Big Medium Closes, Leaving a Void in Austin’s Art Scene

Loss of nonprofit puts future of Austin Studio Tours in question

"...the announcement that one of its key institutions, nonprofit Big Medium, is closing down – and a combination of..."

Feb. 25, 2025 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Big Medium to Leave Canopy This Spring

Little tells the long and short of it

"...Big Medium, the community-empowering arts organization behind the annual Austin..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: “Temperate Grasslands” at Big Medium

Exhibit harvests peculiar interpretations of nature

"...a message about the environment, but "Temperate Grasslands" at Big Medium shares an appreciation for the natural world that..."

Aug. 3, 2024 Arts Post by Meher Qazilbash

Big Medium Holds Fundraiser Following Big Fire

Arts community hub is set to recover – creatively as ever

"...We told you about the recent fire at Big Medium’s new place at 4201 S. Congress, the conflagration..."

Jan. 28, 2024 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Supercharging Big Medium’s Artist Relief Fund

Canopy's matching pledges to support Austin’s creative community

"...Due to an overwhelming number of applicants to Big Medium’s Artist Relief Fund, the individuals behind the Canopy..."

July 8, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Big Medium Makes the Austin Art Space Larger

"...from doing that? Locally, visual artists have long had Big Medium in their corner, providing exposure and support through..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Features Feature by Robert Faires

"PrintAustin: The Contemporary Print" at Big Medium

To go or not to go: That's ultimately a stupid question

"...Not 2B is part of "The Contemporary Print" at Big Medium Gallery, and it's just the creation to make..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Big Medium Fuses EAST and WEST Into the All-City Austin Studio Tour

This year's city-wide tour blends online exhibitions and virtual studio visits with self-guided tours of public art

"...more keenly aware of that than the folks at Big Medium, who have been producing a studio tour in..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"Melissa Brown: Future Past" at Big Medium

Layered images and layered narrative add something extra to PrintAustin

"...desired number of layers or depth of image. At Big Medium, Brown implements the process to make curious, loose..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Arts Review by Seth Orion Schwaiger

"Steve Parker: War Tuba" at Big Medium

In exploring sound's relationship to conflict and use in it, the artist fuses past and present, melody and discord, into a remixed reveille

"...wake-up call, a remixed reveille. "Steve Parker: War Tuba" Big Medium Gallery, 916 Springdale, Bldg. 2, #101. Through Nov...."

Nov. 9, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

“Island Oasis Mirage” at Big Medium

The exhibit by Michael Krueger, Kathleen McShane, and Barbara Weissberger seems a planned mess, but one that echoes a greater scheme

"...a clockwork universe. A perpetual motion machine. “Island Oasis Mirage”Big Medium at Canopy, 916 Springdale, Bldg. 2, #101 www.bigmedium.org..."

June 30, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Big Medium Closes After Fire

Art from Tim Kerr's new collaborative show destroyed in blaze

"...A devastating fire has ripped through Austin's Big Medium gallery, damaging the building and destroying art in..."

Jan. 18, 2024 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

“Rehab El Sadek: The Memory Palace” at Big Medium

The exhibit is a personal chamber about the artist’s past wherein she recovers memories but also reveals their fragility

"...El Sadek: The Memory Palace”916 Springdale, Bldg. 2, #101 www.bigmedium.org Through July 3..."

June 28, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

"Ann Wood: Quick and Quiet" at Big Medium

The artist's solo show is like a large-scale, experiential temporary memorial, with fake flowers rotting in a gloomy exuberance

"...roughened by its own sweetness. “Ann Wood: Quick and Quiet”Big Medium, 916 Springdale, Bldg. 2, #101 Through Oct. 6..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Big Medium Announces Artists for East Austin Studio Tour 2017

Oh, only like about … 500 of them, y’know?

"...And you can find that intel, that list of..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Big Medium: East Austin Studio Tour

Our list of Due East's most intriguing artistic talent

Nov. 4, 2015 Events Post by Allen Martinez

EAST: Do Big Spaces Rule?

Artists and viewers can make the most of EAST by hitting the large studio complexes

"...their bets and begin (or only stop) at the big studio complexes: Pump Project, Canopy, Big Medium, Up Collective,..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Andy Campbell

Cultural Cancellations and Postponements: The Big List

What's not happening around Austin, arts-wise

"...VISUAL ARTS Big Medium – closed through April 14; photo tour of..."

March 24, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Big Show

Comic-Con has gone Hollywood, but Austin's comics pros say it's still the place to be

"...important gathering of comics professionals all year. It's "the big show," as Austin comics writer Paul Benjamin says, the..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Texas Radio and the Really Big Beat

Capstar's Austin-based Empire

"...the tale of Texas radio and the really, really big beat...."

May 22, 1998 Music Feature by Bill Crawford

The Medium Is the Music

"...A message must have a messenger, though, or a medium, and for Courtney Audain, music is the medium. To..."

March 5, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Tracking the Next Big Things at SXSW Gaming

Beyond playtime: where the developers and designers will be at SXSW

"...Gaming in 2019 is bigger and more culturally relevant than ever before, with hundreds..."

March 15, 2019 Screens Feature by Tucker Whatley

Pickling Peaches with the Big Bad Chef

Award-winning Southern chef John Currence shares pickling expertise

"...Foodways Alliance symposiums. Currence, who refers to himself as "Big Bad Chef," has won some James Beard awards since..."

Aug. 14, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Flight 1: Light- to Medium-Bodied Whites

"...88, 85, and 86, respectively. Flight 3: Light- to Medium-Bodied Reds..."

July 23, 1999 Food Column

Reining in the Mother of All Big Boxes

Local activists seek community-wide benefits analyses of big-box proposals

"...Wal-Mart has set its sights on Austin in a big way. There are 10 in the greater Austin area..."

May 27, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

The Big Bang

The Fragmentation of Austin's Underground

"...Huong had done in the mid-Eighties. It was a big, smelly, noisy barn that endeared itself to the faithful..."

July 11, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Big 12 Power Rankings: Week 3

Ladies love the grillmaster

"...It was my mastery of medium rare that took me and a couple of sidekicks..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Sports Post by John Razook

Big Drag

Only Boy

"...Big Drag has a knack for writing tunes which seem..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Music Feature

Big Time

Gigantic director Matt Aselton's indie Cinderella story

"...it intimidating for you to work with all these big-name actors, like John Goodman, Ed Asner, and, particularly, Clarke..."

April 24, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Little Women, Big Games, and More Recommended Weekend Events

Get in the spirit with these arts and cultural happenings

"...from vintage clothes to handmade jewelry, housewares, and the ambiguous “oddities.” Top off your shop with a drag show,..."

Dec. 20, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

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