The Gallery features rotating art displays from local and national artists. While the artwork is not for sale, visitors are encouraged to browse the artwork during open hours.
Similar to the Special Event Room, the Gallery space can be used for community programs and rented for private events.
Megan uses photography to explore living with invisible disability. Outwardly she is perceived as healthy but inside her immune system is actively breaking her body down. This experience, while hidden, is one that has greatly shaped who she is. With the process of chlorophyll printing, which uses UV light to print images directly onto leaves, she is printing medical imagery from her recurring doctors visits. She is also printing images shared with her from within the disability community, highlighting their unseen experiences. She is printing on leaves to underscore the organic nature of disability while asking the viewer to confront the bodily impermanence we all share. Megan Bent is a New England based artist. She specializes in alternative process photography, specifically the process of chlorophyll printing. Her artwork has been exhibited widely across the United States in exhibitions at the Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, The Vera Proiect, Seattle, WA, The East Hawaiian Cultural Center/HMOCA , Hilo, Hawai'i, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM, and the Piedmont Council for the Arts, Charlottesville, VA.
Opening Reception:
Thursday, November 21, 2019, 7 – 9 PM
Artist Workshop:
Friday, November 22, 2019, 10 AM – 12 PM
Artist Megan Bent teaches contact printing, in which you can use the sun to print images onto cyanotype paper and fabric. Also, learn how to print photographic images onto leaves.
RSVP required. Please visit: library.austintexas.gov/megan-bent-workshop
The gallery will be partially unavailable on the following days and times:
12/5/19 - Texas Cultural Trust: 5 – 7 PM
12/10/19 – Generation Citizen: Civics Day: 7 AM – 3 PM
12/12/19 – Sensory Interactive: 10:30 AM – 5:30 PM
12/13/19 – City of Austin: Office of Innovation: 9 AM – 3 PM
Image: Cyclops, Megan Bent
Presented by the Polish Film Society
October 19 – December 27, 2019
Central Library 6th Floor | 710 W. César Chávez St.
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Polish posters offered subtle symbolism during a post-war era of repressive government. Art posters were not censored as they were not expected to pose threats to social order. The colorful posters played a significant role in modern visual design and culture before the emergence of commercialized movie posters.
Image by Leszek Zebrowski
