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Opening Reception--Facing East: 48 hours in the life of East Austin

Presented by New East Gallery at DiverseArts' New East Gallery

August 28, 2010

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 WHAT: Opening reception for Facing East: 48 hours in the life of East Austin, a photography and video exhibition hosted by New East Arts Gallery and Diverse Arts Culture Works.  All work submitted was shot in Austin's East End Cultural Heritage District. For the purposes of this exhibition, the District was bordered to the south by East 7th Street, to the north by 32nd Street, to the east by Airport/Webberville Road and to the west by IH 35.  In 1989, Harold McMillan founded the Austin Blues Family Tree Project as a vehicle for recording oral histories and performances of Austin musicians and their connection to the culture of pre-integration era East Austin. Although the apparent focus of the Project is the music community, the underlying effort addresses the large-scale sparsity of collected, archival materials that document the personal lives, neighborhoods, and institutions found east of IH35. To date, the Blues Family Tree Archive contains over 100 hours of oral history and performance audio/video tapes and hundreds of still images on film. The mission of Facing East is to continue our work documenting this culture-rich community with new images reflecting diverse views of rapidly changing—or unchanged—aspects of Central East Austin, seen through the eyes of various artists, all captured on August 6-8, 2010.