Art in Public Places (AAPP) Downtown Austin & Things to See

    

AAPP              Big Chiller Blues                    Vertical Expanse of Glass

                        Austin Convention Center/ Parking Garage

Two-sides of an industrial chiller, its cooling towers, and support space shielded by 10,000 square feet of glass tiles in watery shades of blue.

Glass tiles Ann Adams 2005 

                                        601 E. 5^th St.

AAPP             Pedestrian Geometries

Elgin-Butler glazed brick, motor, grout

Erin Curtis 2013     

Multiple locations along 3^rd St. between

Trinity and Nueces streets.  “Eight city blocks Austin Convention Center to Shoal Creek.”

AAPP             High Water Mark (II)                            Stainless Panels

Cut metal fence with enamel overlays

22 laser cut stainless panels tell the story of extreme floods in downtown Austin

Austin, Texas – 2007

W. 2^nd Street District

“One of the friendliest neighborhoods in the US.”

AAPP              Urban Canyon                                                      Paving
 Sun McColgin 2011                      

W. 2^nd St. Colorado St. (Lavaca St).

AAPP            Golden Afternoon                                          Interactive Light Based Artwork Seaholm Parking garage underground stairwell (hanging garden.) Thirty-six stainless steel flowers attached along the three-story wall. Stainless steel, fiber optic cables, LED lighting, and motion sensors.

Urban Matters Inc (Shagun Singh, Rick Lin) 2016
                        211 Waller Seaholm Dr.

AAPP             Accordion 16                            Seaholm Retaining Wall

and Parking Garage underground stairwell.

 Seaholm Development 300-foot-long zigzag retaining Wall Exterior Latex paint  Sten Lex 2016

2011 Walter Seaholm Dr.

AAPP             Kempelen’s Owls                Two 10-foot owl sculptures

NAPA             (New American Public Art)

600 West Second Street near Shoal Creek at the corner of West Second and Nueces Streets.

AAPP             Willie Nelson   (Statue)    Sculpture
Eight-foot-tall sculpture unveiled April 20^th 4:20 PM
(420 @ 420)

Clete Shields 2012   Moody Theater Public Plaza

                        310 W. Willie Nelson Blvd. (200)

in the heart of downtown

The Moody Theatre                                         ACL Live

310 W. Willie Nelson Blvd.

Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater (ACL Live) is a state-of-the-art, 2,750-person capacity live music venue that serves as the new home for the taping of the acclaimed KLRU-TV produced PBS series Austin City Limits, the longest running music series in American television history.

City Hall Plaza                                                 Seeding Time  Stones limestone, MeeFog humidification system, lights, oak tree – planted as a sampling from the story of “Austin beloved 500-year-old Treaty Oak” with stone benches for screamers and dreamers to gather around. Nobuho Nagasawa 2004                                                                            301 West 2^nd St.

Austin City Hall  1-week notice                   Guided Tour                                30-45 Min MTWF                      No notice                   Self Guided Tour                                        301 W. 2^nd St.                   512-974-7819

CiArt               The People’s Gallery              Free                         Exhibition

                                      Austin City Hall
                                               Art on every floor

Reception an annual exhibition of over 150 artworks by Austin-area artist

AAPP             La Fuente en Calle Segunda (Segundo)            Sculpture     

Roger Colombik & Jerolyn Bahm-Colombik 2010

                                                                                W. 2^nd St. & San Antonio St.
AAPP             Stevie Ray Vaughan                               Memorial Statue
Bronze. The long bronze “shadow” behind the eight-foot-tall sculpture is that of the man playing his guitar. Ralph Helmick 1994210 Ann and Roy Butler Hike and Bike Trail 800 W. Riverside Dr.
Auditorium Shores 
Lady Bird Lake Vic Mathias Shores

Austin Central Library

                                            12-6 Su 10- 9 M-Th
10-6 F Sa
Six stories 200,000 feet of technology and books.

                        The largest solar installation in downtown.                                      710 Cesar Chavez St. (1^st)   512-974-7400                                                                          

Bus 3 or 803 Republic Square Part to destination.

AAPP             CAW                                                          LED display Aluminum, urethane paint

Christian Moeller 2016

inside the Austin Central Library

710 W. Caesar Chavez St. (100)   

AAPP           The blackbird–                       a real time computer program creating gestures and behaviors never the same

inside the Austin Central Library

710 W. Caesar Chavez St. (100)

CiArt*      Wander Downtown.com         Beacon                            Sculpture

Red Cube Outside the front of the Cookbook Bar

& Café. – Austin Central Library

710 W. Caesar Chavez St. (100)

*Wanderatx.com leads you on a literary adventure in downtown Austin.  Choose from four stories written by local authors, each starting at the Beacon.

CookBook       BLD                $$                    American

Bar & Cafe             9-10:30 M-F                    Breakfast

and all day Sat-Sun

LN                                           9-9 M-Th   9-7 F Sa Su

710 Cesar Chavez St.       512-487-5166

 inside the Austin Central Library

The Austin Central Library restaurant’s terrace patio provides views of the city, Shoal Creek and the Colorado River.

AAPP*            High Water Mark                                    Railing Panels

                        Deborah Mersky 2008

                        Guadalupe St. & W. Cesar Chavez St.

AAPP              Stem Rack                                                       Bike Rack
                        Ann Armstrong 2012

                        111 Congress Ave.     

AAPP            Street Sounds                                                  Sculpture
                       Sodalitas 2013                Brazos St. / Cesar Chavez St. to 7^th St.

TTS                Bats: Congress Avenue Bridge 

            (23) Lady Bird Lake Bat Watching Daily Activity March – October watch 1.5 million                             bats emerge from The Ann W. Richards Congress Ave Bridge at Sunset.

            (Lower Walnut Creek Hike & Bike Trail) 

AAPP             Bait Box                                                        Metal Work
Cast Bronze, welded steel, paint, decal
Buster Graybill 2009                    12017 Amherst Drive

            On the shores of Lady Bird Lake near 12017
                        Amherst Dr. East Side Hike and Bike Trail

AAPP             Bait Box                                                                Award

American for the Arts Public Art Network(PAN) Year in Review

Bait Box is a sculpture inspired by the artist’s experiences with “noodling” (catching flathead catfish by hand) in Oklahoma. He sculpted a giant catfish to honor the folklore surrounding “monster” catfish and the rare individuals obsessively pursuing these creatures. This bronze catfish lounged life-like on a faux High Voltage Box near the shores of Lady Bird Lake, a scenic parkland trail location where visitors sought to discover if the fish were real. The piece provided opportunity for the public to reconnect with the outdoors and share their own stories of “the one that got away.”

The Trail at Lady Bird Lake

(2) Lady Bird Lake 10 Mile Roy and Ann Butler Hike and Bike Trail

AAPP             Nightwing                                                   Sculpture Painted aluminum, concrete, steel 
Dale Whistler 1998
                        100 ½ Barton Spring Rd.S. Congress Ave. & Barton Spring Rd. Traffic Intersection Points the way to North America’s Largest Mexican free-tailed bat colony of 1.5 million. Can swivel simulating flight.