Moon Song by Emily Lawson
Join us at The LINE Hotel Austin on July 25 to celebrate “Moon Song,” an installation by Future Front resident artist Emily Lawson in the hotel’s East Gallery. The closing reception will happen concurrently with Swim Sessions, our monthly pool party on The LINE Hotel pool deck.
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about the show
MOON SONG IS A VISUAL LOVE NOTE TO THE CELESTIAL BODIES THAT SHAPE OUR LIVES, FROM THE MOON AND STARS TO THE SECRET SUNS OF OUR INNERMOST WORLDS.
Featuring works on canvas by Austin-based artist Emily Lawson, each piece blends still life and surrealist portraiture to paint colorful glimpses into the artist’s interior universe. Long, sunset-soaked conversations and ashtray planets on a Texas patio. Queer meet-cutes set to a Phoebe Bridgers song on a sunbeam. Patchwork quilts of people and places with cosmic journeys not quite finished.
“Can I stand in your light just a while?” Written with the artist’s left-hand, Lawson peppers affectionate questions like these throughout each painting, inviting us to practice falling in love. Everywhere we go. No matter how ephemeral, astronomical, mundane or difficult—on the sidewalk or under a Texas solar eclipse.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Emily Bryn (she/her) was raised in a multigenerational Mexican household in Austin, Texas and has lived here ever since. Being Mexicana, Tejana, and a queer person shapes the entirety of her work, which stretches from oil painting to screen printing and every little thing in between. Though she devotes her time to learning and expanding her creativity in freelance opportunities around the city, she also runs Emsbrynart, LLC full-time. Emily Bryn is the owner of her company where she screen prints playful drawings and slogans about queer and immigration rights onto up-cycled vintage clothing, reallocating a percentage of sales back into her two communities.
Being a full-time artist at the age of 23, she can be found at markets around town, in literally any coffee shop trying to refuel herself, or taking a break to read and cool off at Deep Eddy Pool.
HOW TO ATTEND
Tickets are free for the public and hotel guests. No RSVP is required.
PREPARE YOUR VISIT
VENUE LOCATION + ACCESSIBILITY — The LINE Austin is located at 111 E Cesar Chavez St, Austin, Texas 78701. The venue is wheelchair-accessible and all activities will occur on the ground floor.
PARKING — We highly encourage utilizing rideshare or carpooling as there is limited valet parking available onsite. This venue is easily accessible by Austin public transportation, too.
OUR COMMUNITY SAFETY GUIDELINES —
All FFTX staff, volunteers and guests will be required to practice mutual respect, as well as demonstrate an alignment with Future Front’s code of conduct and values.
All sessions are held online or in outdoor, open-air spaces. Capacity is limited to reduce crowding of any kind.
All guests are required to practice mutual respect and social distancing, as well as follow APH’s COVID-19 Guidelines, which currently include:
At all levels, people can wear a mask based on personal preference, informed by their personal level of risk.
People with potential COVID-19 symptoms and/or exposure to someone with COVID-19 should wear a mask, regardless of a negative test.
People with a positive COVID-19 test and/or not fully vaccinated should not participate in an in-person Future Front event or visit a Future Front location until they test negative and/or they are fully vaccinated and no longer at risk.
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES — ASL interpreters can be provided upon request. Si necesita traducción al español para participar en este evento, envíenos un correo electrónico a hello@futurefronttexas.org.
GOT QUESTIONS? Shoot us a note at hello@futurefronttexas.org. We're happy to help and will get back to you!
THIS EVENT IS PART OF EMERGE.
Emerge is an annual partnership between Future Front and The Line Hotel’s GET HERE program. Since 2017, our strategic collaborations with the hotel—from art installations to community swims to The Front Festival—have generated $75,000+ in support for independent women & LGBTQ+ artists in Austin. Forever featuring emerging creatives, consider this series a love note to their work and an intro to the city we call home.
Future Front is a 501c3 nonprofit, homegrown in Austin, Texas. We nurture spaces where women and LGBTQ+ creatives, founders and leaders can grow together. Currently, we produce The Front Market and Festival, host year-round workshops and meet-ups, as well as create resources for resilience in creative industries. You’re invited to join us, of course. You can learn more about how it all works, our team and what we do: futurefronttexas.org
The Line Hotel Austin is located in Downtown Austin, Texas. Once home to a jazz club that broadcast live on local radio in the late 1960s, the hotel is part of Downtown history and holds a cultural legacy as unique as the city itself. Today, you can find a little bit of everything HERE—art, food, design—even nature.