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Sunday, June 12
ARTventures are an opportunity for convention participants to explore the surrounding Austin community. Experience area neighborhoods through guided tours and learn how different communities are using the arts to improve the quality of life for their residents and visitors.
The International Festival-Institute at Round Top
Concert pianist James Dick established the International Festival-Institute—a 200-acre campus and organization to operate one of the major U.S. music festivals—in historic Round Top, TX, in 1971. The International Festival-Institute offers intensive training for young musicians transitioning from conservatories and universities to a professional career. The afternoon will include a tour of the facility and a glimpse of its summer program. This ARTventure includes a one-and-a-half hour walking tour.
East Austin Stories
East Austin Stories is a collaboration among University of Texas film students and community residents, businesspeople, patrons, and passers-by in East Austin. The stories are a personal and community resource for people living in and around Austin. The students look for people and places with stories, craft them into video, and then present them. We will visit locations in East Austin that have been featured in the videos, then travel to the Santa Cruz Cultural Center to meet several of the filmmakers and view their work.
Texas Hill Country Winery Tour
Wine is not new to Texas. It has been part of the state’s heritage since 1662 and today is a strong contributor to the economy of Texas, with more than 40 wineries and 200 commercial vineyards producing an economic benefit of over $100 million. We will visit Driftwood Vineyards, McReynolds Winery, and Spicewood Vineyards. At Spicewood, we will take a brief walking tour of the vineyard, see the winemaking operation, and sample the wines. The vineyard is also the venue for year-round performances by the Spicewood Arts Society and regular gallery exhibitions.
East Austin Studio Tour
The East Austin Studio Tour (E.A.S.T.) is an artist-created and artist-run initiative that encourages creative dialogue between artists and their peers, as well as between artists and their city. At its inception, the event was a one-day tour that included 28 galleries and studios and showcased 50 artists’ work. Now, only two seasons later, E.A.S.T. has expanded into a two-day event, with nearly twice as many participating galleries and studios and more than 70 artists. Participants will visit eight artists’ studios and enjoy many surprises along the way.
University of Texas Treasures
The University of Texas at Austin’s museums, libraries, and research facilities offer some of the world’s greatest collections of artifacts, art, manuscripts, photographs, musical recordings, and historical documents. The first stop will be The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, followed by the Harry Ransom Center, which houses 36 million literary manuscripts, one million rare books, five million photographs, and more than 100,000 works of art. Highlights include the Gutenberg Bible (c. 1455), the world’s first photograph (c. 1826), paintings by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and major manuscript collections of Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams. Cap off the afternoon with a “hard hat” tour of the future home of the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, scheduled to open in 2006.
A Taste of Austin’s Music Scene
Having showcased artists from Willie Nelson to Sheryl Crow since its premiere in 1976, Austin City Limits champions performers who display exceptional musical and songwriting talents. The results are unpretentious and engaging performances by musicians who appreciate the intimate concert setting and straightforward style. We will begin with a visit to Austin’s PBS television affiliate, where Austin City Limits presents the best of America’s music. The tour will then change tracks and travel across town to the Austin Lyric Opera campus, where we’ll visit the Armstrong Community Music School, one of the first community music schools in Texas and the first ever to be inaugurated by an opera company. The afternoon will end with a performance at The Elephant Room, one of Austin’s famed entertainment venues offering “cool jazz in the basement since 1991.” This ARTventure includes two one-hour walking tours.
Art and Nature—Austin Style
The afternoon will begin with a visit to Austin Museum of Art Laguna Gloria, a unique resource that combines art, education, nature, and history. We will then visit the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, which contains more than 130 works by the late Austin sculptor Charles Umlauf. Nature lovers will enjoy visiting the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center, a botanical garden dedicated to native plants. The final stop will be The Oasis—the sunset capital of Texas. Located 450 feet above Lake Travis, The Oasis offers breathtaking views of the Texas Hill Country and spectacular sunsets that can be enjoyed from one of the 40 plus outdoor decks or inside dining rooms. This ARTventure includes two one-hour walking tours.
Keep Austin Weird Tour
Discover some of the secrets that make Austin unique and weird through “collaborative fission of coordinated individualism.” Participants may have their picture taken with perennial mayoral candidate Leslie Cochran or Lizardman in front of the Hard Rock Café on Austin’s famed 6th Street. Other stops include the Cathedral of Junk, Polka Dot Lawn, Mr. Pool’s house on East Martin Luther King, and Casa Neverlandia. The final stop will be Carousel Lounge—with its circus cartoon decor, great music and weekly magic tricks, now that’s a bar! This Keep Austin Weird ARTventure includes numerous walking tours.
A Literary Feast
Each year, various surveys name Austin one of the most livable cities in the United States. “The Live Music Capitol of the World” is also a thriving community of visual, theater, cinema, and literary artists. We will get a sense of the literary community by visiting the O. Henry Museum, which offers a look into the life of William Sidney Porter. We will then visit two writers’ studios, where we will be treated to readings and visit with the authors. The final stop on the afternoon tour will be Book People, the largest independent bookseller in Texas, an outpost for the literate, a refuge for the contemplative, a place where it is still possible to find a good book and someone irreverent with whom to discuss it.
Print Press Tour
The tour will kick off with a visit to Coronado Studio, home of the Serie Print Project, where we will observe and participate in the printing process. The studio was opened in 1991 by Sam Coronado, with the hope that devoting the space to serigraph (silk screen) printmaking would make the technique more readily available and attract more Latino artists to the medium. Our second stop will be Flatbed World Headquarters, an 18,000-square-foot warehouse that was redeveloped in 1999 as a community center for creative professionals. Flatbed Press is a publishing workshop that collaborates with artists to produce limited editions of original etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, and monoprints, and offers an opportunity for artists to work in the shop at modest day rates.
