It was a typical hot and muggy Texas day when I made the 45-minute drive from Austin to Elgin. I was on my way to visit artist Margo Sawyer for the second time,
Outspoken Bean is the shortened version of his full stage name, Outspoken Rogers Lee Bean, Jr., after his older brother who was murdered one day before the largest Slam Poetry competition Bean had ever been in.
On Ash Lane sits Ash Studios, a building described by Darryl Ratcliff as “a social sculpture that has had an amazing practical and symbolic meaning in Dallas.”
In her description of her artist/partner, Megan Harrison says Jimmy James Canales is “kinda like a cat. He brings in a dead bird from the yard, and I’m like ‘I can do something with that.’”
In her installation for the exhibition Tensile Strength at the Silos in Houston, Austin-based artist Beili Liu wanted to think about the silo as both a physical space and a metaphor for division.
