Saturday, October 12, 2024 5:00 to 8:00 pm
Breaking the Mold exhibition: October 12, 2024 - December 1, 2024
Super Modeling exhibition: April 6 - November 10, 2024
Experience the Elisabet Ney Museum’s latest contemporary visual art exhibition and enjoy this annual creative event in which the community shares their thoughts and experiences the museum in new dynamic ways through the eyes of Austin-based female artists.
Celebrating the through line between 19th-century art and modern times, the contemporary art programs at the museum activates conversations between artists across the centuries and in collaboration with the historic native Texas landscape.
Community Art Bash attendees will experience a culmination of events inspired by Elisabet Ney including the opening of the exhibition Breaking the Mold (featuring the artwork of artists Beili Liu, Virginia L Montgomery (VLM), and Tammie Rubin), a new one-night project by artist Erica Nix, guided tours, and musical performance by Lou Priest (new solo artist persona of Kate Priestley). Be a part of the museum's evolving programs, exhibits, and educational initiatives on this night of exchange and creativity.
This project has been funded in part by a grant from the Dorothy C. Radgowski Learning Through Women’s Achievement in the Arts Grant Program, provided through the Where Women Made History and the Historic Artists' Homes and Studios programs of the National Trust for Historic Preservation along with support from the Summerlee Foundation.
Breaking the Mold is a group exhibition consisting of art that engages with the life, art, home, and story of Elisabet Ney by Austin contemporary visual artists Beili Liu, Virginia L Montgomery (VLM), and Tammie Rubin. These artists will also kick off a museum educational initiative Breaking the Mold: Mobile Hands-On Art Crates to be deployed in 2025 into Austin elementary schools to share Elisabet’s story with a new generation and with a focus on female empowered artists. These portable classroom kits designed and fabricated by the artists will bring each artist created crates into Austin 4th grade classrooms and engage students with art, history, science and math-based lessons that encourage critical thinking and the creative process.