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Greetings Artists and Supporters of the Arts!
We are sending you this newsletter to let you know about the latest activities of AIPP as well as upcoming opportunities!
City of Austin will be closed on 11/12/12 for Veteran's Day and on 11/22 and 11/23 for Thanksgiving.
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Arts, Culture + Austin Grand Prix
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Have you heard there's an auto race happening this month?
Nearly 300,000 tourists are expected to visit Austin during the weekend of November 16-18, which makes for a whole new audience for our creative talents.  The Cultural Arts Division has partnered with Circuit of the Americas to sponsor a portion of Austin Fan Fest, the weekend-long festival to coincide with the big race.
Cultural Arts Division will be showcasing Austin's diverse and talented artists and arts organizations on the Austin Creates stage.
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Rhytons celebrated at the ZACH!
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Newest sculpture for Austin will speak to you!
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Cliff Garten thanks collaborators and participants for the opportunity to bring this sculpture to the spectacular Topfer Theatre.
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Artist Cliff Garten was on hand Saturday morning to dedicate Austin's newest public artwork, Rhytons, a bronze sculpture consisting of two horns, gracefully knotted at center, which emanate the artist's sound work on the nature of theater. 
 ZACH Theatre is able to program the sculpture to play music and dialogue, allowing an ongoing collaboration between sculpture and architecture. The Juliet balcony, part of the building overlooking the sculpture, is able to sing, speak or play to the sculpture and the sculpture is able to answer back.  | |
Actors who lent their voices to Garten's sound work are, left to right, Sam Mercer, Liz Fisher, (artist Cliff Garten), Lindsey Sikes, Babs George and Jarret King. Participating actors not pictured: Martin Burke and Lauren Lane.
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New Mosaic Honoring
Austin African Americans
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This week, artist Reginald Adams of Houston completed installation of his mosaic mural for the new African American Cultural & Heritage Facility.
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Artist Reginald Adams, center, installing his work.
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The mural depicts several vignettes featuring historical buildings, documents and a portrait of William Thomas Detrick, a field laborer thought to have been among the first freed slaves in Travis County and whose home is now a part of the new facility.  The mural, approximately 8' x 25', also includes 88 portraits of people who made a significant contribution to the advancement of the African American community in Austin. Look for the celebration dedicating the new facility and the mosiac sometime in early 2013.
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Project Spotlight
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Morris Williams Golf Couse - artwork in fabrication.
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The artist is holding up a study of the finished work - the finished size of the work will be 88" wide x 84" high.
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Artist Ansen Seale is currently fabricating artwork for the newly renovated Morris Williams Golf Course Pro Shop on Manor Rd. Ansen has developed a method of dimensional printing that deconstructs the colors of a photograph and reassembles them loosely into layers, creating an engaging visual effect when viewed from different angles and distances.
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Morris Williams was a gifted golfer and local Austin hero who gave his life in the service of his country during WWII.
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Made of clear acrylic, the layers will be dotted with thousands of tiny cones that will be filled with cyan, yellow, magenta and black ink. Look for this artwork to be installed later this year!
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Other Opportunities and Events
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Do you need affordable space to live, work, create, rehearse and perform?
 The City of Austin, Austin Playhouse, and Artspace have launched the Artspace Market Survey of Artists, Arts Organizations, and Creative Sector Businesses.
Click here to take the survey, available online through December 31st.
 Artists, arts organizations, and for-profit creative sector businesses are all encouraged to complete the survey.
The purpose of the market survey is two-fold. The information gathered will help inform the concept and design decisions for the 4-story, 35-40 unit artist live/work project planned in conjunction with the new Austin Playhouse at Mueller Town Center.
Don't miss your chance to be heard!
The results of the survey will also identify Austin's specific creative sector space needs & requirements, which will be made available to local developers, building owners, and foundations interested in developing creative spaces. The City envisions that the survey data will provide valuable information for the planning of corridors, creative hubs, arts districts, and incubators.
For more information, contact Janet Seibert at 512-974-7860.
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Call to Filmmakers: Faces of Austin 2013
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2013, 5 p.m.
The City of Austin invites all Austin-area filmmakers to submit their work to Faces of Austin 2013. The selected films will have a premiere screening during the SXSW Film Conference Community Screenings in March 2013.
Visit www.austintexas.gov/department/faces-austin for more information.
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OTHER ARTWORK OPPORTUNITIES
For basic information about, and links to, other Public Art Calls to Artists around the country, please visit Public Art 4Culture.
For 4Culture Opportunity Listings, click here.
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