| 词条 | The Contemporary Austin |
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|name = The Contemporary Austin |logo = |established = 1911 |location = Jones Center 700 Congress Ave Austin, TX 78701 Laguna Gloria |director = Louis Grachos | curator = Heather Pesanti |website = thecontemporaryaustin.org }}The Contemporary Austin is Austin, Texas's primary community art museum, consisting of two primary locations and an art school. The Contemporary Austin reflects the spectrum of contemporary art through exhibitions, commissions, education, and the collection. Locally, the museum is often referred to as The Contemporary.[1] HistoryIn 1911, the Texas Fine Arts Association (TFAA) was formed. Through the years, TFAA acquired the Laguna Gloria Art Museum, later becoming the Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) and the Jones Center for Contemporary Art, which later changed to Arthouse at the Jones Center. In November 2011, AMOA celebrated 50 years in the community and merged with Arthouse at the Jones Center, rejoining the two primary organizations that constituted the TFAA. The Contemporary Austin is the result of the transformation of a century-old museum and school, AMOA-Arthouse, into a new entity with a distinctive vision and mission to unite the museum’s two major venues, Laguna Gloria and the Jones Center. The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center{{main|Arthouse at The Jones Center}}Designed by architects Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis, The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center includes 5,100 square feet of exhibition space, along with a community room and roof-top deck for events and educational programming. In 2015 it was announced that the building would undergo a renovation and expansion that will bring the total exhibition space to more than 7,000 square feet and add a permanent, 21-foot-high canopy to the roof top space.[2] The Contemporary Austin - Laguna Gloria{{main|Laguna Gloria}}The museum still maintains its original home on the Clara Driscoll estate, where it was known for 34 years as Laguna Gloria Art Museum. Once owned by Stephen F. Austin,[3] the Laguna Gloria site has been declared a national treasure and is on city, state, and national registers of historic places.[4] Visitors can view the restored 1916 Italianate-style Driscoll Villa that was the home of Texas legend and Laguna Gloria founder Clara Driscoll.[5] The site consists of 14-acres overlooking Lake Austin, and, in addition to the historic Driscoll Villa, includes the Gatehouse Gallery and the Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, where visitors may view temporary, long-term, and permanent contemporary sculpture and art installations. Laguna Gloria is also home to The Contemporary Austin Art School, one of the largest museum-affiliated schools in the nation, where classes are taught year-round to adults and children. The Contemporary Austin Art SchoolLocated at The Contemporary Austin's lakeside Laguna Gloria site, the Art School has an enrollment of just under 5,000 students and offers scholarships to approximately 50 students per year. Docent-led school tours serve roughly 10,000 students annually (many from several Title 1 schools). Clara DriscollKnown as "The Savior of the Alamo", Clara Driscoll was born on April 2, 1881, in St. Mary's, Texas, on Copano Bay, to wealthy ranchers Robert and Julia Fox Driscoll.[6] In 1903, she paid the thousands of dollars necessary to prevent the sale of the Alamo convent to a hotel firm, earning her the title "Savior of the Alamo". Until then, the only Alamo property owned by the state was the mission church, acquired in 1883. She was reimbursed by the Texas Legislature in 1905 and the entire Alamo property was given over to the safekeeping of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.[6] In 1906, Driscoll married editor and publisher of the Austin American-Statesman newspaper, Hal Sevier. The couple purchased the Laguna Gloria property in 1914, because it reminded them of Lake Como in Italy where they had honeymooned a few years earlier. In 1916 they built a home on the land, designed by San Antonio architect Harvey L. Page. They named it Laguna Gloria in part after one of her family's ranches in Duval County, "La Gloria". The site's proximity to water is most likely the reason they referred to it as a lagoon. In 1926, Driscoll reflected on the site:
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References1. ^The Contemporary Austin website. 2. ^{{cite web|last1=Griffin|first1=Nicole|title=$1.3 MILLION GRANT FROM THE MOODY FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT MAJOR RENOVATION AND EXPANSION OF THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN – JONES CENTER|url=http://www.thecontemporaryaustin.org/press-room/releases/1-3-million-grant-from-the-moody-foundation-to-support-major-renovation-and-expansion-of-the-contemporary-austin-jones-center/|website=The Contemporary Austin|publisher=The Contemporary Austin|accessdate=29 October 2015}} 3. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.thecontemporaryaustin.org |title=The Contemporary Austin |publisher=The Contemporary Austin}} 4. ^Friis-Hansen, Dana. Austin Museum of Art Brochure. 2008. 5. ^Faires, Robert. Austin Arts. 2005. 6. ^1 {{cite web |last=Tipton |first=Karen |title=Clara Driscoll, Savior of the Alamo |publisher=Texas Highways |year=1995 |url=http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/adp/history/bios/driscoll/clara.html}} External links{{Commons category|The Contemporary Austin}}
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