✨ Breaking News: 700+ artists showcasing their paintings in city-wide, loose Austin Studio Tour
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — For two weekends every November, loads of artists exhibit their paintings to the group at no cost all through the Austin Studio Tour.
The tournament began in 2003 as a “grassroots effort to attach neighbors via artwork,” in line with its website online.
The Austin Studio Tour used to be created and grown by means of Big Medium, an area nonprofit that supported fresh arts and artists in Texas till it close down previous this yr. Almost Real Things, an Austin-based mag and tournament collection, took over operations of the Austin Studio Tour this yr.
According to Big Medium’s website online, the excursion tournament began as from a “want for connectivity and change” amongst a small team of artists who had been working towards artwork in collaboration at Bolm Studios within the early 2000s.
“Through enticing of their native arts group on the grassroots degree, the crowd noticed a possibility to lend a hand beef up the huge spectrum of artists in search of a platform to proportion their paintings and inventive practices with every different and an target audience at huge,” the website online mentioned.
The Studio Tour used to be shaped with simply 28 studios collaborating.
This yr, there are greater than 300 places the place over 720 artists, artwork teams, and hosts will exhibit and promote native artwork and items and hang actions and behind-the-scenes peeks at their artwork.
The city-wide birthday celebration of artwork will probably be held Nov. 8-9, and 15-16 from midday to six p.m. day by day. A listing of all featured individuals and places is to be had on-line at AustinStudioTour.com.
Here’s a snappy breakdown of what to anticipate around the two weekends:
- 723 featured Artists, Art Groups & Hosts
- 317 places round Austin
- Free to wait
- All-ages welcome
- Art-making actions
- Live performances
- Museum excursions
- New exhibitions
- Live artwork demonstrations
- Sensory-friendly reveals
📅 Published on 2025-11-07 23:23:00
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