“HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW” is an artist-run collaborative visual journey that speculates the cycle of beauty, destruction, and rebirth. This interactive art exhibit features 8 rooms transformed by 40+ Creative Visionaries of diverse disciplines. This installation is to be designed as a model to revitalize otherwise unused spaces in the interim period prior to being demolished and rebuilt.

Come support Austin artists and creatives and learn about the Blackland community who have been at the forefront of social equality, artistic expression, and affordable housing in East Austin since 1983.

“HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW” will be celebrating the end of our journey. Be sure to come through and see the exhibition one last time.

ABOUT

It all started when…

“HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW” is an artist-run collaborative visual journey that speculates the cycle of beauty, destruction, and rebirth. This interactive art exhibit features 35+ creative visionaries of diverse disciplines.

The project consists of eight (8) various size rooms that are divided into two (2) separate units of the duplex with exterior facade and yard. Each room will be curated and transformed by different creative groups and individual artists. Selected artists will given no creative limitations and are encouraged to use a variety of mediums to create an immersive art space. Whether they paint, build, construct, destruct or all of the above is up to them. There will be event programming throughout the duration of the project

The entire duplex will be demolished at the end of 2022 with plans of a new housing project which will include a public mural, sculptural installation and one unit dedicated to affordable housing for the Blackland neighborhood.

The project is designed to celebrate creative freedom of Austin artists while raising awareness of the Blackland organization and neighborhood. 

BLACKLAND

NON-PROFIT AFFILIATE PARTNER - BLACKLAND

The Blackland Community Development Corporation (BCDC) was incorporated in August 1983 as a non-profit, 501 (c) 3 corporation in the State of Texas. The boundaries of the Blackland Neighborhood are Comal Street on the west, Chestnut Avenue on the east, MLK Boulevard on the south, and Manor Road on the north.

The mission of Blackland CDC is to foster a safe, sustainable, inclusive community that strives for social equality by preserving and enhancing the stock of affordable housing and providing supportive programs. Through this project we hope to not only amplify their mission and bring more awareness through this creative endeavor. 

This project supports Austin artists and creatives and aims to educate about the Blackland community who have been at the forefront of social equality, artistic expression, and affordable housing in East Austin since 1983.

HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW Collaborators

We could not have do this without this amazing community of collaborators that have contribute to our amazing programming efforts. We are honored to have them collaborate with us on this project.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

• Of Color

• Raasin In The Sun

• Lapis Group

• HOPE Campaign

• Almost Real Things

• Riches Art Gallery

• Sass N Strut

• KB Contractors

• ATX Event Systems

• Big Medium

SPONSORS

• Six Square

• 365 Austin

• Still Austin

• New Belgium

• Voodoo Ranger

• Voodoo Ranger

• Sour Duck

• Love Supreme

• LOOP Colors

• Mi Madre’s Restaurant

• Jerry’s Artorama

Left Side Experience

Something Cool Studios

Artist participated in Something Cool Studios:

Uloang

SLEEP

ULYS Gold

Fabian Rey

Bedroom - TV Head

As Above, So Below
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“As we walk clockwise around the room we stir the power of the self. Feeding the vortex of power in the center of the temple and raising consciousness To awaken and reveal the creative child who resides within.”

This room is inspired by the ancient temples and tombs of Egypt. The relief work encapsulates my designs revealing the gritty texture of the wall medium. The colors black representing the black heart of innocence and red represents the iron in our blood that courses through our veins. The gold throughout the room represents our creative treasures we offer the world. The hole that was deconstructed is a portal to to the another realm of consciousness and is guarded by Matthias the representation of childhood lost.
IG: @tvheadatx

Bedroom - Grim and Fish

More information on the piece coming soon.

Hallway - MINDSOUP

“MINDS0UP Periscope Portal” room (Portal: holographic paint and glossy mod podge single line drawing over acrylic spray painted skyscape, pin spot and led lights. Periscope: reclaimed pipe, PVC joints, mirrors, foil tubes, curious peepers).

NFS - Artist is open to commissions.

Bathroom - Goodluck Buddha and Squid

More information on the piece coming

Kitchen - Liza Fishbone

"The Mulligrub Meadow"

You’re at home, standing in front of the sink. As you wash your dishes, you notice the water beginning to turn a murky purple. The faucet begins to sputter and hiss, and before you know what’s happening, an entire meadow comes spraying out of the sink, and all over the walls! “What is this place?” you wonder. Welcome to the Mulligrub Meadow.

Mulligrubs are depression worms. They show up when you’re feeling down, and they feed on your gloom. Feel that weight on your shoulders? They are probably here already.

But don’t be alarmed! The Mulligrub Hunters are on their way to eat those nasty little bugs, and make you feel better. Before they arrive, take a look around! There’s an “underground” dance party, featuring DJ Daizee, Mulligrub Meadow’s “biggest” DJ! It may look calm and breezy in the sun, but beneath the surface, you can let yourself go.

Tune into the Mulligrub Meadow Mix from DJ Daizee (Spotify Link)

Left Side Experience

Kitchen - Felipe Gomez

“In the air”

Stain on layered birch, and mirror

2022

$12,000

Contact artist directly for inquires about purchasing.

Kitchen - Grito, Paper Committee, Vandal (Jason Ice)

Title: "This was trash"

2017-2022 (evolving piece)

Spiral neon head blue mannequin with gas cans, and jewelry.

$3000

Contact the artist directly to inquire about pricing.

Living Room - Zuzu, Liz Whitington, Kelsi Bodin, and Jacob Gillian

"Sentient Amanita" (mushroom): $3500

"You give me butterflies": $1,750

"Infinity table": $1,300

Venmo: @Jacob-Gillian to purchase or contact the artists directly to inquire about availability.

Hallway - Erik Ross

Erik’s concept comes from the many "faces" we were in our day to day lives. Each "face" represents different times in one's day that we interact with the people. For each individual and each circumstance a different "face" is called upon. Forever shifting and morphing as you interact with friends, colleagues, and loved ones as each situation brings out a different part of you. These various parts and "faces" ultimately build the foundation for who you are. It is all a matter of perspective.....

Art work for sale:

Cutouts: $750 each (the tall full body guy is already sold by the restroom)

Bedroom - ER and Brittany Johnson

More information on the piece coming soon.

Bedroom - Sloke and J. Love

Two Thirteen

We encourage you to take a thoughtful moment and explore the paradoxes that exist within room Two Thirteen. Through the contrasting colors and imagery of white and black, life and death, ask yourself what it means to hold two conflicting truths simultaneously. The dark of night cannot exist without the light of day, and when we fail to understand or acknowledge the paradoxes that exist within each of us, we fail to find purpose in our darkest hours.

Immerse yourself to see beyond the black and white, and open your mind to the colors that exist within. Living only in the narrow chaos melds our minds into an echo chamber of “us vs. them,” an accumulation of paranoid thoughts and darkening plots. Take a closer look… What can you see that you did not see before?

Two Thirteen is an artistic collaboration between graffiti artist and muralist Sloke, and creative designer J. Love.

For Sale

Hand Painted skulls (5 Total Available) $75/each
Non painted skulls (2 Total Available) $35/each
Set of 4 Black Dining Chairs $150
Console/Altar $100
Mannequins/Dress Forms $120/each
Blue curtain panel set $40 (will include rod)
Framed art $60

Lamp $150

"SIN": $950 by Jacob Gillian - contact artist to inquire about availability.

Hallway - Jacob Gillian

"Sentient Amanita" (mushroom): $3500

Venmo: @Jacob-Gillian or contact artist direction to inquire about availability.

Bathroom - Paper Committee

Color Cleansing Room

This room is meant to invoke joy, passion, and hopefully inspire you. Using bright & happy candy colors, my goal is to inspire a positively emotional experience. Emotional states have a longer-lasting energetic imprint on the locations they were experienced in. My goal is to bring people in, facilitate positive emotions that can remain with this space long after the building is gone, and hopefully remain on the land. Thing of it like the room is fire and the people are Paolo Santo. We’re blessing this space. Namaste, strangers. 

One piece for sale:

Carousel Ride | 24x24”

(the painting hanging in the window. )

$375

Contact artist directly to purchase hello@papercommittee.com.

Exterior Experience

Front of House - Zuzu, Lace and Found

Tree In the Yard - Hannah Beruskus

Embracing the End

Description:
Hand-tufted panels, acrylic, wool, 2022

NFS - Artist is open to commissions.

Austin's City Arborist Program helps keep Austin green by administering the City of Austin's Tree Ordinance, providing Austin with laws that protect many of our trees, and being raised in Houston, I greatly appreciate this and them. When I first came to the Here Today, Gone Tomorrow house to survey where I might be able to add something fun to its exterior space, I was immediately drawn to this tree with its two elongated trunks appearing to reach out as if longing to embrace something, someone, the sky. A dead stump and a lot of dead bark resided in its center creating two hollows that had collected much debris, and it seemed desperate for some love. I then learned that when the house is demolished, it would not be one of the saved trees but would also be, Gone Tomorrow. It was immediately decided, I am going to give this tree the glorious send-off it deserves. Playing off the concept of a Pheonix, death, and rebirth, I decided to create hand-tufted feather-shaped rugs that I hoped would appear as though the two trunks were evolving, being reborn from the earth. The rug placed around the base of the tree is meant to be a call-back to the paint adorning the walls of the house, the life's blood of many of the artists, and the newly reborn tree spilling out as it ascends, embracing its end.

Every part of prepping for this installation was an approximation. Getting accurate measurements of such shapes would require much math, and I do not math, much. Thankfully rug tufting is fairly forgiving. I used newsprint to make paper patterns of the tree's base and hollows, cutting them into pieces that I could then transfer to the primary tufting cloth once stretched onto my frame. Each feather was hand-tufted and cut out after gluing the edges. Taking into account the installation would live outdoors, I used waterproof latex glues for only the edges of the rug pieces. I wanted to allow rain to be able to go through the material so that 1.) The tree and ground would not be starved of water, and 2.) so that the water would not pool and mildew in the rug. This decision, though, had a very exciting and special surprise for me! After being installed for about a week and a half, and the rain we have thankfully had during that interim, I found small grass shoots had begun to grow up through the rug! Nature finds a way. I have read covering trees with fiber during the winter months helps provide places for bugs to burrow and bed, rather than into the tree, protecting the tree. Though this tree seems to be not doing so well, I hope that my piece will provide it with some comfort in its last days.

Materials used in this piece will be recycled or reused upon the project's close.

Left Side Exterior - .Paste and Matt Tru Mural KB Contractors providing Landscaping

More information on the piece coming soon.

Sculptures - Miles Starkey

Miles Starkey has several sculptures around the exterior of the project.

SILKY SMILE

steel, concrete, wire, acrylic

$175

HYENA

wire, acrylic

$175

SPIDEY SENSE #1

steel, acrylic, plastic

$99

SPIDEY SENSE #2

steel, acrylic, plastic

$125

DINO CAM

steel, acrylic, plastic

$111

PRYING MANTIS

steel, acrylic, plastic

$75

Venmo:

@Miles-Starkey and contact artist directly to inquire about availability.

NEWS and Snuk

More information on the backyard murals coming soon.

Fence Installation - Fiber Artistry

Hanging By A Thread:

A fiber installation.

This piece reads RIGHT to LEFT.

The Black and Brown communities on the Eastside of Austin are hanging by a thread to keep their properties, as these gold-holding investors erase the cultures that make Austin truly beautiful.

Outdoor Sculpture - BLVD

More information on the piece coming soon.

Side Yard Sculpture - VULTR

Sensation of Creation :: prayer wheel series

The shake of the can is a call and a response, an invitation and an ending. Gone tomorrow. Here today. Run your hand across the cans and make a sonic and haptic exploration of creating a wall piece. Made from twelve artist’s cans used on site, this interactive piece works to connect and honor the sensation of creation in all of us. Prayer wheels mark the beginning and end of journeys, in towns and temples across the world. What is your creativity curious to explore?

Artist – VULTR

$888

Contact artist directly to inquire about purchasing.

J Muzacz

More information on the piece coming soon.

Rooftop Sculpture - MINDSOUP

Monica Bushong (@minds0up or MINDS0UP). Her work for this project includes the roof sculpture “Aliens Welcome” (hand cut holographic striped vinyl letters on hologram glitter painted satellite dish) , the roof overhang’s “Always Lookin Up” (jumbo holographic paper blops, mod podge) and the “MINDS0UP Periscope Portal” room (Portal: holographic paint and glossy mod podge single line drawing over acrylic spray painted skyscape, pin spot and led lights. Periscope: reclaimed pipe, PVC joints, mirrors, foil tubes, curious peepers).

Artist is taking commissions. Work on view is NFS.