Tax Free Day in our GiftShop this Thursday

Tax Free Day in our GiftShop is this Thursday.


Shop tax free all day long 10am – 8pm Nov. 19th. The GiftShop doubles in size for the Holidays holding twice the gifts for your shopping pleasure. Women and Their Work members will receive an additional 10% discount. Come visit the GiftShop, and you’ll get to see our new exhibit “My Wicked Twisted Sense of Love”. Women & Their Work

Art with Heart Benefit Party

Come to Empower Art’s first annual Art with Heart Benefit Party.

Proceeds will help Empower Art provide counseling and art workshops to adolescent survivors of family and sexual abuse.

Where: US Art Authority
2908 Fruth Street (next to Spider House)
Austin, TX 78751
When: Tuesday, November 10
7:00PM to 9:30PM

Music by CIPHER , The Patches,
 & DJ Miguel Angel
Eat, Drink, &  Dance !
Orginal Artwork  & Silent Auction
Tickets $15 in advance & for students.
$20 at the door.

For more information:
www.empowerart.org
or Laramie Gorbett 323 219 -5689

Architecture & Desire panel Nov. 5th, 7pm

panel talk held at Women and Their Work

LBD

I was just turned onto the Uniform Project by Sheena Matheiken. It’s a pretty cool sustainable fashion concept. It reminds me of one of my favorite artists, Andrea Zittel’s Seasonal Uniform project. Check these artful fashions out!

Sheena Matheiken

Andrea Zittel on Art:21

Some Like It... Red Hot Red Dot

Don’t miss your chance to collect some of the best contemporary art being created today by more than 200 artists for $500 or less. On Thursday, September 17th, we’ll open our doors for an evening of art, spectacle, and a magnificent silent auction.

You can purchase tickets online at Women & Their Work

Women & Their Work awarded NEA Stimulus grant!

We are very proud to receive this American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding from the NEA. This one time grant will be used to continue our current Education Programs. Congratulations Erika Shamaly at Motion Media and to the other grant writers. Thanks Vincent Kitsch for this nice mention in the COA AIPP Newsletter today…

Greetings,

I want to begin with an important announcement regarding the Cultural Funding Program. We have been notified by the NEA that the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division will not receive any American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding. Therefore, we will not be able to distribute any sub-granting funds for special salary support as we had hoped.
 
I do have some good news to report, though; four cultural contractors have been awarded stimulus grants from the NEA: Center for Women and Their Work, Motion Media Arts, Rude Mechanicals, and Texas Folklife Resources. To those groups I offer congratulations, and we are glad you were able to take advantage of this one-time federal funding!
 
I would also like to extend congratulations to the Art in Public Places Program. Last month, two Austin AIPP projects were recognized for excellence at the Americans for the Arts Convention by the Public Art Network. Grotto Wall at Sparky Park by Berthold Haas and Letterscape by Jimmy Luu were chosen out of more than 300 entries from across the country. You may or may not know that Austin was the first city in Texas to establish a public art ordinance over 20 years ago, and we are still leading the way with innovative and exemplary public art works.
 
Sincerely,
Vincent E. Kitch
Cultural Arts Program Manager
City of Austin