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  Atelier Dojo: Remote Studios

  The local powerhouse of figurative painting, the art school that's the smart school for artists of all kinds, they've got a painting-along-at-home series going to help you keep your skills honed in these socially restrictive times, featuring live costumed models posing on camera and a thriving community of creatives rendering that lovely human biotecture from their separate studios. "Join us for a three-hour costumed-model drawing session. Use any supplies you wish, listen to music, share your work, chat with others. It’s a great way to stay connected with your art community!"

  Tuesdays, 1:30-4:30pm; Fridays, 6:30-9:30pm; Saturdays, 9:30-12:30pm. $5.  

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  Austin Independent Book Fair

  The best way to make sure that the book you’re buying wasn’t churned out by AI is to buy it direct from the author, and you can do exactly that at this celebration of small press and independent authors. New civil rights icon Brigitte Bandit will be on hand for drag queen storytime, but if you prefer your makeup of the corpse-paint variety, check out death metal storytime. Plus, if you feel like evoking that salon life, there’ll be a cocktail social about local crime anthology Austin Noir. – Richard Whittaker

  Sun., April 21

  The Far Out Lounge & Stage

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  Cozy Gals Paint Night

  Join in for cozy pottery painting, complimentary spiked (or plain) cider, and soft, vibey music.

  Sun., Dec. 29, 5-8pm. $15.  

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  Art Garage, 5501 N. Lamar; 11190 Circle Dr.

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  Ex Voto

  Albuquerque-based artist Beedallo utilizes bold colors and startling imagery in their paintings, many of which depict animals, humans, and religious figures in various states of distress. Their current show, “Ex Voto,” takes up the Recspec Gallery’s new Annex, created for “our artists to explore space and transform a simple shipping container into an entirely different dimension,” the gallery states. Within the container walls, Beedallo’s art digs into the urge to pray even without specific religious faith. “An Ex Voto is made as an offering to a saint or to God,” their artist’s statement reads. “This is often a work in the image of what needs to be fixed.” After the show’s opening date, it’ll run the next three Saturdays in April. – James Scott

  Sat., March 30

  Recspec Gallery

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  Holly Roberts Opening Reception

  Across the 40 years of her artistic career, there’s been a softening in the work of New Mexico artist Holly Roberts. Her 1980s output came with a menacing shadow, a threat of violence at the edges. In the past decade, her post-millennial experiments with collage and hybrid photography/painting have given way to a new era of portraiture and equine studies that plays with the wildness of naive art with utter control. Catch the latest stage of her evolution with new prints in a joint show with Jon Langford, Lisa Brawn, Bruce Lee, and Kerry Smith. – Richard Whittaker

  Sat., April 20

  Yard Dog

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  Jen Garrido: Shapes That Listen

  As a glasses-wearer, my vision unobstructed by assistive frames reveals a world of shapes – formless, edgeless, but colorful wonders nonetheless. Take a glance at Jen Garrido’s work, and you’ll feel as though your glasses have fallen away, too. The artist’s process, as she puts it, is “a delicate balance of choice and process.” She gravitates toward shapes that “tangle, overlap, sit, lean and lay” as a vessel for personal narratives and internal dialogues. While first looks may reveal only color and texture, Garrido’s paintings invite projection – so project your meanings any Tuesday-Sunday before the show’s April 28 end date. – James Scott

  Through April 28

  Wally Workman Gallery

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  Martha's Contemporary: Hokey Pokey + What You See Is What You Get

  Here's a two-person exhibition that features painting, installation, videography, and sculpture by Moll Brau and Wes Thompson. It's a deep dive into a pool of loneliness, triumph, and rebirth. It's a forest of mazes where fireflies provide the light. It's a show of creations from a pair of terrific, hardworking local artists and you don't want to miss it.

  Martha's

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  Nude Model Sketching

  Right, so you’re reading this because you saw “nude modeling” in the title, but then noticed the “sketching” and were still interested, because you’ve actually been wanting to capture an unclothed human figure on canvas or paper with pigments of one sort or another? Excellent – because this three-hour session happens at Atelier Dojo, the finest school of artistic realism in the city, run by painters Jennifer Balkan, Denise M. Fulton, and Karen Offutt. You don’t even have to be a student there: Show up anytime, use whatever supplies you need, and there’s only a $10 drop-in fee. – Wayne Alan Brenner

  Mondays. Through June 24

  Atelier Dojo

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  Orodrim, Stitched Up, Varenth, Cathedral of Pain

  Fri., April 26, 9pm. $10 cover (21+).

  Valhalla

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  WPA: Elizabeth Olds

  Minneapolis-born and -raised, Elizabeth Olds lived to a sturdy 94 but didn’t get the attention she deserved in her lifetime. The Harry Ransom Center’s new exhibit, which opened Feb. 3 and runs through July 14, aims to rectify that with a first-of-its-kind look back at more than 100 of her prints, paintings, drawings, and illustrations from the 1920s to the 1960s. Of particular note: her depictions of social and political change from her time as a Works Progress Administration printmaker. Want to go deeper? Drop in for one of the daily docent tours. – Kimberley Jones

  Feb. 3-July 14

  Harry Ransom Center

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  Yard Dog: Paul Rodriguez

  Yard Dog presents the vibrant works of Paul Rodriguez, a printmaker from San Miguel de Allende. "And some very cool new paintings by Harry Underwood."

  Opening reception: Fri., Jan. 19, 7-9pm

  Yard Dog