In Living Memory: Opening Reception

Presented by ECHOES ATX at the George Washington Carver Museum, In Living Memory brings together ten contemporary artists exploring the memory, presence, and imagination of Black and Hispanic Austin. Visitors will encounter portraits of East Austin neighbors and local figures, documentary photography, Super 8 film, a towering Tejana family ofrenda, oral histories, family archives, and multimedia installations. These works bring personal and collective histories into conversation with a city that continues to change around them.

In Living Memory looks to memory and archives not only as records of the past, but as things we continue to carry, interpret, and bring into the present. Remembering can be an act of care, self-definition, and reverence: a way of honoring what came before us while considering what we carry forward.

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This project is supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment.