How Does an Artist Get a Passport?

Two Austin playwrights join dozens of writers from across the hemisphere to 'dream the Americas'

"...a taste of what we learned about playwriting, passports, access, and art.Traveling Freely..."

March 16, 2007 Arts Feature

Public Notice: Decision Day?

Best of luck to all of us this coming Tuesday

"...Artists in need of space: You can now participate in..."

Nov. 2, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Residence = Difference

A Stay at ArtPace in San Antonio Can Change an Artist

"...those who wait. For more than two years, Austin artists have been casting envious eyes toward San Antonio where..."

June 13, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Texas Performing Arts and Fusebox Make Space to Create

The two organizations partner on a residency program to support Austin artists making adventurous new work

"...are dark. Companies can't produce. The resources for performing artists to create new work are scarce and getting scarcer...."

Sept. 4, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Musicians on How Best to Employ City Funds Earmarked for the Local Scene

$3 million in HOT funds are coming. Now what?

"...organization that's already given over $1 million to local artists since its inception four years ago. We could create..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Music Feature

Beili Liu's Sculpture Cloud Pavilion Shimmers at Seaholm

How this glistening steel sculpture by the Austin-based artist became a permanent fixture of an evolving Downtown

"...the next 50 to 100 years. Made by Austin-based artist Beili Liu, the work offers a rare moment of..."

May 28, 2021 Arts Feature by Vivie Behrens

Christina Coleman at WEST 2017

The artist gives voice to the blackness in creation stories and personal histories

"...Local artist Christina Coleman has imagined her staffs of braided black..."

May 12, 2017 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Universal Talent

From 1961 to 1992, Julioeloy Mesa worked in the Cuban Institute of Cinematic Industry and Art, making movie posters that earned international awards, exhibitions in museums, and even a permanent collection in the Library of Congress. Though he now lives comfortably in Austin, Texas, Mesa's artistic struggle continues.

"...The silver ghosts of film had enchanted the artist since boyhood. "I would take money from my mother's..."

July 13, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

Austin Film Society Announces 2016 Grants

Program gives much-needed funds to Texas filmmakers

"...funding this year, as part of their AFS Grant program...."

Aug. 29, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts

Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup

"...it comes to putting together SXSW's Midnighters schedule, "I program a lot with my gut," explained producer and senior..."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Council Recap: Tip the Band, Skip the Pork Chop

Relief funds for artists, planning for fair and just mobility

"...Thursday, April 24, approving a new $1.5 million Austin Artist Disaster Relief Fund to soften the impact of COVID-19...."

April 24, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Sarah Cook Invites Diners to "Be Here Now" at Kyoten Sushiko

An unlikely artist at Mueller's satellite iteration of Otto Phan's omakase restaurant

"...learned at Sway and help to develop the pastry program was something I was really excited to do," said..."

June 28, 2019 Food Feature by Alexandra Detmar

Parker Woodland, Good Looks, and More Crucial Concerts

Album releases, artist departures, and more recommended shows

"...the American String Quartet has mastered their self-described “riveting” program of Beethoven and Shostakovich – but wait! There’s more:..."

June 7, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White

FronteraFest Schedule

"...audience into the creative and insecure working of an artist's brain...."

Jan. 9, 2004 Arts Feature

No Purchase Necessary

Does Napster, the MP3-sharing software program that has spawned several lawsuits and been banned at universities across the nation, mean the end of music as we know it?

"...This time, the innovation is Napster, a file-sharing software program that allows users to swap MP3 (digitally compressed) music..."

May 5, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

SXSW Creates XR Austin for Online Festival

Digital environment will be virtually like being there

"...a spectacular way,” said Blake Kammerdiener, XR and Film Programmer. “So we came together with Louis Cacciuttolo and his..."

March 2, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Connecting a Whole Community

Austin and Google Fiber move to bridge the digital divide

"...a computer. We try to eliminate the barriers to access; by doing so, we help bridge not just the..."

Jan. 23, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...concentrates on women protagonists. Jarod Neece, SXSW Senior Film Programmer, said, “The filmmaking teams, while particularly diverse, all seem..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How Austin's Queer Community Supports Its Own

Spotlighting the LGBTQ people and orgs looking after our health, youth, elders, and art

"...Ask Kathryn Gonzales, Out Youth's operations and program director, and she'll offer their "most conservative" estimate: 15,000...."

Aug. 10, 2018 Arts Feature by Sarah Marloff

Postmarks

Balcones Responds

"...on the occasion of your paper beginning a recycling program with Balcones. May I quote? "After years of filing..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Column

Carrying the Burden

During Gov. Bush's campaign for his party's presidential nomination last fall, reporters asked the candidate to comment on a federal government report asserting that many Texans, including large numbers of children, were going to bed hungry. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where?" he demanded, going on to say, "You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." Indeed, you would, especially if one of those pockets is just a few miles from his front door, Virginia B. Wood explains as she explores the very pockets of hunger in Austin Bush has difficulty fathoming.

"...Institute (FSI) at Tufts University, refers to the "assured access to enough food at all times for an active..."

April 28, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...and conference lineup as well as the short film program will be announced next week. Visit http://www.sxsw.com/film for more..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Brings the Cosmos to Austin

Keynote brings unseen images from the James Webb telescope

"...Hugh Forrest, SXSW Chief Programming Officer and Co-President said, “We are honored to host..."

Jan. 10, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The State of Trans Health Care

Gender affirming care in Austin is improving. But by how much? And how far must it still go?

"...mark on Austin's queer community. A well-known activist and artist, Westbrook fought to empower the transgender community at a..."

April 14, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Arts Alive Institute: Reaching all learners with art

VSA Arts' Arts Alive Institute brings together artists and educators from across the state to discuss best practices for using the arts to reach everyone in the classroom

"...by the Texas branch of VSA Arts, a national program affiliated with the John F. Kennedy Center for the..."

June 15, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...So KUT is making some programming changes, and once again the Chronicle throws up all..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Column

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...still on the Midnighters, SXFantastic Features, and the Shorts programs – but see below for titles and descriptions of..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Sacred Spaces and the Art of Margo Sawyer at AMOA

"...museum's second Art in Process exhibition, showcasing a local artist's work in the downstairs galleries while providing a Web..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...wins the opportunity to attend the franchise's educational immersion program in Italy, what she thought would be a romantic..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Development peccadillos and Lost Austin kudos.

"...This development has been approved for Austin's Smart Housing Program that allows for a request for a 15% variance..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Column

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