Events

Join us for an informational and interactive workshop on gender, sex, and identity led by Shane Whalley.

Fashion forms part of a society’s rich tapestry and can serve as an entry point into contemplating how marginalized and racialized communities understand themselves and their place in the world. Co-presented by IMMEDIATE, join us for a daylong scholarly workshop that examines the role of fashion in challenging inequality.

Feast your eyes on artwork by teen artists from around Austin in this celebration of our Spring 2017 Young Artists participants!

In this nonpartisan workshop led by Stephanie Chiarello Noppenberg, learn the basics of how the Texas legislature works and how best to make your voice heard by your representatives.

Learn more about Warsaw-based artist Monika Sosnowska—among the most important young artists emerging from Eastern Europe today—and her exhibition Habitat in this lecture on art and Polish cultural history given by Senior Curator Heather Pesanti.

How to you build a distinct program for a sculpture park? Join Elisabeth Millqvist, Co-Director and Artistic Leader of Wanås Konst, Sweden, and Helen Pheby, Senior Curator of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, U.K., for a conversation about how they conceive projects, engage artists, and impact audiences outdoors.

Philosopher Alva Noë and writer Lawrence Weschler, contributors to the Strange Pilgrims exhibition catalogue, present a public conversation and book signing, investigating ideas of art and philosophy.

In recognition of World AIDS Day, RADIANT PRESENCE will be screened continuously in the Jones Center Community Room. RADIANT PRESENCE is a digital slideshow with images from Visual AIDS' Artist+ Registry, the world's largest database of works by artists with HIV/AIDS.

The twentieth year of the Texas Book Festival celebrates authors and their contributions to the culture of literacy, ideas, and imagination. The Contemporary Austin hosts talks and signings by authors of arts-related books.

The twentieth year of the Texas Book Festival celebrates authors and their contributions to the culture of literacy, ideas, and imagination. The Contemporary Austin hosts talks and signings by authors of arts-related books.

Every ten years, at the Skulptur Projekte Münster, artists investigate the relationship among art, the public realm, and the urban environment and develop new, site-specific works. Britta Peters, a curator for the 2017 edition, will present a talk about this ambitious international project.

Widely known for co-founding the band DEVO and scoring Wes Anderson films, Mark Mothersbaugh has expressed a consistent artistic voice far beyond music in his prolific career that includes drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, painting, and much more. Adam Lerner, curator of the Mark Mothersbaugh retrospective Myopia at the MCA Denver, coming to The Contemporary Austin in Spring 2016, will preview the extraordinary landscape of Mothersbaugh’s artistic world.