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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
EAST Explosion: Studio tour keeps on growing
The event you thought couldn’t get any bigger has gotten bigger.
This year, the annual East Austin Studio Tour expands from one weekend to nine days running Nov. 14-22.
Some 154 studios exhibiting the work of more than 280 artists will be open on the weekends of the event — 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 14 & 15 and Nov. 21 & 22.
And this year the tour will also feature 20 exhibition spaces, 49 happenings and 30 programs. That’s mind-boggling.
All that is EAST is free and open to the public.
Preview the list of events here.
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Tell your story to history
The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum wants to hear your story.
Austin-based production house, LifeStories Alive, and publicity firm, Frost Media Relations, have announced that they are partnering with the Bullock in an effort to raise $2 million to launch the Texas Visual and Oral History Project, a statewide oral history video project.
Once the project is funded, the plan is send a mobile video booth to various regions around the state so that anyone can record his or her story for posterity.
Any Texan, that is.
“Tweed Scott, author of Texas in Her Own Words, coined the term the ‘T chromosome,’ where he expressed that Texas is different and the people from the state have a commonality…a Texas pride, that no other state can quite emulate,” said John Sneed, executive director of the State Preservation Board, which oversees the Bullock Museum. “There’s so much truth to the T chromosome mindset, which is why we’re so excited about this partnership in gathering the stories of the people who make Texas so rich, vibrant, and larger than life.”
Funding for the project is expected to come from public/private sponsorships and reaches out to Texans across the state. In the meantime, until the $2 million is raised, the project see will place a stationary video booth at the Bullock beginning mid-2010.
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Would you live in a glass house?
Inspired by the iconic modernist Kaufmann House artist Erin Curtis pays homage to — and asks questions of — the idea of architectural perfection in her current exhibit ‘Perspective Threshold’ now at Women and Their Work.
Wednesday night, Curtis is joined by a line-up of design and art talent — Burton Baldridge, Judy Birdsong, Cindy Black, Nicole Blair, Camille Urban Jobe, Kasey McCarty & Michelle Rossomando — and together the group will discuss will how architecture both dictates and responds to the way we wish to live in the world.
‘Architecture and Desire: A Panel Discussion’
7 p.m. Thursday Nov. 5
Free
Women and Their Work, 1710 Lavaca St.
www.womenandtheirwork.org
Erin Curtis’ “Kauffman Pool Set” part of her exhibit at Women and Their Work.
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