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Waterloo Greenway Announces Creek Show 2023 Art Installations

Today, Waterloo Greenway unveiled its series of six new eye-catching light-based art installations to be displayed at their annual event, Creek Show, this November 10-18. This year will continue a tradition of featuring locally-made illuminated art along Waller Creek, inviting our community to experience the nightly free show extending from 9th Street to Waterloo Park.Since…

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Larger Than Life Creek-Inspired Mural Coming to Waterloo Park

International and Local Artists Partner to Bring Mural to Austin Community Waterloo Park will soon feature stunning artwork by internationally-renowned Venezuelan artist Arturo Herrera in a larger than life art mural that was inspired by its natural habitat along Waller Creek. The mural has been commissioned by Waterloo Greenway Conservancy in partnership with the City…

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Past Art

Just Announced: Creek Show 2022 Artists & Installations

We’re thrilled to announce our all-new selection of light-based art installations coming to Creek Show this November 11-20! This year’s show will invite the public to experience 10 nights of free dazzling, illuminated art along Waller Creek, beginning at 9th street and ending at downtown Austin’s newly renovated Waterloo Park.Each year, Creek Show commissions site-specific…

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Waterloo Greenway Announces Creek Show 2021 Artists & Installations

Waterloo Greenway Conservancy is pleased to announce the return of Creek Show from November 12-21, providing the community ten nights of free light-based, site-specific art installations. This year’s show will delight and inspire Austinites at the newly renovated Waterloo Park, the first phase of the Waterloo Greenway park system, now open to the public.Creek Show commissions work…

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Creek Show 2019

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.

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Hurlyburly

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.

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Forever Bicycles

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.

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New Monuments for New Cities

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.

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