/tags/public-art Public Art en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:10:07 GMT /austin/2025-03-21/austin-pauses-10m-in-airport-art-over-concerns-local-creatives-were-excluded The move may signal a reconsideration of how prominently the city should promote local artists in major public spaces. Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:10:07 GMT /austin/2025-03-21/austin-pauses-10m-in-airport-art-over-concerns-local-creatives-were-excluded Chad Swiatecki /austin/2024-06-21/downtown-austin-alliance-work-space-local-creatives-artists The organization created a new program called Downtown Austin Space Activation to help local artists and entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds stay in Austin. Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:01:00 GMT /austin/2024-06-21/downtown-austin-alliance-work-space-local-creatives-artists Corinne Piorkowski /life-arts/2024-06-14/austin-texas-public-art-artist-suzy-gonzalez Suzy González hopes to gather as many family photos and stories of Austin as she can to use as inspiration to paint a mural at the Austin History Center. She also hopes to create an archive to show how diverse Austin really is. Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:53:34 GMT /life-arts/2024-06-14/austin-texas-public-art-artist-suzy-gonzalez Greta Díaz González Vázquez /austin/2023-10-19/12-foot-tall-puppet-little-amal-refugees-migrants-is-coming-to-austin Little Amal, a puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee, will walk through Huston-Tillotson University and the Texas State Capitol grounds on Friday night. Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:33:01 GMT /austin/2023-10-19/12-foot-tall-puppet-little-amal-refugees-migrants-is-coming-to-austin Chelsey Zhu /austin/2022-10-06/what-are-the-smallest-and-largest-things-inside-ut-austins-collections The University of Texas at Austin has more than 170 million objects and specimens in its collections. KUT listener Matthew Seaton asked our ATXplained project to peruse them. Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:55:00 GMT /austin/2022-10-06/what-are-the-smallest-and-largest-things-inside-ut-austins-collections Gabriel C. Pérez /life-arts/2022-02-14/visitors-can-once-again-watch-the-sun-set-through-james-turrells-austin-skyspace The Skyspace closed in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and shut down the UT campus. When UT reopened, the public art program wanted to reopen the Skyspace as well � but there was some much-needed work that had to be done first. Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:01:00 GMT /life-arts/2022-02-14/visitors-can-once-again-watch-the-sun-set-through-james-turrells-austin-skyspace Marisa Charpentier /austin/2020-12-08/the-moment-has-passed-austins-most-controversial-public-artwork-might-be-coming-down The Austin City Council voted Thursday to take the blue panels along Lamar out of the city's public art collection. Tue, 08 Dec 2020 21:20:02 GMT /austin/2020-12-08/the-moment-has-passed-austins-most-controversial-public-artwork-might-be-coming-down Matt Largey /austin/2020-03-12/new-murals-in-downtown-austin-aim-to-empower-women Two new murals were created in Austin this week as part of the Downtown Austin Alliance Foundation's "Writing on the Walls" series. The weeklong art event� Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:01:00 GMT /austin/2020-03-12/new-murals-in-downtown-austin-aim-to-empower-women Dani Matias /austin/2015-02-12/watch-austin-unveils-the-worlds-nosiest-lamp-posts Think of a time you’ve talked to an object that can’t talk back. Maybe you’ve yelled at your car when it wouldn’t start, or screamed at the leg of a table� Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:43:41 GMT /austin/2015-02-12/watch-austin-unveils-the-worlds-nosiest-lamp-posts Audrey McGlinchy /life-arts/2015-01-07/public-art-program-seeking-artists-for-hire If you are a visual artist or know of any who want to get paid for their work, the City of Austin is looking for people to add to a pool of artists they� Thu, 08 Jan 2015 01:16:05 GMT /life-arts/2015-01-07/public-art-program-seeking-artists-for-hire Nathan Bernier