Thank you to all who drove by Waterloo Park to view the illuminated Moody Amphitheater from November 16-22, 2020. Last week, Waterloo Park’s world-class Moody Amphitheater came to life by illumination in honor of our beloved annual event Creek Show. Since 2014, our organization has commissioned dozens of local artists to create site-specific, light-based art […]
Waterloo Greenway is all about community and if we can’t be together in person, we will find other ways to stay connected. That’s why we’re so excited to announce Waterloo-In-Place (W·I·P), a series of free online experiences that will bring you closer to our community and keep you up to date with everything happening at […]
This Valentine’s Day, more than 400 people gathered at Symphony Square for Frida Friday ATX’s Gaylentine’s Celebration! Guests danced along to music by DJ Kick It and enjoyed show-stopping performances by local drag queens, Kelly Kline, Robin Rose Quartz, and Grandma Steven. In addition to participating in family-friendly activities, visitors got to sip on complimentary […]
Thank you for coming out to support our 6th Annual Creek Show. We were delighted to see tens of thousands of people experiencing the magic of Waterloo Greenway and exploring the Red River Cultural District throughout our 11-night event.
Over 1,200 Waterloo Greenway supporters, friends, and King Princess fans joined us at Stubb’s on October 9 to help us get one step closer to fulfilling our vision of creating 35 acres of extraordinary green space in ever-changing downtown Austin.
Waterloo Greenway is your new go-to destination for family-friendly fun in Austin. All are welcome to join us at our free community events this fall. It is with your continued support at these events that we are able to create this marvelous, transformative, and enduring community asset for all of Austin to revel in.
Creek Show, now in its sixth year, is a free, open-to-the-public display of light-based art installations along Waller Creek in downtown Austin. Come walk along Waller Creek between 9th St. and 12th St. to view the art designed to bring attention to the future revitalization of Waller Creek and its transformation into a series of urban parks. This family-friendly event attracted over 50,000 visitors from all over Austin last year.
Orly Genger
March 2016 – March 2017
Waller Creek at Lady Bird Lake
Presented in partnership with The Contemporary Austin, Hurlyburly is a massive outdoor piece of painted and hand-knotted rope that stretches across an area directly adjacent to the mouth of Waller Creek. Recalling the languid flow of the creek, the undulating, woven structure invites visitors to interact with each other, with the work, and with the surrounding parkland. New York City-based artist and designer Orly Genger creates organic forms and site-specific installations from painted swaths of woven rope, crocheting, weaving, and knotting heavy twine over the course of many months.
Ai Weiwei
June 2017 – May 2018
Waller Creek at Lady Bird Lake
Presented in partnership with The Contemporary Austin, Forever Bicycles (2014) consists of over 1,200 bicycles transformed into a playful, spectacular monolith of a sculpture. The title, Forever Bicycles, alludes to the Forever brand (Yongjiu) – a company based in Shanghai whose mass-produced bicycles flooded the streets of China during the artist’s childhood yet remained financially out of reach for many – but also suggests a globally utilitarian form of transport now disappearing as car culture becomes predominant. The conceptual premise of this series consists of several to thousands of bicycles assembled into a composition.
March 2019 – July 2019
12th St. & Red River St. at Waterloo Park
New Monuments for New Cities is the inaugural project of the High Line Network Joint Art Initiative, a new collaboration between infrastructure reuse projects in North America. This public art exhibition will travel across the United States and Canada throughout 2019. For the exhibition, five urban reuse projects that are part of the High Line Network invited five of their local artists or artist groups to create proposals (in the form of posters) for new monuments. Each participating location will produce an exhibition of the resulting 25 artworks specific to their site.
