Lina Fisher

At this point, most of the Chronicle readership is probably on board with understanding the evils of mass consumerism – the myriad environmental and social ills that come with corporatized convenience. When it’s two weeks away from Christmas, though, and you still haven’t gotten your mom a gift, those moral ideals may begin to slip […]

Much ink has been spilled about the difference between art and craft. In the 1970s, feminist artists reclaimed what had been thought of as women’s work – and thus devalued – elevating it to the level of fine art. In 2025, it seems craft is everywhere in the art world – but often a detached, […]

Julia Lenoir has lived many lives. In 2022, she was working in hospice and tattooing herself casually, learning to draw botanical designs by tracing: “I started doing everything in dots, because I couldn’t pull lines on my machine. I would sit with my tracing paper over the image, and I would just dot, dot, dot, […]

Ceramics is one of the few art forms that involves all of the elements: earthen clay, water to shape it, fire to set it, and air to dry it. That’s what Arielle Shaves likes about it: “It brings back some childlike feeling of messing with Play-Doh, mud, playing with the earth. It doesn’t matter what […]

Smoking kills! And yet, the kids keep doing it – the World Health Organization now warns that nine times more children than adults are vaping, fueling a “new wave of nicotine addiction.” Teens may be teetotaling, but they definitely haven’t given up nicotine. Back in the early 2010s, Emily Schexnayder, born to two smokers, was […]

Since 2004, Austin Energy has been an early leader in solar generation. The sun is a plentiful resource in Texas, and when paired with battery

The 2024 update of Austin Energy’s carbon zero plan to 2035 was marked by a sense of urgency to meet skyrocketing demand on the statewide ERCOT grid, the specter of another Winter Storm Uri, and the need to reaffirm to the public that the city is on track to reach its climate goals, with a […]

Tucked between a wholesale poultry company and a hair salon on a quiet stretch of East Sixth, a sign bearing the mysterious phrase Haus Obscura beckons passerby into a shaded courtyard. That courtyard, and the tandem art gallery/print shop it leads into, was built entirely by Mark Mikhail and Heather Slingerland, a couple from the […]

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When Will Stoerner moved to Austin's Colony neighborhood in far East Austin, he knew about the water issues . For decades, residents have been