The City of Austin Is Still Tweaking the Live Music Fund

Music Commission plans 2025 grant program, meets new ACME director

"...The Austin Music Commission and Economic Development Department continue to tweak..."

March 28, 2025 Music Feature by Angelina Liu

Cultural Arts Program

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

"...April 2001: Cultural Contracts Program staff uses a new program guideline to..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature

City Looking for Faces of Austin

Film competition could mean SXSW screening

"...Who is Austin? That's the question at the beating heart of Faces..."

Nov. 22, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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'?

"...What do you call it when the City Council approves the Cultural Arts Funding Program budget with..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Faces of Austin: Face-Off

City Hall gets more artsy this week with the debut of Faces of Austin, a new program that features 25 works by Central Texas filmmakers celebrating what makes Austin Austin

"...City Hall gets yet more artsy this week with the..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Members of the Austin Critics Table have considered the hundreds of..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Sound & Color: Four Visual Depictions of Austin's Musical Identity

A whole palette of music-related art happenings of late, from a new Daniel Johnston mural to Bob Dylan's depiction of the Hole in the Wall

"...The Contemporary Austin Unveils New Daniel Johnston Tribute Mural..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Cultural Arts Division

Learn from the city how public art happens and how the downturn is affecting local creatives

"...The city's Cultural Arts Division is delivering a double-barreled blast of..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Punk Rock Patron of Austin Music Richard Lynn

Super Secret founder and Sonic Transmissions Festival underwriter expands operations

"...Drilling, Larry staked his own claims an hour east of Austin in Giddings during the Seventies, making significant contributions..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Is Austin’s New Arts Umbrella Organization Just in Time or Too Little, Too Late?

After two decades of treating culture and creativity as an afterthought, the city of Austin finally has a real arts department

"...For a city that’s supposed to care a lot about the arts,..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Who Will Be the Arts Tsar?

The two finalists for the job of cultural arts program manager addressed the public Oct. 23.

"...The city's search for an Arts Tsar is down to a..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

AMOA's Symposium on Austin Art: How Deep Is Our Love?

The Austin Museum of Art symposium Self Portrait: Austin Art in Local, National, and International Contexts was a positive day of critical dialog and amazingly open-minded community work

"...With its "New Art in Austin: 22 To Watch" exhibition wrapping up this month, the..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

How to Celebrate Austin Museum Day 2020

In person and virtual events abound on the city' annual free museum day

"...Here comes the 23rd annual Austin Museum Day, citizen, that free celebration of art, culture,..."

Sept. 15, 2020 Arts Post

Feedback of a Different Kind

At last week's arts funding forum, artists gave city officials an earful – but not what they expected

"...What was the most common phrase directed at city officials during last week's Cultural Funding Program public forum?..."

March 12, 2004 Arts 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

City Offers Arts Venue Aid ASAP

Cultural Arts Division's Art Space Assistance Program will award $200,000 in grants to creatives in need this summer

"...the alarm about skyrocketing rents and getting priced out of venues they've created and run, and that 16 months..."

June 30, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cultural Affairs Division

Vincent Kitch off to head the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs in Seattle

"...On Tuesday, Vincent Kitch winds up seven years of working for the city of Austin on arts and..."

March 11, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

City Arts Funding Skipped Established Arts Organizations. Will They Survive?

Reforms to Austin’s arts grants threaten to disrupt the city’s cultural ecosystem

"...Two years ago, the city of Austin’s Economic Development Department enacted a huge overhaul..."

Oct. 25, 2024 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Day at The Races.... One Hour at the Mixed Arts Panel Review Session

"...Jim Bob McMillan, chair of the Mixed Arts panel, carries folding chairs into the..."

May 28, 1999 Arts Feature

Arts Bullets

Physical Plant Theater's first Garden Party raised more than $8,000, Ann Hume Wilson has been appointed associate director of the Blanton Museum of Art, Blue Lapis Light is exhibiting – and auctioning off – bras and breastplates for angels, and the city unveils a new mural at the Pan Am / A.B. Cantu Recreation Center

"...expected: over $8,000, which will go toward its first official season. Next for the company: Wallace Shawn's one-man play..."

June 4, 2004 Arts Feature

Austin Arts Groups

A dozen culture providers have been very nice, according to the NEA

"...The National Endowment for the Arts has made its annual impersonation of St. Nick and..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

What's Austin's Creative Capacity?

Final results of city's survey of creatives to be reported on

"...Hey, you Austin creative types: Been complaining about the difficulties of making..."

Nov. 4, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

“Economic Censorship”: The Devastation of the NEA Grants Cut Grows

After Trump administration rule change, fears mount for future of arts

"...The head count of Austin arts organizations that found their finances wrecked by..."

May 7, 2025 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Live-Blogging the City Budget Adoption

Continuously updated blog of the budget adoption.

"...So here we are – about to start adoption of the final Fiscal Year 2007-08 Budget for the City..."

Sept. 10, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Shape of Things to Come

What will the arts in Austin look like in 10 years? CreateAustin has a good idea – in fact, it has 10.

"...but nobody does anything about it. At least, that's often how it feels in Austin, where folks seem to..."

March 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

The city takes feedback on its proposed improved cultural contracts system.

"...Citizens and local artists and arts groups got their first preview this week of the..."

Oct. 10, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

City Arts Funding

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

"...Each year Austin Jazz Workshop introduces some 35,000 kids to the music..."

April 9, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Why Venues Are Struggling to Stay Open in the Live Music Capital of the World

As Hot Summer Nights descends, Austin’s live music epicenter campaigns for city support

"...plays on the smaller indoor stage, and a couple of sly students use their tickets to the local show..."

July 12, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

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..."

Oct. 8, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

After Free Week, Red River Cultural District Requests City Funding

Stressing increased rents and insurance rates to the Music Commission

"...Nicole Klepadlo, Red River Cultural District interim executive director, spoke at the inaugural 2024..."

Jan. 9, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

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