The Art Galleries and the ACC Center for Peace & Conflict Studies will host two Restorative Listening Circles with the aim of creating a space where visitors can start a conversation about the issue of gun violence in our society. These events will be one hour long and consist of two-parts. We will start at 5:00pm with an in-gallery discussion in Gallery 4000 about an artwork in the exhibition. Then, we will all transition to the ACC Military Families Center for our discussion circle.

Events are free & open to the public. No RSVP required.

What are Restorative Listening Circles?

Restorative Listening Circles offer an inclusive and collaborative space for participants to share openly and build trust with each other. Everyone will have a chance to speak without interruption and all voices are considered equally important. Circles strengthen community relationships and provide the space to understand others’ perspectives.

The Art Galleries and the ACC Center for Peace & Conflict Studies will host two Restorative Listening Circles with the aim of creating a space where visitors can start a conversation about the issue of gun violence in our society. These events will be one hour long and consist of two-parts. We will start at 5:00pm with an in-gallery discussion in Gallery 4000 about an artwork in the exhibition. Then, we will all transition to the ACC Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center for our discussion circle.

Events are free & open to the public. No RSVP required.

What are Restorative Listening Circles?

Restorative Listening Circles offer an inclusive and collaborative space for participants to share openly and build trust with each other. Everyone will have a chance to speak without interruption and all voices are considered equally important. Circles strengthen community relationships and provide the space to understand others’ perspectives.

During this virtual gallery talk, artist Angel Cabrales will discuss his process for creating his multi-media installations, videos, and sculptures. Cabrales’ series The Uncolonized: A Vision in the Parallel presents an alternative reality in which Spanish conquest was averted, allowing for Indigenous populations to evolve and thrive without colonial interference. This series is featured in the Fall 2024 exhibition Reflection and Renewal: Chican(x)Futurism in Texas. 

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During this program, participants will explore the idea of belonging through Nansi Guevara’s artwork included in the exhibition Reflection and Renewal: Chican(x)Futurism in Texas. After a group discussion about Guevara’s artwork, ACC’s Peace & Conflict Studies Center staff will lead an interactive discussion that explores envisioning public places in Austin. 

For this exhibition, Guevara will be displaying, Nuestra Delta Magica, a body of work that examines issues surrounding the border including the environmental implications of SpaceX and transforming the anti-immigration narrative by exposing untold histories of violence and segregation in South Texas.

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Artists and ACC Faculty Judith Simonds, Paula King, Bess Siritanapivat, and Roland Garcia will give tandem artists talks in Gallery 4000 (HLC 4.2105) in conjunction with Those Who Can, Teach: 2024 Art Department Faculty Exhibition. During this talk, each artist will discuss their process and practice for the works in the current exhibition.

Meeting Place: Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450) at ACC Highland Campus

Artists Sarah Hirneisen (faculty, Texas State University) and Erin Cunningham (faculty, University of Texas at Austin) will give tandem artists talks in Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450). Both Hirneisen and Cunningham focus on gender roles and expectations through their artworks, which are included in the spring exhibition Material Evolution: Selected Works from the Texas Sculpture Group.

Meeting Place: Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450) at ACC Highland Campus

Artists Matthew Isaacson (faculty, ACC) and Valérie Chaussonnet will give tandem artists talks in Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450) in conjunction with Material Evolution: Selected Works from Texas Sculpture Group. Isaacson and Chaussonnet will focus on their use of scale in their works, which utilize ceramic and metal materials.

Meeting Place: Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450) at ACC Highland Campus

Artists Yousif Del Valle (faculty, ACC) and Hollis Hammonds (faculty, St. Edward’s University) will give tandem artists talks in Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450) in conjunction with Material Evolution: Selected Works from Texas Sculpture Group. Del Valle and Hammonds will discuss their artistic practice and works, which explore themes such as: gun violence, pollution, and memory.

Meeting Place: Highland Campus, Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450)

Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm 

In this session, Creative Writing Department Chair Prudence Arceneaux and Professor Katie McClendon will be reading poems and excerpts that correspond with the themes found with the artworks in Narrated Memories. 

Meeting Place: Highland Campus, Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450)

Time: 3:00pm

This in-gallery talk will focus on Heather Parrish’s Double Down (more information below) and the ways in which art can be a catalyst for political discourse and engagement. This roundtable discussion is held in conjunction with the Community College Humanities Association 2023 National Conference and will include the following speakers: Bernardo Diaz (Art Department, Chair), Yousif Del Valle, (Art Department, Associate Professor), and Madeline Kinkel (Humanities & Religion, Assistant Professor). 

About Double Down:

Heather Parrish’s Double Down, featured in Narrated Memories, is a collaboration with Katherine Leah Pace, an urban environmental historian whose research examines these lesser-known layers of history surrounding Waller Creek. 

Waller Creek is a central waterway that runs through the heart of downtown Austin. This stream has been used to create the city’s well-known east-west geographic divide, which has become a marker of racial segregation through the city’s history. During the post-Civil-War period, formerly-enslaved people were settled along the banks of Waller Creek–an area prone to natural flooding cycles. In the Jim Crow era, a 1928 city plan included racial boundaries east of Waller Creek, delineating where Black, Mexican-American, and immigrant populations could live. Starting in the 1950s, construction of I-35 reinforced this color line, while causing neighborhood disruptions and heavy pollution. On-going beautification initiatives, aimed to attract investment, such as the creation of parks, trails, and underground tunnels along Waller Creek have exacerbated population displacement with environmental consequences.

Meeting Place: Highland Campus, Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450)

Time: 4:30pm – 5:30pm 

This in-gallery talk will focus on the composition behind Laurie Frick’s mural A Mood (more information below). Elizabeth Vary, composer and ACC alumni, will join us for a discussion about her musical composition, alongside ACC Music Professor Steven Sodders. This session will also include a live, in-gallery performance of the piece by ACC Music students Julia Watkins-Davis (voice), Julie Linder (clarinet), and Valeria Diaz-Navarro (piano).

About A Mood: 

Data artist Laurie Frick has created a unique process for merging the mathematical principles of music with the visual arts by mapping the inherent rhythms and patterns from musical scores. For this project, Frick selected ACC Music Composition student Elizabeth Vary’s melodic composition entitled “A Mood.”  Drawing inspiration from the piece’s musical flow and repetitive elements, Frick’s artwork is a vibrant system of patterns that emerged from her study of the musical score. Each line, shape, or color correlates to a rest or letter notation, building a pattern that reflects the mathematical roots of music composition. This mural project is a collaboration between Frick, The Art Galleries (TAG) at Austin Community College, and the ACC Music Department. A Mood was hand painted by TAG staff and ACC Studio Art students. 

Meeting Place: Highland Campus, Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450)

Time: 4:30pm – 5:30pm 

This in-gallery talk will feature Gallery Director Peter Bonfitto and Curatorial Assistant Norma Bickmore, as they walk participants through the newest exhibition Narrated Memories: Artworks by ACC Alumni Laurie Frick, Heather Parrish, and Michael Villarreal. 

Meeting Place: Highland Campus, Gallery 4000 (HLC 4.2150)

This session focuses on Food, Shelter, Water – a collaboration between TAG and the Department of Professional Photography (The.DPP). In this session, Professor Bret Brookshire will dive into Vero Cardenas’ and ACC Alumni Cindy Elizabeth’s artworks in Food, Shelter, Water: Projects by Four Texas Photographers.

Meeting Place: Highland Campus, Gallery 4000 (HLC 4.2150)

This session focuses on Food, Shelter, Water – a collaboration between TAG and the Department of Professional Photography (The.DPP). In this session, Professor Maja Buck will dive into Stephanie Duprie Routh and Jamie Robertson’s artworks in Food, Shelter, Water: Projects by Four Texas Photographers.

Meeting Place: Highland Campus, Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450)

This session focuses on The Contemporary Print 2023. Print Austin co-founder Cathy Savage and Austin-area artist Peter Nickel will talk about the importance of artist collectives. Nickel will also discuss his artwork Free Fall in The Contemporary Print exhibition. 

Meeting Place: Highland Campus, Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450)

This session focuses on The Contemporary Print 2023 and the printmaking techniques used in the exhibition artworks. Austin-based printmaker Annalise Gratovich will talk about her perspective on the traditional and innovative techniques used in the exhibition.

Meeting Place: Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450)

Meeting Place: Highland Campus, Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450)

This session focuses on the use of myth and lore seen in the artworks in our Fall exhibition – Cultivating Community thorugh Art: Sam Coronado’s Serie Project and its Continuing Legacy. During this session, Gary Moreno, Professor of History and Director of Latino/Latin American Studies Center “El Centro”, and Lydia CdeBaca Cruz, Professor of History at ACC and UT Austin, will dive into the mythological stories that some of the artists referenced in their prints

Meeting Place: Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450)

This particular session invites visitors to learn more about the process of screen printing from master printers Brian Johnson and Jonathan Rebolloso – two Coronado Studio printers for the Serie Project featured in our Fall 2022 exhibition Cultivating Community through Art: Sam Coronado’s Serie Project and its Continuing Legacy. 

Meeting Place: Highland Campus, Gallery 4000 (HLC 4.2105)

This session features artist in our Faculty Exhibition who will speak about their artistic practice and inspirations surrounding the works on display. This particular session focuses on “capturing little moments through art” 

Meeting Place: Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450)

This particular session invites visitors to learn more about the curatorial work behind our Fall exhibition – Cultivating Community through Art: Sam Coronado’s Serie Project and its Continuing Legacy. During this session, Peter Bonfitto, Gallery Director at The Art Galleries, and Bernardo Diaz, Assistant Dean of Assessment & Planning for Arts & Digital Media, will discuss their curatorial process.

Meeting Place: Gallery 4000 

This session features artist in our Faculty Exhibition who will speak about their artistic practice and inspirations surrounding the works on display. This particular session focuses on “popular culture in art”

Meeting Place: Gallery 4000

This session features artist in our Faculty Exhibition who will speak about their artistic practice and inspirations surrounding the works on display. This particular session will focus on “found objects in art”