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Austin Stitchery Guild's Needlework Exhibit at ABIA

"Austin Stitchery Guild" has a needlework display at ABIA with some really amazing embroidery work. It is in the west gallery, down from Amy's Ice Cream.  In the picture below you cannot see the scale but the incredibly detailed butterfly wings are about only an inch long.

Photo courtesy of Robert Paulsen

More information is available on their website at www.austinstitchers.org.

 

Profits from Prints to go to Miracle Foundation

AroundAustin.com has been having tremendous success donating Austin Photography to silent auctions for charity around town.  So far, we have donated to Zachary Scott Theatre, Austin Under 40 (Sunshine Camps), Leadership Austin and soon to Lifeworks.  We will announce a formal program for requesting donations of prints for silent auctions. 

Meanwhile, we are going to start a program to donate profit from prints to The Miracle Foundation.  We have gotten to know Carolyn Boudreaux of The Miracle Foundation over four years.  She has such tremendous passion for improving the lives of orphans living in horrendous conditions.  To be honest when we first met her we didn't believe she could make a difference in such a huge problem from Austin, Texas.  Four years later we're believers.  So AroundAustin has decided to donate all the profits from the prints we sell for this year to The Miracle Foundation.  To make it simple--when we get a check from Imagekind, I'll write a check to The Miracle Foundation--no deductions for any expenses.

You can buy prints from Imagekind by clicking on the button below. 

Vietnamese Art at Fielding Lecht Gallery

I recently attended a progressive dinner that started at the Austin Museum of Art, went on to the Fielding Lecht Gallery, and then finished at the Oswald Gallery.  The Fielding Lecht Gallery offered my first introduction to Vietnamese art.  It is not very long since Vietnamese art in general and contemporary Vietnamese art in particular emerged from anonymity.  In the last decade, have been increasingly sought after by foreign collectors and art lovers.  The first group of Vietnamese artists to gain international recognition their works is the Gang of Five, composed of five Hanoi painters:  Hong Viet Dung, Ha Tri Hieu, Dang Xuan Hoa, Tran Luong and Pham Quang Vinh.

The Fielding Lecht Gallery is a partnership between Bill and Pam Fielding and Art Director Suzanne Lecht.  Ms. Lecht is the art director of the Art Vietnam gallery in Hanoi and is a recognized authority on contemporary art in Vietnam. She is passionate about educating the world about the arts of Vietnam.  Austin is lucky that Suzanne Lecht and Bill Fielding are long time friends (they grew up in the same small town) and the Fieldings had gallery space available on Congress Avenue.  Visiting the gallery offers a great chance to view and learn about this emerging art category.

Fielding Lecht Gallery, 708 Congress Avenue, 78701, (512) 476-0044