Artists | NowPlayingAustin.com

Share

Heather Coffey

Multi-Arts; Performing Arts: Actor, Dancer, Musician, Storyteller; Visual Arts: Crafts, Film, Performance Art

Heather Coffey is the Producer of Tiny Black Hearts, an organization of Austin locals committed to spreading their own flavor of theater and performance art to the community.

Anne Heller

Media; Performing Arts: Actor, Dancer, Musician; Visual Arts: Film, New Media/Technology, Painting, Performance Art

Anne Heller is a musician (guitar, drums and theremin), dancer and aerialist, writer, videographer, filmmaker and painter. She aims to utilize all her skills (or as many as possible) in any project she tackles. Heller has been an artist her whole life, from the experimental rock/jazz bands and collectives she has participated in and created over the past 20 years, to the short horror and comedy films created for 48 hour film fests over the past 15 years, to her annual 3-day experimental music fest now in its 18th year, to the aerialist feats she performs daily in front of audiences. I have concentrated on improvisational skills as she feel it’s a more genuine method of communication, verbally, non-verbally and through sound. She plays guitar, drums and theremin in 5 separate bands. Heller is known for her unusual theremin style where she concentrates her sounds in the lower register using the theremin as a bass instrument instead of a melodic one (though she does that, too). Heller has always been interested in healing the planet and those upon it through her art, my music and actions as a whole. She wants to create an equilibrium with my art and music.

Ian Humphrey

Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Radio/Television, Spoken Word; Podcast

Ian Humphrey started writing in at age eight in a feminist commune spitting distance from the Mason Dixon. Later, in Baltimore City, he worked part time at a YWCA Woman’s Shelter, and squired a full contact jousting company at the MD Renaissance Festival. He studied fiction at Evergreen State College and University of Baltimore in between drinks and drugs, and when his last bridge burned he went into self-appointed exile floating through the South-West. Since then he has drafted two novels and developed the up and coming magixploitation podcast, Under The Shroud.

Curse Mackey

Graphic Arts; Media; Performing Arts: Musician, Spoken Word, Vocalist; Visual Arts: Construction/Collage, Mixed Media, New Media/Technology, Painting, Performance Art

Austin based artist Curse Mackey is best known as lead singer of industrial supergroup PIGFACE and notorious Texas tribal-industrial legends EVIL MOTHERS and as a member of My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. Mackey has now launched a solo electronic industrial project that includes new material and revamps of classic Pigface and Evil Mothers songs (including Spider Sex and Car Wrecks.) His sound is a future-forward homage to the experimental side of industrial music, with doom-fueled drones, sinister synth pulsations and dirty-minded beats layered upon hypnotic noise manipulations, scream of conscious lyrical prose and near trance-inducing improvisations that evoke the ghosts of Throbbing Gristle, early Skinny Puppy, Lustmord, Coil, and the iconic projects Mackey has been a part of. PIGFACE has also featured such luminaries as Ogre of Skinny Puppy, Martin Atkins of Ministry/Killing Joke, En Esch of KMFDM, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV and Danny Carey of Tool, just to name a few.) Mackey is also the co-founder/COO of Mosaic Sound Collective in Austin, TX.

Michael Mendoza

Graphic Arts; Media; Multi-Arts; Performing Arts: Spoken Word, Storyteller; Visual Arts: Film, Mixed Media, Murals, New Media/Technology, Photography; Augmented Reality, Digital Installations

I work with curators to help share historical content through the new medium of location-based augmented reality. “Voces in AR” features WWII Mexican American Veteran content from the University of Texas’ Voces Oral History Project. Additionally, I’m working on a project featuring Comanche Chief Quanah Parker and building a relationship with the Quanah Parker family as I collect their historical content in digital form. I’ve been a featured speaker for social media groups, public groups and I regularly reported breaking news as a lead reporter at KUT, KVUE and KRGV-TV. The McCombs Business School has invited me to guest lecture multiple times on the use of geo-rich social media data for intelligence and real-time engagement efforts.

Anuradha Naimpally

Performing Arts: Dancer, Spoken Word, Storyteller; Cultural specialist

Anuradha Naimpally MFA, is a Bharata Natyam dance soloist, collaborator, educator, and experienced touring artist. From concert halls to school cafeterias, libraries to universities, Anuradha connects the ancient art of India to modern audiences of all ages through engaging explanations and moving performances. She is a recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious Jacqueline LeMieux Prize from the Canada Council and the title of “Sringara Mani” (Artistic Jewel) in India. She has been named and nominated Best Dancer by the Austin Area Critics’ Circle numerous times. Anuradha offers traditional solo concerts of original pieces as well as contemporary presentations set to current day poetry. Her Arts in Education presentation, Moving Myths of India, is an engaging interactive children’s show for all ages, highlighting mythology through storytelling. A member of the global Artist Twenty Thirty Network, she engages in social practice projects that aim toward inspiring girls’ empowerment and social change. She is Artistic Director of Austin Dance India.

Margarita Navarrete-Hutchinson

Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Dancer, Musician, Vocalist; Visual Arts: Instructor, Performance Art

I am a functional movement artist–I blend together my love of neuro-science, my nearly 2 decades of massage practice, 15 years of flow-arts practice, vocal and creative skills–to provide and self-produce an intuitive movement program, with prevention in mind. COVID-19 has given me the opportunity to get to use my different skills and talents together; I didn’t think I was actually going to use my BA in Media Production from the University of Houston–and I’m pleased that I am. I get to sing; I get to dance; and I get to guide others through the process of consciously embodying their vessels, as present navigators who are curiously and mindfully exploring their spheres…with attention to their bio-mechanical design, and honoring their unique dimensions. Intuitive Living is an art form. It takes practice. My goal is to support my own vessel as I guide other vessels through a functional movement practice that is gentle and effective; that supports mobility, flexibility, balance, core strength, and creativity. I want more navigators to feel as confident and capable moving their vessels through their spheres, as I do. My journey was guided by chronic pain; my parameters are Myofascial Pain Syndrome and Delayed Pressure Urticaria. I created a movement program that effectively supports and mobilizes my body, without triggering either condition; I want to pass it on to others with the same conditions–with the hopes EIM will help them as much as it benefits me. Life is a trip!

Esperanza Pace

Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Dancer

I talk/speak exactly the way I write an appreciation by one means I succeeded this year I hope this helps ♡

Lacey Richter

Multi-Arts; Performing Arts: Dancer, Musician; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Performance Art, Sculpture; poet*

Lacey Richter is drawn to movement, her work is influenced by internal energies, emotive intuition paired with raw finesse that in essence is an exploration and reflection of herself. Most recently, she has been creating experimental performance videos showcasing herself dancing in sacred and raw spaces, including church sanctuaries, construction sites, and horse stables. Additionally she is expressing herself through writing, & singing/performing music. She is honored to have two original tracks included in the audio archive of Texas artist Terry Allen’s permanent sculpture ROAD Angel commissioned by The Contemporary Austin at Laguna Gloria. Her robust mixed-media paintings, installations, & video/performances have been featured in Mexico, Berlin, France, New York, Chicago, as well as numerous collaborative-based, and solo, shows throughout her home city & creative community of Austin – (The Contemporary Museum/ Laguna Gloria, City Hall, the Airport, EAST&WEST Studio Tours, FUSEBOX FESTIVAL, TEST TUBE, The Museum of Human Achievement, SERIE Project, Seton Cove Spirituality Center, the Julia C. Butridge Gallery, ImagineArt, & Co-Lab.) Richter’s work belongs to several private collections, famous musicians included, and she works with various demographics within Austin, including immigrants, mentally ill, youth, and families through spiritual, cultural, and artistic workshops. Richter serves as Exhibit Coordinator at IMAGINE ART, a local non-profit arts organization working to engage artists with disabilities and provide creative opportunity and growth.

Josh Ronsen

Literary Arts; Multi-Arts; Performing Arts: Musician; Visual Arts: Construction/Collage, New Media/Technology, Painting, Performance Art

Josh Ronsen is a musician, writer, artist living in Austin, Texas. He is involved with many ensembles and groups and has contributed to and organized many international Mail Art projects.

Zonia Tsang

Performing Arts: Musician, Storyteller

Zonia, Tsang Lok Sze is a playwright and musical theatre composer. She is a graduate of Hong Kong University of Education and holds a MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. As a musical theatre writer, her works have been performed in the United States, Taiwan and Hong Kong. She is one of 5 composers selected for New Dramatists Composer-Librettist studio in New York City in 2018. Previous work: One of us (Hong Kong),The Broken Ballad of Monte Cristo (New York), Our Stories (Hong Kong), The Blue-and-White Porcelain (Hong Kong) etc.

Jeremy White

Performing Arts: Actor, Radio/Television, Spoken Word, Storyteller

Playwright, Writer, Director.

Find An Artist

MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM

FOLLOW US

Directories

Public Art

Submit

The Austin Creative Alliance