Mari Carmen Ram�rez, curator of Latin American Art for the Archer M. Huntington Gallery at UT, has just been awarded a 1997 Peter Norton Family Foundation Curator’s Grant. This program from the Norton Family Foundation provides support to innovative curators through funding which helps them acquire and exhibit contemporary art. Through her grant, Dr. Ram�rez will receive $50,000 to be used toward acquisition of art for the Huntington’s “Collection of Contemporary Latin American Art.” For more info, call 471-7324.
Women & Their Work has been given a grant of $25,000 from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for both general support of the organization’s 1997-98 exhibition season and funding to enhance the organization’s documentation of its events and exhibitions. Specifically, the grant will help support the publication of critical essays and educational materials commissioned by Women & Their Work from art historians, cura-tors, and critics. For more info, call 477-1064.
Seasons in the Sun
More Austin performing arts companies have announced their seasons for 1997-98. Austin Theatre for Youth will more than double its output in the coming year, expanding its offerings from two productions to five. Its ’97-98 season begins in October with a live action version of Bambi, adapted from the Felix Salten novel by James DeVita. In November, ATY will stage a 20th-anniversary production of the fantasy Step on a Crack, by Susan Zeder, a faculty member in the UT Department of Theatre & Dance for the past few years. Ordinary People, adapted from the Judith Guest novel by Nancy Gilsenan, follows in January. In March, ATY stages Rumpelstiltskin, a participation play by Moses Goldberg. Then, in May, the season concludes with Treasure Island, adapted from the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel by Max Bush. For more info, call 459-7144.
Different Stages offers another season of both theatrical masterpieces of the past and dynamic drama of the present. For its 1997-98 season, that means Juno and the Paycock, by Sean O’Casey (Nov 7-Dec 7, 1997); Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard (Jan 23-Feb 14, 1998); Agamemnon, by Aeschylus (Mar 13-Apr 4, 1998); and Travels With My Aunt, adapted from the Graham Greene novel by Giles Havergal (Jul 10-Aug 8, 1998). For more info, call 453-7943.
Off the Desk
Austin Access Arts provides another of its Audio Described Performances, in which trained volunteers provide descriptions of plays to patrons wearing headsets tuned to a specific FM frequency, this Saturday, July 26, at 8:30pm. This one is for the Zilker Summer Musical production of Guys and Dolls at the Zilker Hillside Theatre. The production is free, but headsets must be reserved in advance. Call 454-9912 for info.
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This article appears in July 25 • 1997 and July 25 • 1997 (Cover).