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Austin Studio Tour

The Austin Studio Tour, produced by Big Medium, is a free, self-guided art event that combines the West Austin Studio Tour and East Austin Studio Tour to provide opportunities for artists all over Austin to connect with each other and showcase current work – and for the public to experience the cultural vibrancy of our city from, you might say, the inside out. This year's Tour happens over three weekends and will be divided into two regions, west of IH-35 and east of IH-35, allowing citizens to choose weekends and regions and plan accordingly. We've got a fine mess o' recommendations coming up for you next issue, but right now check out the excellent website these wizards have conjured for your delight and convenience.

Sat.-Sun., Nov. 19-20, noon-6pm. Free.
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Creek Show

Immerse yourself in Waterloo Greenway’s annual display of illuminated art created by teams of visionary local artists, landscape architects, and designers, plus free entertainment and family-friendly programming.

Through Nov. 20
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Waterloo Greenway
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Landmarks: Self-Guided Walking Tour

Use your smartphone to access self-guided tours of the outdoor public art sited by UT's award-winning Landmarks program any time you feel like it. BONUS: There's also a free, docent-led tour starting at Marc Quinn's "Spiral of the Galaxy" (1501 Red River) on Sun., Jan. 8, 11am.

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Last Day of the Eureka Room!

Austin's most absurd and fun attraction will have its last day on September 24th, so visit while you still can! It's the Eureka Room, a participatory experience where visitors engage with curious and playful programming within a unique 100-square-foot room filled with light and sound.

See website for reservations. $25.
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The Eureka Room

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ICOSA: After Some Reflection

In this juried group exhibition curated by Jill Schroeder, works by Marilyn Jolly, Yevgenia Davidoff, Kelly R Johnston, Justin Korver, Charles Heppner, Samantha Modder, Yi-An Pan, Quinn In, Sherry Tseng Hill, and Jade Walker were chosen from 226 submissions, due to a common thread of self-discovery.

Through Nov. 20

ICOSA

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Art4Water: Sacred Springs Kites

Art4Water’s inaugural program (now on view at Downtown's gorgeous library) is a collaboration between the Watershed Association, Terry Zee Lee, and more than 30 national artists in the creation of dozens and dozens of water-inspired art kites.

Through Nov. 30. Free.
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Central Library
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Cloud Tree: The Unkept

The magical Adam Young returns to Cloud Tree with his moving and spiritual renderings on wood panel – accompanied by the works of folk artist Mike Parsons and a rare showing of paintings and collage by the legendary Satch Grimley.

Through Dec. 31

Cloud Tree
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grayDUCK Gallery: Faithful

Tammie Rubin's new exhibition at grayDUCK Gallery contemplates faith as determined actions in place of passive belief. The artist extracts images, symbols, maps, creating visual codes that speak of Black American citizenry.

Through Dec. 18
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grayDUCK Gallery
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Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: Field of Light

Illuminating 16 acres in the Texas Arboretum at the Wildflower Center, Field of Light is Bruce Munro's stunning display of 28,000 subtly lit, solar-powered spheres that showcase the intersection of art, technology, and nature.

Through May 1

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
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Laguna Gloria

This local treasure of a venue, run by those Contemporary Austin folks who also bring us the Jones Center shows Downtown, is all about the outdoors – which is perfect for these trickily navigated times of ours, n'est-ce pas? Recommended: Stop by and breathe in the air, enjoy the lawns and gardens and the many examples of world-class sculpture arrayed across the property, and (as Frankie used to say) r-e-l-a-x.

Thu.-Fri., 9am-noon; Sat.-Sun., 9am-3pm

Laguna Gloria Amphitheater
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Neill-Cochran House: The Hope Suite

Mark Smith’s The Hope Suite is a series of forty-four collages inspired by the theme of global unity. Each 24-by-18-inch work on paper consists of a background monoprint or a digital photoprint, overlaid with collage, calligraphy, and mixed media. Note: The originals are part of the permanent collection of the Obama Presidential Center Museum in Chicago; the works on display here are limited-edition prints of those originals.

Through Dec. 16. Free.
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Neill-Cochran House Museum
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Northern-Southern: Shimmer

Virginia Fleck's tour de force installation fills the gallery with shimmers of sound and light, her myriad aluminum can tabs strung into ethereal columns; a trinity of them, draped from the ceiling, rotates slowly. Nearby, a moth-like tapestry of tabs clings to a wall. A relay of globe cages – intended for bingo balls – are dangled in aluminum tabs, each rendering a hand-cranked sound bath. "From salvage and discard, Fleck weaves serenity, wonder, and peace." Yes, this. Yes.

Through Dec. 18

Northern-Southern
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Testsite: PM

Jessica Halonen’s current project is a series of paintings that co-mingles abstraction and trompe l'oeil informed by a collection of toxic wallpaper samples.

Through Dec. 11
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Testsite
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The Contemporary Austin: In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy

Explore the works of eight female artists – Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Adriana Corral, Ellie Ga, Juliana Huxtable, Tala Madani, Danielle Mckinney, Wendy Red Star, and Clare Rojas – in this new exhibition that explores how narrative and storytelling shape our senses of self, community, history, and identity.

Through Feb. 12

The Contemporary Austin
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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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Wally Workman Gallery: Cornucopia

In this compelling new series, vases and vessels are modeled from math forms that deal with infinity, chaos, and origin, Ellen Heck's jewel-toned, semi-surreal oil paintings containing layers of figuration under grand impasto still lifes, exploring visual metaphor and its role in revealing meaning through substitution.

Through Nov. 27

Wally Workman Gallery