Campers at channelAustin's Kids Make TV Camp take you for a ride on Austin's own Zilker Zephyr. This miniature train takes passengers on a trip that winds through Zilker park, chugging past Barton Springs, Lady Bird Lake, under Barton Springs Road, and into a spooky dark tunnel. Kids Make TV Campers interview the conductor and a couple recent passengers for their thoughts on the experience.
Come see Austin's newest tennis facility as Pro Lincoln Ward introduces the new complex, practice courts and pro shop. Located on Johnny Morris Road just south of US 290 East, the brand new facility aspires to be like those of the US open with high tech lighting, court composition and on-line reservation system.
SPACE12 is a non-profit created by a group of Austinites who have seen the dramatic changes in Austin but at the expense of community gathering space. their desire is to create spaces that build bridges toward community, encourage purposeful activity, and engage all of Austin into a unified discussion of how to live as neighbors rather than strangers. Through the collaboration of space, time, art, innovation, and voices, they can again reclaim spaces throughout the city for genuine community.
Metamorphosis Arte is a community art group that is dedicated to working with diverse youth and adult community members using various mediums including mural painting, community green map making, mosaics, glass works, puppetry, community parades, and printmaking. Part of the East Austin Studio Tour 2008
okay mountain is an affordable studio space for artist to work in. It is a part of the Okay mountain gallery down the street. Which is committed to contributing a strong positive influence toward the growth of Austin's art community by showing a combination of emerging and established artists from a regional to international perspective. As a collective, they believe this is possible by drawing on diversity, hard work and the support of friends who share their goal.
The artist at the studio discover reality's physical and spiritual boundaries by inventing mythologies that focus them on the act of living and render life meaningful. Their current series of sculptures attempts to create instant artifacts. They take simple shapes, cut them up and reassemble them as a means of replicating millions of years of natural eroding forces. Part of the East Austin Studio Tour 2008
Black Star is a co-operative business based in Austin, TX working to open world’s first cooperatively-owned and worker self-managed brewpub. Their diverse membership is already more than 900 strong and continues to grow.
The work of Alonso Rey from Peru really stands out compared to the internationalized art fair esthetics; my choice is deliberately anti-cyclical. His oil paintings are figurative, narrative, autobiographic, expressionistic and thus differ from the rather impersonal canon prevalent today. Part of the East Austin Studio Tour 2008
Shanti is a photographer who likes to explore different printing processes, by using different paper. She rents a studio space in east Austin at Bolm studios. she was apart of the East Austin Studio Tour 2008.
Michael Merk is an artist who participated in the 2008 east Austin studio tour. He rents a studio space at Bolm studios. This year he showcased more of his process limiting the number of paintings on display.
