Edwards Aquifer Walking Tour with Abby Flanagan
Photo: Paul Flahive. Courtesy of Texas Public Radio.
Join artist Abby Flanagan and curator Melissa Fandos for a walking tour of the Edwards Aquifer along the Barton Springs Greenbelt. Together we’ll look closely at the karst limestone that forms the aquifer and shapes our natural environment. We’ll also collect a small handful of materials that make up the landscape.
The total trip is about 2 miles and includes some walking on an uneven path over flat rocks. Please bring water and a snack.
Meet at the Violet Crown Trailhead. This is the trailhead at the southwest corner of the Barton Springs parking lot. It is marked with a large steel circle sign.
This program is held in conjunction with the exhibition Abby Flanagan: To Move Through Stone, on view at the VAC through March 21.
About the artist
Abby Flanagan is an artist and educator based in Western Massachusetts. Her practice traces interconnections between environment and self, moving across drawing, sculpture, and installation to explore subjects of materiality, presence, and precarity. Flanagan completed a BFA at Montana State University in 2015 followed by an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022. Her work has shown with galleries, art centers, and artist run projects such as shedshows in Austin (2024), North Loop in Williamstown (2023), NON STNDRD in St. Louis (2023), GrayDUCK in Austin (2023), Tinworks Art in Bozeman (2023), among others. She has participated in artist residencies at SOMA Summer in Veracruz, MX (2021), Orein Arts in Elmira, NY (2019), Burren College of Art Alumni Award Residency in County Clare IR (2016), and Mildred’s Lane in Narrowsburg, NY (2016). She has written for arts publications including Incandescent and served as visual art co-editor for the Bat City Review. She currently teaches Drawing in the Expanded Field at Amherst College.