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Arts in Austin Fall 2022 Contents

- Top 5 Music Clubs in Austin

- The Gallery Walk

- The Stage of Austin

- Theatre Through the Venues

- The Vision of Art

Meet The Awesome Editors

Some interesting stuff about the creators of this magazine

Kaylum Truong is one of the five writers for our magazine and is currently a freshman at LASA highschool. He has many interests but one of them is coding. For his ezine feature story, he decided to focus on Austin art museums and their budgets. Which highlights art museums in Austin, Texas and how they spend their money. An interesting fact about Kaylum is that he has grass phobia. The fear of touching grass. Another fact that he wants everyone to know is that he has no life. He is also currently looking for a girlfriend, and he is very attractive. ;)

Jonas is outgoing and excited; he loves usual arts and baking. He likes to look into small Austin actors because he is inspired to be one someday. For this magazine he is going to book in-depth into the life of a daily Austin actor. Also, he is a kind person and does a good deed at every turn.

Kaylum Truong

Jo- nas Klumpp

Amritha Ramkumar is a freshman who attends LASA high school. She wants to write about Visual Arts in Austin, specifically murals. In her free time, Amritha likes to draw, paint, and bake. After college, she would like to pursue something business related, maybe architecture.

Simon Bailey Neild is a freshman at LASA, and is one of the five writers for our magazine. He takes pleasure in writing about murals and galleries. Outside of writing in our magazine, he enjoys baking, writing, swimming, and playing Ultimate Frisbee. People should understand that the weirdest part of Simon’s life is the fact that he is Simon. He also says that Hollywood is, “an absolute hole of posturing and [a] really interestingly bad scam.”

Jack Nguyen is a freshman at LASA. He is interested in music, so he decided to make it the main focus of his article. He will be writing about “A Day in the Life of an Austin Musician”, which is focused on a musician and what their average work day looks like. He would also like to write about the pros and cons of being a musician. Outside of school, Jack likes to read and to hang out with his friends. After graduating, he would like to follow a business path and start his own company.

Amirtha Ramkumar

Simon Neild

Jack Nguyen

Artists of Austin: Art in a Growing City

By: Amritha Ramkumar

You walk out onto the streets of Austin, and you look around. There are many tall, gray buildings surrounding you, all of them blending together. As you walk further towards them, you notice a bright pop in the distance. When you get closer, the colors form into shapes, and the mural in front of you astonishes you. The lines flow together in harmony, depicting the city of Austin by showing key elements of it and its values. You look at the mural

to notice all the small details. The minuscule spots and close elements that make up the entire painting cause you to wonder how long they took to make or who may have made the piece. Maybe they put a part of themselves into the artwork, leaving not only a marking or a signature, but also a fragment of their minds.

Austin, like many other cities, has been growing tremendously for years. With this expansion, the city has gained

an abundance of vibrant murals and street art works. These pieces have made Austin’s buildings more colorful, and added more spirit into peoples’ lives. More importantly, the artists behind the work have stayed committed to creating and fixing murals to make them accessible for all to see. These murals can evoke emotions within the viewers, making their days a little brighter, or leaving them questioning the deeper meanings behind the murals.

Courtesy of Mike Johnston

The muralists in Austin also enjoy contributing to the city. Whether it’s a commission, promotion, or graffiti, creators use these artworks to express themselves boldly in a large city. Dating back to the 1950’s and expanding into the future, these murals have had a big impact on Austin as a community. They bring people together, share ideas globally, and create beauty in urbanization that would otherwise look bland. They light up busy offices and turn the city into an open art gallery for both residents and visitors to experience.

Mike Johnston is a mural artist in Austin. He has worked in the art industry for 8 years, with clients including Spotify, Nike, Alamo Cinema, and even the NFL. He enjoys using vibrant colors and painting hiphop inspired murals.

“It’s such a creative city,” Johnston said. “I’m really grateful to this city for that, for being so supportive, and allowing [me] to do what I do.”

Along with Johnston, many other artists thank Austin for its rich art community and close network of artists. By having this foundation of Austin arts, many artists are able to gain a large following and be successful, gaining recognition from celebrities and famous brands. This is crucial for artists, since some of them are full time artists.

However, it can be difficult to gain a following. Many artists spend months, and even years working hard to create something worthy of the spotlight. They put tons of effort and time into their work, only

for it to be rejected or considered weird.

Johnston shared that he didn’t think it was possible to be an artist, so he settled down as an art teacher for 12 years. After finally gaining the confidence, he took a leap of faith and decided to be a full time artist.

“Then it felt I could do [it], I could make a full-time living,” Johnston explains. The pressure to make artwork that is likable enough for viewers is an issue artists usually face. Being an

artist can be a risky career, in the sense that their followings can expand incredibly fast, or stay the same for long periods of time.

Another issue many artists face is their commitment to the arts. Most artists don’t have supportive backgrounds when it comes to the arts. This is due to the stigma surrounding creative careers, where people think that they are impractical or unstable careers to have. The confidence to become an artist can take months, or even years to achieve. However, if people gain this confidence, they can end up being very successful artists and creators.

However, other artists aren’t full time self-employed artists. Chris Smith is a muralist, 3D animator, and artist,who makes graffiti in his free time. He’s always been passionate about the arts, even from a very young age.

“I’ve been doing art since I was a kid, basically always … drawing, sketching, and stuff like that,” Smith shares.

“

I think there’s always gonna be people that Like your stuff, and there will always be people that maybe just don’t Like it or they just don’t care. ”

- Mike Johnston

Courtesy of Mike Johnston

He took his passionate love for art and turned it into two careers, instead of simply being a full-time artist. This allows him to have a stable salary as a 3D animator, and also have a job off to the side for when he has free time.

Throughout all of the challenges these artists have been through, they gained immense knowledge about being an artist that can be used as advice for aspiring artists. Mike Johnston shares one of his most important pieces of advice, which is to be open to experimenting with new things and to not be afraid to fail. “The only way you get better is by trying,” Johnston encourages.

After these artists overcome the challenges they face, they are able to have a stable career in the arts. Chris Smith goes into more details about what it’s like to be an Austin artist, and what a day in his life looks like when he’s working on a mural. It takes a lot of commitment to finish an outdoor, large-scale artwork by a deadline.

“[I] try to get there early and then have my stuff, you know, whatever I need in my case. I do murals with spray cans. And so I have all my equipment, my ladder and stuff. I get it going, and then usually I’ll start sketching out the thing on the wall and then get going. Usually it takes me a full day or two days depending on the detail and the mural,” Smith shares. On days when he works on murals, he spends all day working on them with minimal breaks in between starting and finishing.

After all of the hard work, most mural artists have to deal with their works being vandalized, getting painted over, or eventually fading away. This must be difficult for them to face, since it takes a lot of time to create a mural, but it is just something mural artists have to adjust to.

One of the beauties of a mural is that it can be temporary, but can cause so much joy at the same time. Mike Johnston goes into detail about what he does after finishing a mural, and how he feels when others take interest in his works.

“As soon as a mural’s done, I don’t leave right away.

“ And, you know, as far as motivation goes, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Your motivation comes from getting good at something and kind of progressing. And so, yeah, I would say just kind of keep progressing and keep at it. ”

- Chris Smith

Courtesy of Mike Johnston

I’ll clean up and then I might just wait in my car for a little bit just to see people walk up, to see if they notice it. To see if they stop and interact with it. And then it’s really fun when they stop and they wanna take a picture with it. Cuz that’s kind of in a lot of ways, the end goal. You want them to really connect with that piece,” Johnston shares. The feeling of others enjoying his work is one of the best parts of his career.

“ A lot of times [my murals] go away. You know, most of the paintings that you see on my Instagram are actually not around anymore. They don't exist. that's also another thing as far as being a muralist in general, you have to sort of accept the fact that it won't be around. ”

- Chris Smith

While a lot of murals are commissions, they can still be fun for the artists to create. Mike Johnston is very interested in hip-hop style works and color palettes. He also enjoys shoes and basketball. He shared that when he was in highschool, he would always be cut from the basketball team, and he never felt like he was good enough. However, when Nike commissioned Johnston to create artworks for NBA player Kevin Durant, he felt like his childhood dreams were finally fulfilled.

“I would try out for the basketball team, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th grade, all those years cut. Never made the basketball team. It broke my heart. And then here I finally get it. I’m working with Nike. It’s kind of like I made the team in a way, you know, kind of like a success story in the end,” he says.

Whether what their inspiration is, mural artists end up creating some of the most notable pieces in the city of Austin. It takes perseverance, hard work, and lots of effort, but in the end, it pays off for most artists. They get to see others enjoy their work, and most importantly, they leave a mark on Austin.

Courtesy of Chris Smith

Courtesy of Mike Johnston

Mural Storytelling

How Austin Murals record history

By: Amritha Ramkumar

“Creation” by Seymour Fogel was created outside of University Baptist Church. This is considered to be the first mural in Austin.

1950 1974

“Austinatious” by Kerry Awn, Tommy B., and Nick Turner was created to depict life in Austin in the 70’s

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Courtesy of Flickr

Throughout history, artists and creators of all kinds have found a way to record history. Whether it’s through photos, books, drawings, or paintings, we have always had a way to look back on the past through different forms of media.

Austin is known for its close-knit arts community, and vibrant street art, so it’s not shocking to find out that many people have recorded artists through murals, throughout many different decades, with the intent that viewers get a look back into time.

The murals below on this timeline do just that, representing different eras and events throughout Austin and American history.

“Kobe and Gianna Bryant” was a mural created by Laced and Found, Snuk One, and Ricki Loring. This mural honors the NBA player and his daughter after their deaths in early 2020.

1979 2020

“Varsity Theatre Mural” is a 70’s film-inspired mural that was created by Carlos Lowry. This mural is now outside of a Wells Fargo and a Tower Records store.

24th and Guadalupe St.

2912 Guadalupe St.

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People don’t usually expect physical buildings to be considered artwork, but Austin by Ellsworth Kelly is a great attention-capturing place to start one’s artistic journey.

Frisky Finances

Art Museums and how they get funded by Kaylum Truong

The Finance Director opens his files. There are negatives all across the pages. Panicking, he begins ruffling through several other pages detailing finances. The

the Finance Director visibly withers in disappointment. He ponders his situation, long enough for the light outside his office window to begin visibly dimming. A sudden thought strikes

him. Excited, he jumps and whips out his phone. The Finance Director presses on his phone several times until he reaches the number of a stock market broker. The Director hits the call button and impatiently taps his foot while waiting for the receiver to respond. The person on the other end answers and a conversation erupts between the two of them, with it ending on the agreement that the Director will gain access to some funds that are currently invested in the stock market. The line ends, and a monotonous sine wave can be heard. Sighing in relief, the Director puts his phone back down and kicks back in his chair, appearing to begin to take a quick power-nap.

Art museums can seem abstract and mystical at the forefront, with their deep and meaningful art pieces, but behind the scenes, there are many logistical and concrete operations that need to be run for them to function. One of the most important aspects of museums are finances. After all, how else can art museums fund curators’ paychecks, the upkeep of museums, the maintenance of works of art, and literally keeping the lights on?

Most art museums’ budgets come from various

Photo Courtesy of Larry D. Moore

sources. Funds can come from the government, entry fees, selling items, donations in the form of investments, and regular, unrestricted donations.

Government funding for art museums varies widely depending on the state, county, and city the art museum is located in.

In terms of income from sales and entry fees, art museums don’t typically have much to use, but they are free for the museum to spend on whatever it wishes to. Endowment funds usually make up most of an art museum’s budget. Endowments are donations that are provided in the form of investments, but most art museums’ endowments are restricted by the donors for specific areas or roles.

Similar to endowments are regular donations. These aren’t usually restricted to specific purposes, and the funds are almost always very large. Regular donations are preferred by art museums over endowments due to their tendency to be unrestricted. In retrospect, most of the finances that art museums have access to are restricted for one specific purpose or another, which leaves them inflexible.

Many works of art also are loaned between various art museums, which can help offset the cost of purchasing artwork

and allow other museums to display unique pieces of art.

Katie Bruton, a media coordinator with the Blanton Museum of Art, explains some of the work that goes into loaning art.

[exhibitions] with loans from [a] museum in Spain, museums in Peru, and museums in Mexico,” says Bruton.

Art museums also plan up years in the future when considering their finances.

Bruton states, “We normally plan exhibitions anywhere from four years out. We don’t tell the public because there are still processes, contracts, and things like that.”

Having restricted endowments make it especially difficult for art museums to plan forward in this manner, due to constrictions on what art museums are able to spend money on.

When dealing with such a restrictive budget, art museums must be efficient with costs. When purchasing or even receiving donations of art, museums usually want to accept art pieces that they will be able to display immediately due to storage costs. This guideline becomes quite important, since art pieces in storage may often number in the tens of thousands, compared to a relatively small amount on display.

The Blanton is simply one example of a museum that has a diverse and large network.

“We loan all over the world. We [actually] just took some paintings to a Polish art museum…So right now we have

Art museums have large operations that require them to work the way they work. The next time you visit one of your city’s art museums, think about the underlying facets of the museum while appreciating the main features of the artworks themselves.

“There’s a big agreement that goes into that. When you loan artworks, you have to ensure that they’ll be secure, that there will be insurance to cover it, etc.”

-Katie Bruton

Some art galleries, like Wonderspaces in Austin, are more creative with how they let people interact with the artworks themselves.

Photo Courtesy of Daniel Funkhouser

Photo Courtesy of Daniel Funkhouser

by Kaylum Truong

Alot of the most expensive paintings in the world are difficult to price conventionally, but their value can be determined through insurance costs and previous sales that have been adjusted for inflation.

Mona Lisa

Salvator Mundi Interchange

The Card Players Nafea Faa Ipoipo

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci Willem de Kroonig

Paul Cezanne Paul Gaugin

national average Endowment types

Endowments are donations to museums in the form of investments and securities. These “donations” can be restricted by the donators to be used for a specific purpose or under a specific condition, such as an endowment only being accessible to the maintenance of a particular gallery. The endowments may be restricted permanently, temporarily, or may not be restricted at all!

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Rockin in AustiN

Imagine yourself in a music club. The music is blasting and the lights are flashing. You’re dancing with your friends and having a great time. The club is packed and there is a great atmosphere.

Music has been around since the beginning of time. Since there can be no music without

musicians, its place is virtually assured, even if lucrative recording deals and a place in the limelight will continue to elude even the most gifted artists. As it is often not talent but advertising that guarantees success, talented musicians will have to invent ways of selling themselves and their music to

the public. Musicians able to compose music, play several instruments, and arrange music will find more employment opportunities open to them.

Musicians include rock stars, opera singers, folk guitarists, jazz pianists, violinists, drummers, or anybody who creates and performs music. Musicians

The live music capital of the world.

By: Jack Nguyen

consist of a broad group of artists who play instruments, sing, compose and arrange music in a variety of settings. They perform before live audiences or record in music studios. Instrumental musicians use items such as the saxophone, guitar, drums, and piano. Conductors lead orchestras, bands, and choral directors direct choirs, singing clubs, and other vocal ensembles. It’s a challenging field, but individuals in it usually feel an inner compulsion to play and share their music.

Some lucky musicians, orchestra members, opera singers, and even a few pop artists make a living in their profession. Very few actually become rich and famous, though. Frank Sinatra, Micheal Jackson, Paul McCartney, and Elvis Presley are rare examples, but most musicians are happy just to be able to play an instrument and to create music. Serious musicians spend a lot of time practicing and rehearsing. They also spend a substantial amount of time on the road, traveling to and from performances, or just seeking performing opportunities. Since most musicians’ gigs are at night time and on weekends, they often take day jobs to cover the bills.

No, I mean, it’s just like you don’t want to eat the same thing every day, Right? You know, variety is, is, is tantamount to learning and, and, you know, and, and literature and, and, and every art form.

- Bruce Hughes

There is a wide variety of music in Austin, Texas. The city is known for its live music scene, which includes a variety of genres such as country, rock, blues, and jazz. Austin is also home to a number of music festivals, including the Austin City Limits Music Festival and the South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival. Musicians can play and compose for a variety of sources. The television, motion picture, and advertising

industries employ musicians to perform live shows, score music for movies, and compose and arrange theme songs for television programs and advertisements. Theater orchestras provide live music for plays and other productions. Live audiences and auditions are a fact of life for musicians seeking to establish a reputation or find a niche, so they must be able to deal with their anxieties and deliver a quality performance in front of any gathering of people. Musicians face rejection all the time, but the most disciplined individuals maintain confidence in their abilities; they can never allow themselves to become complacent if success is the goal. Most musicians work small-time gigs whenever they can, whether it be in clubs, churches, weddings, birthdays, or bars. Bruce Hughes is an Austin native and lifelong musician. He has played with a few notable musicians before, including Jason Mraz, Bob Schneider, the scabs, and the Ugly Americans. He is currently in two bands: the Teratoma and Sly Curtis. “One of the beautiful things about being an Austin musician and being an Austin working musician is that I get to do several of the things that I really, really love to do close to home.”

Hughes also brought up the point of how much Austin, Texas itself has grown in the past decade.

“[What] I would say about working in Austin is that…it’s still far away from the industry, but… the industry [in] Austin [has been] narrowing, espe

cially in the last…probably the last decade…Austin really has become a place to be reckoned with and a place that people recognize.”

Jeff Smith is the owner of Saex Records and Entertainment LLC.

“You have to march on in the recognition that that’s probably not going to happen to you and you might starve to death… while you’re trying. And again, if you travel a lot and you don’t have…the opportunity to start a family or have a family.”

Once I really started touring, I’d really, you know, I really came to love that part of it, and it’s just been kind of a part of the fiber of who I am

-Jeff Smith

Smith also said that musicians not only make money from only playing music, but they also make money from many other sources too.

“Not the people that tell you that they’re making a living, but the people who are actually making a living, they’re doing a lot of different things every day. Oh, they’re either doing sessions or giving lessons. You know, it’s not just the stage time, it’s…the way most people are making their living.”

Roland Swenson, one of the co-founders of the music festi-

val, SXSW convinced the Austin Chronicles to help him launch SXSW.

“What do we have to do? And then finally we came up with the name, South by Southwest. And sort of once we got over that hump, then we decided,

ed to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2020.

As a record store owner, Jeff Smith found it easy at the start of the pandemic. As the pandemic continued to affect many businesses, it became difficult to stay open.

“It was good because everybody was trapped at home and they had free money coming in. Yeah. And they were spending it very freely. But as it wore on you know people. The money dried up and it became difficult.”

As the Executive Chairman for SXSW, Swenson explains how the pandemic’s start affected SXSW.

“You know, we had never really contemplated having to cancel the event, and so we held out as long as we could thinking that, well this will go away, and life will just go back to normal, but literally the Two days before we were supposed to start, the city said, ‘No, no, we’re not gonna let you do that.’”

Covid has also affected many industries over the pandemic, including the music industry. The pandemic has had a devastating effect on the music industry. Venues have been forced to close, tours have been canceled, and musicians had been left without work. The industry was expect-

According to an article that was published by Austin American Statesman, In 2022, SXSW had a $280.7 million dollar impact on Austin’s economy. The 2022 economic impact was about 21% lower than SXSW’s pre-coronavirus festival in 2019, which had an estimated impact of $355.9 million, according to Greyhill Advisors. As we start moving away from the pandemic’s “scary phase” and as clubs are opening for more capacity, some notable clubs you should visit are the Continental Club, Elephant Room, The Saxon Pub, Speak Easy, and Cactus Cafe.

Top circle is Roland Swenson, Executive Chairman for SXSW.

Small Circle is Bob Hughes, lifelong musician.

Bottem Circle is a music set up.

By: Jack Nguyen

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Theatre In austIn

By Jonas Klumpp

Hidden behind the thick curtains, only feet away from the blinding spotlights, you can hear the sounds of the audience, and the actors’ voices uncomfortably close. Before you realize, there is a break in the sound.

You don’t feel ready, but you have no choice but to face the bright lights and step onto the stage. Even though you thought you would fail, once you’re on the stage, you fall into the words you have carefully practiced, and you carry on, letting the energy of the crowd give you all the energy you need.

Theatre is like nothing else, no matter if you’re up on the stage, or operating the lights or the curtains. The electricity of a packed audience is just amazing, and the energy and thrill of a big production is like nothing else, whether it’s experienced as an actor or an audience member. However, more important than any of that in theatre is the community. The group of people that produce a show become very close out of necessity. A show is a collaborative effort, and it is so much easier to perform when you know the people around you and how they act. The theatre scene in Austin is incredibly unique. It is one of the larger ones in America, but it took a significant hit from the COVID-19 pandemic. Many small theaters were being shut down

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I don’t think theatre companies compete with each other. The best thing in the world for my theatre company is to have a whole bunch more theater companies surrounding me. That’s gonna make my theater company better.

-Lisa scheps

or forced to close temporarily, leaving gaps in the culture of Austin theatre that are still recovering today. Theatre is a very expensive fine art, it requires large investments in lighting and sound equipment, and the actual buildings need to be relatively large. Earlier on in the pandemic, most small theaters in Austin were struggling, and they met every week to discuss strategies. This strategy generally helped them stay afloat during the hard times. This has resulted in a more unified community, and in general, better theatre. Theatre in Austin has come a long way from what it was 40 years ago. Theatre in Austin has come a long way from what it was 40 years ago. Ken Webster is the producing artistic director of Hyde Park theater, and 40 years ago, he was one of the pioneers of paying actors in Austin. Before then, it was a community theatre town, and nobody was paid at all. “It was kind of like socialism. However much money we raised above what we spent was divided evenly among everybody who worked on the show,” says Webster. The first show he did, everybody got $19, and it only moved up from there. In Hyde Park Theatre’s most recent 2 shows, all of the actors received $1200. Theatre has truly evolved in Austin, and it’s only improving from here.

Lisa Scheps moved to Austin from a successful career in theatre in New York and Chicago. She is very encouraged about theatre in Austin. She describes it compared to New York: “New York has Broadway,

off-Broadway,and off-off Broadway. And when I lived there, the off off Broadway shows were like our shows here in Austin. They were done on a shoestring, they were typically really experimental, they took a lot of chances that you can’t do in commercial theater”. Austin theatre, like all of its other arts, has a special charm

to it. It’s a combination of large shows like the plays performed by big theatre companies, and smaller shows that truly bring out the strange, creative side of Austin. This is why small theaters are so important. Although they don’t get as much attention, they carry and develop the culture, making it possible for theatre to advance in Austin.

Lisa Scheps has a theater called Ground Floor Theatre. This Theatre focuses on producing shows that focus on underrepresented communities. They have a pay what you can policy, allowing people of any economic status to watch. “My ideal audience would look like the citizens, the population of Austin, Texas,”Scheps says. When you think about theatre, you really only think of acting, and the shows being produced, but there’s a whole other side to the affair, the actual management of the business. Jamie Herlich Mclalwain is the new

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The amount of theater in town has grown tremendously. It was very rare if there were more than two or three plays on any given night, back in the early days. pre-pandemic, it was not unusual to have 11 or 12 shows going on at the same time.

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managing director at Zach Scott Theatre. She looks at the finances of the theatre, which is a hard job right now, as the nation is recovering from a pandemic.

“From a business standpoint, we stopped…the business. We had some critical players still staffed, but we weren’t producing shows for a year and a half. [We’re]starting to do that again, with brand new teams and having to hire new people. I’m responsible for all of that,” Herlich Mclalwain says.

There are also many practicalities to maintaining a theatre that many people don’t think about. Simply maintaining the landscaping, the parking, and all of the facilities in the

theatre is a hard task. Going forward, she will have to work on rebuilding the team at ZACH, and slowly transferring back to in- person work, as it’s

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theater [in austin] is positioned to be more fun and interactive, at least here at Zach, than I think it is in some other cities. I think in some other cities. It can be a little more buttoned up... . And I think here, it’s a lot more democratized. And yeah, it feels more fun and engaging and interactive.

-Jamie herlich Mclalwain

very necessary for work in the theater to continue. Herlich Mclalwain has just recently arrived in Austin for this job, and she has a fresh perspective on theatre in Austin, saying “Theater here is positioned to be more fun, and interactive, at least here at Zach, than I think it is in some other cities. I think in some other cities, It can be a little more buttoned up, and it aligns more with a symphony experience or an opera experience, and I think here, it’s a lot more democratized, and yeah, it feels more fun and engaging and interactive”. Theatre here is an incredible thing, and every day it get better, encapsulating the spirit of Austin more than it ever has before.

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Theatre through the venues

BY jonas Klumpp

Zach Scott Theater

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Hyde Park Theater

The Long Center

Bass Concert Hall

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Photo Courtesy of Larry D. Moore

Photo Courtesy of UT Austin

Hyde Park Theater is located in the neighborhood of Hyde Park, it main goals being to produce the best of the world’s new and old alternative theatre.

Zach Theater is the oldest continuosly operating theatre company in Texas. It shows musicals, plays, original works, and theatre for youth.

The Bass Concert Hall is one of five theaters operated by the University of Texas at Austin. It regularly hosts Broadway in Austin Productions.

The Long Center for Performing Arts is the permanant home of The Austin Symphony Orchestra, Austin Lyric Opera and Ballet Austin, as well as hosting other performing arts competitions.

The vision of Art

We are in a world with so many different ways to make art but for this man and these artists, they don’t perceive the world as we do. They have to create a new version of art that fits them not the greater world and it has more personal meaning to the Artist.

John Bramblitt Is probably the most well-known blind artist. He has done several interviews with different news stations and has won several awards for his contribution

culture. if you look across all the different sense disabilities. You’ll see that they all have their own photo culture, probably the most well-known one of these is Deaf culture.

but what he’s trying to show you and to express to you is that it’s not only about death culture that blind people also have a culture too. That is why she wanted to be an artist and perceive the world the way he does.

By Simon Nield

After I interview someone who put his art in their Gallery and they said” when I got to meet him I just realized how incredible he was and what it was like to experience the start with him and how he made it” I feel like that was such a cool blend of just like wholesome sweet seems like his art in person and being able to experience how other people perceived his art.

To add to that I’m not saying that she’s the only blind artist but she’s one of the most famous ones and most successful ones there’s another blind artist called Catherine ivy. She gained her eyesight back after surgery when she was blind and she made some incredible art pieces throughout her time in her life to its incredible how these people are able to do this.

I asked Teacher about this type of Art and he said that” this art is more physical it’s got more texture it’s got more complexity” “It isn’t really about how you perceive it’s about how you take in the art” says one of his students.

This teacher won a $10,000 prize for his artwork and his teaching style in our community which is incredible and he donated it to schools that had underfunded art programs she is a popular person in Deaf culture . she had Jeff parishes first language was ASl which makes him Coda.

John Barmblitt Has A piece of art that is displayed in an Austin gallery that is worth over $20,000 his art is popular and Famous but his effect on the blind Community is a whole lot more. She is one of the key reasons that we have the view of line people and Blind part as we do today. I barely even knew about him before I started writing this article and the more I learned about him the more fascinated I was with him. his wife married him even though he was a blind artist she says. “Even though he’s blind he was sweet. I have loved him since the day he was born. I’ve always felt like he was my love.” His wife is from northern Canada. He’s had two kids and how he communicates with kids is his kids draw something on a canvas and he can feel out the groove on it and figure out what they’re saying.

“I once taught Blind student it was one of the most incredible things I’ve ever done I never saw the world the way he did I never saw the colors the way that he did and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life”

you may be asking well how does he figure out what colors he’s using she goes into a duplex Blue Nation at one of his seminars at a blind program in a school. “He says the colors have different feelings like the yellow sort of is thin it’s more watery it’s silkier but Black is held together it dries out faster and you can just feel the difference in your hand”. the picture shows you how when your sight goes away 90% of your information comes from your site the most of your senses you’re feeling come next and it just shows you how much you rely on other senses more.

Anne Archer has one National Art Competition she says that “art is sort of like a trance when you start you can’t stop it is just a way of the world that goes back and forth” Scroll 2 years she has tried to get into several different our competitions and says that some people that are Inspire her are just little artists in nothing towns cuz she feels motivated two photos support the art community and bring like a better align light to it, not like a starving artist. her speech when she won the national prize was about how people assume art to be something that you need skill for and she goes into that anything’s art you don’t need to work hours and days on so you could spend an hour on it and that might be the best you can do you do need it for be a perfectionist you just need to be someone who can finish it out.

His dad has Allowed him to be an artist and hasn’t pushed him to go forward he is always left him in his comfort zone he is help them in rough times and he credits a lot of his success to his dad his dad had gave him a loan for his house and he had picked him up from the debt and realize that he can still do art his dad traces out the canvases with glue so that his son can feel the lines and Brews within the paint and still be able to paint. how he does this is his son tells him what he wants to paint and the dad will guide his hand with the glue and slowly trace the lines of what he wants to paint she has such a good visual awareness of the surroundings he can tell us that exactly what he wants and where he wants the outlines to be. Is Dad talks in an interview with BBC about how when he was a kid he could see any good see the colors and you could experience the world but when he was 13 his vision weighing and that is why she still has a premonition of what it was once like to see so that’s why his artificial colorful because that’s what he perceives it now.

“Art like a vision that people see art in so many different ways I don’t see it at all that’s why I love art because I can imagine what people see in it”

The pie chart to the table shows the amount of people who sings that artists don’t make a lot of money pie chart of the bottom shows how much income ardist can actually keep in savings instead of spending on their Livelihood

There is a misconception round-the-world on how much money artists really make. Go 2 years people have assumed that there’s a thing called a starving artist yes there’s people that isn’t making a lot of money in their work but over all this is false most artists make their money from selling art or going to Expeditions and talking about it throughout the years many artists have made some of the highest incomes throughout the middle class they’re famous they aren’t rich but they’re still doing what they love.

on an average if you count a well-off artists and their work they make maybe 20 to $30,000 a month. and you’re saying well I could do that at like working at McDonald’s or a better place as a manager but the problem is is that artist that can cell work get it and be a drug that’s why it’s called starving artist. because it is next Eddie said of income that’s where the misconception comes from because they make a lot of money at one time and they don’t have a solidly steady income throughout the rest of the time that’s why many artists have side jobs.

The Real Price of Art

What are pieces are really subjected to what you liked your point of view to be but there’s still more pieces like these that you can just tell that a really incredible and that is how the price gets decided. Some artist make joke paintings like the banana taped to the wall that sold for $100,000 only nft 10 million there are paintings like that that was just a joke but some are genuinely interesting and beautiful that’s why some people decide to pay so much for you and that’s also it’s like a sign-up for class and the famous Community if you haven’t been a piece of Arts you have class

This is why famous paintings like he’s off to the side so I care so much because it is a show of that you have money and power that is why during war there’s a lot of rating of paintings of places because that’s where it’s been hidden and also the biggest Heist have usually been art Heist because art is such a universal thing.

Both of these paintings are multimillion-dollar classical paintings. Some people who are good at art may look at these pieces and think that they could recreate them. However, these paintings are created by famous artists who spent a lot of time working on them, and they have a higher value.