Cultural Shifts

The basic mechanism for funding artists will look the same, but the city of Austin's cultural contracts program will undergo some significant changes in structure

"...overall mechanism by which the city funds artists and cultural organizations will look much like it has in the..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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.

"...They are Austin's cultural heroes. They are individuals who have founded local arts..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

"...city that’s supposed to care a lot about the arts, it’s always been an oddity that there’s no unified..."

April 25, 2025 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

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

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

"...Economic Development Department enacted a huge overhaul of its arts grants program to create more opportunities for historically marginalized..."

Oct. 25, 2024 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2016

These inductees – Ballet Austin's Cookie Ruiz and Stephen Mills, and the Austin Symphony Orchestra's Peter Bay – are cultural heroes who lead by example

"...That the vitality of Austin's cultural scene is owed to its leaders – those artists,..."

May 6, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Cultural Contracts Timeline

"...All interested artists and organizations descend upon the Dougherty Arts Center for a briefing by Cultural Contracts staff about..."

March 26, 1999 Arts Feature

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

"...In 2007, Austin City Council created an African American Cultural Heritage District in East Austin, recognizing the home to..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Paint By Numbers

Racial Divides in Austin's Public Arts Funding

"...out money to a broad range of artists and arts organizations each year, mostly in very small amounts --..."

June 28, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

A Better Tomorrow

For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom, but with the city reviewing its Cultural Contracts Program, artists and arts companies talking with each other about collaborations and a shared vision of what the arts mean to Austin, there are glimmers of light on the city's arts funding horizon.

"...For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom. The..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The B&C List

"...Below is our subjective division of city boards and commissions into tiers, based on the degree to..."

Jan. 30, 2009 News Feature

Boards & Commissions

"...Here’s a list of 122 board and commission appointments made by City Council at the..."

Aug. 7, 2009 News Feature

Making It Happen

The 2007 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...make a contribution. This might be true for a cultural scene more than most, as so much of art..."

June 1, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Daily Hustle: 9/20/10

Unpacking items from council

"...20070412-015 to increase the number of Waller Creek Citizen Advisory Committee members. (Council Member Sheryl Cole Council Member Chris..."

Sept. 20, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Articulations

Mr. Arts Honored

"...the city's most ardent and influential patrons of the arts was recognized by the UT College of Fine Arts..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Arts Column

Bending the Rules

Getting arts funding from the City of Austin is a long, complicated game, and Austin Chronicle writers Robi Polgar, John Walch, and Mary Jane Garza have been following some of the players around the game board this year. In the final part of their four-part series, they critique the city arts funding process.

"...alive and keep players from flipping over the game board in utter frustration. As the City of Austin arts..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

The MACC: Back on Track, or Under Attack?

The city approves a new board for the Mexican-American Cultural Center -- and the center's previous shepherds cry foul.

"...Twenty years in the making, Austin's multimillion dollar Mexican-American Cultural Center is nearly under way; groundbreaking at the MACC's..."

Nov. 22, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

The Forest for the Trees

The Austin Arts Commission has never been a model of bureaucratic efficiency, but this year it seems to have become a big cliché in action, a body so focused on procedure and minutiae and the concerns of the moment that it can't see the forest for the trees. It's compounding the problems in Austin's profoundly flawed public arts funding system and demonstrating just how poorly that process serves not only the city's artists but all its citizens.

"...So it was when the Austin Arts Commission convened on Tuesday, May 30. The purpose of..."

July 6, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Speculation Surrounds the Cancellation of MACC Awards

Did choice of emcee lead to cancellation of annual Latino excellence awards?

"...The Mexican American Cultural Center's recent postponement of its annual excellence awards honoring..."

May 22, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

New Funding, New Era, New Stages for the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex

East Austin fixture will be an arts hub via Cultural Trust investment

"...first sites to benefit from the city of Austin’s Cultural Trust, and general manager Kim Wright believes that investment..."

March 28, 2023 Arts Post by Joelle DiPaolo

In Memoriam

Alfred King, one of Austin's greatest cultural benefactors and advocates, has died at age 89

"...One of the city's greatest cultural benefactors and advocates has died. Alfred King, of the..."

March 31, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culinary Studies

Cooking Schools in Austin

"...tilted; that world has changed in all its aspects. Cultural observers debate why it is so, but it is..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack

Protect and Preserve

How can we keep Austin's cultural heritage authentic?

"...an area that the city had declared an official "cultural district." A fair amount of hoopla surrounded the designation..."

July 24, 2015 News Feature by Cindy Widner

Nov. 6 Elections: The 'Chronicle' Endorsements

"...The Chronicle editorial board (consisting of the News staff and Publisher Nick Barbaro)..."

Oct. 19, 2012 News Feature

Articulations

"...Wanted: Cultural Czar..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Postmarks

"...a billion dollars' worth of proposals from city departments, boards and commissions, citizens, and council members. Many worthwhile projects..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Column

Articulations

Getting Online With Art

"...continues to be a vital presence in the Austin arts scene. The evidence may be seen this week, when..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Arts Column

Council: Save the Coyotes!

A morning on wild, wild life, an afternoon on workers’ rights

"...it turned out, was that members of the Animal Advisory Commission objected altogether to renewing a relationship with TWS,..."

Oct. 10, 2016 News Post by Michael King

All Over Creation: Site Specifics

Fusebox Festival helps the community envision a new kind of development with thinkEAST

"...company and its partners – the owners/developers, the city's Cultural Arts Division, and entrepreneur Fred Schmidt – launched their..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, Jan. 14-21

"..."Conjuring the Radical Dr. King.") 8:30pm. Orun Center of Cultural Arts, 1401-B Cedar. $5. www.projectabundantlife.org...."

Jan. 15, 2010 News Feature

Public Notice: Strange Bedfellows

Does ridesharing work for Austin?

"...figuring that if they can get gullible folks on board for this one ostensibly progressive libertarian cause, they can..."

April 1, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

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