5. August 2009 by admin.

The WonderCraft is getting their class schedule started off with a bang, so don’t miss your opportunity to sign-up for classes this month at one of the several locations around Austin! http://www.thewondercraft.com/classes/

Also, The WonderCraft will be teaming up with Electric Promotions to do a “Get Crafty” Happy Hour at Cuba Libra starting this month so make sure to sign-up for updates/details on their website! http://www.thewondercraft.com/contact-us.aspx

Many, many big thanks to those of you who participated in The All Austin All Handmade Bash.

Pictures can be found:

http://photos.trevoray.com/gallery/9122794_CqddZ#608040742_37tJc

http://www.flickr.com/photos/electricpromotions/sets/72157621800003749/

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5. August 2009 by admin.

Art Outside October 9-11, 2009 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Art Outside 2009
Art Outside is looking for artists, performers, musicians, dancers, comics, and creative people of all types!

SUBMIT YOUR IDEAS NOW.

Your art can be anything you imagine… anything that you can create to engage other participants.

To submit your project and learn more about the event, please visit www.artoutside.org.

Art Outside continues the tradition of showcasing groundbreaking talent on breathtaking grounds. In the past, this event has taken place at the Austin Enchanted Forest. We pay homage to the Enchanted Forest as we spread our wings over a new landscape and hope for its quick return to our community. Apache Pass, an inspiring expanse of over 1000 acres, lies just east of Austin and is centered between Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.

DREAM BIG!
The AO09 Team
Art Outside 2009

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5. August 2009 by admin.

Electric Promotions (we) launched the new Creative Side Academy website a couple of weeks ago! We are super excited to promote this little hidden gem off Allen St. &  7th in Austin next to the Co-Lab. At Creative Side | Jewelry Academy of Austin you can take your jewelry making skills to the next level! Creative Side offers classes and workshops taught by metal craftsmen and women who will assist you in your artistic growth .The mission of the Creative Side Academy of Austin is to uncover the creative skills of each student. Creative Side’s artist workshops and classes include many techniques in the jewelry making trade, allowing their students to try a little of everything and better identify their underlying passions and skills.

If you need a new creative outlet or are just wishing to gain new skills, check them out online & register today: www.creativeside.org Also, Creative Side will be one of the stops of The WonderCraft’s creative mobile crafting studio class schedule. Visit www.thewondercraft.com for more details.

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21. July 2009 by Candace Carlisle.

The All Austin All Handmade Bash-

Come out and support All local & All handmade businesses (primarily women owned) on Friday July 31st at Beauty Bar from: 7-11pm! Music by Monster Girl, DJ Blend*e, & Salvo. Shop local vendors such as Sublime Stitching, *annemarie*, Opal-Black, Peace Boutique & more. Fabulous food & drink sponsors such as Treaty Oak Rum, Sweet Leaf Tea, Paula’s Texas Spirits, Blue Note Bakery & NadaMoo! The raddest non-dairy ice cream in Texas…

Tons of awesome activities for adults (sorry kids it’s 21 and up only) such as on-site DIY projects presented by the newest edition of Austin’s creative-force, The WonderCraft. Fashion Show presented by the lovely ladies at Team Fabrication with accessories by Broken Ear Productions, up-dos by Siren’s Salon, makeup by W3LL People, massages by Meador Massage, manicures, & a rock’n photo-booth by local photographer, Trevor Ray Thompson.

Also tickets to the charity raffle are available for purchase the night of the event with fabulous local business sponsors like Austin Handmade, Soigne, 302 Designs, Rae Cosmetics, Leighelena, Uchi, Siren’s Salon, Creative Side Academy, Electric Promotions, Independence Brewery, Jerry’s Artarama, Paggi House, Buffalo Exchange, Legendary Beads, TXRD, Kickbutt Coffee, Nepenthe’s Bathtime, W3LL People, Lucy Blue Studio, Paired Hearts, Broken Ear Productions, & Snuggle Herd.

Proceeds from the raffle will benefit the community outreach program for The WonderCraft. Entry is $2, but you get 1/2 off with online sign-up or by bringing in an event flyer. Proceeds from the cover charge will be donated to Austin Dog Rescue. More Info on the event can be found at http://www.electricpromotions.com/bash.html

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9. July 2009 by Candace Carlisle.

On Thursday July 16, 2009, from 8:00-11:00pm, Austin Handmade will be celebrating the Grand Re-opening of its new store location at 2009 S. First St. Combining launch efforts with this year’s Austin Fashion Week. The Austin Handmade Grand Re-opening Party will showcase a fashion show by local designer Robie Dodson of Parsimony. This fashion lineup will feature some of the coolest, trendy, chic, and comfortable items in all of Austin. The Austin Handmade store’s Grand Re-opening Party will offer special in-store discounts, along with giveaways from participating sponsors such as the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls, select Austin based artists and a membership for a free year of classes provided by The WonderCraft. Party guests will be able try out the new Austin Handmade Do-It-Yourself Room using simple kits created by Austin artists with instructions and basic supplies available for purchase at the event. Continue with the on-site DIY fun with make n’ take projects provided Austin’s newest creative craft-force, The WonderCraft. Show entertainment to be provided by local band Lost Werks and DJ Beef Eigler “Hot Britches” of High Society. Event and fashion show photography by local photographer, John Pesina featured in The Austin American Statesman, Envy Magazine, Tribeza, SXSW World and Austin 360. Enjoy drinks from Austin’s favorite, Sweet Leaf Tea  and Treaty Oak Platinum Rum. Rum truly made in the spirit of Texas. Texas’s first & only distillery that both brews and distills locally, using only Texas ingredients.

Austin Handmade is the brainchild of forward thinking local art supporters Jason Butler and Catherine Jones. Butler, a native Texan and graduate from the Art Institute of Dallas also owns and operates Sixgunlover Records and Sonance Rehearsal Studios. His partner Catherine Jones, UT alumni and co-founder of Austin Handmade, helped to establish this business as her way of giving back to a community that has offered her so many possibilities. Austin Handmade began as an online store, marketed toward a national audience. Their idea was to have an inclusive array of arts to represent the diversity of talent in Austin. After receiving many requests from Austinites to create a local showroom, owners Catherine and Jason decided to open up shop. Austin Handmade’s mission is to provide an outlet for artists and to expand the notion of what art is, with a focus on affordable art.

Visit the Austin Handmade online store at www.austinhandmade.com to find an array of Austin’s talent with a wide diversity of art including screen printing, book binding, candle making, fabric art, graphic design and more, including detailed information on upcoming featured monthly artist events and the bi-weekly local Handmade Market.

Vote: http://www.fashionweekaustin.com/boutiques/austin-handmade/

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2. July 2009 by Candace Carlisle.

Austin Handmade will be hosting a featured artist reception for local artist of the month Nathan Jensen 0n Saturday July 11th from 4-6pm.

Jensen, who studied art and architecture at the University of Texas, paints on conventional canvases, as well as on 3-D surfaces.

Drinks sponsored by Bacardi & entertainment to be provided by the lovely ladies at Team Fabrication!

http://www.austinhandmade.com

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29. June 2009 by admin.

 Monday June 29^th, 2009

Dallas’s very own fashionista at heart, Jacqueline Maccann launches a new social shopping network for designers in the fashion industry. From multimedia design to fashion show production, Jacqueline’s knowledge and creativity will aide in redefining the local world of fashion. As a graduate from the Art Institute of Dallas, Jacqueline’s mission has become to offer a helping hand to budding local designers giving them new and innovative ways to market and sell their products. Her company, named under a dual premise. Comes from the modern ideals of today’s social media interactions with networking as its central focus. Maccann feels that specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, and financial exchange, all play a critical role in determining the ways in which organizations are run. In its simplest form a social network is a representation of the relevant ties between individuals in any type of community.

Design society intends to strengthen it’s various users in specific areas of networking, self-promotion, and marketing. Creating an empowering environment that better serves as an outlet for designers who need to promote their individual creativity but lack the voice to do so. With DesignSociety.net, designers can market and sell products through various social networking avenues. Designsociety.net offers to provide the tools to advance each individual’s company whether: designer, photographer, model, or buyer. In addition to providing this free marketplace of ideas for designers, Design Society makes it easier to post resumes and build business contacts by sharing an on-line profile with the world. Including features such as adding digital portfolios, video uploads, and individual listing in DesignSociety.net’s exclusive business directory.

In celebration of the launch of it’s newly created website Design Society is hosting a drawing with the winning prize set to giveaway a brand new search engine optimized website worth $600! In order to enter, designers participating in the contest must upload product photos (no posting fees involved) to DesignSociety.net no later than Monday the July 15^th. The winner to be announced by July 20^th, 2009.

Website: http://designsociety.net

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26. May 2009 by Candace Carlisle.

DIY Object Art Show! Skateboard Decks! Imagine what you could do with an all wooden blank 7ply Canadian maple SKATE DECK!

Wanna participate? of course you do!

The Rules are Simple… Here’s what to DO:

No.1… VISIT a) The Parlor Hyde Park at 43rd and Guadalupe or b) Find n Grind Skate Shop at 701 E. 53rd St.

No.2… PURCHASE one or more BLANK SKATE DECK(s) for the incredibly low price of $20 each. MAKE SURE TO LEAVE YOUR NAME, EMAIL and/or PHONE #

No.3… CREATE your very own work of art which you may keep, sell, skate, trash, whatever after it has been displayed for 1 month at the Parlor HP, Just make sure that if it can’t be Hung by the holes in the DECK you arrange for some other method of displaying your MASTERPIECE!.

So What are you waiting for? Get yourself a BLANK SKATE DECK and START CREATING NOW! A.S.A.P.
The OPENING PARTY will include:

LIVE SCREENPRINTING!
LIVE BANDS w/ the !!RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS!
Skaters w/ a SKATE RAMP provided by FIND N GRIND Skateshop.

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18. April 2009 by admin.

Ice cream social, art show, and local music blowout with Chris Riley, City Council Candidate Place 1.

Q+A w/ CHRIS @ 11:20pm

Chris Riley is a strong advocate for music & arts, sustainability and local business. Come hear him speak about his plans to cultivate Austin’s character.

Vote Early for Chris Riley! Monday, April 27 - Tuesday, May 5 at ANY early voting location. Election Day is Saturday May 9.

Free ice cream provided by NadaMoo. Come early before it runs out!

Also, free Myka organic sugar scrub samples.

No Cover. All Ages.

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17. April 2009 by admin.

The Lone Star Ladies Present: Shop Austin gears up for its event this weekend. Saturday April 18th to be precise, and Electric Promotions wanted to express a big THANK YOU to Emily Weerts at the Austinist for hosting The Lone Star Ladies goodie bag & ticket giveaway on the Austinist website.

We also wanted to congratulate the following winners:

Maris Clegg winner of one pair of tickets & a goodie bag & Patee Franks winner of a pair of tickets to the event.

Visit the Austinist.com to read more about the event

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