Archive for the ‘Connections’ Category
Young Creative Entrepreneurs, Apply Here
July 12th, 2011
AustinPost.org blogger Jackie Stone suggests you “Imagine yourself as a young, creative Austin entrepreneur on the go.” Frankly, we do that all the time. In her recent piece about CoCreate at Austin Details, Stone wrote about our concept for sharing our creative flex space with other coworking freelancers: “But maybe the coffee house scene isn’t doing Read More
Just the Kind of Week That’s All-Austin
June 25th, 2011
It was the kind of week that cuts across all of what Austin offers. Heady contrasts and connections blended what’s old, new and inbetween in Austin and beyond, recounted in Austin Details Artist’s Journal: An eye for the details of art, photography, life . . .
Proudly Wearing “The Very Cool” Label
June 22nd, 2011
We didn’t say it, The Austinist did . . . in its news post today about the new “public working space” we’ve launched in our “very cool flex space at 8th & Congress.” In a cheeky description of our arty taste, G. Topscher mentions “some sort of evil longhorn skull (inspiring with fear) and something that Read More
Coworking at CoCreate in The Linkdown
June 16th, 2011
The Linkdown from Omar Gallaga, Digital Savant, Features CoCreate: From Austin-American Statesman tech writer Omar Gallaga (on June 15) comes the pronouncement “Web goodness: A new Austin coworking space, CoCreate, at 8th and Congress, has launched.”
“I Art Congress” featured on KEYE | KXAN | KUT
February 10th, 2011
I Art Congress was featured on KEYE (live with Jason Wheeler) and later on KXAN with Kate Weidaw and on KUT 90.5 FM with John Aeilli. Watch the KXAN video if you weren’t up before the sun rose! Join us along Congress Avenue February 10 for I Art Congress: Love 101, and every second Thursday. Second Thursday Read More
Austin Art Groups Unveil “Second Thursdays” Art Walk Downtown on Congress, launching Feb 10, 6-9 pm
January 21st, 2011
—from the Austin Business Journal by Sandra Zaragoza • Looking for ways to discover the many cultural offerings of downtown Congress Avenue? Indulge that curiosity in the new monthly Second Thursdays series, I Art Congress. An informal collective of Congress Avenue museums and galleries—led by Austin Details Art + Photo (with promotional support by the Read More
Austin Details Featured by the Downtown Austin Alliance
December 21st, 2010
In the latest newsletter from the Downtown Austin Alliance, Austin Details Art + Photo gallery was featured as a recommended place to shop for last-minute holiday needs. Last-Minute Downtown Shopping Ideas Did you know that there are 26 retail stores located on or just off of Congress Avenue from Lady Bird Lake to the Capitol? From Read More
Crystals and Power from Mother-Daughter Art Teams
November 15th, 2010
AUSTIN ARTISTS GRETA OLIVAS and daughter Valerie Olivas each share a passion for photography that many do (Greta posts a daily photo at her blog, and Valerie describes herself as “shutter happy“), but it’s their collaborative mother-daughter art practice that’s a bit less common to find. Their crystal bead piece at Austin Details Art + Read More
Austin Details Art + Photo in Austin 360
August 24th, 2010
Jann Alexander and Austin Details Art + Photo were recently featured in a story in The Austin-American Statesman and on Austin 360: Newcomer brings creative hub for artists to downtown Austin By Denise Gamino Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Artist Jann Alexander planned to meet us for coffee at Little City Espresso Bar & Cafe downtown until she got the Read More
How does art connect us?
December 10th, 2008
Mocha Madness (above) connected me to Ryan at Thunderbird Coffee, a barista who put his all into this mocha art, inspiring me to admire and photograph it before drinking it. © Jann Alexander 2007 ART CONNECTS ME to the whole wide world. It’s in the details of everything I see, be it a painting in a Read More
A Typical Austin Day
June 17th, 2005
A woman you meet at a gallery opening has had a varied career as a founding designer for Texas Monthly, an LA Times art director, a NY restauranteur and now is becoming a screenwriter. The temperature soars to near 100 and locals tell you that’s about 20 degrees hotter than June usually is. You cross Read More