Austin Art Scene & Art Galleries

On the first Friday of every month the Blanton Museum is open from 6 PM to 11 PM for a happening night of art, libations and live music by Austin bands and performers. Tickets are $10 for non-members and $5 for musuem members and are available at the museum and online.

The East Austin Studio Tour is a self guided tour of working art studios located east of I-35, west of 183, south of 51st Street and north of Town Lake. Begun in 2003 as a one day event with only twenty-eight studios, the East Austin Studio Tour is now a two day event with over 100 artists and studios participating. For 2007, the Tour takes place Saturday, November 17 and Sunday, November 18 from 10 AM to 5 PM. Look for the red numbered signs that mark all the studios. Maps are available from the studios and are also distributed around town in the weeks before the tour. Funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division, by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the East Austin Studio Tour is a unique opportunity to see the working spaces of artists and visit with the artists themselves.

For over twenty years, Mary Doerr has been painting watercolors of Austin and the Southwest. Her gallery on Burnet features some of the many watercolors she has rendered of Austin's best-loved places both past and present. Prints, posters, note cards, calendars and originals are available as well as the work of other artists including prints, photography, metal art, handcrafted jewelry and pottery, Treaty Oak memorabilia, Texas Limestone gifts and glass. Custom framing services are also available including a 15 percent discount to University of Texas graduates framing diplomas.