Vote Fort Worth
A voter education resource that was created in the summer of 2020, when an upcoming primary runoff election revealed a need for a Fort Worth specific source for election-related information.
Made of up a team of volunteers with a shared mission to inform the people of Fort Worth about local elections, local government, and local issues that affect us.
We worked to make elections & voter information more accessible and promote civic engagement in the electoral process at municipal, state, & federal levels.
House of Iconoclasts
An art collective for outsider artists. We would throw huge one-night-only art parties, starting with our inaugural show, Fuck Your Art Degree, in which we had 750 people attend to view the work of 80 artists in the halls of Shipping & Receiving Bar.
Throughout 2019 we helped lead a DIY movement among the Fort Worth arts scene with our art events, such as Rebel Rebel and Speak of the Devil, that incorporated visual art, performance art, musicians, food, site-specific installations, and drag queens.
We were named Best Art Collective in our first year by Fort Worth Weekly, and we were awarded an art collective residency at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center.
The collective disbanded in 2021.
The Vision Beautiful
In May 2007, Wesley Kirk founded his first film & photo company, The Vision Beautiful, known for cinematic portraiture and human-centered storytelling.
At the time, he shot for a wide range of services; weddings, senior portraits, family photos, commercials, music videos, film races, event coverage, mini-documentaries, and short films.
In 2018, The Vision Beautiful was rebranded into Vision & Verve to focus on film & photo work for businesses and organizations.
UNT Short Film Club
The University of North Texas' Short Film Club is a community of filmmakers & film lovers, who come together to watch & discuss great short films, learn about filmmaking concepts, and work together to create amazing short films.
Wesley Kirk founded the club and served as president from October 2012 - May 2014. During which time he grew the club from 3 members to over 300, produced 10 short films, created 2 television shows in collaboration with North Texas Television, helped found the University Program Council's annual film festival, raised over $10,000 for the club through commercial projects, and was nominated for Best President by the UNT Eagle Awards.
People of Denton
People of Denton was a project that photographed & interviewed interesting folks in an interesting town.
Inspired by Humans of New York, Wesley Kirk captured snapshots of hundreds of people in Denton from 2011 - 2014, including community events such as 35 Denton, Oaktopia, Denton’s Coffin Races, UNT’s Human Library, and important moments in Denton history such as protests against the confederate statue in the town square, and the first same-sex marriage in Denton County.
We partnered with We Denton Do It and the City of Denton.
Click Clack Short Films
Click Clack was a short film distributor. We assembled short film collections, each with a specific theme, to screen in a variety of theaters around the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and to sell on DVD worldwide.
The goal was to demonstrate to the average moviegoer the variety and impact short films can have, to establish short films as a unique art form & valued form of entertainment, and to make quality short films readily available to the moviegoing public.
Our short films were licensed from talented filmmakers, and they received a percentage of ticket sales and DVD sales. We held a high standard of excellence in the short films that we showed, and we scoured through short films on a daily basis to ensure that the films in Click Clack’s collections were the best films from all around the world.
In April of 2012, Wesley Kirk won second place in the New Venture Creation Competition sponsored by The Murphy Center For Entrepreneurship at the University of North Texas, earning Click Clack Short Films $10,000 in start-up capital. By late 2013, Wesley left Click Clack Short Films to focus on his senior year of school, and leading UNT Short Film Club.
Watch the trailer for the Love Stories Collection.
Fail Better Posters
Fail Better Posters was a social experiment. The goal was to design a new inspirational poster each week, and spread these messages out in the real world. The purpose was to add encouragement, thoughtfulness, and considerateness to the daily lives of strangers.
The project lasted from September 2012 - January 2014, creating 28 posters, and spreading over 3,000 flyers of motivation throughout Denton, TX.
Ned Dhonau created a short documentary about the Fail Better Posters project.