| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | Jean Piché, video music composerPresented by Texas Performing Arts at McCullough Theater September 9, 2010 Presented in partnership with the Butler School of Music Texas Performing Arts invites you to push the envelope of new music with pioneering composer and video artist Jean Piché. Since the early 1970s, he was one of the first composers to employ emerging digital audio technologies in a cycle of fixed media works acknowledged as seminal to the form. His works cross every genre of electro-acoustics but now center on video-music in which electronic visuals become an extension of musical... | Texas Performing Arts | 09/09/10 | Austin |
Make a Video to Promote Your ArtPresented by Austin Details Art + Photo September 9, 2010 Videographer and art promoter Roy Gatling takes you through all the steps to create your own art video, showing you how to use it to promote your art online. Did you know that approximately 60% of all web traffic is video-related? Or that over 70% of people surfing the web watch online video? As an artist working alone in your studio, having your video about your art online means huge potential to connect with your current and potential customers. In a workshop designed for easy... | Austin Details Art + Photo | 09/09/10 | |
Picture Perfect EveningPresented by Harry Ransom Center at Harry Ransom Center September 10, 2010 Join us for a "Picture Perfect Evening" to celebrate the opening of the exhibition "Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection." Guests will enjoy light hors d’oeuvres, a specialty cocktail featuring Tito’s Handmade Vodka, a photo booth, and tours of the exhibition. Free for members of the Harry Ransom Center; $20 ticket required for non-members (valet parking included). Details at www.hrc.utexas.edu/pictureperfect. | Harry Ransom Center | 09/10/10 | Austin |
Blurring the Lines: Public Art Re-ExaminedPresented by City of Austin Cultural Arts Division September 11, 2010 Plan to join the Austin Art in Public Places program for a full day of inquiry and information. More information to come!
| City of Austin Cultural Arts Division | 09/11/10 | |
| Opening reception: Leslie Sealey | Wally Workman Gallery | 09/11/10 | Austin |
Opening reception: Conversations with a River - On Lady Bird LakePresented by Davis Gallery at Davis Gallery September 11, 2010 Opening reception for Dianne Grammer exhibition, Conversations with a River - On Lady Bird Lake | Davis Gallery | 09/11/10 | Austin |
Una Corda (A Ritual)Presented by The Generic Ensemble Company at Blue Theater September 10-September 12, 2010 Una Corda is a ritual meditation on the spiritual and emotional effects of cancer and the experience of witnessing the destruction and loss caused by the disease. This solo show is an original rite, using rigorous physicality and stream-of-consciousness text based on shorb’s experience nursing three women undergoing cancer treatment. Blurring the line between ceremony, happening, and autobiography, Una Corda asks the question: How do we not lose sight of ourselves when surrounded by... | The Generic Ensemble Company | 09/10/10-
09/12/10 | Austin |
| Hot, Hot, Hot | Austin Art Space Gallery & Studios | 09/06/10-
09/13/10 | Austin |
Red Dot Art SpreePresented by Women and Their Work at Women and Their Work September 16, 2010 Don't miss your chance to collect some of the best contemporary art being created today. Choose from a selection of 200 works by famous and soon-to-be-famous artists from Texas and beyond. It will be a night of fun, fabulous food and spirited art buying, with a silent auction of destination packages, evenings with local celebs and other goodies. This event attracts bold face types who are bold about art. | Women and Their Work | 09/16/10 | Austin |
2010 ASH BASH Art Show & SalePresented by Austin State Hospital September 16, 2010 Back by popular demand is the Volunteer Services Council’s Art BASH Insights Show & Sale. This art auction features work produced by patients of the Austin State Hospital and by professional artists in and around Austin. All proceeds from the event go directly to improving the Austin State Hospital’s patients’ quality of life.
Come join us for a night filled with compelling art by ASH patients & local artists, stunning city... | Austin State Hospital | 09/16/10 | |
Curator's Tour of "Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection"Presented by Harry Ransom Center at Harry Ransom Center September 16, 2010 David Coleman, the Ransom Center's curator of photography, leads a free gallery tour of "Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection." Drawn from the peerless collection of Helmut and Alison Gernsheim, the exhibition features masterpieces from photography's first 150 years, alongside other images that, while lesser known, are integral to the medium's history. Highlights include the first photograph (on permanent display at the Ransom Center), works by... | Harry Ransom Center | 09/16/10 | Austin |
The Neon ShowPresented by Austin Details Art + Photo September 16, 2010 AUSTIN DETAILS ART + PHOTO HOSTS AN OPENING RECEPTION on September 16 from 5-8pm for The Neon Show. America loves neon. And Austin’s full of it. Austin is a town that worships neon. It lights up our life all over the city, as it does all around the country. Artists have long been enamored with the light and the distortion of color that neon provides. The Neon Show artists interpret the beauty of the gaseous glow that envelops the night in all media. Some have chosen to work with neon... | Austin Details Art + Photo | 09/16/10 | |
| PAPER 2: Artists' Reception | Gallery Shoal Creek | 09/17/10 | Austin |
Special Lecture: Fabrication and the Disintegration of Contemporary ArtPresented by The Blanton Museum of Art at The Blanton Museum of Art September 18, 2010 Profiled in the New Yorker as the "art doctor," Christian Scheidemann, a leading conservator of modern and contemporary art and founder of Contemporary Conservation, Ltd. in New York, explores issues related to the conservation of contemporary art. | The Blanton Museum of Art | 09/18/10 | Austin |
Art RidePresented by Landmarks September 18, 2010 For people with an adventurous spirit and a passion for the outdoors, there’s no better way to experience public art than from the seat of a bicycle. Join Landmarks and Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop for an easy ride around the UT campus and visit Landmarks public art projects. Members of the Landmarks Docents will guide the rides. | Landmarks | 09/18/10 | |
Michael Long: 'Argentina Expressions'Presented by L. Nowlin Gallery at L. Nowlin Gallery August 17-September 18, 2010 Michael Long's work 'Argentina Expressions' was shot with color negative film during five weeks of travel in Argentina, where he explored the intersection between the material of object and immaterial of light and space. | L. Nowlin Gallery | 08/17/10-
09/18/10 | Austin |
Art Buzz AustinPresented by Art on 5th at Art on 5th September 13-September 18, 2010 “Art Buzz Austin” will showcase a collection of Austin’s emerging artists and the event is sure to keep everyone buzzing with excitement. The artists will be displaying work in a variety of media, from pop cardboard cut-outs, to playful abstracts in oil, to contemporary mixed media paintings, to whimsical stainless steel sculptures. Prices start at $200 and are reasonably priced to encourage collecting these hard-working and talented Austin artists. A portion of all sales... | Art on 5th | 09/13/10-
09/18/10 | Austin |
Poet-TreePresented by Studio2Gallery August 14-September 18, 2010 Studio2Gallery looks forward to the upcoming changing of the seasons with artworks influenced by the yearly cycles of equinox and solstice. Feature artist, Marilyn Rea Nasky presents her color rich Aspen series, with 13 selected artists including, Paul Drown, Channe Felton, Mary Hunter, Alison Jardine, Jim Lively, Michelle Lohr, Anni Lorenzini, Richard Orange, Sandra Reiff, Debbi Smith Rourke, Kristi Standley, Anne Throop and Linnea Tober. Juror, Tina Weitz, curates a vision of the imagery... | Studio2Gallery | 08/14/10-
09/18/10 | |
Austin Area Quilt Guild: Quilt Show & SalePresented by Austin Area Quilt Guild at Palmer Events Center September 17-September 19, 2010 Featuring:
• judged display of 400+ quilts and wearable art made by AAQG members
• 50+ vendors in a merchant mall
• raffle quilt (drawing 4 p.m., Sept. 19)
• special exhibits of fabric figures (dolls); AAQG 2009 Quilt Challenge, “Playing with the Color Wheel”; small art quilts by Studio Art Quilt Association (SAQA)
• quilts for sale in festival specialties booth and in the general exhibit
• ... | Austin Area Quilt Guild | 09/17/10-
09/19/10 | Austin |
Austin Museum DayPresented by Joseph and Susanna Dickinson Hannig Museum and O. Henry Museum at Multiple Locations September 19, 2010 Celebrate Austin Museum Day and the completion of the courtyard bridging the O. Henry and Susanna Dickinson Museums, with popcorn and refreshments, music from the Austin Banjo Club, two monologues imagining the thoughts and feelings of the wife and brother of Alamo defender Gregorio Esparza, a reading of an O. Henry short story, and a performance by actors playing the roles of William Travis and Susanna Dickinson. | Joseph and Susanna Dickinson Hannig Museum | 09/19/10 | Austin |
| Austin Museum Day | The Mexican American Cultural Center | 09/19/10 | Austin |
Austin Museum DayPresented by Austin Museum Partnership at Multiple Locations September 19, 2010 The twelfth annual Austin Museum Day — a free city-wide rediscovery of Austin museums took place on Sunday, September 20, 2009. The day featured exhibitions and activities at 28 participating museums.
Save the date for the next Austin Museum Day — Sunday, September 19, 2010.
| Austin Museum Partnership | 09/19/10 | Austin |
Presentation is EverythingPresented by Austin Details Art + Photo September 22, 2010 Your work shines when it's presented professionally and creatively. Make sure it stands out from the crowd. Gallery founder and director Jann Alexander, who's seen hundreds of art and photo presentations as a former art director (in a three-decades-long career working for international advertising and editorial accounts), and who's also presented her own fine art photography and paintings in many creative formats, shares presentation methods that get your art noticed and admired. You can... | Austin Details Art + Photo | 09/22/10 | |
Delfos Danza CantemporáneaPresented by Texas Performing Arts at Texas Performing Arts- Bass Concert Hall September 23, 2010 Presented in partnership the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the Department of Theatre and Dance Founded by Mexican choreographers Vìctor Manuel Ruiz and Claudia Lavista, Delfos Danza Contemporánea creates and presents works of contemporary dance while developing a dance space that fosters education, exchange and communication. This year, founding member and current dancer/choreographer Omar Carrum was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim... | Texas Performing Arts | 09/23/10 | Austin |
OK Mountain talkPresented by Austin Museum of Art at Austin Museum of Art - Downtown (AMOA-Downtown) September 23, 2010 New Works introduces fresh contemporary art by local artists. The Okay Mountain collective makes murals, installations, drawings, and sculptures together, all while running a gallery in East Austin. For New Works, Okay Mountain collaborated on the video installation Water, Water Everywhere, So Let's All Have a Drink (2010), a satirical send-up of mass media.
Artist collective Okay Mountain shares the inspirations and collaborative process for making the New Works video... | Austin Museum of Art | 09/23/10 | Austin |
Use the iPad to Create and Promote Your ArtPresented by Austin Details Art + Photo September 23, 2010 The iPad is a dazzling tool to show off your art or photo portfolio, as Patrick Jordan, nationally-known Just Another iPad Blog blogger demonstrates. But it’s more than a slick portfolio presentation device--it’s the ultimate new digital canvas that’s already in use by many famous and accomplished artists around the world. It’s at once a superb source of inspiration, a powerful and portable tool for creating art, and a great medium from which to share and showcase... | Austin Details Art + Photo | 09/23/10 | |
Red DotPresented by Women and Their Work at Women and Their Work September 16-September 26, 2010 Don't miss your chance to collect some of the best contemporary art being created today. Choose from a selection of 200 works by famous and soon-to-be-famous artists from Texas and beyond. | Women and Their Work | 09/16/10-
09/26/10 | Austin |
Grand Opening Celebration WeekendPresented by UT Visual Arts Center at UT Visual Arts Center September 24-September 26, 2010 Be the first to experience and enjoy a spectacular weekend of art, performances, discussions, tours, talks, festivities and libations as we premiere our inaugural exhibitions at the Visual Arts Center. Your participation and support will play a vital role in the growth of the VAC as a new center of our dynamic community.
Friday, September 24 cocktail attire (ties optional)
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Celebration Dinner, catered with exquisite local fare and signature... | UT Visual Arts Center | 09/24/10-
09/26/10 | Austin |
Bill Miller: New Work In Vintage LinoleumPresented by Yard Dog at Yard Dog September 4-September 26, 2010 We're opening a show of new work from our old friend Bill Miller on September 4. Bill uses salvaged vintage linoleum to make his incredibly beautiful and cool collages. He'll be at the gallery for the opening.
September marks the 15th Anniversary of Yard Dog.
Discarded linoleum and vinyl flooring is reclaimed as a medium for the artwork of Bill Miller. Creating an effect that lies somewhere between collage and stained glass, Miller's innovative use of the... | Yard Dog | 09/04/10-
09/26/10 | Austin |
Three Photoshop Secrets Artists Need to SucceedPresented by Austin Details Art + Photo September 28, 2010 As a visual artist, if you can’t create high-quality files that faithfully reproduce your original art, you can’t compete. If you’re an artist who submits your art for exhibit entries, for fine art printing, for web use, for gallery submissions, for business card printing and more, you’ve probably struggled with Photoshop to provide your art in the requested formats. That’s because Photoshop is complex, amazing, and let’s face it, daunting. Most Photoshop... | Austin Details Art + Photo | 09/28/10 | |
| Equinox | Austin Art Space Gallery & Studios | 09/16/10-
09/28/10 | Austin |
Leslie Sealey Presented by Wally Workman Gallery at Wally Workman Gallery September 11-September 29, 2010 From September 11th through 29th the Wally Workman Gallery presents a solo show with painter Leslie Sealey. Emphasizing geometric shapes, Sealey draws attention to the abstract nature of a cityscape. | Wally Workman Gallery | 09/11/10-
09/29/10 | Austin |
Leslie SealeyPresented by Women and Their Work at Women and Their Work September 11-September 29, 2010 On Saturday, September 11th, the Wally Workman Gallery opens a solo show with painter Leslie Sealey. Emphasizing geometric shapes, Sealey draws attention to the abstract nature of a cityscape. Sealey received her BFA from the University of Arizona and has been featured in numerous national publications including Southwest Art. This exhibition will be her second solo show at Wally Workman. | Women and Their Work | 09/11/10-
09/29/10 | Austin |
Jan & Orion Knox art exhibition in 360 Gallery of AustinPresented by 360 Gallery of Austin September 1-September 30, 2010 360 Gallery of Austin Presents Earth Connection: Paintings and Photography Exhibition by the husband and wife team of Jan and Orion Knox Who: 360 Gallery of Austin Where: 6720 Capital of Texas Highway, Austin, TX 78731 When: September 1 - 30, 2010 Reception: September 12th, Sunday, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm What: Jan and Orion celebrate life with their creations of original paintings and photographs from their worldwide travels. Jan works in acrylic, ink, collage and watercolor to... | 360 Gallery of Austin | 09/01/10-
09/30/10 | |
| Gems and Minerals Exhibit | Texas Memorial Museum | 10/01/06-
10/01/10 | Austin |
Public Art Crawl: Go-Crawl-la TourPresented by City of Austin Cultural Arts Division at Austin City Hall October 2, 2010 Art in Public Places challenges Austinites to create their own public art tour! From July 1st through July 31st, AIPP will be seeking Gowalla “trip” submissions for visiting public art throughout the city. Here’s how you can enter the challenge: Choose your favorite public art in Austin, create a “trip” using the Smartphone app Gowalla, and submit to AIPP for the chance to have your “trip” selected as the official route for the 2010 Public Art Crawl... | City of Austin Cultural Arts Division | 10/02/10 | Austin |
PAPER 2 Presented by Gallery Shoal Creek at Gallery Shoal Creek September 2-October 2, 2010 The Exhibition explores the creative process of five artists whose work incorporates printmaking, collages, and sculptural works of hand-made paper. | Gallery Shoal Creek | 09/02/10-
10/02/10 | Austin |
| Opening Reception: Virginia Yount: Unsustainable Attainment | Women and Their Work | 10/02/10 | Austin |
Honora JacobPresented by Wally Workman Gallery at Wally Workman Gallery October 2, 2010 On Saturday, October 2nd, Wally Workman Gallery opens it's 2nd solo show with artist Honora Jacob. Jacob creates multi-layered oil paintings that explore feminine archetypes in our contemporary context and their relation to a historical past. From fruit and butterflies to numeric notations, this symbolism alludes to questions of feminine duality, female intuition and fertility. Mining both her personal experiences and those of the collective female, this collage of references attempts to... | Wally Workman Gallery | 10/02/10 | Austin |
Austin Details Art OpeningPresented by Austin Details Art + Photo September 16-October 2, 2010 We’re a unique new visual arts space and gallery in downtown Austin where art enthusiasts and art creators connect. Where fine artists, photographers, art supporters, art collectors and anyone with a passion for creativity can meet, mingle, learn, share, buy, sell and connect. Where you’ll experience art in a new way. Our gallery is a creative, comfortable hub for collectors to connect with artists and photographers whose work and stories dazzle in presentation and style.... | Austin Details Art + Photo | 09/16/10-
10/02/10 | |
| Opening Reception: Polly Chandler 'Inner Narratives' | L. Nowlin Gallery | 10/02/10 | Austin |
Art and NaturePresented by Austin Museum of Art at Austin Museum Of Art - Laguna Gloria October 1, 2009-October 3, 2010 Drawn from Austin Museum of Art and local collections, the Driscoll Villa will feature a selection of paintings, drawings, installation, and photographs that explore the connections between art and nature. This celebration of the beauty and power of the outdoors, especially the rich variety found in the landscape of Texas—extends Clara Driscoll’s plan for Laguna Gloria. Artists featured will include Kate Breakey, Faith Gay, Jules Buck Jones, Mickey Mayfield, Beverly Penn, and... | Austin Museum of Art | 10/01/09-
10/03/10 | Austin |
Joseph Phillips & Shawn SmithPresented by D Berman Gallery at D Berman Gallery August 26-October 9, 2010 d berman gallery is pleased to present work by Austin artists Joseph Phillips and Shawn Smith whose seemingly whimsical works seriously examine human interaction with the natural world and the often artificial attempts to control and perceive it.
The delicate gouache works on paper in Joseph Phillips’ current body of work are subtly satirical explorations of imagined utopias and play with ideas of land commodification. The works in this series depict pre-fabricated land... | D Berman Gallery | 08/26/10-
10/09/10 | Austin |
grayduck gallery Presents Character SketchPresented by grayDUCK gallery September 9-October 9, 2010 The use of a protagonist to portray aspects of human behavior is the common thread that runs through this exhibition. Creating characters within their work allows these artists to tackle complex and often subtle concepts such as bravery or individuality. This show features acrylic paintings by Eddie Hamilton, scratchboards by DC Ice, and watercolors by Melanie Sinclair. | grayDUCK gallery | 09/09/10-
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Texas Photo Festival
Avg. Event Rating(5.0 Stars): Presented by City of Smithville October 10, 2010 Avg. Event Rating (5.0 Stars): Whether you are a professional photographer or an amateur enthusiast, bring your camera and tripod to historic downtown Smithville on the second Sunday in October for the annual Texas Photo Festival. Models and backdrops will be provided in a variety of settings representing “The American Family”. Come practice your skills, test your camera’s limits, or consult with professionals on hand as you walk freely among the vignettes searching for that perfect shot. Make sure... | City of Smithville | 10/10/10 | |
| Paul Borelli -- Solo | Austin Art Space Gallery & Studios | 09/27/10-
10/10/10 | Austin |
| I See Your Face Before Me | Austin Art Space Gallery & Studios | 09/27/10-
10/10/10 | Austin |
Conversations with a River - On Lady Bird Lake: paintings by Dianne GrammerPresented by Davis Gallery at Davis Gallery September 11-October 16, 2010 Lady Bird Lake, has for years provided Dianne Grammer access in her kayak to the beauty of the Colorado River.
A conversation between River and artist has developed over time, a sharing of ideas and personal reflection, resulting in artistic
interpretation. | Davis Gallery | 09/11/10-
10/16/10 | Austin |
Pioneers from the East: First Chinese Families in AustinPresented by Austin Public Library at Austin History Center May 22-October 17, 2010 The Austin History Center (AHC), a division of the Austin Public Library, in partnership with the Texas Asian Chamber of Commerce proudly present the photo exhibit, Pioneers from the East: First Chinese Families in Austin, on display from April 27 to October 17, 2010 in the Holt Reception Room at the AHC, 810 Guadalupe Street. This unique exhibit highlights the history of some of the first Chinese individuals and families who settled in Austin. All of the photographs are part of the Asian... | Austin Public Library | 05/22/10-
10/17/10 | Austin |
Austin Interfaith Arts and Music FestivalPresented by Austin Interfaith Arts and Music Festival October 23, 2010 Offering a juried art show, an eclectic music stage and an educational area with reps from various world religions, the festival seeks commonalities in art and music and celebrates diversity! Past musicians have included Beth Nielsen Chapman, The UT Middle Eastern Ensemble, 1001 Nights Orchestra, Sara Hickman, Grace Andre, Omar Lopez, Cynthia Clawson, Om-Kara, The Texas Dragon/Lion Dance Team, Cantor Robbi Sherwin, The Texas Early Music Project, Oliver Rajamani & Cantor Marie Betcher. | Austin Interfaith Arts and Music Festival | 10/23/10 | |
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