Trip Report: AMOA and Arthouse

Getting into the spirit of the project, I visited two downtown museums last Tuesday: Arthouse and Austin Museum of Art (Downtown).

The Austin Museum of Art featured an exhibition by Roy Lichtenstein, spanning his career from 1950s to the present, and while it was not massive, it showed his immense influence on art and graphic design and the blurring of those worlds. Tuesday suggested admission is $1.

The trip Arthouse changed my life! The current exhibit is called Fritz Haeg: Attack on the Front Lawn. Fritz Haeg is an architect and gardener whose current work involved taking public spaces and figuring out how people can grow delicious food on them in beautiful and stylish ways. The process of design and building brings many people together from the community, and the result is neighbors getting to know each other and work together while growing their own delicious organic fruits and vegetables.

I have been wanting to get deeper into gardening in Austin since I moved here from the concrete jungles of North Brooklyn two years ago. The visit was the catalyst in me tearing up my own patchy front lawn and putting in vegetable beds. I'm already feeling the positive results making friends with several neighbors I've only known in passing, and seeing other friends who pass by on bikes or in cars.

The other cool thing about Arthouse is that it's always free.