EAST AUSTIN STUDIO TOUR
Saturday November 17th &Sunday 18th, 2007
10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Welcome to the 6th annual East Austin Studio Tour. This year we celebrate the work of more than 200 artists at over 100 studios artists of extraordinary range with the common thread of working within the few square miles of central east Austin that has recently emerged as one of the highest concentration of artists in Central Texas.

E.A.S.T. is a free self guided tour open to the public. The tour offers art collectors, enthusiasts and the general public the rare opportunity to visit the inside of artists’ studios. Look through the website or catalog and find the studios you want to visit, check out the E.A.S.T. map for the location and look out for the studio signs outside all the artist studios.

Ride Your Bike

And in the spirit of suggesting that you reduce your speed—if only just a little bit—we are making bicycles the theme for this year’s E.A.S.T. Bicycles necessarily slow us down, reducing our field of view from an entire swath of streets to maybe just a few blocks. And they are also environmentally cool – leaving little impact. This year we’re working with the Yellow Bike Project and Metrocycle Pedicabs to make it easier for people from all over Austin to enjoy the tour in an environmentally friendly, low-impact fashion.

So what is being said at this year’s E.A.S.T.? That is for you to find out. As a participant, you take on the vital role of the listener. Tune in, see what you like, ask questions, maybe take something home with you. With this book, and your trusty E.A.S.T. map, you are ready.


Information Hubs

There's no specific route or order best for visiting the studios. Although two good starting points will be the information centers at Cafe Mundi and at E.A.S.T. Headquarters at Big Medium (Bolm Studios). Here you can get more information about the tour, get a map, artist catalog, and pick up an E.A.S.T. t-shirt, tote bag, and plenty of other E.A.S.T. goodies. If you come to Cafe Mundi, you can park your car and ride off in one of the 100 bikes being launched there by the Yellow Bike Project the weekend of E.A.S.T.


E.A.S.T. artist catalogs are available for purchase before and during the tour for $5 at the following locations:

The East Austin Studio Tour is an artist-created and artist-run initiative that began in 2003. E.A.S.T. is designed to highlight studios and galleries located in east Austin. The mission of E.A.S.T. remains simple and strong: to encourage creative dialogue between artists and their peers, as well as between artists and their city.

Executive Directors:
Jana Swec, Joseph Phillips & Shea Little

E.A.S.T. Angels:
Allison Aydelotte, Jesse Butcher
Michelle Mayer & Dacia Saenz

Design:
Big Medium

All works represented on this website were reproduced with expressed permission from the artists.
All text and images are copyrighted by each individual artist.
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