Mayor's Omnibus Resolution: The Arts Commission Hustle

City group gets moving on policy plan for Austin creatives

"...The special called meeting of the Austin Arts Commission pretty well lived up to its name Tuesday..."

Aug. 8, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Mayor's Omnibus Resolution: Arts Commission Special Meeting

Commission seeks creatives' input on city staff's recommendations

"...staff's response to the Mayor's Omnibus Resolution. Tonight, the Arts Commission wants your thoughts on those rockets' red glare...."

Aug. 2, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Arts Commission's 1996-97 Recommendations

"...As of its meeting last week, the Arts Commission's recommendations put 24.71%, or just over half a..."

June 28, 1996 News Feature

City Arts Funding: The Resolution

Council approves FY 19 arts funding, ponders its next move

"...The three-act drama about city arts funding that opened Sept. 13 came to a calm..."

Oct. 8, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Arts Funding Matrix: Reloaded

Arts Commission's FY 19 funding adjustments head to Council

"...to deep cuts in funding for FY 19, the Arts Commission had a working group reconsider the matrix by..."

Oct. 2, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

City Arts Funding Tempest

Unexpected Cultural Contracts cuts cause concern

"...clouds continued to hang low over the city's Cultural Arts Division. The release Thursday of funding amounts for FY..."

Sept. 17, 2018 Arts Post

Arts Stalwarts

Twelve of Austin's cultural heroes will be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame at the 2003 Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony, and here is an introduction to them and some of their significant contributions to the local arts scene.

"...cultural heroes. They are individuals who have founded local arts institutions and nurtured their development, pioneered forms of creative..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Colorblind Arts

"...so when the reappointment of a member of the Arts Commission was challenged because of her stance on funding..."

Oct. 16, 1998 News Column by Jenny Staff

City Arts Funding: The Resolution

Council approves 2019 funding, ponders next move

"...The three-act drama about city arts funding that opened Sept. 13 came to a calm..."

Oct. 12, 2018 News Feature by Robert Faires

A Night at The Opera: Artists Sing Out at Arts Commision

"...Like most everyone else at the Dougherty Arts Center (DAC) on Monday, June 7, I am ready..."

June 18, 1999 Arts Feature

Commission Mission

UT's Performing Arts Center Spawns New Art

"...in our city is a great benefactor of the arts, one whose contributions in the past five years have..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arts and History: The Way the Culture Crumbles

Cuts run deep for arts, historic preservation, and libraries

"...the ongoing war against the National Endowment for the Arts to the new push to defund NPR and PBS,..."

March 4, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Cultural Arts Program

Tracking the recent history and redevelopment of Austin's Cultural Arts Program

"...question was not intended to apply to Sharir+Bustamante, the Arts Commission refuses to reopen the process and allow the..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature

Arts Consultants: Connect the Cultural Dots

The city's consultants recommend a new, one-stop shop and more funding for Austin's arts programs.

"...In the cover letter to her team's final report, arts consultant Lucille Dabney notes that "the timing of this..."

Dec. 20, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

City Cultural Arts Funding: One for the History Books

What do you call it when the City Council approves the Cultural Arts Funding Program budget with no furor or 11th-hour changes? How about 'historic'?

"...call it when the City Council approves the Cultural Arts Funding Program budget with little discussion and nary a..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

City Arts Funding

A new clash over what arts groups are legally entitled to bed tax funds

"...You may have heard that the Austin arts community rose up in arms in late March over..."

April 9, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

UT: Major Arts Commissions Announced

Landmarks will get new mural, CoFA a Spanish-language opera

"...University of Texas concerns the football team, but the arts may generate some chatter this week with the news..."

Aug. 4, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

New Music Commission Convenes

“Data is everything right now,” says newly elected chair Nakia

"...The new members of Austin’s Music Commission convened for the first time Monday evening. The inaugural..."

Aug. 4, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Bob Bursey Takes Over Texas Performing Arts

UT hires the director of Bard College's Fisher Center to run TPA

"...to welcome a new executive director to Texas Performing Arts. Today, the University of Texas at Austin College of..."

Sept. 3, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Public Notice: ___ Commission Wraps Up

PC confirms its new, "no planning" job description

"...Planning Commission held two more special called meetings this Monday and..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

2019 Arts Hall of Famers Announced

Bravo, Harden, Kinney, and Sawyer to be inducted this year

"...group of individuals to be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame, honoring leaders in dance, theatre, and..."

May 7, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Council Backs Parkland Preservation in Vote for New Dougherty Arts Center Site

Austin's oldest community arts venue would relocate to new facility in Butler Shores' southeast corner

"...The Dougherty Arts Center's new pad is one step closer to its..."

May 28, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Texas Arts Exchange: CultureCon 2006

The Texas Commission on the Arts' latest biennial conference draws together artists and arts professionals to discuss ways to integrate the arts more fully into the lives of our communities

"...yet to prove itself a golden age for the arts. Securing support from public and private sources is every..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Arts District Dance

Council's vote this week on funds for streetscapes for Ballet Austin is a little bit about depleting the city's annual Great Streets fund and a lot about the creation of a performing arts district Downtown

"...fund and a whole lot about creating a performing arts district in an area of Downtown once known as..."

Dec. 15, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Lone Star Arts Convergence

Artists converge on Austin for TCA's Texas Arts Exchange Conference

"...usual downtown this weekend, it's no illusion. Artists and arts administrators from El Paso to Texarkana, Abilene to Brownsville,..."

July 30, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Commission Considers a Black Live Music Fund

Envisioning a Black Live Music Fund and fixing the Broken Spoke

"...Like institutions across the country, the Austin Music Commission grappled with how to address systemic racism at a..."

July 10, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Introducing the 2019 Class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

The stories behind the art transformers of this year's Hall of Fame inductees

"...static. The work created in the performing and visual arts is always changing, ever evolving. That's because so many..."

May 24, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

UT's Public Arts Program Debuts an Ambitious New Project

Landmarks presents Ann Hamilton’s O N E E V E R Y O N E at the Dell Medical School

"...of this fog and leaned into it, pressing these parts of herself to it that we might see them..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Faster Than Sound: City Council Supports Music-Focused Arts Facility on East 11th Street

Harold McMillan breaks down civic steps to the envisioned Kenny Dorham Center

"...for increased city funding and development of a music-focused arts facility on the 1100 block of East 11th Street...."

Sept. 10, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Austin Access Arts Summer Events

"...If you wish to volunteer for Access Austin Arts, want more information on its programs, or wish to..."

June 11, 1999 Arts Feature

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