Qmmunity: A Creative Storm Front

Front Festival hits Austin with a storm of great creative showcases over Labor Day weekend

"...A storm front is moving in: a creative storm front, that is. (Sorry to all those hoping..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Column by James Scott

Let AFS Help Fund Your Film

Annual grant cycle for independent Texas filmmakers opens

"...applications for features in production, it's added a special fund specifically to help keep filmmakers afloat...."

May 6, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Frameworks EAST Fund

Using microloans to help Eastside artists get their studios up to code

"...months after a rash of complaints about these live/work spaces possibly violating city code. The upshot is that some..."

June 24, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Faster Than Sound: It’s Now or Never for a Music Venue Preservation Fund

When will the city of Austin give music venues aid to preserve their so-called ‘Live Music Capital’?

"...Townsend. Adding to the toll on South by Southwest spaces, pool hall Buffalo Billiards announced closure on Monday...."

Sept. 25, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Developing Stories: Great Public Spaces Summit

Dancing in the streets, singing odes to streetscapes

"...it's time to provide properly for great public urban spaces, as well as natural green spaces...."

July 10, 2009 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Faster Than Sound: Should the Live Music Fund Go to Musicians or Venues?

While eligibility is worked out, Music Commission nails down “PIE” equity plan

"...music venues should be eligible for a long-discussed city fund, currently drafted to benefit independent promoters and musicians to..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Planted Brings Vegan Food to Austin's Non-Vegan Spaces

Britty Hamby pushes for access to plant-based cuisine and builds a food community

"...Vegans umbrella. The goals: bring vegan food into non-vegan spaces, help local restaurants increase sales by packing the restaurant..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Food Feature by Alisha McDarris

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

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

Faster Than Sound: Unlocking Oblivion Access

Leaving the Austin Terror Fest title behind, Oblivion Access partners Dusty Brooks and Dorian Domi reach for new horizons

"...for years as Wounded Earth Booking, make an odd creative pair. The two connected contentiously in 2017 when Domi..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: R&B Innovator Nayome Gets Personal

Sade-loving local Naomi Sutton previews sophomore EP, Latin music enters Live Music Fund conversation, and more music news.

"...majority production on Aug. 18 EP Personal fuels a creative expansion of Sutton's alluring R&B sound...."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Little Big Plan

The Austin Creative Alliance proves it can think big by thinking small

"...serving on the board of directors of the Austin Creative Alliance, an agency that aspires to nothing less than..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

What Hole in the Wall's Freshly Inked 20-Year Lease Means for Other At-Risk Venues

The Iconic Venue Fund plans to dish out more aid, but needs time, additional funds

"...$1.6 million in aid from the city's Iconic Venue Fund. Founded in December 2020 as a joint undertaking between..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Music Feature by Genevieve Wood

Setting the Stage

Austin's art scene spent 2012 prepping for the big things to come

"...a $1 million private gift to establish the Austin Creative Classroom Fund, both aimed at providing an arts-rich education..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Faster Than Sound: HAAM Day Fundraises Onscreen

The Health Alliance for Austin Musicians’ biggest fundraising day of the year goes online

"...Collins immediately feared for HAAM Day. Their top annual fundraiser, which normally takes in donations at 200 shows across..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

"Historic" Spending on Homelessness in New City Budget

FY 2020 plan calls for maximum tax rate to beat revenue caps

"...help of $15.3 million in one-time expenditures, using the funds garnered by setting the property tax rate to achieve..."

Aug. 5, 2019 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison

City Council to Vote on SAVES Resolution on October 1

Good Work Austin offers amendments to help save restaurants and bars

"...As many of the businesses and spaces that make Austin a creative capitol – restaurants, bars,..."

Oct. 1, 2020 News Post by Jessi Cape

AFS Grants Announced

$115,000 awarded to filmmakers

"...recipients of AFS Grants (formerly the Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund) and Travel Grants have been announced today...."

Sept. 2, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Protect and Preserve

How can we keep Austin's cultural heritage authentic?

"...City Council approved in 2007, was to create and fund the African American Cultural Heritage District in Central East..."

July 24, 2015 News Feature by Cindy Widner

Faster Than Sound: Recapping the Year SXSW Got Canceled

Venue closures, fundraising, and industry layoffs headlined Austin music's difficult 2020

"...held for only a few days before most music spaces announced shuttering and local orders closed all bars. Many..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

To Expand the Convention Center or Not?

Despite unanimous support from City Council, voters will decide the answer

"...and national gatherings, but would also create new public spaces for Austinites within a more pedestrian-friendly and inviting urban..."

July 19, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

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.

"...spark some of the most fiercely divisive struggles over funding that the arts community has ever seen...."

March 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

TK Tunchez, Space Creatress

With mercados such as Frida Fridays, this artist and jewelry maker makes room for women of color to share art and build community

"...to be a woman of color in mostly white spaces. The pop-up markets here were usually expensive to attend,..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Arts Feature by Leticia Urieta

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

Faster Than Sound: KUT/KUTX Will No Longer Manage the Cactus Cafe

University station terminates "disheartening" negotiations and Spider House Ballroom changes ownership.

"...agreement, as well as increased use of larger university spaces like the Union Ballroom and Hogg Auditorium...."

May 28, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: City Funding for Music Venues Still MIA

Live Music Capital flagships await aid as costs pile up.

"...should be making a larger effort to make disaster funding for venues, and I don't see that."..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Could Austin Arts & Music Finally Get a Cultural Trust?

It's not here yet, but talks are intensifying. Also, bars and a few live music venues reopen.

"...to buy up venues, preserve them, and acquire new spaces. Creation of an economic development corporation (EDC) will help..."

May 29, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Postmarks

Cars the Issue, Not Parking

"..."more students are getting squeezed out of valuable parking spaces" and that there is an "ever-growing population of commuting..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Column

Bob Bursey Takes Over Texas Performing Arts

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

"...of new work, and started a $5 student ticket fund...."

Sept. 3, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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

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