Art From the Streets: Off the Streets and on Your Walls

Art helps, and the annual Art From the Streets Show and Sale helps artists who are homeless sell the work they've created and help themselves

"...It's this simple: Art helps. For the person who makes it, it helps..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Art From the Streets: Taste the rainbow of flavors

What makes the annual "Art From the Streets" exhibition and sale interesting is the way it shows not how different homeless people are from us, but how much we all have in common

"...What is an artist? What is the artist's intention? These two short questions..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Art From the Streets

This year's Art From the Streets sale, showing artwork by some of our city's gifted but homeless creators, boasts 2,300 works of art

"...This is the week of the annual Art From the Streets sale,..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"ART for All + ALL for Art" at Art for the People Gallery

Truth is one of the rewards of this showing of work by artists who have lived on the streets

"...What may or may not be "true" in an artwork is arguably subjective, but when cornered I will insist..."

March 31, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

From the Walls to the Web: "Austintatious," Austin's Original Mural, Goes Online

"Austintatious," Austin's first and most famous mural, celebrates its golden anniversary with a new interactive history

"...In 1973, equipped with paintbrushes and a dream, three art students walked off of the University of Texas campus..."

March 24, 2023 Arts Feature by Joelle DiPaolo

From the Archives: Organizing Outside the System – Deborah Shaffer and The Wobblies

Our 1981 interview with the filmmaker behind the classic doc

"...The history of union activism in America has rarely been..."

May 3, 2022 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin PBS Takes to the Streets for Muraling Austin

Three-part series will explore the vibrant art of our public space

"...Austin's public art doesn't live on plinths or in galleries: instead, it's..."

Feb. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Art for the "Common Audience" Journal of the Heart

"...point of view. Six mixed media constructions make up the exhibition called Journal which fills Women and Their Work's..."

June 16, 1995 Arts Feature

Movies From the Mount

Sundance Film Festival

"...Buffalo 66 Independent films are all the rage these days. Suddenly, everyone wants a piece, be..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Streets of Philadelphia

Divorce pains framed against the backdrop of 'The New Year Parade'

"...week's worth of Park City festivities when he got the call that his film The New Year Parade had..."

March 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Raymond Blanton

Slabs, Screw, and Stories from the Country: Deezie Brown & EC Mayne Soundtrack Bastrop County

Candy Blue Like Screw reclaims Texas rap heritage

"...The biggest mistake everyone makes about small towns is considering..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

'One From the Heart'

Coppola's critically, commercially, and conversationally ravaged Las Vegas romance makes a comeback

"...On the career road of director Francis Ford Coppola, One From..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

At Home at the Easel, If Nowhere Else

A new documentary captures Austin's homeless population finding purpose in art

"...According to government estimates, on any given night there are between 500,000 and 800,000 homeless people in the..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Art City Austin 2014

Art Alliance Austin's annual spring art fair brings art to the streets around City Hall

"...The birds are out, the weather isn't yet scorching, and..."

April 11, 2014 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

'Get Art: Give Hope'

Austin nonprofit offers homeless artists a voice with annual showcase and sale

"...The stereotyped portrait of a renowned artist often comes in..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

Who the Hell Is TVHeadATX?

The local wheatpasting provocateur reveals … a thing or two

"...TVHead’s bold work can be found all over the city, his wheat-pasted posters and ubiquitous stickers pulling public..."

Aug. 11, 2022 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Art and Motherhood on the West Austin Studio Tour

Four WEST exhibitors reveal how their work is informed by being a mom

"...Mockingbird Domestics is an Austin family affair, led by the husband-and-wife team of Laura and Jeff Daly. It is..."

May 8, 2015 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

The Spirit of Volunteerism

"...your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free … " This phrase keeps running through my..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Features Feature

Art and Motherhood on the West Austin Studio Tour

Four WEST exhibitors reveal how their work is informed by being a mom

"...In thinking about the 2015 West Austin Studio Tour, running May 9-17, I..."

May 8, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Reclaiming 'The Corner'

Neighbors, police, and prosecutors applaud the 'Drug Market Intervention' at 12th and Chicon

"...cottages lined up along Salina Street, just a block from the intersection of East 12th and Chicon, ground zero..."

Sept. 20, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Wolf of Wall Street

Martin Scorsese's latest take on the American hoodlum is a relentlessly wild ride.

"...Directed by: Martin Scorsese. Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips: The Grotto, San Antonio

Man-made cave part of “Art on the River”

"...The Grotto towers above the San Antonio River like a..."

July 3, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Image Formed

Previewing the 12th Austin Film Festival

"...The Hip Hop Project..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Starving and Art in Marfa, Texas

Sonic Youth plays Marfa, turns on the bright lights.

"...Even in October, the late afternoon sun in West Texas shows no mercy...."

Oct. 8, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

The Michoacana Connection

Paletas on the streets of Austin, paletas on the streets of Mexico!

"...up eating my fair share of paletas, Popsicles made from fresh seasonal fruits. The fruit is sometimes blended with..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

The Good Eye: Happy Thankswishing! Here's Your Jardigan.

You can't fit these wishes in a jar

"...us, we've officially entered that time of year when the word "stuffing" assumes a ritual importance in public discourse...."

Dec. 5, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

"Jonathan Muzacz: Stained Slabs" at the Butridge

With his solo show, the artist revs up the gallery by bringing in the street in eye-catching style

"...signature is like a jangle of limbs, knotted in the corners of his works. "JMUZACZ." M and Z bridge..."

July 13, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Public Notice: 'Tis the Season

Parties nightly, and events in pairs

"...If last week was kind of slow on the event front, this week you can't miss that the..."

Dec. 4, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Under the Hoof of the Merciless Kandisha

Julien Maury on a Moroccan myth, and what scares him

"...But appearances are deceiving. Writer/director Julien Maury called it "the opposite of the classic slasher. ... The boogeywoman is..."

Aug. 10, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Don't Smash the Melting Pot

"...that our local Political Asylum Project of Austin (PAPA), the only pro bono legal project in Central Texas serving..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Column by Kate X Messer

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