Plans for MACC Renovation Underway

Concepts for redesign should be released in September

"...S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, known as the MACC, with a public input meeting on Saturday (June 17)...."

June 20, 2017 News Post by Maria Mendez

MACC Gets Parkland Status

Special-called Council meeting hashes out an agreement between MACC and developer

"...the site will be earmarked for updating the 15-year-old MACC master plan...."

Aug. 28, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

Tracking the MACC

A Brief History of Austin's Latino Cultural Center

"...beauty that it represents, the Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC)...."

June 12, 1998 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

MACC Mommy

Managing the busy new Mexican American Cultural Center is inspiring work for Amparo Garcia-Crow

"...on the north side of Lady Bird Lake, the MACC was recently the site for a tribute to Austin-based..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Can MACC and 70 Rainey Coexist?

Will the development of the Rainey Street District squeeze the MACC?

"...not only on commercial encroachment, but fears that the MACC's very existence might be in jeopardy, given the lack..."

April 24, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

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.

"...Cultural Center is nearly under way; groundbreaking at the MACC's Town Lake site is planned for February. The cast..."

Nov. 22, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Then There's This: MACC Attack Averted?

Council to settle whether to sell or keep Rainey Street tract

"...the land-sale proposal and incorporating the property into the MACC's three-phase master plan, with a more immediate eye toward..."

Oct. 12, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Does MACC put Town Lake Residents at Risk?

The proposed Mexican-American Cultural Center may block fire access to the adjacent Villas on Town Lake.

"...for December. Despite the inevitable traffic and visitors the MACC will attract to their corner of downtown, many residents..."

May 30, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

70 Rainey Ends Talks With MACC Board

Rescinds proposal

"...officially broken down. An agenda item at the last MACC board meeting on May 6 had been inserted to..."

May 15, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

Dueling Dreams For The MACC

"...Center actually be? Ask six different backers of the MACC, and you may get six different answers:..."

Sept. 4, 1998 News Feature

Speculation Surrounds the Cancellation of MACC Awards

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

"...The MACC's advisory board in early May abruptly postponed the event..."

May 22, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

Day of the Dead at the ESB-MACC

Sam Coronado remembered as part of this year's festivities

"...Nov. 1. Before you pay a visit to the ESB-MACC and join the celebration, if you want to learn..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

A Brief History of the MACC

"...city set aside 6 acres of land for the MACC on the north shore of Lady Bird Lake. That..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

"Hector Carmona Miranda: Concrete, Plastic & Metal"

Sometimes you want more from the artist's 3-D printed busts and photographs of same, and sometimes you get it

"..."Hector Carmona Miranda: Concrete, Plastic & Metal" at the MACC Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River..."

March 17, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

“Pio Pulido: The Last Exhibit of the 20th Century” at the MACC

This retrospective is like visiting an artist’s crowded studio and yet provides just a glimpse of this visionary’s output

Sept. 1, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Pyramid of Dreams

What Is the MACC?

"...political theatre effectively obscures the vital question about the MACC, which is, "What is it?" Such a simple question..."

Sept. 4, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Postmarks

"...presentation of the story's sidebar "Dueling Dreams for the MACC," where the reporter began: "Just what would a Mexican..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Column

CinemaTexas5

International Short Film and Video Festival Schedule

"...11am-1pm, Craig Baldwin, Center for Mexican American Cultural Arts (MACC)..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Screens Feature

A Change of Scenery

What It Looks Like

"...forget -- the newly approved, as-yet-unbuilt Mexican-American Cultural Center (MACC). And across the street, of course, is the Convention..."

July 16, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Mexican American Cultural Center Prepares for Phase 2 of Its Long-Term Renovations

Staff members prepare to move out as MACC gets a facelift

"...tents full of food, art, and activities on the MACC lawn. There were also panel discussions on the history..."

Oct. 5, 2022 Arts Post by Ali Juell

Council Notes

Council considers toll study and Mexican-American Cultural Center

"...as a skatepark, is the only part of the MACC that exists so far, even though $10.9 million in..."

Oct. 21, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Committee Punts on 64 Rainey Street

City Council will likely take up the Rainey Street project debate in early August

"...64 Rainey (currently a vacant part of the future MACC complex) as a staging area for two years, in..."

July 10, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...We all pay for bad decision making. The MACC's plans to deliberately yet unintentionally remove fire emergency access..."

June 6, 2003 Column

Mexican American Cultural Center Finalizes Phase 2 of Renovations

Fall 2025 reopening is still on track

"...The MACC’s concept was developed in the early 1970s when several..."

March 14, 2025 News Feature by Mattea Gallaway

Naked City

"...money to close down the plant, and move the MACC to ... the Holly Power Plant site. (Two Holly..."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Meat of the Matter

The best of the 26th annual Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival

"...the fair Downtown. The facilities and grounds of the MACC on the shores of Lady Bird Lake will host..."

April 1, 2011 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Keeping Pace, Culturally

Proposition 4 calls for an investment in cultural facilities for the city, and, Austin, it's time

"...a 134-seat theatre, opened in February 2005, but the MACC, which was slated to open around the same time,..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Come On Down

"...the future site of the Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC). A developer-neighborhood faction led by downtown regulars Perry Lorenz..."

July 2, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Headlines

"...MACC a Park: 64 Rainey St. – and the whole..."

Aug. 28, 2015 News Feature

Council: Time for Some Halloween Horrors

Featuring The Unholy Return of the Short-Term Rentals Ordinance

"...to develop plans for incorporating the property into the MACC's master plan. (Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole along with..."

Oct. 19, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

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