September 24–October 14, 2026
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Archived edition
Gallery tours, new exhibitions and the full gallery circuit.
Open full editionClosePreserved from the public guide on October 14. Events below are historical.
Future Front and TOMO mags tour Aineki Traverso’s solo show, then run blind contour drawing sessions. The TOMO mags bus stops by and the gallery stays open after.
End time assumes a two-hour duration; organizer did not list an end.
Collectors discuss their connections with Charles Umlauf and his family alongside the anniversary exhibition of 35 works from 35 private collections.
Eight women-identifying artists, curated by Alexis Hunter, explore the contradictions and lived experiences of womanhood: Vy Ngo, Virginia L. Montgomery, Tiffany Katarina Smith, Kate Biel, Kate Gonda, Kemi Yemi-Ese, Christine Garvey and Hunter herself. Programming follows, including a feminist horror series at Hyperreal Film Club.
Calendar link held until Future Front confirms Friday or Saturday.
A group show by the Bolm Arts Collective on the faces we wear and the selves we hide: sculpture, painting, an immersive installation and a community mask wall made by neighbors.
Concentric forms and orbiting circles in luminous color: structure against surrender in Ferguson’s geometry.
Kinetic sculpture, video and ceramics trace the Ogallala Aquifer through the circular fields of center-pivot irrigation. Woods connects groundwater, technology and mythology, asking what happens as ancient water moves from underground into crops and our own bodies.
An immersive audio-visual performance using a Dolby Atmos surround system and a projection wall. Doors open 30 minutes before performances. Ticket required.
Austin sculptor and curator Jade Walker, whose textile-based practice draws on history, tours The Living Temple: The World of Moki Cherry. Museum admission applies.
Agnès Varda’s 2000 documentary on gleaners and salvage, in the gallery’s Sunday afternoon movie series. Public. DOZENS is also on view.
End time assumes a two-hour duration; organizer did not list an end.
Gallery tour at McLennon Pen Co., 6 pm; Umlauf collectors’ talk, doors 6 pm, talk 6:30 pm, free.
The Contemporary Austin is free all day Thursdays at both locations. Jones Center hours: 12–6 pm.
INVASIVE SPECIES 2 at Future Front (day being confirmed) and Behind the Mask at Bolm, both 7–10 pm. UMLAUF is closed Oct 9–11.
Sarah Ferguson at Wally Workman, 6–8 pm; Lisa B. Woods at Women & Their Work, 7–9 pm. Atomic Pulse v1 at dadaLab, matinee 3–6 pm and evening 7–10 pm. Passing Beauty closes at Davis Gallery.
Jade Walker tours Moki Cherry at the Jones Center, 2–4 pm. Varda’s The Gleaners and I at Lydia Art Salon, 2 pm. Silencio en el fondo closes at McLennon Pen Co.
The Blanton is free on Tuesdays, 10 am–5 pm.
Openings and run dates come first. The directory is the standing roster behind your weekly art sweep, so the page can remain your map even as the shows change.
Archived edition
Downtown openings, Bolm’s closing and a Houston detour with friend Amy Scofield.
Open full editionCloseTwo solo shows open together: Ash’s Valleys Made High and Long’s Returning Home, The Quiet of Undoing. Both artists will be present. Andrew's been working away at the studio and excited for this show!
Watch Boley paint, ask about her process, and see her metal-and-ink exhibition. Halter Ranch Texas provides the wine.
More than 100 Greater Austin artists fill City Hall with paintings, sculpture, drawings and other work. Meet the artists over live music and light refreshments; keynote remarks begin at 6:30 pm.
Hope Hummingbird, Kate Csillagi and Lauren Napolitano show new work that asks what we might create if we stopped inheriting the old world and imagined the next one. Meet the artists over complimentary beverages.
Austin artist and friend Amy Scofield is my highlight in this 10th-anniversary exhibition of sculpture and installation art, spread across the former rice silos at Sawyer Yards. The silos are all one contiguous, covered space.
This is Amy's second "silos" piece: she was part of Siloed: A Tank Town Art Experience in Lockhart, October 6–November 5, 2023. Six Central Texas artists transformed five former grain silos into installations.
Christa Gomez’s porcelain and Phokus’s drawing, installation and sound meet in a show about material, memory and sustained difference. Closing talk moderated by Devin Alejandro-Wilder.
Booth uses collage, found paper and the familiar house shape to examine home, belonging and midlife change.
Meet the October Austin Artist of the Month. Metallic films and resin make her layered paintings shift with light and viewpoint.
A one-hour program of 31 experimental short films from Texas and beyond, followed by a filmmaker Q&A. Curated by Virginia L. Montgomery and Tiffany Katarina Smith.
Creative technologist David Sydiongco and experiential designer Richard Ruiz give talks and demos. Bring a laptop for the Show & Tell Sandbox.
The Barbados-born sculptor discusses soil, ocean water, performance and the physical and cultural histories held in natural materials.
Collectors discuss their connections with Charles Umlauf and his family alongside the anniversary exhibition of 35 works from 35 private collections.
Deep Listening at the Jones Center, 700 Congress Ave, 6:30–8 pm, free. TouchDesigner Meetup at dadaLab, 7:30–9:30 pm.
Verdant opens 5–8 pm; Via Boley paints live at Unchained.Art 6–8 pm. Bolm Critique Night, 6:30–9:30 pm.
Lunch & Learn: Mysticism and Cosmic Wonderings, Jones Center, 12–1 pm, $20 general / $10 members. Lyrical Jewelry opens at Art for the People, 6–8 pm.
Singular Visions opens at SITE Gallery in Houston, 6–9 pm, free, with friend Amy Scofield among the artists. In Austin, Between Light and Earth closes with a reception 6–10 pm and artist talk at 8 pm. Sylvia Benitez’s The Way Back closes Sunday at Wally Workman.
Lisa Loudermilk at Unchained.Art, 12–4 pm; Paige Booth talk at Link & Pin, 2 pm. Lydia Art Salon’s public Sunday movie is also at 2 pm, announced in its newsletter; movie title not specified.
Taisha Carrington’s free artist talk at UT, 3 pm.
35x35x35 collectors’ talk at UMLAUF; doors 6 pm, talk 6:30 pm. Free.
Archived edition
grayDUCK’s farewell, a Wednesday double-header and everything still up.
Open full editionCloseThe closing of Yuliya Lanina’s Dress Rehearsal is also grayDUCK’s farewell: the gallery itself is closing after this show.
LONG LIVE grayDUCK!
Projection-mapped works by Central Texas artists turn the old Seaholm pump house into a lakefront screen. Free from the shore; boat cruises and Retro Boat rentals are ticketed.
Intel Lastierre and Vy Ngo use the idea of independent melodic lines to frame a visual conversation about history, power, and identity. Artist talk Oct 15, 6–8 pm.
This is Vy’s last show as an ICOSA Member - don’t miss it!
The inaugural show at East Austin’s new Ostillo brings together painting, assemblage, sculpture, and photography around the image of the mask.
Two solo shows: Ash’s abstract series Valleys Made High and Long’s Returning Home, The Quiet of Undoing. Andrew's been working away at the studio and excited for this show!
Valerie Chaussonnet’s playful sculpture exhibition starts with twelve as a practical quantity inside a base-ten world.
Via Boley layers cut and sanded metal, reflective material, ink glazes, and acrylic to explore strength through tension.
Isadora Jackson turns the culvert gallery into an immersive maze of image, light, shadow, and sound.
Joe On The Go, Joe Max Emminger at Yard Dog, 7–9 pm.
Contrapuntals opens 7–10 pm. dadageek student show, doors 7:30. WaterWork at dusk.
grayDUCK’s Closing & Gallery Wake, 5–8 pm, closes Yuliya Lanina’s Dress Rehearsal and the gallery itself. Also: Verdant’s Patterns Interrupted closes (12–5 pm); Rewon artist talk and final hours at Future Front; WaterWork night two.
Alyssa Taylor Wendt’s Doppelwelt at AFS Cinema, 6406 N I-35 Suite 3100. Doors 6:30 pm, screening 7 pm, artist talk and Q&A 7:45 pm. Free with RSVP.
TouchDesigner Meetup v13 at dadaLab, 7:30–9:30 pm. Deep Listening Session at the Contemporary, 6:30–8 pm, free.
Openings and run dates come first. The directory is the standing roster behind your weekly art sweep, so the page can remain your map even as the shows change.