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2008 Fortunate 500: Arts
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Top Pick Arturo Palacios: If the East Austin art revolution recognized a guerrilla leader, it would be this quietly relentless — and sweet-natured — gallery owner with an eye for the next thing. The former gallery director for the City of Austin’s Dougherty Arts Center, Palacios helped jumpstart DYI arts through Art Palace, placing works by young artists with the Austin Museum of Art, Blanton Museum of Art and Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts. He throws a mean party, too.
James Armstrong and Larry Connelly. Austin Museum of Art, Austin Lyric Opera, Long Center for the Performing Arts
Amy Barbee. Texas Cultural Trust
Ron Berry. Refraction Arts, Fuse Box Festival
Mary Ellen and Roger Borgelt. Austin Lyric Opera, Austin Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Austin, Potts & Reilly, LLP
Robert Brown and Dennis Karbach. Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin Museum of Art, Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, State and Paramount Theatres
Sarah and Ernest Butler. Butler School of Music, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin Museum of Art, Austin Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Austin, Austin Lyric Opera
Lisa Byrd and Ana Ixchel Rosal. ProArts Collective, University of Texas
Annette Carlozzi and Dan Bullock. Blanton Museum of Art, Leadership Austin, Trail Ridge Communications
Jo Anne Christian. Austin Lyric Opera, Ransom Center, Long Center for the Performing Arts
Joyce Christian and Rudy Green. Austin Museum of Art, ProArts Collective
Barbara Chisholm and Robert Faires. Zach Theatre, Austin Chronicle
Ann Ciccolella and Tara Smith. Austin Shakespeare Festival, University of Texas
Katie Hernandez Cowles. Women & Their Work, Austin Museum of Art, Mexic-Arte Museum
Mela Dailey and Peter Bay. Austin Symphony Orchestra
Melissa Eddy. Classical Music Consortium of Austin, Long Center for the Performing Arts
Carrie Fountain and Kirk Lynn. Rude Mechanicals, University of Texas
Dana Friis-Hansen and Mark Holzbach. Austin Museum of Art, Zebra Imaging, Rude Mechanicals
Sue Graze. Arthouse
Deborah Green. Austin Film Society, Austin Museum of Art
Joan Plaster Haas and Stan Haas. Nelsen Architects, Long Center for the Performing Arts
Mary Ann and Andrew Heller. Heller Records, Austin Lyric Opera, Austin Symphony Orchestra, Long Center for the Performing Arts
Jessie Otto and Gerron Hite. Blanton Museum of Art (retired), Texas Historical Commission
Brent Hasty and Stephen Mills. Ballet Austin, University of Texas
Jeanne and Michael Klein. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin Museum of Art, Arthouse
Gail and Jeff Kodosky. National Instruments Corp., Ballet Austin, Austin Museum of Art, Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin Chamber Music Center
Rachel Koper. Gallery Lombardi, Austin Chronicle, Austin Museum of Art
Craig Hella Johnson and Philip Overbaugh. Conspirare, Philip Overbaugh, Architect
Charles Leslie. UT Performing Arts Center
Robin Lewis and Todd Dellinger. TexArts
Sherry Matthews and Dick Clark. Sherry Matthews Advocacy Marketing, Dick Clark Architecture
Chris Mattsson and John McHale. Austin Museum of Art, Arthouse
Stuart Moulton. Austin Cabaret Theatre
Bettye and Bill Nowlin. University of Texas, Austin Museum of Art, Austin Theatre Alliance, Austin Community Development Corp., Long Center for the Performing Arts
David Ohlerking. Austin Figurative Gallery
Sylvia Orozco. Mexic-Arte Museum
Paula and Damian Priour. Umlauf Sculpture Garden, Austin Museum of Art
Cliff Redd. Long Center for the Performing Arts
Rosa Rivera and Juan Miro. Miro Rivera Architects, Ballet Austin, Arthouse, Ransom Center, KLRU, Kindergarten Intervention Program, the Town Lake Trail Foundation
Cookie and Paul Ruiz. Ballet Austin, Junior League of Austin, Capital Area Food Bank of Texas
Michelle Schumann and Matt Orem. Austin Chamber Music Center, Mary Hardin-Baylor University.
Shannon Sedwick and Michael Shelton. Esther’s Follies, Patsy’s Cowgirl Cafe, People’s Community Clinic
Jane Sibley. Austin Symphony Orchestra, Long Center for the Performing Arts
Dave Steakley and Tony Johnson. Zach Theatre
Ken Stein and Ken Lambrecht. Austin Theatre Alliance, Planned Parenthood of Texas
Latifah Taormina. Austin Circle of Theaters
Julie and John Thornton. Austin Ventures, Ballet Austin, Blanton Museum of Art
Judy Willcott and Laurence Miller. Texas French Bread, Fluent~Collaborative, Arthouse, Blanton Museum of Art
David Wyatt. Wyatt Brand
While I’m hiking in Montana, we’ll reveal a different Fortunate 500 list each day at noon. For a complete updated list, follow the brightly colored Fortunate 500 link below this post.
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By Ann Ciccolella
May 5, 2009 8:50 AM | Link to this
Love that David Wyatt. and he surrounds himself with good peeps like colleague Kristen Chin!
By Nina Seely
July 31, 2008 9:57 PM | Link to this
Arturo Palacios is a wonderful hero for Austin and community. Thank you for recognizing a true supporter of what makes Austin sooo great!
Nina Seely
By David Ohlerking
July 31, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this
Woo Hoo!