Kathleen Brady Stimpert

Tony Fitzpatrick has earned a living as a boxer, bartender, construction worker and actor; his work feels like the visual equivalent of a Tom Waits record.

Hamilton, the acclaimed Ohio-based artist, photographed more then 500 Austinites for the project—a cross section-section of men, women and children of various ages and ethnicities.

Now in its fifteenth year, the the annual East Austin Studio Tour has become a cornerstone of Austin’s cultural scene.

“You can find pictures anywhere,” Erwitt has said. ”You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.”

Smith’s drawings present a modern mythology, a cautionary tale against a life lived without balance.

Allen manages to capture something essential about the state of Texas in his work, and not in a shit kicking, beer-swilling, dumbly cheeky sort of way.