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Wonder From Home: The Container Home of Your Dreams
Austin's own Weird Homes team has joined forces with that online powerhouse of location-based brilliance and oddities called Atlas Obscura to present a series of virtual jaunts through the most fascinating points of interest. Coming up: The shipping-container home of New Orleans' Anne and Kicker Kalozdi, built from seven containers, covering three stories with multiple roof decks, designed and executed without any previous home building experience.Mon., June 22, 7pm. $10.
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Butridge Gallery: Grimm Re-Articulated
Yes, you have to make a reservation. Yes, it's totally worth it – because the Julia C. Butridge gallery in the Dougherty Arts Center reopens (in a limited manner, with social distancing and masks) with a show of work by three artists – Nora McMillen Burke, Jon Nelson, and Marianne Levy – and it's all worth feasting your peepers on. But we daresay it's Levy's "Grimm Re-Articulated," with its array of reimagined and stunningly sculpted fairytale characters and situations, that'll warp your dreams for months to come.Mon.-Fri., 10am-6pm. Through July 25. Free. -
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Camiba Art: Signs
Currently open by reservation only, yes, but you should have no reservations about seeing this stunning exhibition by Dallas native Lee Albert Hill. You want an eyeful of big, bright abstractions via acrylics on canvas over board, handwrought yet almost machinelike in their meticulous design and execution? You probably do, especially in this case. Because it's like … um … like if someone hired Mike Hinge and Bill Sienkewicz to show how well tangrams could be used to illustrate subatomic events from CERN's bubble chamber – and then threw a fistful of chaos shards at the collaboration's results. The accompanying image here is one miniaturized example; imagine seeing a roomful of such intricacies at full size. Hell, imagine scheduling a private viewing of this show with gallerist Troy Campa: That's some solid pandemic diversion right there, tell you what. (And your man Brenner rhapsodizes a bit further about it in this review.)Through July 11 -
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ChingonX Fire: Group Exhibit
Inspired by the Mexican American Cultural Center's annual La Mujer celebration – and by the first feminist of the New World, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz – this online group exhibit is curated by April Garcia and features womxn-identifying and nongender-specific artists whose artwork is tied to activism, feminism, cultural. and gender identity storytelling, environmental protection, and socioeconomic parity.Free. -
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grayDUCK Gallery: Point of Origin
That's right! So make an appointment to check out this inventive array of creative work. (Note: Only five people allowed per appointment; no hugging, kissing, high-fiving, or even fist-bumping the gallerist.) But, look: Sarah Sudhoff's "Point of Origin" takes cues from the connections between sound and human emotion, here realized with suspended sculptures, sound installation, and debossed wall works that draw upon the artist's personal observations, cartography, and the mechanics of helicopters – especially those copters involved in the nearly 300 flights completed in just one month for Houston's Memorial Hermann Health System.Through July 12. Thu.-Sat., noon-6pm; Sun., noon-5pm -
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ICOSA: Coping Mechanisms
In advance of the upcoming Swec & Criscoe exhibition, ICOSA presents a series of front-window installations that are viewable 24 hours a day. "An imperfect show in imperfect times that recognizes our shortcomings and missteps, our pain, loneliness, and uncertainty, that aims to move forward carefully and intentionally. This work was made during the pandemic, but before the world exploded once again in response to the horrific murder of George Floyd, thrusting the world into a greater awareness of systemic racism and police brutality, and renewing energy and momentum in the fight for justice." Note: A portion of the proceeds from sales of the artworks will be donated to Six Square: Austin’s Black Cultural District.Through July 2 -
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The Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata
This place, ah, it's one of our favorite places in the entire city; and of course they're properly corona-closed. But check 'em out online right now – it's a rich, wonder-filled website – to whet your appetite for when things get back to … uh … are we still calling it "normal," these days? -
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Vault Stone Shop: St. Elmo Window Show
That South Congress stronghold of the stonecutters' art presents its third in a series of front-window exhibitions, a perfect visual treat for your plague-time strolling. Listen: "Vault Stone Shop asked Saul Jerome San Juan to make art in response to: the namesake of the road (St. Elmo) that meets Congress Avenue where the gallery's located. Inspired by the evolution of St. Elmo’s verbal and visual depiction, San Juan invited other artists to collaborate … on the generative power of making images about the understanding and translation of narrative information."Ah, and those other artists? Richard Ashby, Thomas Cook, Jeffery Primeaux, Erika Huddleston, Valerie Chaussonnet, and B. Shawn Cox.Verdict: This is a welcome opportunity to reward your eyes the next time you're exercising shank's mare south of the river. Recommended!Through June 27 -
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Wally Workman Gallery: Reopened!
Make an appointment, friend, and you can see these beauties in person. And if there's anything (aside from certain substances still criminalized by a failed system of law) that can elevate the senses and lighten the load, it's this bright collection of new works by Austin's Patrick Puckett. The artist's "large, bold canvases explore the human figure inspired by the artist’s life in the American South and often include symbolic references of both real and imagined nostalgia." And, we add, the downright Fauvist, polychrome exuberance of these paintings will likewise inspire your art-hungry eyes.Through July 3
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Jessica Fontenot: Make a Watercolor Painting
In this online workshop, the artist guides you through creating a watercolor illustration of a place you love, sharing her approach to drawing architecture and place, featuring watercolor techniques she uses in her work – such as the recent illustration for Austin's Red Beans and Ricely Yours. Note: The price includes all the supplies you'll need, which you can pick up curbside (or have 'em delivered) from The Cathedral ATX.Workshop: Sat., June 27, 2pm. $55-65.
