Where's that Wagon?

Howdy! We're Dylan + Pamela. With our powers combined we built a handmade mobile shop, the Dowdy Studio Wagon, featuring our handmade items, like silk-screned tees, pillows, clocks, jewelry, home accessories and more. We love to travel around as much as we can, popping up shop at local DFW hot spots, concerts, events and more. Check back regularly to find out where our mobile shop will be next, and follow us on facebook for the latest news.

--- OUR SHOP ---

1165 PEAVY RD.

DALLAS, TX

(map)

---- HOURS ----
Open Thursday - Sunday
Th: 11-4
Fr: 11-4
Sat: 10-6
Sun: 11-4

 Appointments welcome. 
Please call us 817.688.0577 or email dowdystudio@gmail.com

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UNTAPPED FEST - FORT WORTH

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Come shop the Dowdy Studio Wagon July 26 - 29

Thursday Night Brewery Tour @ Deep Ellum Brewery

Thursday, July 26th

6pm - 8:30pm

2823 St Louis St, Dallas TX 75226

There will be live music, food and beer! $10 gets you a pint glass to fill up with your fave Deep Ellum brew samples. 

Open Studio

Friday, July 27

10am - 2pm

10025 Garland Rd. Dallas, TX  Suite G

*behind Good 2 Go and Goodfriend on Peavy Rd*

Dowdy Studio Wagon @ Good 2 Go Taco
Sat + Sun, July 28-29
9am - 1pm
1146 Peavy Rd, Dallas, TX
We'll be parked out front. Come get some tacos tees and more!

Party in the Streets with Deep Ellum Outdoor Market!

The Deep Ellum Outdoor Market is celebrating 2 years of putting on a monthly artisan and local market in Deep Ellum and they're partying by shutting down Main St,  rolling in some food trucks, pouring in some pop-up bars, and turning it up with some great local bands. Our mobile shop, the Dowdy Studio Wagon will be there too ready to party and get you all artsy. 

Food Trucks: 

Nammi Truck

Rock & Roll Tacos

The Butcher’s Son

Free Wheelin 

Food Traveler

Pop Up Bars: 

Ferralog Studios 

Zen Bakery

Here’s the music lineup on Main Street:

6pm – One Red Cent
7pm – Bravo, Max!
8pm – Goodnight Ned

After the market head over to Club Dada to continue the celebration.
Doors 8pm | Cover $8/$12 under 21

Get to know your Bolsa

This Saturday and Sunday we'll be taking our mobile shop, the Dowdy Studio Wagon, over to one of our favorite food stops, Bolsa Cafe. Bolsa is an Oak Cliff gem. If you haven't been, well then GET OVER THERE and eat & drink as much as you can! If you have been, then AWESOME! Go again this weekend. 

What makes Bolsa unique isn't just their mouth watering dishes, tasty tasty mixed drinks, and their large chill patio and inside/outside bar, but their attention to details in everything they make. I guess that's what makes us really appreciate them, since we like to do basically the same thing, just with art, not edibles. 

Their attention to detail starts with their ingredients selection. Instead of zooming over to the general restaurant supply food shop, they hand select all their ingredients from local farmers and growers. They even rotate the menu seasonally to have the freshest and tastiest selections. Sprinkle in a top chef, Jeff Harris, to artistically put it all together, and they master putting all the awesome in their dishes and drinks.

To top off their awesome, we'll be open to the public right outside their front door selling our art, tees and handmade goodness. Join us!

Sat - 11am-2pm & 5pm - 9pm

Sun - 11am - 2pm (brunch!)

614 West Davis Dr. Dallas, TX

 

Now here's some teasers of some of their previous dishes from their facebook page:  

Check out their full menu here

 

Mediterranean Fish Stew 

with white beans, roasted peppers, 

chard, tomatoes & nicoise olives

(are you drooling yet? scroll down)

 Braised Beef Short Ribs 

with cauliflower pure, 

roasted cauliflower & 

soffrito braised mushrooms

Berkshire Pork Belly 

with heirloom squash ratatouille, 

ricotta salata & reduced balsamic.

PB&J with warm peanut butter cookie, 

vanilla bean panna cotta 

& mum's preserves.

(Looks so good, right! We also highly recommend all their flat breads!! 

Let us know what your favorite Bolsa dish is.)

Cheers!

-Pamela + Dylan

Dowdy presents: A Tasteful Pairing

We're taking the Dowdy Studio Wagon to the 3rd Annual Homegrown Music and Arts Fest this Saturday, May 26th and we thought we'd help you pair up some tasty tee selections with a few of the bands that will be blasting awesome from the stages.

We also want to know which Dowdy tee you'd pair with yoru fave band. Leave us a comment down below to let us know. Cheeeeeers! - Dylan + Pamela

Guitar Rootings

Ume gives you what your ears are hungry for - solid upbeat sound with awesome natural vocals that make that rock'n noise that makes you want to dance and sing all over.

Music is my Weapon
The Bright Light Social Hour mixes folk, blues and indie in a bowl of awesome and knows how to pour on the jam. With all those musical weapons, this band can save the world.

 

Folk Yeah!  

Hayes Carl serves up a delicious amount of folk that'll make you grab that jug of whiskey and scream FOLK YEAH!

Super Ride

Listening to Mystery Skulls not only makes our mouth water, but makes us feel like we have enough power and energy to ride the Super Ride

This Sat+Sun --> Urban Street Bazaar

Urban Street Bazaar

Sat + Sun April 14 + 15

sat noon-8pm, sun 1pm-5pm

Bishop Arts District N. Bishop Ave. and W. Davis St Dallas, TX

We're taking the Wagon to the Urban Street Bazaar this weekend in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas. There you'll find 50 artists and vendors selling awesome local items, plus you'll be surrounded by some of Dallas' greatest restaurants. So plan your weekend around the Bishop Arts District and come shop the Wagon. Admission is free and you get to run around in the street.

Check out some of our new Wagon items. Handmade fresh this week for you!!

Mer Bear tees in men's and ladies!

Folk Yeah in mens and ladies too!!

More to come, and you can also find these online in our Etsy shop

brand spanking new messenger bags!!

We know you'll get hungry, so here's some food places we like:

Need a break in the District - Eno's Pizza - 407 N. Bishop Ave

Walk a couple blocks for a romantic gourmet dinner - Bolsa - 614 W. Davis

Just coffee and street seating for me - Oddfellows - 316 W. Davis St

Hungry in a hurry - Bees Enchiladas - 202 West Davis

And other things going on in the area -
Ciclovia on the Houston St Viaduct bridge - We won't be there, but we hear there's some fun going on. Bring your bike and hit up both events!

See you there!
Cheers,
-Dylan + Pamela

Tunes from the Big Folkin Festival

This Saturday brings with it the Big Folkin Festival at Deep Ellum's Prophet Bar. With over 30 incredible folk bands in attendance, it'll be hard to stop that foot stomping and clapping.

To get you ready for Saturday, we pulled together a couple videos of some of the bands from the interwebverse for your enjoyment.

We'll see you in the Wagon at the Big Folkin Festival. Come by and say hi + shop the Wagon, then go dance until they kick you out!


the O's- In Numbers We Survive



Whiskey Folk Ramblers - Gambling Preacher and his Daughter


Bravo, Max! -Kiss

Deep Ellum's Big Folkin Festival
Saturday, March 31st
doors open @5pm
The Wagon will be in the Prophet Bar's parking lot
2548 Elm Street, Dallas, TX 75226

tickets - $12 online & $15 door

What we're looking forward to this weekend!

We'll be joining the line up of the Deep Ellum's Big Folkin Festival. Not as musicians, since it's been a long long time since either of us have successfully picked up an instrument, but as artists in our mobile shop, the Dowdy Studio Wagon. We're working on some new tanks and a couple new designs we hope to show off for the first time at the Folkin Fest. So come on over to the Prophet Bar this Saturday and shop the Wagon, then stay a while and see some folk'n great bands. 

Check out the line up:
Main stage

• 6 p.m.: Ryan Thomas Becker
• 7 p.m.: Dovetail
• 8 p.m.: Joe Firstman/The Cordovas
• 9 p.m.: Parallel Play
• 10 p.m.: Whiskey Folk Ramblers
• 11 p.m.: Telegraph Canyon
• 12:30 a.m.: Kirby Brown

Side stage

• 6:30 p.m.: Justin Kipker
• 7:30 p.m.: One Red Cent
• 8:30 p.m.: Goodnight Ned
• 9:30 p.m.: The Will Callers
• 12 a.m.: Nicholas Altobelli

Pbar stage

• 6:15 p.m.: Beauxregard
• 7:15 p.m.: Horse Thief
• 8:15 p.m.: Bravo, Max!
• 9:15 p.m.: Johnny Beauford
• 10:15 p.m.: Possessed By Paul James
• 12 a.m.: The O’s
• 1 a.m.: The Roomsounds

Outdoor stage

• 6:30 p.m.: Playtime Rabbit
• 7:30 p.m.: Greg Schroeder
• 8:30 p.m.: Loyal Sally
• 9:30 p.m.: Steve Stanley and the Mercs

In Accord stage

• 5:30 p.m.: Lara Parker
• 6 p.m.: Kyle Brooks
• 6:30 p.m.: Chris J Norwood
• 7 p.m.: Emmeline
• 7:45 p.m.: Hannah Wilshire
• 8:30 p.m.: Garrett Owen
• 9:15 p.m.: Jaimee Harris
• 10 p.m.: Rahim Quazi

So much green so much awesome!!!

Thanks everyone who came out and got their lucky St. Patty's Day tee printed with Dowdy! I hope you all had a cheery green day and a hellalotta freaking fun!!

 Some of you guys sent in your Patty's Day pics to us on facebook, so we thought we'd share them all here! Jarod, here, topped off his Drink Local tee with a dapper bow tie and rock'n plaid hat. LOVE!!

  

 The duo from Red Ranger Ray Guns twinned it up in matching Drink Local tees! These guys are awesome!! They also make some sweet ray guns. Check 'em out, here, and be their friends here.

 

 Even the Foxy Fox got a little extra Foxy on green.

 

And our manliest man of the Mandom - the Viking Wood Beard, got a little festive for drink green beer day. He went home with the rockstar owner of Lotus Yoga for her hubs. Very cool!

Saturday and Sunday with the Wagon

Hey costumers and candiers! Come on out to Bosla this weekend and shop the Dowdy Studio Wagon. We'll even have some treats in store for you. 

Cheers!!

-Pamela + Dylan

Bolsa Cafe

Oct 29 - 30

(S) 11am - 9pm, (Su) 11am - 3pm

Bolsa Cafe's Parking Lot

614 West Davis Dr. Dallas, TX

Hooray Grand Opening!!

Tonight we are super excited to be popping up shop on a Monday over at the grand opening of Goodfriend Beer Garden and Burger House.

We've been bringing our Wagon up to Good 2 Go Taco since May, and have gotten a front row seat in watching this restaurant bar come together. Come on out and help them celebrate all their hard work to build an awesome bar in a great neighborhood.

Goodfriend and Beer Garden's GRAND OPENING!!!

Mon, Oct 17

4pm-9pm

1148 Peavy Rd, Dallas

(next door to Good 2 Go Taco)

Ladies and gentlemen, we will also have our Drink Local tee out in full force tonight. If you aren't already wearing it, tonight is a great time to grab one to throw on and support our buddies at Goodfriend. 

Cheers!

-Dylan + Pamela

Lets just dance party

Thanks everyone who came out to Bolsa and Smoke over the weekend to shop the Dowdy Studio Wagon! We had a blast and also did some dancing. Here's Pamela's little Wagon jig. Dylan's did one too, we'll be sure to post it soon. Cheers!

Chester picks our facebook contest winner

We wanted to celebrate taking the Dowdy Wagon to the Homegrown Music and Arts Festival this Saturday by doing a quick one day giveaway on our Facebook page. We asked everyone to pick their perfect concert tee from our Dowdy Studio shop and post a comment on our page of which one they picked. Then from the comments we picked one winner to recieve 2 free tickets. We also surprised the winner with the tee of their choice. We had a bunch of fun doing this contest and we wanted to show you how we picked our winner.

It's always tough trying to figure out how to best pick a winner at random. We though about just picking a number off the tops of our heads, but that was boring. Then we thought how fun would it be to put our intern, Chester the kitten, to work. He's been pretty lazy around the studio lately, so it was about time we gave him a real job to do.

Chester is a sucker for kitty treats, so we figured we'd lay out numbers corresponding to the comments left on facebook, then put one cat treat on each one, and let him pick the number based on which treat he went after first. He did end up eating all the treats, so really Chester loves you all.

And we couldn't help but get it on film!!!

Cheers, and
see you at the Homegrown Music and Arts Festival!!
- Pamela + Dylan

New Pillows

We are so flipp'n excited about our new pillows! Dylan screenprinted our original artwork on them and Pamela sewed each one. All the art Dylan printed are from many of our original illustrations. Our illustrations are usually done in pen and ink, but sometimes we get a little experimental and pick up unusual materials to help create our drawings.

These babies are super soft and stuffed full of love and stuffings. We love each one and hope you do too.
Be the first to get your hands on these in the Dowdy Studio Wagon .We'll be at Bosla Cafe in Oak Cliff this Saturday from 2-11pm and Sunday 10am-3pm. See ya there!

Oak Cliff Earth Day - Recap

This weekend the Dowdy Studio Wagon was at Oak Cliff Earth Day in Lake Cliff Park. We love this park!!! It's beautiful and so well kept. This was our 3rd Earth Day celebration to take part in in Oak Cliff. Pamela was at the ones in '08 and '09 as Pamela Michelle, so it was great to finally be able to do one together as Dowdy Studio.

Were still grooving on the new sign, but we think we need to make a couple more that say "Come on in" or "We don't bite....hard" to put on the other doors. We're noticing that people aren't quite sure if they can actually come in the Dowdy Studio Wagon or not. Well, ya can guys. Come on in and have a dance party with us in there. What do you think our signs should say? Tell us in the comments.

The park was in full bloom with all kinds of lovely flowers. To get this shot I actually laid down in a bed of flowers (not on the flowers...don't worry, they're okay). When i got up, I realized people were watching me.....probably concerned for my mental health(?)......but I just shot up and waltzed off like it was normal...cuz everyone does that, right?

There was lots of fun tents all over the park! We didn't get to do much exploring, but we lived through the rest of the event through the tales of our Wagon visitors. One adorable little gal told us that the animal rescue booth was giving away rubber duck-i-corns for $1 donations after seeing our Musicorn tee. I didn't believe in the magic duck-i-corn until she showed us the proof.
Told ya, the park is beautiful!

Ok, so back to the duck-i-corn, my good amiga Stephanie, and I (Pamela) have some weird childhood crazy girl obsession with unicorns, so the duck-i-corn totally made our day.

Stephanie also has a biz, called Tefi. She makes cool stuff. Check her out!

If you missed us at Earth Day, have no fear we'll be at Bolsa Cafe next weekend. Come see us and say hi!