The RedDot 10

The largest university art museum in the U.S. Nearly 21,000 works. Ellsworth Kelly's Austin — his final masterwork — is here.

Two locations: the Jones Center downtown and the sculpture park at Laguna Gloria on Lake Austin. Both are essential.

Inside the Canopy complex on Springdale Road. The anchor of East Austin's gallery corridor.

A century-old home turned community gallery. Monthly shows, poetry, film, performances. The heart of East Austin.

Working printmaking studio and gallery. Original prints from $200. Watch them being made.

Exhibition space inside Austin's stunning Lake|Flato library. Free. The building is worth the visit alone.

Feminist art nonprofit since 1978. Archives acquired by the Smithsonian. Nearly half a century of championing women artists.

Official Mexican and Mexican American Fine Art Museum of Texas since 1984. 80 events annually. On Congress Avenue.

Austin's iconic graffiti park reborn. 17 acres, 30+ artists. Free and open to the public.

Two November weekends when hundreds of Austin studios open their doors, free and unjuried. Produced by Almost Real Things since 2025, after Big Medium — who ran it for two decades as EAST and WEST — closed. Citywide from 2026, with the east/west split retired.