The People’s Gallery at City Hall is a free, annual exhibition designed to showcase regional artists and to encourage public dialog, understanding, and enjoyment of visual art. Each year, visitors are asked to vote on their favorite pieces, and the winning piece is bought by the City of Austin and continues to be displayed.

Music: “Bad Street” by Twin Sister

Art Therapy Austin offers individual art therapy for all ages, as well as workshops for women, Open Studio for adults, and more.  Deanna Miesch and Cathy Altman, owner of Austin Ashiatsu, have created a healing space for art, acupuncture and ashiatsu massage therapies. Their aim is to provide balance for the body, mind and soul of Austin & beyond.

East Austin Studio Tour 2012 Site #H16
Music: “Calgary” by Bon Iver

Big love and big fun are the focus of MonsterLove, a community art project spearheaded by Sara Hasslinger. “Monsterheads,” mixed media works, and even vegan taxidermy are some of the things that happen under the project.

East Austin Studio Tour 2012 Site #76
Music: “Night Watch” by Videoing

April Garcia is bold and vivid. Charlie Chauvin is magical and fearless. She likes fabric and bubble wrap. He likes writing in cursive and drawing funny things. Mostly they work separately but often they find ways to be influenced by each other and work collaboratively. Together they mix her fabric and mixed media with his illustrations and paintings. This year they will be featuring both independent and collaboratively.

East Austin Studio Tour 2012 Site #66
Music: “Driver’s River” by Vidoeing

Super!Alright! is an established creative studio that generates a wide variety of media projects for local, national and international projects. The warehouse-studio space also provides an opportunity for Super!Alright!’s creative community to showcase their recent artwork and projects to the public. New works by: Jen Bradley, Adreon Henry, Luther Himes IV, Jacob Villanueva and Jason Archer.

East Austin Studio Tour 2012 Site #163
Music: “In My Eyes” by Givers

Spiral Plexus will be on exhibit March 11 – June 9, 2012.

Art On The Way (AOTW) is an innovative nonprofit organization committed to transforming public and private underutilized plots of land throughout Austin into sites for contemporary visual art. AOTW reclaims this land and invigorates these city-sites by installing a series of unique public artworks created by Texas artists directly for these forgotten portions of Austin neighborhoods. AOTW believes that art enriches lives, and that this enrichment should be available to everyone. Art should be everywhere: On your way to school, on your way to work, on your way home– Art On The Way!