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To Create While Homeless: the High Price of Art

To Create While Homeless: the High Price of Art

How do you define “artist”? Do you consider artists to be sculptors or painters with works displayed in world-class museums? Artisans and craftspeople who produce utilitarian items like baskets or blankets? Bohemian creatives who make objects and images as artistic representations of their experiences? It turns out that “artist” is a kind of catch-all word we can use to describe a person who envisions, designs, or fabricates things of use and/or beauty…so, an artist can be anyone in any circumstance. Sometimes, the circumstance informs the art. Consider that of homelessness.

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Supporting the Arts and Helping the Homeless in Austin

Supporting the Arts and Helping the Homeless in Austin

Homeless art Austin. Austin, Texas is known for its creativity. Not only is Austin home to world-class museums like the Blanton Museum, the Harry Ransom Center, and The ContemporAry Austin, it is also a creative center where many artists live. Some of the best artists in the city, however, have no place to create art because they have no real place to call home. Yes: many amazing Austin artists are homeless.

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We’ve Secured Our Own Space!

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We’ve Secured Our Own Space! How? Our Large Gifts Campaign! Art From The Streets has successfully launched a Large Gifts Campaign to expand our program by securing a PERMANENT location for our program! While this is amazing news, we’re not finished.

This 2,000 square foot space provides room for open studio, storage, events, community collaborations, participation in art shows as one of Austin’s art galleries, and creative events.

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