E.A.S.T. Guided Walk PODCAST

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“Don’t be overwhelmed by this year’s East Austin Studio Tour selections, this 48-minute long guided walking tour podcast is the perfect solution to curtail any anxiety you might be feeling about how to see it all. Arthur Simone and Adrienne Breaux, two members of the local Austin arts community, have chosen a perfectly walkable 3 mile loop, visiting 8 separate studios. Comprising over 20 artists, you’ll see a delightful variety of painters, sculptors, furniture makers, metalworkers, glassblowers and even an animator. It’s the perfect tour for anyone who doesn’t have a lot of time or just wants a professionally curated sampling of some of the best of E.A.S.T. The best part—you can follow along with their suggestions exactly, but there’s also ample time to press pause and explore other parts of the East Side at your leisure. Who knows what adventures you might get into!”

A complete list of the stops:
Drive to and park at #29, the Starving Art Studios
28 Andrew Long, painting and mixed media
20 Jessica Braun The Home for Wayward Furnishings
16 Todd Campbell Custom metalwork
12 Barry George Sculpture Studio Metal sculpture and welded steel
24 Anne Genung Painting, drawing, collage
32 Jose Acosta Sculpture
34 Sara Hasslinger One Love Art Space with glass art, painting, metalwork and monsterlove
38 Carly Weaver Painting, guest Squidrabbit does animation
End at #29, the Starving Art Studios



Podcaster bios:

Arthur Simone is an improvisational actor, abstract expressionist artist and advocate of the culture of spontaneity. His artwork has been shown at galleries such as Chicago’s Echo Gallery and art festivals such as Around the Coyote and the East Austin Studio Tour. Arthur’s artwork has been twice a nominated finalist for the prestigious Hunting Art Prize. A graduate of Oberlin College and a veteran of the Chicago stage with Suspicious Clowns and Moving Dock Theatre, he is currently a co-founder of Austin’s improv powerhouse ColdTowne, where he teaches sketch, improv, and acting. On the screen, Arthur has starred in Jigsaw, The Evil One, A&E’s Faith of My Fathers, Big Momma’s House 2, and has been featured on the series Friday Night Lights. Most recently, Arthur won acclaim and praise for his original one-man show, Dear Frailty, including the designation as Best Actor in Austin from the Austin Chronicle. In 2007, he won the O’Henry Pun-Off World Championships, Austin’s regional Air Guitar Championship, and the Alamo Drafthouse’s Air Sex World Championships.

Adrienne Breaux Three years ago Adrienne Breaux showed up in Austin for what was supposed to only be a quick sojourn with her boyfriend and a van in the middle of August before setting off with plans of traipsing throughout the countryside writing. She never left. And though both the van and that relationship have fallen to the wayside, her love, enthusiasm and passion for the city has only gotten stronger with age. A writer, blogger and interior designer by trade, Adrienne has worked at a trendy design store downtown, owned her own interior design consulting business, operated her own pet and house sitting business and somehow managed to persuade enough editors to pay her for writing that she’s able to make a living at it. You can find her writing at the national websites Apartment Therapy, 2Modern (where she is editor-in-chief), Goodkin (where she is the managing editor), Swank Lighting and World Market’s membership-based website World Market Explorer. You can also find her work in local Austin magazines Rare and Tribeza. She love smoothies, live comedy (especially at Coldtowne Theater) and when she’s not tapping away at her keyboard, she can be found running around Town Lake.

[menelaos]

And if someone needs a break for some delicious coffee or home-made tasty lunch, Hot Mama's Espresso is just one block away from Sara Hasslinger's studio, at the corner of E 6th and Pedernales, where you can also find my artwork on display, alongside many other artists in the Hot Mama courtyard.

M.

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

what a cool idea! i've got nothing to do at work right now, so i'm just listening to the podcast devoid of context, and it's STILL thoroughly entertaining.