Austin Studio Tour (Stop 290) at Future Front
FEATURING OPEN CALL
Head to Future Front for a new group show in honor of Austin Studio Tour—featuring works by Austin artists in our 2025/26 Residency program.
Stop by anytime between 12 and 6 PM CT on November 8, 9, 15 and 16.
All are welcome. Scroll for details.
ON VIEW: OPEN CALL
Debuting for Austin Studio Tour 2025, Open Call is the latest group show from Future Front’s Artist Residency.
open call (n.) — a public invitation to participate.
Creative expression is often an open call for community and connection.
Exploring the art of invitation, gathering and relating to the world, this exhibit features work by contemporary artists living and working in Austin, Texas, including:
Laura Clay, Aimèe M. Everett, Rewon Shimray, Kate Nuelle, Victoria Cardenas, Samantha Asencio, Erin Carle, Sarah Bork and Yvonne Uwah
Each artist has participated in Future Front’s Artist Residency, which is annually curated from the organization’s Austin Artist Open Call.
MEET OPEN CALL’S ARTISTS
Laura Clay, Multidisciplinary Artist & Painter
Laura Clay is a Mexican-American artist based in Austin whose practice spans painting, drawing, and ceramics. Working in both abstraction and figuration, she navigates themes of bicultural identity, displacement, and the balance between chaos and order. Her work is characterized by distinct gradients and textures, creating a visual language that explores personal and cultural narratives. A commitment to materiality is central to her process, from creating her own handmade paints to her recent explorations in clay. Laura holds an MFA from the National Art School in Sydney and has exhibited worldwide, with her work held in the Mexic-Arte Museum's permanent collection. She has been featured in publications like Eastside Magazine and is represented by Washington Gallery and The Cathedral ATX.
@lauraclayart
Aimèe M. Everett, Multidisciplinary Artist
Questioning and communicating life experiences, emotions, and memories through gestureless abstraction, figurative exploration, minimalism, intense color, form, and texture, Everett asks the viewer to revisit recreated memory snapshots as a state of present experience. Drawing inspiration from the rich cultural heritage of New Orleans — where the celebration of the mundane, the dead, and the living coexists with a forward-looking perspective— Everett embraces this tradition throughout her practice.
@aimeemeverettart
Rewon Shimray, Painter & Illustrator
Rewon Shimray is a native Austinite and biethnic Asian American who processes her cultural and queer identity through autobiographical paintings. Her compositions blend childhood photographs, popular iconography, and cultural artifacts to narrate her upbringing in white dominant and Christian fundamentalist spaces. Rewon’s paintings offer a site of contemplation, recognition and connection. She earned a BA in Journalism from Baylor University with minors in religion and studio art. Rewon has exhibited work in over a dozen Austin galleries, including her debut solo exhibition in May 2023, titled “SPLIT: Portraits of the AAPI Diaspora.”
@artbyrewon
Kate Nuelle, Photographer & Illustrator
Kate Nuelle (they/them) is an artist born, raised and based in Austin, Texas. By day, they are a graphic designer specializing in brand identity and printed material for companies and non-profits related to arts, culture, and media. Their photography and illustration work brings up concerns about privacy, ephemerality, and power through eerie compositions. They have been featured through The Gallery ATX, the Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery, and ICOSA, as well as published in Verses, Glaze, Seedlings, Power Vacuum and other independent publications.
@kate.nuelle
Victoria Cardenas, Painter & Illustrator
Victoria Cardenas AKA Wavy Roller is a self-taught artist residing in Austin, TX. Her primary medium is acrylic on canvas but she also explores different mediums and canvas (lino printing, digital design, paint markers, and pastels). Her art is offered through original paintings, prints, stickers, book marks, totes and she explores, “connection and lack of connection that is around me; with myself & my own trauma, others, and nature through dreamy colorful, yet toned down pieces.”
@wavyrollerart
Samantha Asencio, Artist & Designer
Samantha Asencio (she/her), aka Future Vagabond, is an interdisciplinary artist originally from New York. Shortly after graduating from Pratt Institute in 2015, she relocated to Austin, where she continued her sculptural work. Over time, she shifted her focus to embroidery and later founded the brand FV. The work explores themes of the American road trip, draws on historical references, and examines the notion of impermanence. Her practice invites viewers to consider how memory, travel, and time intertwine.
@futurevagabond
Erin Carle, Painter
Erin Carle (she/her) is a fine artist whose practice is rooted in painting. Her work addresses themes of inadequacy, body standards, and body dissatisfaction, often reframing them in a playful yet unsettling way through surreal imagery. Inspired by personal experiences and observed societal expectations, her work explores how cultural pressures shape the way we see and value ourselves. Brightly colored and intentionally chaotic, her paintings invite viewers to confront discomfort within a vibrant, almost humorous visual language. Erin earned her BFA from Texas State University and has exhibited in both solo and group shows across Texas. She is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she is expanding her practice into ceramics, video, and installation.
@erincarleart
Sarah Bork, Photographer
Sarah Bork (she/her) is an Austin-based interdisciplinary artist whose photographic work centers LGBTQ+ experiences of everyday life. With a background in film and performance, Bork has spent over two decades cultivating a socially engaged practice rooted in community portraiture and text. Her current series Girls Gotta Eat is an ongoing photography and oral history project exploring the grocery shopping rituals of drag performers. Bork’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at The Dougherty Arts Center, Austin Public Library, Women and Their Work, Houston Center for Photography, and in a public billboard commission by Art + Action in San Francisco. She credits the Girls Gotta Eat community with helping her better understand her own queerness, and remains committed to collaborative work that bridges social divides and celebrates the radical potential of everyday care.
@girlsgottaeat_dragportraits
Yvonne Uwah, Documentary Photographer & Book-Maker
Yvonne Uwah (she/her) is a self-taught photographer living in Austin, Texas. She began using photography out of a deep desire to connect with and acknowledge other people. Because of this, her work primarily focuses on portraiture and what emerges when investing time into relationships. She has exhibited at various galleries in Central Texas.
@yvonneshoots
HOW TO ATTEND
Future Front’s Austin Studio Tour stop is free and open to the public on November 8, 9, 15 and 16 from noon to 6 PM.
REGISTRATION COMING SOON.
*If you are a Future Front member, please provide your name at the door for entry or head to members.futurefronttexas.org or futurefrontmembership.squarespace.com to access member rates for event tickets, applications & other perks at anytime.
PREPARE YOUR VISIT TO FUTURE FRONT.
Future Front’s Community Studio is located at 1900 E. 12th Street.
WHERE TO PARK: We have a large paid parking lot across the street and is directly accessible by bus line. There’s also free parking up and down the street and in surrounding neighborhoods. Carpool, if you can! Find direct parking instructions and details here.
WHAT TO DO: Our studio is located within East Austin’s historic African-American Cultural Heritage District, which is home to many other creative spaces and businesses, as well as organizations like Six Square, the What Once Was Heritage Center at Rosewood Courts and Austin’s first HBCU and higher learning institution Huston-Tillotson University.
★ Trona — bar — 1812 E 12th
★ Little Nishi in King Bee — sushi — 1906 E 12th
★ Nixta Taqueria — restaurant — 2512 E 12th
★ Comadre Panaderia — bakery — 1204 Cedar Ave
★ Keep Looking Shop — bookshop — 1614 E 12th
★ community garden — café bar — 1401 Cedar Ave
★ The Plant Society — plant shop — 1912 E 12th
★ Lynny’s Diner — café bar — 1914 E 12th
★ The Little Gay Shop — boutique — 1902 E 12th
★ Sam’s BBQ — restaurant — 2000 E 12th
★ Austin Daiquiri Factory — bar — 2000 E 12th
★ El Tigre Coffee Shop — coffee bar — 1614 E. 12th
★ Origin Studio House — hospitality group — 2925 E. 12th
★ Open Form — yoga studio — 2900 E 12th
For more information on the history of our district, book a tour with Black Austin Tours.
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.
OUR COMMUNITY SAFETY GUIDELINES —
All Future Front 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: futurefronttexas.org/values.
Capacity is limited to reduce crowding of any kind and all events will be held in primarily outdoor and open-air spaces or have access to proper ventilations and well-maintained A/C systems.
At Future Front events, all guests are expected to follow Austin-local health and safety guidelines for gatherings, as well as practice consideration with the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and any other legal, mind-altering or dangerous substances and objects. This includes:
Discouraged use of tobacco products on the property of nearby businesses and residences, to improve air quality, throughout our events.
Tobacco use and electronic smoking device use are not permitted at any time within Future Front properties and event spaces at least 15 ft from entrances, exits, operational windows, or ventilation system intake vents.
Littering of tobacco-related products on the grounds or parking lots is also prohibited.
Concealed or open weapons and firearms (including handguns) are not allowed at any Future Front venues.
GOT QUESTIONS? Shoot us a note at hello@futurefronttexas.org. We're happy to help and will get back to you!
ABOUT FUTURE FRONT
Homegrown in Austin, Future Front is an award-winning cultural space and public exhibition series—with women and LGBTQ+ creatives at the front.
As a 501c3 arts and culture nonprofit, we produce two annual community-led exhibitions, The Front Market and The Front Festival, platforming independent artists and creatives across disciplines in Texas. Beyond our flagship exhibitions, we host seasonal shows and workshops at our creative space in East Austin, welcoming 20,000+ visitors per year.
Through these programs and a diverse network of partnerships, we invite the public (including you) to dream of a future where local art and creativity thrive in Texas—where we see ourselves and our cultures reflected in our communities.
FUTURE FRONT IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY The City of Austin Economic Development Department, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Texas Commission on the Arts, The LINE Hotel Austin, Pease Park Conservancy, the Red River Cultural District, Downtown Austin Alliance Foundation, Topo Chico, as well as Future Front’s donors and members.