In Living Memory (ECHOES ATX)

Black and Hispanic Austinites have long made place here. Through neighborhood businesses and local cuisines, music and art, gathering spaces, organizing, family traditions, and everyday life, generations have built spaces of their own and profoundly shaped Austin's cultural life. Their histories are distinct, but they have also unfolded across neighboring and overlapping parts of the city, including East Austin and the historically Black and Mexican American communities of South Austin. But cities do not remember evenly. As Austin changes, so do the places and people that make it meaningful. Buildings are torn down. Neighborhoods change. Families move. Familiar places take on new names and uses. And sometimes, the people who made a place what it is can no longer remain there, even as their influence continues to shape the city. Still, we work to remember one another. We remember lives lived and childhoods, friends and family, local legends, homes and businesses, celebrations and losses. Through photographs, stories, objects, and art, we mark ourselves and one another into history.. 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. Across painting, documentary photography, Super 8 film, oral histories, family archives, a Tejana family ofrenda, and multimedia installations, the exhibition considers remembering not only as a record of the past, but as an act of care, self-definition, and reverence. The exhibition features artists whose work has reached audiences locally and nationally, including Dr. Robyn B. Adams, the ACLU of Texas's 2026–27 Artist-in-Residence; filmmaker Alejandro Hendricks, whose film Airport BLVD premiered at the 2026 Tribeca Festival; Leslie Lozano (Ella Ella), whose performances include Coachella and SXSW; and Bieke Campos, whose work has been featured through Mexic-Arte Museum's artist residency…