City Announces Art Space Assistance Program

Art spaces with rising rents are eligible for rent stipends and tenant improvements

"...The city announced its new Art Space Assistance Program (ASAP) last Wed., June 21, to help..."

June 30, 2017 News Feature by Maria Mendez

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

"...Money is tight. Spaces are dark. Companies can't produce. The resources for performing..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Faster Than Sound: Cheer Up Charlies Booker Trish Connelly’s Thoughtful Curation

Community outpours support for booker’s multiple sclerosis treatment, city opens first for-profit venue assistance program, and Las Cruxes’ storefront shutters

"...uncertainties. Since then, she says the outpouring of financial assistance has prompted many happy tears...."

March 29, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

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

"...since Mayor Steve Adler named the lack of affordable space for artists a priority concern in his Austin Music..."

June 30, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Council Recap: COVID Relief Funds Begin to Flow in Austin

Artists and nonprofits at the front of the line for assistance

"...directed City Manager Spencer Cronk to use an existing program to deliver relief to a creative community reeling from..."

May 1, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Faster Than Sound: 12 Years of Peligrosa Drives ¡Eso Es!

Local DJ collective sets a mood at Margin Walker’s new fiesta-val of all Latinx talent

"...now rents a portion of Villamizar's North Austin studio space, originally built by Asleep at the Wheel leader Ray..."

Aug. 30, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound – Beerland & Beyond: The Year in Music News

Squeezing out the decade's end in local music headlines

"...in music around more profitable availability as an event space. Though still closed, a recent Free Week poster listed..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Getting Help for Art Venues ASAP

June 29 meeting tells artists how to tap $200K in space aid

"...In his 2016 Music & Creative Ecosystem Omnibus Resolution, Mayor Steve Adler called the lack..."

June 27, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Council Recap: Tip the Band, Skip the Pork Chop

Relief funds for artists, planning for fair and just mobility

"...that could serve as a virtual stage or exhibition space for local artists...."

April 24, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

Faster Than Sound: Empire Control Room Owners Purchase Longtime Location

Seventh Street venue takes charge of its live music destiny

"...creekside habitat encompasses two properties. The larger, outdoor Garage space is already owned by one of Sternschein's business partners,..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Islands in the (Live)stream

Crossing over from 3D to the pixelated world of livestreams

"...City Council created two sources of funding for creatives hit by COVID-19, totaling $2.5 million in relief. The..."

May 1, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Mayor's Omnibus Resolution: The Arts Commission Hustle

City group gets moving on policy plan for Austin creatives

"...Off Center reacted to the city staff's "Music and Creative Ecosystem Stabilization Recommendations" regarding the Mayor's Omnibus Resolution, and..."

Aug. 8, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Take It to the Next Level

The Cultural Arts Division revives its series of summer workshops for pro creatives

"...Last summer, Austinites who work in the creative sector had the opportunity to "take it to the..."

May 28, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Live Music Preservation Fund’s First Week, 79 Austin Venues Applied for Relief

The slow road to dedicated venue funding now moving fast

"...Friday, operators of 79 different venues have filed for assistance that could total up to $160,000 for each business...."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

More Galleries Going, Going, …

Pump Project, HOPE, Co-Lab DEMO forced to move in 2018

"...any arts organization in town, so once again, a creative hub with an established history of providing cultural benefits..."

Nov. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Considers Film Incentives

Localized subsidies proposed to fight off in-state competition

"...Development Department briefed council on their plans for a Creative Content Incentive Program as a way to keep that..."

April 22, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mayor's Omnibus Resolution: A Year Later

Twelve months after Mayor Steve Adler rolled out his plan to save live music and the arts, what's happened?

"...And so it was for the city's music and creative sectors. He had brought together members of the Music..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Governing Post-Boom Austin

Now that the lawsuits are over, we hope the council campaigns will turn to issues.

"...half the students in AISD qualify for federal nutrition programs. As high-tech jobs dry up, even if the industry..."

April 12, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...an additional $50 rebate. For more on the rebate program, visit www.cityofaustin.org/watercon/hetlist.htm. – W.D...."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature

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

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

"...tour, release music, pay for studio time and rehearsal spaces, fund and produce their own music videos, etc. Not..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Music Feature

Who You Gonna Call?

Small Texas towns look to Austin and Washington to jump-start economic development

"...ran through a long, withering gauntlet of government loan programs and came up short. "You wade so far out..."

Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

The Foundry Is Open

UT Fine Arts Library debuts a 21st century maker space

"...For most of history, libraries have been spaces for input: to read, to listen, to absorb information...."

Sept. 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Faster Than Sound: City of Austin Delays Venue Funding – Again

Live music venues have asked for dedicated COVID-19 relief since March, but the city says applications won't open until next year.

"...with businesses citywide under the Small Business Relief and Creative Space Disaster Relief programs. At the rally, ASC co-founder..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

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.

"...available to arts groups through the city's cultural contracts program, which rises and falls with the amount collected through..."

March 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Council Makes Time to Address Protest Fallout

The right to listen

"...to give demonstrators who faced police violence a safe space to speak out. "An emergency hearing in front of..."

June 5, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Land of 1,000 Dramas

Venues

"...its debut in 1994, the Planet has been a space where intrepid spectators can see drama in its nascence,..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Feature

East Austin Studio De-Tour

Homesteading artists face city code challenges – and raise old fears – in changing neighborhoods

"...courtyard from their home, Klinefelter and Chung share studio spaces. Chung, a potter, works in the front of the..."

July 15, 2011 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Take Three

Texas film incentives don't always carry sufficient funding

"...industry. After months of negotiations, marquee names from the creative arts and the political establishment gathered at Robert Rodriguez's..."

Oct. 30, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Engagement

UT's new Visual Arts Center connects its art department with the world

"...of the old University Art Museum/Huntington Gallery/first Blanton Museum space – is the natural light flooding it. No matter..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...to Jen's great influence on the quality of the program. Though most may not realize it, the presence of..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column

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