Meow Wolf plans to open its first Texas exhibit this summer, the Santa Fe-based company announced on its websiteThursday.
The new installation, called Meow Wolf Grapevine, will be located in the Grapevine Mills Mall in Grapevine, Texas, a northwestern suburb of Dallas.
The company has posted listings for 14 positions at the new exhibit and expects to hire more than 150 employees in Grapevine, which is the first of two planned Texas locations. The other will be in the Fifth Ward neighborhood and historic district in Houston and is planned to open in 2024, according to previous Albuquerque Business First reporting.
A representative from the company was unable to be reached for immediate comment Wednesday.
The Meow Wolf Grapevine exhibit will be 29,000 square feet and include space for local vendors and retail shops, as well as a live performance venue for "local and up-and-coming musical acts" and community events, according to the company's website. It'll also feature over 30 Texas-based collaborating artists that will construct unique rooms throughout the installation.
"We are hiring like mad and the construction barriers that have been put up at Grapevine Mills can barely hold the collective imagination within," said Kelly Schwartz, the general manager of Meow Wolf Grapevine, in the company's announcement.
The major hiring push for the company's first Texas installation comes three years after it cut hundreds of jobs in early 2020 amid financial turbulence caused by Covid-19 restrictions.
Meow Wolf Grapevine would be the immersive art company's fourth permanent exhibition, alongside its original House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe, Convergence Station in Denver and Omega Mart in Las Vegas, Nev. Combined, the three existing exhibits have entertained more than 3,000,000 visitors.
The company has previously also announced plans for new exhibits in Phoenix and Washington, D.C., although plans for both of those locations have stalled.
