More than twenty years after his death, his legacy will be honored in the retrospective, Octavio Medellín: Spirit and Form, on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, Feb. 2, 2022- Jan. 15, 2023.
“There are many Black people who feel like art is not their space…it’s been really great to have shows where people come who might not typically engage with the art. Where they can be seen in a special way.”
In the three years that Sage Studio has showcased artists with disabilities—helping its roster develop and sell their works, much as ordinary galleries do—Austin’s art scene has embraced it, co-founder Lucy Gross says.
Brett Ishida, a California transplant to Austin, is bringing her new Austin-based contemporary dance company ISHIDA to the stage for the company’s first evening-length production since the pandemic began.
The dance company Pilobolus has many missions: to tell stories with the human form, to test the limits of human physicality, to explore the beauty and power of connected bodies.
El Paso-based artist Haydee Alonso was working as a manager in a gallery during March of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the space to close for an undetermined amount of time.
“I think I have a relationship with a vanity that’s similar to what everyone has,” Chris Schanck admits, referring to his project Curbed Vanity: A Contemporary Foil, which is currently being exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art.