Arts Encounters at the Beninis: May 2005

In 1985, Charles and Angeline Umlauf gave their home, studio, and 168 pieces of Umlauf sculpture to the City of Austin. Six years later, in 1991, a new museum was built on adjoining city property with private funds raised under the leadership of Austin arts patron Roberta Crenshaw.

In a successful partnership between Austin's private and public sectors, the Friends of the Umlauf Sculpture Garden organization funds, manages, and maintains the Museum while the City's Parks and Recreation Department maintains the xeriscape garden.

During the hours that the museum is open to the public, it is staffed entirely with volunteers. The Friends of the Umlauf Sculpture Garden organization continues to seek out additional funds for the Umlauf Sculpture Garden Endowment, a fund set up within the Austin Community Foundation. The interest generated by this fund makes up a significant part of our operating budget.

The full range of Charles Umlauf's incredible work can be seen in both permanent and changing exhibitions inside the museum as well as outside in a wheelchair accessible garden.

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(Archives) FEATURED ARTISTS for MAY 2005: Arts Encounters at Beninis Saturday and Sunday May 28th and 29th, 2005 Bronze Sculpture Jonas Perkins Fredericksburg, Texas Jonas Perkins, bronze sculptor from Fredericksburg will also provide a slide overview and discuss the mold making and casting process. Perkins, who pours his own bronze pieces at his studio near Fredericksburg, has completed many life-size bronze castings, including the Korean War Memorial sculpture displayed in San Antonio.
Photographer Susan Kirchman Austin / Johnson City, Texas Kirchman, a California native with graduate degrees in Design and Photography from the University of Iowa, will speak about her digital photography and printmaking processes. She has been a Professor of Photography at Texas A&M University since 1985. Kirchman has exhibited her artwork internationally since the late 70’s, and since the late 1980’s has worked with digital media. An early pioneer in the use of interactive digital media as visual art, her collaborative hypertext artist’s book and installation, Bentlow Stairs, was exhibited at the Getty Center in Santa Monica, the Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and the Dallas Museum. “I currently produce works on paper and canvas utilizing imagery from the physical landscape and dreams - both as inspiration and source material,” Kirchman said. “I am involved in the process of image making. I consider printmaking an integral part of how the image is realized.” “I will discuss some of the ways that the process influences the work during my slide talk at Art Encounters” she added. Kirchman has organized and curated many exhibitions including Digital Image Digital Photograph, a SIGGRAPH exhibition, which originated in Dallas and toured internationally for two years. She was the Director if the TAMU College of Architecture Gallery as well as the Curator for the Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System for several years. Together with Warren Vilmaire, she is presently working towards opening Kirchman Gallery, a fine art venue specializing in Painting, Sculpture and Photography, in Johnson City, Texas. It will open in December 2005.
Umlauf Sculpture Garden Austin, Texas In 1985, Charles and Angeline Umlauf gave their home, studio, and 168 pieces of Umlauf sculpture to the City of Austin. Six years later, in 1991, a new museum was built on adjoining city property with private funds raised under the leadership of Austin arts patron Roberta Crenshaw. In a successful partnership between Austin's private and public sectors, the Friends of the Umlauf Sculpture Garden organization funds, manages, and maintains the Museum while the City's Parks and Recreation Department maintains the xeriscape garden. During the hours that the museum is open to the public, it is staffed entirely with volunteers. The Friends of the Umlauf Sculpture Garden organization continues to seek out additional funds for the Umlauf Sculpture Garden Endowment, a fund set up within the Austin Community Foundation. The interest generated by this fund makes up a significant part of our operating budget. The full range of Charles Umlauf's incredible work can be seen in both permanent and changing exhibitions inside the museum as well as outside in a wheelchair accessible garden.
Painting Steel Walt Lyssy San Antonio, Texas This presentation will introduce products to help prepare a steel surface, including a primer called Zero Rush to properly prime the surface prior to painting.