January 22, 2011 - "I Art Congress" Launching Feb. 10th (cont.)
Paul Ha - Director of Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis - will speak in the Community Room at Arthouse, starting at 7 p.m. Austin Details Art + Photo opens
"The Tiny Show: Tiny Art for Big Hearts," with
original art, entertainment, and sweets to sample.
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Numerous other galleries
and businesses will offer special exhibits, samplings, and
special events during the evening. The monthly "I Art Congress"
events are designed to showcase Congress Avenue in a fun,
participatory, easy, and consolidated way - so that people can
discover the broad variety of arts, entertainment, dining,
shopping, and nightlife that have emerged along the downtown
main street. For more information and complete calendar
of events, visit www.IArtCongress.com. Continued
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(Images courtesy Austin CVB)
January 18, 2011 - “The Ancestor and The Archive” at Women and
Their Work
To launch the new Women and Their Work exhibit "The epic crossings of an
Ife head" by Wura-Natasha
Ogunji - featuring paintings and
videos based on performances by the artist - Ogunji and an
amazing group of guest artists will offer an evening of live
performances on Thursday, January 20th. Entitled "The Ancestor and The
Archive," the free
performances begin at 7 p.m. at the
downtown art gallery.
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The seven short
performances - each four to eight minutes in length - feature
Ogunji and artist Amanda Johnston, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Annelize Machado,
Nicole Vlado,
Matt Richardson, and kt shorb. Following the
performances, a lively discussion will explore the ways that
the artists create, re-create and shift cosmologies - making
experimental works that embody the traditional and
non-traditional alike.
The conversation will
also address creative practices and the deep attention each
artist gives to personal and collective histories and ancestral
legacies. The event is free, but, seating is limited.
In her exhibit
running through February 17th, Ogunji uses her body to explore
her connections to place, land, history and memory. In
her performance videos and paintings, she portrays the journey
of a Nigerian Ife head artifact who longs for her descendents
in the Americas.
Women and Their Work is
located at 1710 Lavaca. For more information and gallery
hours, call (512) 477-1064 or visit www.WomenAndTheirWork.org.
(Detail from "My father and I dance
in outer space" by Wura-Natasha Ogunji, 2010;
photo courtesy Women and Their
Work)
January 2, 2011 - 2011 "That Takes The Cake!" Sugar Art
Show and Cake Competition
The 2011 "That Takes The Cake!" Sugar Art
Show and Cake Competition will
return to Austin on February 26th and 27th, and this year's
event will include a new on-site cake-building contest all day
on February 26th. Visitors to the show can see cake
decorating experts who have been seen on TLC's "Cake Boss: The Next
Great Baker" compete in a day-long event to make huge,
showpiece-style cakes in keeping with the show's 2011 theme:
"Caked Crusaders: Super Heroes and
Super Villains."
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Austin's own Brian Stevens of Crazy Cakes was featured on the TLC television series and
will one of the decorators participating in the contest.
Stevens won second place in last year's showcake
competition with a cake sculpted to look like Gollum - from the
feature film Lord of the Rings - sitting atop a rock.
Tickets for the show
- which include the contests, vendor hall, demonstrations, and
displays of all the entries - are $8 per day or $14 for a
weekend pass when purchased online in advance. Children
18 and under are free.
Proceeds from the
annual event benefit Capital
Confectioners to provide
scholarships for local culinary students. For more
information, visit www.ThatTakesTheCake.org.
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