The Bobby Dixon Kollective Fusion Poster Exhibition: Celebrating Hip Hop Through Artistry and Design

This exhibition celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop through the work of local artist and designer Bobby Dixon of Kollective Fusion (AKA KLCTVE Design + Illustration).  For two decades, Bobby has produced screen-printed concert posters for local, national, and international acts. The posters in this exhibition showcase Bobby's artistic design in works created for prominent hip-hop performers that have graced Austin stages. The posters in this exhibit were all created by Bobby Dixon and have been thoughtfully curated to commemorate the 50 Years of Hip Hop project led by the Queens Public Library, in collaboration with more than twenty museums, libraries, and archives from across the nation.”

On display March 26th - May 23rd  | Location:  Ruiz Branch Library - 1600 Grove Blvd, Austin, TX

We’ll Just Rock for Ourselves: Selections from the Lisa Davis Photograph Archive

We’ll Just Rock for Ourselves presents photographs from the  Lisa Davis Photograph Archive  (AR.2011.022) that document Austin’s lesbian musicians and LGBTQ activists of the 1990s. The title is taken from the Power Snatch song, “No Thanks (We’ll Just Rock for Ourselves),” which was written in response to the song “Intellectuals Rocking for Women” by the all-male band the Pocket FishRmen. Photographs and video footage of Power Snatch, the 1990s all-female punk band of Cindy Widner, Darcee Douglas, Terri Lord, Laura Creedle and Kate Messer are featured in the exhibit along with documentation of the bands Girls in the Nose, The Gretchen Phillips Xperience, Sincola, Two Nice Girls, and Swine King. The genres of these bands ranged from folk to experimental to funk, but at the core was the punk ethos of nonconformity and individuality.

On display June 2023 - June 2024 | Location: Austin Public Central Library - 710 W Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78701 4th floor