It’s a month of eclectic art shows and installations, enticing art enthusiasts with myriad new dynamic exhibitions and experiences. From animal-sized p
Texas After Violence presents Unmute Yourself: A Poetry Reading with Jorge Renaud All events are subject to change due to weather or other concerns. Please check with the venue or organization to ensure an event is taking place as scheduled. Poem by Jorge Antonio Renaud, image art and design by Hollis Hammonds, print by Mark Menjivar.
Photo courtesy of Jorge Renaud Texas After Violence will present an evening of poetry, conversation, and community. Poet Juania Sueños will open the event, followed by writer-in-residence Jorge Renaud, who will read from a selection of his work, and author and activist Darwin Hamilton will lead a discussion with Jorge and TAVP about the power of narrative in fighting for an end to mass incarceration and creating a world without violence.
Trailblazing women have written the history of Austin art.
Start with sculptor Elisabet Ney, whose 19th-century studio in Hyde Park became the city’s first art gallery and today shines as a small museum dedicated to her life and works. Follow that with the ongoing work of her admirers among the members of early 20th-century advocacy groups, such as Austin Art League and Texas Fine Arts Association (an ancestor to the Contemporary Austin), populated almost entirely by women.
It is true that the postwar generation of artists and teachers who dominated the new fine arts program at the University of Texas were, for the most part, men. Yet they were followed by the visionary founders of Women & Their Work, which since 1977 has promoted the careers of hundreds of artists as part of a program that is recognized and admired across the country.