Worth, TX 76109 at The Trailhead at Clearfork. Click here for availability and reservations.
Other James Turrell works in Texas include:
Austin: The Color Inside at the University of Texas Student Center
Houston: Twilight Epiphany at Rice University; The Light Inside and Caper, Salmon to White: Wedgework at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; One Accord at the Live Oak Meeting House
Dallas: formerly Tending (Blue) at Nasher Sculpture Center was decommissioned due to neighboring building constructed within view of the Skyspace.
"For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it." - Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate excerpt from The Hill We Climb
Updated May 2026
Keith House has recently added new programs to include contemporary art exhibitions. The May 2026 show features Dallas-based artist Pamela Nelson, known for her geometric color theory works. Perhaps best known for the super-sized Color Equations at Northpark Center in Dallas, created with project collaborator Robert A. Wilson, Mrs. Nelson’s Time After Time exhibition is centered around 16 paintings in the front and rear galleries of the building flanking the meeting house-style James Turrell Skyspace Come to Good. Please read more about Mrs. Nelson's exhibition at Glasstire.
