East meets ACC

Four groups of ACC artist showed their work at the eighth East Austin Studio Tours (EAST) at Graphic Glass Studios on East 5th street. The tour has extended from a two day affair into a nine day, two weekend event. Different art mediums, such as, ceramics, paintings, sculpture, and jewelry fabrication were featured within the tight range of studios in East Austin.

Attendees were able to enjoy art supply discounts, bike in movies, and artist talks hosted by various art-loving businesses and studios.

Art Department Chair Gary Webernick and Art Studios and Exhibition Specialist, Julie Isaacson, helped organize the show by collecting artwork from the previous Steamroller Madness, Constitution Day exhibits and art created by groups of ACC students who traveled to Italy and Costa Rica.

During the trip to Costa Rica, students built a kiln for the locals in the small village of Santa Elena. Using the kiln, that took approximately two days to build, the artists used donated local clay to create pre-Columbian inspired tiles.

Unfortunately, a lot of the tiles never made the trip back to Austin.

“The clay was very wet and it rained 50 percent of each day,” Mary Loren-Sinibaldi said. “It rained a lot. We couldn’t get the clay to dry. A lot of it dried unevenly. Mine was just the perfect thickness and it dried evenly.”

Leeza Henderson was another ACC student to partake in the Costa Rica trip to create the artwork featured in the Tour. During the first weekend of EAST, she got to hang out with the other participating students and faculty, as well as interact with the visitors about her artwork.

“Apparently, there was like 200 people walking in and out. It turned out really well,” said Henderson.

Art student, Austin DeCaulp, had never had any of his art displayed until this years EAST.

“I did this print and one of my teachers kind of liked it, and asked me to put it in the show,” said DeCaulp of his print “The Goal of Science the Aim of Religion.”

“This is honestly my first year to do art,” said DeCaulp. “It lets me express a lot of ideas that would take a lot of time to say in words.”

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