Art Spark Texas

Art Spark TX Radio Hour Show
2024-10-21 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-10-28 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-11-04 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-11-11 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-11-18 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-11-25 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-12-02 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-12-09 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) and 2 more dates
Tune in every Monday at 2:00 PM CT to the Art Spark TX Radio Hour live on the Austin airwaves at KOOP 91.7 FM or streaming at https://koop.org/program/art-spark-tx-radio-hour/
Bringing inclusive discussion of topics important to the disability community & beyond!

Call for Art- Community Exhibition Spaces
2024-10-29 10:00 - 10:30, 2024-11-26 10:00 - 10:30 | Art Spark Texas, 1152 San Bernard St., Austin, TX, 78702, United States
Deadline: Ongoing
This call for art is open to all Texas artists with a disability, Texas veteran or current military member artists, and any senior artist 55 and over.
Art Spark Texas curates solo and group exhibitions at a few locations around Austin. These spaces are suitable for framed work with wire across the back for hanging. (Currently we have one community space available)

Austin Lighthouse for the Blind – Southeast Austin
We can hang around 15-20 pieces (depending on size) at this space on a two-month rotation.

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Or contact Jerry at jerry@artsparktx.org or 512-454-9912

Paint the Canyon - Veteran Art and Nature Workshop in Palo Duro Canyon
2024-11-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Palo Duro Canyon State Park, 11450 Park Road 5, Canyon, 79015, United States
Join Art Spark Texas and CreatiVets in this fun two-hour painting workshop down in the Palo Duro Canyon on Saturday, November 2, 2024 from 10 am – noon.
Led by Amarillo artist Summer Balcer, we will be painting the canyon from Tasajillo Pavilion in Palo Duro Canyon State Park. All supplies provided.
Open to beginners and experienced painters alike.This event is specifically for Veterans, current, and prior military, and their family members. Kids welcome with parent supervision.
If you have questions, please contact April Sullivan at april@artsparktx.org or 512-632-0515.
Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/paint-the-canyon-tickets-1007960756757?aff=oddtdtcreator

VIRTUAL OPEN MIC: THE LION & PIRATE
2024-11-03 13:00 - 14:30
The Lion & Pirate invites you to our virtual inclusive open mic for writers, performers, and musicians! As always, we’re open to work in any genre: music, spoken word, improv, skits, storytelling, dance, poems or prose… Anything you can perform!
Featured performers to be announced; then, it will be your time to shine! There will be 10 sign-up slots. We ask that you sign up ahead of time. Any sign-ups after 10 will be held on a backup list.
Join us on Zoom:
Use this Link to attend our virtual open mic.
Stay tuned to our Facebook Group for event updates, signup sheets, and links, and invite your friends, too. You can tune in just to connect with your community and give us those “clap” reactions.
Questions? Please email MsBoye.

Women Veterans Strong
2024-11-09 08:00 - 09:00, 2024-12-14 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-01-11 08:00 - 09:00
A virtual group for women vets to connect, create, and converse.
We are reading The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and meeting once a month to discuss each chapter.
Starts September 14th.
Two options: Meet either second Saturdays from 8-9 am or second Wednesdays from noon-1 pm.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83168620735?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 831 6862 0735
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Texas Veterans Strong Creative Network
2024-11-14 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-12-12 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-01-09 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-13 10:30 - 11:30 | Virtual
Join us for this monthly virtual creative network that connects Arts Organization, Veteran Organizations, and Creative Veterans to share ideas, network, and collaborate to elevate and support or creative Texas Veterans. Together, we are strong!
Register to receive the meeting link: tps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrdOmgpzMsHNYYU-Wv-UyUGYxf7d6OvDrU

The Lion and Pirate Open Mic In Person
2024-12-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Art Spark Texas, 1152 San Bernard St., Austin, TX, 78702, United States
Our usual virtual open mic is in person this month! Join us at the Art Spark Texas Studio at 1152 San Bernard Street, Austin, TX 78702.
At this inclusive open mic, we’re open to work in any genre: music, spoken word, improv, skits, storytelling, dance, poems or prose… Anything you can perform!
Join us to hear from local creatives. Sign up at the event if you want to perform. Contact us if you have questions about our sound set up.
What to Expect:

The performer sign-up opens at 2:30 PM.
This is a disability-inclusive open mic, so all performers are welcome, regardless of their abilities. It’s a supportive and welcoming environment where everyone is encouraged to share their gifts.
The Lion & Pirate Open Mic is a great way to showcase your talents and connect with other artists.
We encourage a variety of performers, including musicians, poets, comedians, storytellers, and more to join us.
We will have amplification.
The house, porch, and backyard are all accessible, please email MsBoye for individual accessibility questions or requirements.
The event is free and open to the public. All ages are welcome.

As always, we’re open to work in any genre: music, spoken word, improv, skits, storytelling, dance, poems or prose… Anything you can perform!
Featured performers to be announced; then, it will be your time to shine!
Stay tuned to our Facebook Group for event updates, signup sheets, and links, and invite your friends, too.
Questions? Please email MsBoye.

Professional Learning with Dr. Tina Curran
2024-12-14 15:00 - 17:30 | Rosedale School, 7505 Silvercrest Drive, Austin, TX, 78757, United States
Professional Learning with Dr. Tina Curran, December 14th 3-5.30pm in person.

In this professional learning workshop with Dr. Tina Curran participants go through a creative dance lesson experience, deconstruct it through reflection, and introduce backward design and provide a template for lesson planning that participants can use.

The lesson will include Language of Dance which has been useful for English Language Learners and mixed ability learners.

Dr. Tina Curran is the director of UTeach Dance at the Department of Theatre and Dance. She oversees the preparation and professional mentorship of students in the B.F.A. in Dance: Dance Studies Optionpursuing their Texas dance teacher certification, acts as a liaison with the College of Education and oversees educational initiatives within the program and in the dance education community. Her areas of research explore dance literacy, living dance legacy and teacher preparation and professional development. Dr. Curran is a co-founder, with Ann Hutchison Guest, of the Language of Dance Center (USA). She conducts LOD certification courses and workshops nationally and internationally. She is a faculty member of the Dance Education Laboratory at the Harkness Dance Center in New York City where she offered courses in the Language of Dance, Dancing History/Living Legacy, topics in dance pedagogy, and transformational teaching. She has facilitated training, presented workshops and given interactive keynotes at numerous locations including the University of California Santa Barbara, Brigham Young University, New York University, Royal Academy of Dance and Roehampton University in the United Kingdom, Taipei National University of the Arts, El Centro Nationale des les Arts in Mexico City, New York City Department of Education, National Dance Education Organization, Dance and the Child International, International Council of Kinetography Laban, Dance History Scholars, Center for Educator Development in Fine Arts, Texas Dance Educators Association.
Dr. Curran received a B.F.A. in Dance from The Juilliard School, an M.F.A. in Choreographic Theory and Practice from Southern Methodist University and a Ph.D. in Teaching and Administration from New York University. Her certifications include: Language of Dance Certification Specialist, Teacher of Labanotation and American Ballet National Training Curriculum.

Art Spark TX Radio Hour Show
2024-12-30 14:00 - 15:00
Tune in every Monday at 2:00 PM CT to the Art Spark TX Radio Hour live on the Austin airwaves at KOOP 91.7 FM or streaming at https://koop.org/program/art-spark-tx-radio-hour/
Bringing inclusive discussion of topics important to the disability community & beyond!
Ring in 2025 with our annual poetry show! Live poet round table hosted by Christina Culverhouse and featuring local and visiting poets.

The Lion & Pirate Open Mic - Virtual
2025-01-12 13:00 - 14:30
The Lion & Pirate invites you to our virtual inclusive open mic for writers, performers, and musicians! As always, we’re open to work in any genre: music, spoken word, improv, skits, storytelling, dance, poems or prose… Anything you can perform!
🗓️ **When**: Sunday, January 12th, 2025
🕖 **Time**: 1:00 – 2:30 PM CDTWe invite you to our first open mic of 2025, Sunday, January 12, 1-2:30 pm on Zoom. During this time, we’d like to invite your feedback about the future of the Lion & Pirate. Some questions we’re considering as organizers:

How did you feel about the in person/ virtual hybrid event in December? Would you like to do more open mics like this?
Making each L&P run smoothly is a two-person job. Who has interest in co-hosting, even if it’s just for one event (not a long-term commitment)?
Are there changes you’d like to see to Lion & Pirate? Do you want things to stay the same?

And of course, we’ll be making time for a proper round robin style open mic and hope you’ll bring a poem, song, story, or other performance (or two) to share.
No need to sign up, just come to the meeting and we will round robin.
Join us on Zoom:
Email info@artsparktx.org to receive the zoom link

The Lion & Pirate Open Mic - Virtual
2025-02-01 19:00 - 20:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85231105344#success
The Lion & Pirate invites you to our virtual inclusive open mic for writers, performers, and musicians! As always, we’re open to work in any genre: music, spoken word, improv, skits, storytelling, dance, poems or prose… Anything you can perform!
🗓️ **When**: Saturday, February 1st, 2025
🕖 **Time**: 7:00 – 8:30 PM CDT
Join our co-host Amy Litzinger, as she and Laura Perna launch our co-hosting Lion and Pirate Open Mic project!
and remember, next month we will be writing together, and then a hybrid gathering in April at the Art Spark studio location on San Bernard!
Please sign up Here to speak/read/sing:
If you have any questions, please email Celia at celia@artsparktx.org
PLEASE NOTE: Zoom link to the open mic here

Call for Entries: Expressions 2025 Exhibition
2025-02-07 | Barshop Jewish Community Center, 12500 NW Military Hwy #275, San Antonio, TX, 78231, United States
Mental Illness Awareness Week is an annual national observance that a 1986 presidential proclamation created to recognize “the urgent need to educate the American public about mental illnesses and their treatments.” The 2025 Mental Illness Awareness Week activities will be held from Oct 5, 2025 – Oct 11, 2025. During this week, millions of Americans will honor the challenges of mental illness, as well as celebrate the recoveries they or their loved ones have embraced.

Art Spark Texas is hosting “Expressions” our annual Mental Illness Awareness Week art exhibition at Barshop Jewish Community Center of San Antonio Texas through the month of October with an art opening on Thursday, October 23rd from 5:00-8:00 pm.

Art Spark Texas invites all artists ages 18+ in San Antonio and surrounding areas with a mental health diagnosis to submit artwork to the exhibition. There is no entry fee and 2D and 3D works in all media are eligible. The exhibit will be on display at Barshop Jewish Community Center in San Antonio in October 2025.
Fill out the linked registration form to participate:
Expression Call for Art 2025
Please contact our organization or Expressions Exhibit Coordinator Susan Beattie at 210-908-1776 if you have any further questions.

Veteran Writing Workshop: Writing in Harmony: The Collective Voice in Fiction
2025-02-08 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
Characters in stories are not always confined to solitary existences. They exist in groups, in congregated masses, in what we might term as collectives.
These collectives might be construction workers, or a platoon of soldiers, or a classroom filled with twelfth-graders. They might be a grocery co-op, or a neighborhood social group, or even a barrel of monkeys or a pride of lions. In this session, we will generate fiction that gives narrative voice to a collective within a story while showing how a single, articulate murmur might emerge from this group consciousness. Register today! Open to all skill levels. Free for current and prior military members. Register at Eventbrite
Taught by Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal.
Clayton (they/them) is a queer, previously unhoused veteran who holds an MFA and a PhD in Creative Writing. They teach Creative Writing at Gannon University and are the Managing Editor of New Ohio Review and No Place is Foreign Editor at Another Chicago Magazine.

Vibrancy Exhibition
2025-02-10 08:00 - 16:30, 2025-02-12 08:00 - 16:30 | Austin Lighthouse for the Blind, 4512 S Pleasant Valley Rd, Austin, TX, 78744, United States
Vibrancy is a group exhibition that brings together 3 Austin-based artists who explore visual harmony, color and light in their work. Hosted by Art Spark Texas, this group show includes works created across multiple mediums; including painting, photography and digital processes.

Located @ AUSTIN LIGHTHOUSE , TRAVIS ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND4512 S Pleasant Valley Rd, Austin, TX 78744 Hours: 8:00AM – 4:30 PM, Exhibition dates: Feb 7- April 4
