Clayworks Events
10 AM to 3 PM -- A Car-Free Street Festival
Viva Streets cyclovía visitors can tour our gallery, studio and garden.
We support bicycles, cyclovías and Viva Streets Austin. Most any day you'll see bikes parked on our racks.Clayworks invites you to join the fun as over two miles of East Sixth Street become a car-free playground during Austin's own version of the Cyclovía. You can bicycle, stroll, play, or people watch, on wide-open, traffic-free East Sixth Street.
Here's what you can do at Clayworks during the festival:
- Commemorate the day by decorating a tile
- Play sidewalk chess on our tile game tables
- Tour our studio and garden
Full details on Viva Streets! Austin at http://www.vivastreetsaustin.org
12 noon to 3 PM • Clayworks Studio • Breezeway Gallery • 1209 E. Sixth St.
Clayworks will host the student photography show "Common Ground" March 31st through April 14th in our Breezeway Gallery. The show features work by students from Allison Elementary School, which serves the East Austin neighborhood of Montopolis, and from Clayton Elementary located in Southwest Austin's Circle C area. Art teachers Lanie McCormick (Allison) and Nancy Hallmark (Clayton) have guided the project and coordinated the show, which they describe as "Two schools miles apart, coming together to explore photography by turning the lens on themselves and their world." Matted prints will be on sale and proceeds will benefit the student artists.
at Austin Bergstrom International Airport
Consider the Grackle, an unavoidable part of the soundtrack and setting of Austin, Texas.
When we at Clayworks first began to explore the idea of a Grackle theme exhibit to kick off our annual East Austin Studio Tour show, we wondered whether anyone besides ourselves found the ubiquitous bird an inspiration. We began asking around and discovered that a number of Austin artists had been contemplating or even making Grackle art for a while. The show was a success, and we were asked to stage it at Austin Bergstrom International Airport's Stars of Austin Gallery, where it remains through March, 2012.
During the Southwest Music Festival Clayworks will host a demonstration by Lyon Graulty of Station Audio. His handcrafted effects pedals have caught the eyes and ears of performers, studio musicians and recording engineers with their striking etched graphics and vintage tones. A number of designs will be on display, and Lyon will be demonstrating the processes he employs to create these unique effects boxes. All pedals will be for sale at the event, but if you can't make it, you can send all orders and inquiries to lyon@stationaudio.net.
Lyon plays guitar and clarinet with Woody Pines and plays with a number of groups around Austin.
Watch a demo of the Sparkle Punch Tube Boost
and the Draco Fuzz.
