Julia C. Butridge Gallery

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 30 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.

West Austin Studio Tour

West Austin Studio Tour
May 12-13 & 19-20
11am-6pm

Mark your calendars! The JCB Gallery is proudly hosting three participating artists in Big Medium’s West Austin Studio Tour 2018! WEST is a free, annual, self-guided art event spanning two weekends and provides opportunities for the public to meet the artists and artisans of Austin in creative spaces.

Click here for information about our WEST artists.

West Austin Studio Tour

Current Exhibits

Jess Bee
Coming Unraveled
Reception: Saturday, March 31, 2018, 1–3pm
Exhibit Dates: Saturday, March 31 to Saturday, June 9, 2018

Jess Bee creates vivid worlds rich with texture that explore dreams and nightmares by representing personal fears, juxtaposed with haunting creatures and surreal landscapes. Bee unravels the meaning of dreams and visually represent what the mind unintentionally holds onto through meticulous fabric assemblage.

March Mattingly
Favorite Places
Reception: Saturday, March 31, 2018, 1–3pm
Exhibit Dates: Saturday, March 31 to Saturday, June 9, 2018

In the context of physical places, emotional states of mind, or a cherished point in time, the artist’s paintings express self-awareness, the beauty of nature and the complex relationships between humans and the natural world.

March Mattingly

Totally Cool Totally Art
22^nd Annual Teen Art Exhibit
Reception: Thursday, April 26, 2018, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Exhibit Dates: Saturday, April 14 to Thursday, April 26, 2018

Totally Cool Totally Art (TCTA) has been cultivating creative teens since 1996. Participants in this afterschool program exhibit the amazing work that comes from the drive to enrich their own lives and creativity, while working alongside professional artists.

TCTA exhibition

Upcoming Exhibits

Faustinus Deraet
El subconsciente chilango / Chilango Subconscious
Reception: Friday, May 11, 2018, 6pm – 8pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, May 30, 2018, 7pm – 8pm
Exhibit Dates: Saturday, May 12 to Saturday, June 9, 2018

Chilango Subconscious is a collection of street photography taken in Mexico City. Chance encounters, guided by Deraet’s subconscious, result in candid images that look closely at the urban environment.

Faustinus Daraet