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openings 		October 2008
   
art West End Galleries
October 2
1st Thursday
Gallery Night
Open until 8 pm
October’s featured venue is ART on 5th. For years Hessam Abrishami’s dynamic compositions, powerful expressions, and vibrant colors have captured viewers around the world with their amazing depth and unique intrigue. Hessam’s work portrays whimsical figures that are bright and bold, symbolizing the celebration of life, romance, and emotion. Born in Shiraz, Iran in 1951, Hessam left his home country to expand his knowledge and pursue life as an artist. He studied in Italy for a number of years before finally settling in California. Hessam’s artwork has been featured in over 100 one-man gallery shows, 25 international exhibitions, and multiple museums.
art Austin Galleries
Thursday, October 2, 6-9 pm
Opening reception
Amy Ringholz: The Eyes of Texas
Artist will be in attendance
art ART on 5th
Friday, October 3, 6-9 pm
Artist Reception
The Art of Hessam: Expressions of Life
Everyone welcome!
  Blanton Museum of Art
October 3, 6-11 pm
B scene
1st Friday
Fees/Admission: $5 for members/$10 for non-members
  Austin Museum of Art
Saturday, October 4, 12-2 pm
Sketching in the Galleries
Artists and Art School faculty will lead aspiring artists through sketching exercises in the galleries. Observe, learn, and draw surrounded by art! Then check the work of the modern masters during our weekly docent tour at 2 pm.
  Austin Museum of Art
Saturday, October 4, 2 pm
Public Tours
First Saturdays
All programs take place at AMOADowntown and are free with Museum admission unless otherwise noted. For more information go to http://www.amoa.org/
art ART on 5th
Saturday October 4, 2-4 pm
Artist Receptions
The Art of Hessam: Expressions of Life
Everyone welcome!
art Wally Workman Gallery
Saturday, October 4, 6-8 pm
Opening reception
Honora Jacob
Painting and sculpture
  Austin Museum of Art
Thursday, October 9, 7 pm
Aztlan Dance Performance
Join us for an evening of contemporary expressive Latin dance that merges life and the visual arts.
art Harry Ransom Center
Thursday, October 9, 7 pm
LECTURE
A Cabinet of Drawings
Michael Charlesworth, Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin, presents "Drawing as Looking, Thinking, Touching."
art Women & Their Work
Friday, October 10, 7-9 pm
Opening Reception
The Activist Impulse
Curated by Regine Basha
Featuring Andrea Geyer, Emily Jacir, Kristin Lucas, Valerie Tevere & Angel Nevarez and Judi Werthein
  Austin Museum of Art
Saturday, October 11, 12-2 pm
Sketching in the Galleries
Artists and Art School faculty will lead aspiring artists through sketching exercises in the galleries. Observe, learn, and draw surrounded by art! Then check the work of the modern masters during our weekly docent tour at 2 pm.
art Austin Museum of Art
October 11, 12-4 pm
Second Saturdays are for Families
Super-Duper Swinging Sculptures
Come and see how artists throughout two centuries have shown how art and life merge in two exhibitions, Modern Art, Modern Lives: Then + Now. As you explore the galleries, find Beth Campbell's wire sculpture There's no such thing as a good decision (indigo), 2007. Next, swing on into the Community Room to make your own modern-day mobile!
Drop in and create! $7 per family; Members $5.
art d berman gallery
Saturday, October 11, 1 pm
Gallery Talk
Jeffrey Dell
Unique plastisol serigraphs and other unusual prints
art Stephen L. Clark Gallery
Saturday, October 11, 6-9 pm
Opening reception
James Evans: Rock, Paper, Scissors
art Austin Museum of Art
October 16, 6-9 pm
La Dolce Vita
Don’t miss AMOA’s annual international food and wine tasting event held on the shores of Lake Austin at AMOA-Laguna Gloria. Celebrating its 19th year, proceeds from La Dolce Vita help support the exhibitions and education programs.
Tickets available at amoa.org.
  Austin Museum of Art
Saturday, October 18, 12-2 pm
Sketching in the Galleries
Observe, learn, and draw surrounded by art! Join artist Jules Buck Jones as you focus closely on the art on view and practice your drawing skills. Jules Buck Jones large-scale animal drawings were featured in New Art in Austin and he's currently teaching drawing at the University of Texas.
art Arthouse at the Jones Center
Saturday, October 18, 8 pm
AMODA Performance, Ceremony Hall
RESET/PLAY
Featuring performance/sound artists Loud Objects (New York, NY)
Ceremony Hall (4100 Red River)
Presented in conjunction with the Austin Museum of Digital Art
art Art Palace
Saturday, October 18, 8-10 pm
Opening Reception
Peat Duggins: Black Room
art ART on 5th
October 24-26
Vintage Poster Show
Come experience one of our favorite shows featuring hundreds of unframed, original vintage posters from 1900 to the 1970's, directly from Europe.
Subjects include movies, sports, music, fashion, travel & wine.
Friday - Saturday, October 24-25, 10-6pm, Sunday, October 26, Noon-5pm
  Austin Museum of Art
Saturday, October 25, 12-2 pm
Sketching in the Galleries
Observe, learn, and draw surrounded by art! Join artist Phillip Wade as you focus closely on the art on view and practice your drawing skills. Philip Wade has been a member of the Art School faculty since 1999.
Sketching is how artists think aloud, and you'll hear them loud and clear when you see how thumbnail drawings you will do from these great works of art reveal the thought behind the design. You will also play with different kinds of line, learning their emotional content.
Guaranteed: you'll look at art with new eyes.
art Davis Gallery
Saturday, October 25, 7-9 pm
Opening Reception
The Living
Paintings by Stella Alesi, Miranda Gray & David Leonard
art Slugfest Printmaking Workshop & Gallery
Wednesday Oct. 29, 5 pm
Squeak Carnwath "Mixing It Up"
A Survey of Prints organized by Tracy Bosche
Slide show/Q & A with artist Squeak Carnwath moderated by Art History Graduate student Caitlin Haskell, University of Texas Art Building (23rd and San Jacinto , Room 1.110)
art Harry Ransom Center
Thursday, October 29, 7 pm
LECTURE
French photographer Frédéric Brenner discusses his work, a visual anthology of the Jewish Diaspora that spans 25 years and more than 40 countries. Co-sponsored by the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies.
art Austin Museum of Art
Thursday, October 30, 7 pm
Trash Talk at AMOA
Austin's progressive theatre troupe, Refraction Arts, responds to the Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now exhibition with excerpts from "Exploration of a Trash Bag" and a sneak preview of their latest performance, "Unflappable," at AMOA-Downtown on Thursday, October 30 at 7 pm.
The first 50 people to bring 5 plastic bags will receive a free HEB reusable grocery bag!
 

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