One of Austin’s newest online news sites featured our memorial wall this weekend. “Their influence is felt every day and this event serves to acknowledge and pay tribute to them,” Shelley Seale wrote in her article, ‘The South Austin Popular Culture Center honors Austin artists with a memorial wall.‘ Have you come to visit...
This is Volume 1, Issue No. 29 of the Austin Sun, an alternative newspaper in the 1970s. Articles like these will be on display at the South Austin Popular Culture Center Sept. 11, 2010 through Oct. 23, 2010.
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2009/11/rip_bill_narum_klol_co-founder.php Bill Narum, a key figure in Houston’s counterculture in the late 1960s and early ’70s, passed away Wednesday night at his home in Austin. The cause of death was an “apparent heart attack or something that took him quickly while sitting in his studio at the art table in his chair,” said Narum’s...
Thorne Dreyer of Rag Radio on KOOP, 91.7 FM talks with Leea Mechling and Henry Gonzalez of the South Austin Popular Culture Center. In the hour-long interview, they “discuss Austin culture since the 60s and 70s; its history of exhibitions featuring major graphic and poster artists; and the Memorial Wall featuring fallen heroes of...
Bob “Daddy O” Wade’s iconic iguana has traveled thousands of miles across the country. Thirty two years later, “Iggy” has found his way home to Fort Worth. Local News Report (Includes raw video of Iggy’s journey): Giant Iguana Statue Flies To New Home At FW Zoo (Source: KTVT) Photo Gallery: ‘Iggy’ at the zoo...
ViewPoints.com writer jmdobies recommends the South Austin Popular Culture Center (formally known as the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture). Click here to read the article.
Bloggers depict their trips to the museum.
Poster Art: Nels “Jagmo” Jacobson’s fortuitous relocation: “It was a move to Austin, Texas in 1978 that touched off my fascination with poster art,” says Nels Jacobson, better known as psychedelic-poster artist Jagmo. “That move changed my life.” Click here to read more.
Click here to read News 8′s coverage of Marilyn Buck’s story, “Fundraiser for radical reigniting debate about political activism,” which previews the fundraiser and invites the audience to comment on political activism.
