Austin Visual Arts Association: Thrilled to be hitting the big 3-0

The Austin Visual Arts Association is celebrating its 30th anniversary in high style, with a pair of exhibitions and a big reunion party for local artists

"...Austin has its share of venerable arts organizations. The Austin..."

June 15, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Austin Visual Arts Awards

A new setting but similar sentiments at the second round of the art honors

"...For the sophomore presentation of the Austin Visual Arts Awards, the setting was changed, but the..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Austin Visual Arts Awards

A new set of honors for the city's hardworking painters, sculptors, and other artists

"...have the B. Iden Payne Awards for theatre, the Austin Improv Collective awards, the Austin Fashion Awards, the American..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arts Awards

Area visual artists win support for 2012 projects

"...Four area visual-arts projects have just won grants from the Idea Fund,..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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..."

May 6, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Your Guide to Austin Museum Day

Discover Austin-area museums Sunday, Sept. 22, for free!

"...Since 1998, the Austin Museum Partnership has coordinated Austin Museum Day, a free..."

Sept. 18, 2019 Chron Events Post

Now Showing: The Contemporary Austin

Museum bids adios to AMOA-Arthouse, unveils new identity

"...As of today, the visual arts institution born of the merger between Arthouse and..."

July 18, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

How $50,000 Is Shaking Up Austin's Black Artists Buried Treasure

"...funds lies in wait. Already ear-marked for the African-American arts community, it feels like an elusive miracle cure for..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Arts Feature by Danielle McClelland

Austin Creative Alliance

After a decade of leading the arts service organization, Latifah Taormina retires

"...but as for the first? Well, running the former Austin Circle of Theaters wasn't anywhere close to being just..."

April 29, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arts & Entertainment

"...and even tagged it as a benefit for the Austin Clean Water Action Fund. A fourth Aquatica outing is..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Best of Austin Feature

Your Queer Guide to Austin

A crash course on the city's LGBTQ parties, prides, and resources

"...Austin is a city known for many things: bats, music,..."

Sept. 5, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

First Night Austin

First Night Austin gets ready to ring out the old year in a big way, with a cultural extravaganza on a scale the city has never before seen

"...This year, Austin, get ready to ring out the old year in..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Want More Arts Space?

Take 10 minutes and fill out the Artspace Market Survey

"...If you believe that Austin doesn't have enough spaces where visual artists, actors, musicians,..."

Jan. 7, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Music Industry Award Winners Announced

Best radio station, record store, club, music writer, and more honored

"...While not as much hoopla as this Wednesday's Austin Music Awards, the Industry Awards go to the clubs,..."

Feb. 25, 2018 Music Post by James Renovitch

A Big Word With a Small "A"

Sue Graze leads an organization that works to bring the visual arts to the entire Lone Star State. She talks with Rebecca Cohen about her first year directing the Texas Fine Arts Association.

"...with Sue Graze, executive director of the Texas Fine Arts Association (TFAA). We met at the Jones Center for..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

When Worlds Collude

Two forward-thinking arts festivals make the most of sharing the same weekend

"...A couple of inconvenient truths about Austin: 1) Festivals bloom here like bluebonnets in springtime, and..."

April 23, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

More Galleries Going, Going, …

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

"...The East Austin Studio Tour is intended to be a celebration of..."

Nov. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Making It Happen

The 2007 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...cultural community must be people whose conviction in the arts, in their deep value to life and society, is..."

June 1, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Real Estate and Perfect Mates

The year 2000 in the Austin arts, with Top 10 lists by Chronicle Arts critics and their picks for stories and personalities of the year.

"...He might have been writing the story of the Austin arts scene in the year 2000. For our cultural..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Supper Club Gives Artists of Color Important Space to Be Seen and Heard

Elia Alba’s multifaceted project at the UT Visual Arts Center

"...of an individual contemporary artist and made employing the visual language and style of fashion photography. (Alba's inspiration was..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Game-Changers

The 2009 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame

"...That Austin's creative scene is among the liveliest and most watched..."

May 29, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Never Say Die!

Austin's arts scene plays 'the comeback kid' in 2004

"...since act one. And that's pretty much where the Austin arts scene was at the end of 2003. Beaten..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Future Is Here

In 2007, that distant tomorrow when Austin's arts dreams would be realized finally arrived

"...in the day when the city gets its own performing-arts center, the day when a Downtown museum gets built,..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Our Shostakovich Year

On the centenary of Dmitri Shostakovich's birth, Austin arts groups join forces to throw the Russian composer a yearlong party

"...least. In a cultural collaboration that's unprecedented locally, 15 Austin arts organizations have joined forces to commemorate Shostakovich's 100th..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Day of the Dead at the ESB-MACC

Sam Coronado remembered as part of this year's festivities

"...believe that it's almost a year since we lost Austin's patron saint of printmaking, Sam Coronado. He died from..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

More Art for Laguna Gloria

The Contemporary Austin gets $9 million for sculpture park

"...Seventy years after philanthropist Clara Driscoll donated her Lake Austin estate to the Texas Fine Arts Association to be..."

Sept. 12, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Positively Operatic

The Year in Austin Culture

"...itself for big changes to come after December 31, Austin's arts community was already in the thick of them...."

Jan. 7, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Getting Online With Art

"...good friends in Artists' Legal & Accounting Assistance of Austin. This Saturday, January 18, ALAA presents "Art in Cyberspace,"..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Arts Column

Articulations

IRS OKs G&S @ CCP

"...the Internal Revenue Service put the fate of the Austin Gilbert & Sullivan Society's Gala All-Star Revue -- scheduled..."

Dec. 13, 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.

"...game board in utter frustration. As the City of Austin arts funding system -- formally known as the Cultural..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

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