Placemaking & Displacement: Public Dialogue at the Intersection of Art, Community, & Gentrification

Participants:
Austin native, long-time community advocate, and current Executive Director of allgo, a statewide queer people of color organization, Priscilla A. Hale will facilitate this discussion.

• John Yancey professor of studio art at the University of Texas, who created the “Rhapsody” mosaic mural that occupies the Charles Urdy Plaza at E. Eleventh and Waller streets in East Austin street.

• Alan Garcia, independent archivist and creator of the Instagram account ATX Barrio Archive, a virtual museum of visual culture that documents Latinx and African American neighborhood history.

• Xochi Solis is a visual artist sharing her studio time between Texas and Mexico. Her works include multilayered, collaged paintings constructed of paint, hand-dyed paper, vinyl, plastics, and images from found books and magazines. She is also a DJ with and the manager of the Austin chapter of Chulita Vinyl Club, and serves on the programming committee of #bossbabesatx