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Sweetwater also has a Pioneer Museum, with display rooms depicting the lives of early settlers. It has extensive photograph files, farm and ranch exhibits, Indian artifacts, and WASP exhibits. [14] The local newspaper, Sweetwater Reporter, was founded in 1911. The newspaper, first established in 1881, was called the Sweetwater Advance.
The Austin Museum of Popular Culture at its former location. The Austin Museum of Popular Culture (AusPop) is an Austin, Texas nonprofit organisation dedicated to collecting, preserving, and exhibiting art and memorabilia that reflects Austin's eclectic contributions to popular culture worldwide. AusPop champions artists responsible for "weird ...
Austin Chronicle and Austin Press [6] newspapers begin publication. Sister city relationship established with Lima, Peru. [25] 1982 National Wildflower Research Center and La Peña arts group [9] founded. Pennybacker Bridge opens. 1983 Austin History Center active. [30] Austin Children's Museum established. [31]
In 1995, the TFAA's board of directors purchased the property at 700 Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas. Three years later, in November 1998, the TFAA opened its new headquarters, the Jones Center for Contemporary Art. [6] In November 2002, the name of the organization was officially changed from the Texas Fine Arts Association to Arthouse. [8]
First things first about Austin street names. My Sept. 3 "Austin Answered" column presented a primer of sorts on major east-west and north-south streets that run through the historic core of ...
From our annual Season for Caring fundraiser to exclusive award-winning investigations, our mission is to help our Austin community. 7 powerful ways that the Austin American-Statesman served our ...
Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City (U of Texas Press, 2015). Busch, Andrew. "Building" A City of Upper-Middle-Class Citizens": Labor Markets, Segregation, and Growth in Austin, Texas, 1950–1973." Journal of Urban History (2013) online; Humphrey, David C. Austin: A history of the capital city (Texas A&M University Press ...
Luckily for Austin, the Blanton could rely on its own collection — as well as on works promised to the University of Texas museum — for the small current exhibition "Long Live Surrealism! 1924 ...