Austin Downtown
Arts Magazine

August 1999
Volume 5 Number 6

ArtPlex Houses Art Galleries You May Have Missed by Rachel Staggs

Art Nest Focuses On How Children Learn by Micah Magee
All classes share a firm commitment to the way in which students are learning as opposed to a final work.

ArtPlex Grew Out of Artist Energy, Enthusiasm by Shilanda Woolridge
The ArtPlex is a creative oasis nestled between the hustle and bustle of downtown and the University of Texas. There is truly no place like it.

Children's Museum Expands Reach to Include Teens by Maria Rios
Make your own film. Design your own animation. And even learn to swing dance, beckon the Museum's flyers, but most of all create, create, create.

Gallery's Grant to Fund Educational Services by Jamie Reed
With the money, Women and Their Work can afford to commission curators from other galleries to describe the featured artist's work in short write-ups that go into brochures. The grant will also help fund a gallery website.

The Kind of Girl poetry by Sonya Feher

Moving Media at ArtPlex by Grace McEvoy

Notes from the Woodshed by Paul Klemperer
It is common knowledge that we live in a celebrity culture. But sometimes it is surprising just how deeply ingrained is our attraction to spectacle.

Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself by Rachel Staggs
If I had to choose one word to describe this book it would be HONEST.

Up All Night by Harold McMillan
There's a buzz about jazz in Austin again. It's not the same old jazz scene, not the same old players, not the same old audiences, and not the same old music, either.

Verities by Shilanda Woolridge
I'll admit I have a bad habit of procrastinating.