The Julia C. Butridge Gallery is located in the heart of the arts district adjacent to the Long Center and Butler Park at the Dougherty Arts Center, a multi-cultural community arts center providing opportunities for creative expression to citizens for over 41 years. Visitors enjoy an exceptional 2,000 square feet of exhibit space in the main gallery, and an additional 480 square feet in newly renovated gallery space. The natural collision of creative activity at the arts center contributes to the gallery’s longstanding reputation among the arts community as an accessible and nurturing venue and incubator, ideal for emerging and established artists. The gallery is free and open to the public.
2025 Call For Artists
The Julia C. Butridge Gallery is accepting exhibit proposals for the 2025 gallery season!
Located at the Dougherty Arts Center, the Julia C. Butridge Gallery is well known for its diverse exhibitions of artists and their work. There is no fee to submit an exhibit proposal and all related exhibits and events are free and open to the public.
Applications are open November 17, 2023 - February 4, 2024.
To submit please visit: doughertyartscenter.submittable.com/submit
On Display
Senderos del Desierto II
Salvador Rodriguez
November 11 – December 16, 2023
Artist Reception: Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 7-9pm
Salvador Rodriguez paints the magnificence of the deserts of Texas and beyond from great panoramic views. His studies take months and years of work including detailed research of the ecosystems, history, and myths of each environment in order to recreate their essence in stunning likeness.
Finding Wholeness
Alex Abbott
December 2, 2023 – January 27, 2024
Artist Reception: Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 7-9pm
Finding Wholeness illustrates the artist’s journey through the overwhelming darkness of the pandemic into sparkling present moments. Employing archetypal flora, fauna, and landscapes, the artist shares feelings of growth, decay, nostalgia and hope through dreamlike surrealism and crisp color realism.
Colored Sensations: A Synesthete’s Vision of Letters, Numbers & Time
Jenny Swannack
December 2, 2023 – January 27, 2024
Artist Reception: Wednesday, December 6, 2023, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 7-9pm
Synesthesia is described as a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. Jenny Swannack is a synesthete, seeing letters, numbers, and time in color. Colored Sensations represents each month of the year and a certain date, reflecting the colors Swannack sees in each month and number.
Totally Cool Totally Art 2021
Part of the City of Austin Parks & Recreation Department, Totally Cool Totally Art (TCTA) is a unique enrichment program providing free classes to Austin's teen community. Teens learn various art techniques by working directly alongside professional artists. View the TCTA 2021 Virtual Exhibit page to learn more about the program and see a sample of all they accomplished.
Find the 2021 TCTA exhibit here.
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The Austin Parks and Recreation Department’s Division of Museums and Cultural Programs is launching ArtsResponders: Social Practice Responds to COVID-19. Discover the two artists selected by the Dougherty Arts Center, Caroline Walker and Sarah Wilson.
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