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 Laguna Gloria Ritorna! Grand reopening / Sept 5-7 Austin Musuem of Art has completed the four-year renewal project of the historic Driscoll Villa and gardens - AMOA’s original home. In the restored 1916 Italianate-style villa, temporary exhibition walls have given way to original windows, fireplaces, and woodwork. Original paint colors and finishes have been restored. And the surrounding gardens have been brought back to life. Overlooking Lake Austin, Laguna Gloria - a true Austin treasure - offers a unique experience of history, art, and nature.  Fresh, Sensuous, Organic Wally Workman Gallery / thru Oct 3 Wally Workman Gallery's current show introduces a new talent whose work is quickly finding its way to private and corporate collections."Jan Heaton's watercolors," says Workman, " have a fresh quality I rarely see. Her masterful abstractions are sensuous and organic ... Seeing the entirety of her various series of paintings, the viewer can follow her progression from detail to complete abstraction. It is some of the best watercolors I've ever seen ... a beginning of a very successful career for Jan Heaton."  Cuentos Hispaños
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Latin American Art • With 1,600 works of art by more than 250 artists from eighteen countries throughout Mexico, South and Central America, and the Caribbean, the Blanton Musuem of Art collection stands as one of the finest publicly held collections of 20th-century Latin American art in the country and one of the few in the world. From August 27 through January 4, the Blanton presents Lo feo de este mundo: Images of the Grotesque, the first exhibition the museum’s new curator of Latin American art, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, has organized for the Blanton. In Lo feo de este mundo he brings together more than 40 works by artists who reject ideas of beauty in favor of the ugly, deformed, and imperfect. • Mexic-Arte Museum - dedicated to traditional and contemporary Mexican, Latino, and Latin American art and culture - has emerged as the leading Latino art museum serving Austin and Central Texas since its founding in 1984. In June, Texas Governor Rick Perry recognized Mexic-Arte as the Official Mexican and Mexican American Fine Arts Museum of Texas. The musuem also signed a formal agreement with the Consejo Nacional de Arte y Cultura (CONACULTA), to establish a long-term program allowing Mexic-Arte to exhibit ancient through contemporary art from Mexican collections. • Gallery 106, a project of MedAid, together with its sister institution, Casa Cubana, has brought many contemporary Cuban artists to the U.S. for the first time and garnered critical acclaim for exhibitions of works by artists renowned within Cuba. Through October 18, the gallery showcases new works by José Toirac in Sacrifice. The works on view are painted with red wine and explore universal themes through the cultural, political, and religious history of Cuba.
Around town ... • f8 Fine Art Gallery will celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with the opening of “Cuentos Hispaños", an exhibit of Latin stories by four artists: Raymundo de la Mora, Laura Lopez Cano, Joel Salcido, and Richard D. Griffin. This intriguing exhibit opens on September 6 and runs through October 20. • Art on 5th kicks off the fall art season with their always popular European Portfolio Show, September 6 - 8. The three day event features a range of work - impressionistic landscapes, old-masters style still lifes, and contemporary abstracts. The September 12th edition of Austin Now, KLRU’s cultural affairs program focuses on the arts. The half hour program, produced by Tom Spencer, will visit the restored grounds of Laguna Gloria, talk with AMOA’s executive director, Dana Friis Hansen, and take a behind the scenes tour of the Harry Ransom Center’s art collection. Austin Now airs weekly, Friday at noon / 9 pm, Sunday at 5 pm, and on KLRU2 each Thursday at 8 pm. • Women & Their Work’s 25th anniversary festivities continue with the annual Red Hot / Red Dot Sale which opens Friday, September 19. In gallery speak, a RED DOT means SOLD. Featuring work from over 150 artists, this annual fundraiser offers collectors an opportunity to purchase original art for $500 and under! • South Lamar, too, is showcasing RED with 2040 Gallery’s group show, Black and White and Red All Over, featuring fine and functional art. “An exciting show with plenty of visual punch and provocative thought to kick off the Fall Arts season,” says Mo Scollan, Artist/Director. Artist reception, September 18th 
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