We'll Just Rock for Ourselves: Selections from the Lisa Davis Photograph Archive

Holt Gallery, Austin History Center / April 24, 2018 - July 22, 2018

The Austin History Center invites you to its newest exhibit “We'll Just Rock for Ourselves: Selections from the Lisa Davis Photograph Archive". The exhibit presents selections from the Lisa Davis Photograph Archive (AR.2010.022). The exhibition focuses on Davis’s documentation of the lesbian music community in Austin during the early 1990s.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.  Read more.

Place Your Face in History

Austin History Center / February, 2018 - Summer

The Austin History Center invites you to to participate in the exhibit “Place Your Face in HIstory”. For your enjoyment we’ve put together a set of life-sized images of people and settings from Austin’s past that make for great picture-taking. We invite you to enter these historic settings for a snapshot or selfie or both. Take a photo at the bar of an old Austin Saloon. Add your face to a picture of a UT football player from the days of leather helmets and no face guards. Or stroll across Congress Avenue around 1940 with the Capitol in the background.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Peter Mansbendel: Handcrafted History

New Non-Fiction, 5th Floor Central Library / January, 2018 - 

Peter Mansbendel was perhaps the most talented woodcarver in Texas and the Southwest, though he remains a relatively unknown among 20^th century Texas artists. His artistic legacy is represented in architectural details in hundreds of buildings across Texas and hundreds, if not thousands, of household items. His influence can be seen throughout Austin in many of its buildings including the Austin History Center where his craftsmanship is on display in the woodwork through out building.