Nov
30
to Jan 11

Rachel Wolfson Smith: Love & Gravity

Join Ivester Contemporary for Rachel Wolfson Smith’s
Love & Gravity
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 30th 7-9pm
Artist Talk: December 14th at 2pm
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“Love and Gravity,” is Rachel Wolfson Smith’s second solo exhibition at Ivester Contemporary. This exhibition features expressive graphite drawings and cyanotypes created during a pivotal time in the artist’s life while raising young children. These works reflect upon the universal yet deeply personal experience of caregiving. Through layered marks and imagined landscapes, “Love and Gravity” invites viewers into Smith’s exploration of growth, transformation, and balance. The exhibition will be on view from November 30 to January 11.

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Dec
13
10:00 AM10:00

Laser Cutting Basics at Make ATX

Friday, December 13, 2024

10:00 AM 1:00 PM

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Description: This class will teach you the basic safety procedures and techniques to cut and etch a variety of materials on the laser cutters at MakeATX. This class is required for all individuals wishing to use the laser cutter independently (and it's also lots of fun)! You'll take away your very own laser-cut souvenir!

Duration: 3 hours

Material requirements: None

Prerequisites: None (though some graphics software knowledge may be helpful)

Attendance and cancellation policies: Please note refunds are available to those who cancel with at least 72 hour notice. 

If you’re feeling unwell, please stay home! Class credit shall be granted to those who cancel less than 72 hours before the start of class. To ensure we are able to cover all material in a timely manner, students must arrive promptly. Tardiness of more than 15 minutes will result in a student forfeiting his or her place in the class.

Parking: We recently moved! Our new studio is located at Canopy, 916 Springdale Rd., Building 3, #105, Austin, TX 78702.  We're the studio at the end of the pier - there is plenty of parking available in the lot.

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Dec
11
to Dec 12

Paper Mache Mask Making at CRAFT

Join Flores Market and Xingaderas at CRAFT for a 2-day paper mache mask making workshop. Student work will be exhibited at Canopy Projects Gallery on the 14th and 15th of December for LatinFest. The workshop takes place at CRAFT inside the Canopy Community on both the 11th and 12th of December from 10am-1pm.

Students are required to pick up their masks after the gallery show on the 15th.

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Dec
7
12:00 PM12:00

December Open Canopy Artist Studio Tour

Join us for a special holiday edition of Open Canopy, Canopy’s monthly art studio tour. This month, we’re extending studio tour hours from 12-6pm and will feature Acero Hearts wood-fired Tejano food, Free cocktails from our sponsor (Dripping Springs Vodka and Austin Eastciders), and resident DJ There He Is.

Shop local art this holiday season, get a behind-the-scenes look at dozens of artist studios, tour on-site galleries, and enjoy our east austin arts community with friends and family.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Nov
14
to Nov 22

The Little Big Print Show at Funsize

The Big Little Print Show is an event that brings together 30 talented local artists to create unique prints, with all proceeds benefiting Urban Roots ATX, a nonprofit dedicated to food equity and youth leadership. This event takes place at Funsize, located within the Canopy community at 916 Springdale Rd. Bldg 4 Suite #101

Join us for the Austin Studio Tour and visit Canopy’s galleries and open artist studios while supporting Urban Roots and local arts.

Event Showings:
Opening Night: November 14th
Open Dates: November 16th-17th
Closing Night: November 22nd

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Nov
8
10:00 PM22:00

RadPeople & Jack - ATS presents: Rotating Spaces at Canopy Projects

Join RadPeople & Jack ATS for a one-of-a-kind art exhibition and dance party that evolves throughout the night. The atmosphere will continuously shift, featuring over 15 artists, house DJs, and disco jazz, with the music building to an exciting live performance to close the event.

Exclusive Rotating Spaces merch will be available, along with the unveiling of RadPeople and Jack All Terrain Studios' latest clothing drop.

Complimentary beverages will be provided by White Claw, Two Hoots, and Can-tini.

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Sep
28
10:00 AM10:00

Our Future 35 Open House

Join us on Saturday, September 28th from 10:00am until 2:00pm at Canopy Projects Gallery: 916 Springdale Rd. Building 2 #101

Our Future 35 will be showcasing revised concept sketches shaped by the feedback received by Austin residents who completed our survey over the summer. 

You'll have the opportunity to see how we've transformed your public input into new concepts. 

Our Future 35 is a community-centered initiative to create public spaces along the I-35 corridor in Central Austin and connect East and West Austin.

Because the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT)’s I-35 Capital Express Central project will lower the highway’s main lanes between Lady Bird Lake and Airport Boulevard, the City of Austin has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to construct “caps” and “stitches” over the highway, reconnecting the two sides of I-35 and creating new public space.  

Combined, these opportunities could create up to 30 acres of new public space in the middle of Central Austin. 

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Sep
26
7:00 PM19:00

Breaking the Mold: Fundraising Party

SUPPORT WOMEN IN THE ARTS! 

Fundraiser Supporting Beili Lu, Virginia L. Montgomery and Tammie Rubin

Elisabet Ney Museum Exhibit and Arts Education Project, Breaking the Mold

FUNDRAISING PARTY

September 26, 2024. 7pm-9pm

Hosted at Ivester Contemporary 

916 Springdale Road

Austin, Texas

Celebrating the commonalities between women artists in 19th-century art and contemporary times, the contemporary art programs at the Elisabet Ney Museum activates conversations between women artists across the centuries and in collaboration with the historic native Texas landscape.

Redefining Ney's iconoclastic life and brilliant art through the lens of three female contemporary visual artists, the museum’s newest exhibition, Breaking the Mold, explores notions of the artist process, life in 19th century Austin as an immigrant, and an admiration for the natural world.  

The exhibition features new and existing artwork inspired by Elisabet Ney by Austin-based artists Beili Liu, Virginia L Montgomery (VLM), as well as Tammie Rubin. In addition to exhibition, the artists will collaborate with the museum to create a new annual educational initiative, Breaking the Mold: Mobile Hands-On Art Crates. Each unique portable classroom kit will be designed and fabricated by the artists and be deployed into Austin elementary classrooms to engage students in the areas of art, history, science, and math to encourage critical thinking and the creative process. This program will also reinforce Elisabet Ney’s vision for women in the arts while advocating for youth educational initiatives.

This project has been funded in part by a grant from the Dorothy C. Radgowski Learning Through Women’s Achievement in the Arts Grant Program, provided through the “Where Women Made History” and the Historic Artists' Homes and Studios programs of the National Trust for Historic Preservation along with support from the Summerlee Foundation. This fundraising effort will complete the campaign to support the work of three extraordinary women artists.

BEILI LU

Beili Liu is a visual artist who creates material-and-process-driven, site-responsive installations and performances. Liu's current research focuses on the complex ecological, political, and environmental concerns facing the Circumpolar North and the urgency of the climate crisis on a planetary scale. As Kay Whitney wrote about Liu's work in Sculpture Magazine: "Liu's installations leap from obsession and repetition to something profound and expansive, merging the personal with the political...these remarkedly ordinary materials emphasize the disjunctive pairing of subtle beauty and cultural narrative."  Liu has exhibited extensively across the globe, in locations including Norway, Finland, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Lithuania, France, Belgium, Poland, Austria, China, Taiwan and across the United States. Liu has received numerous fellowships and awards, including the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2022-2024); the Pollock Prize for Creativity (2022); the Fulbright Distinguished Arctic Chair Award (Norway, 2021-2022); the Fulbright Finland Inter-Country Grant (2022); the Brian Wall Grant for Sculptors (2022); NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship (2021-2024); the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2016); the National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Grant through the Museum of Southeast Texas (2014). In 2018, Liu was honored by the Texas Legislature as the Texas State Artist in 3D medium.

VIRGINIA L. MONTGOMERY

Also known as VLM, Montgomery is an American multimedia artist working in video artsound artsculpture, performance, and illustration. She has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe at museums, galleries, and film festivals. Her artwork is known for its surrealist qualities, material experimentation, and thematic blending of science, mysticism, metaphysics, and 21st century feminist autobiography. Montgomery is an ecofeminist artist whose work utilizes symbolic imagery like circles, holes, and spheres to facilitate unexpected and multi-layered insights about the natural world, gender, technology, the human subconscious, and visual language . Her work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. Canada and Europe including including the Tate Modern] New MuseumSocrates Sculpture Park,] Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Times Square Arts, SculptureCenterMuseum Folkwang,  Kunsthal Charlottenborg,] La Panacée art centre (a.k.a. MO.CO. PANACÉE), Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Blanton Museum of Art, Houston Botanic Garden, and Lawndale Art Center.

Montgomery states in an interview with She/Folk magazine, "[Through my art] I can survey relationships between bodies, hierarchies between objects, genders, sound or forms, and thus allow forth a message to emerge from these intersecting realms of cognitive awareness and sensorial participation.  

TAMMI RUBIN

Tammie Rubin (b. Chicago, Il) is an artist whose sculptural practice considers the intrinsic power of objects as signifiers, wishful contraptions, and mythic relics while investigating the tension between the readymade and the handcrafted. Using intricate motifs, Rubin delves into themes involving ritual, domestic and liturgical objects, mapping, migration, magical thinking, longing, and identity. Her installations open up dream-like spaces of unexpected associations and dislocations. Rubin received a BFA in both Ceramics and Art History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an MFA in Ceramics at the University of Washington in Seattle. Rubin has exhibited widely, selections include Project Row Houses, Houston, TX., the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY., George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, TX., Mulvane Art Museum, KS., Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN., The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX., Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX., and C24 Gallery, New York, NY. She's represented by C24 Gallery, New York, NY., Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX., & Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY. She founded Black Mountain Project along with fellow Austin-based artists Adrian Aguilera and Betelhem Makonnen, and she is a member of ICOSA Collective, a non-profit cooperative gallery. She is an Associate Professor of Ceramics & Sculpture at St. Edward’s University.

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