In this new show at the excellent Downtown gallery, seven artists show artworks with the books (plays, poems, novels, comics, zines, and records) that inform and inspire them. With Emma Hadzi Antich, Jade Walker, Jason Stopa, Logan Larsen, Matthew Langland, Sarah Fagan, and Tim Thompson.

Northern-Southern: Title

Ceramic sculpture by Evan Horn; paintings by Lauren Moya Ford. Horn sculpts with clay dug from the Texas riverbeds, hand-shaped ceramic forms twisting like vessels imitating liquids. Ford guides watery ink fields into candid invocations of memory, spirit, womanhood, and the body. Together, this brilliant stream flows beauty into your eyes and heart.

Northern-Southern: The Source

Downtown's hidden gem of artistic brilliance is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a black and white theme, asking that you wear black, white, or black-and-white to join the partying crowd tonight. There will (of course) be appropriately themed art by a group of artists spanning the gallery's decade of existence, and a performance by Katherine Vaughn.

Northern-Southern: 10th Anniversary Party

Laura Lit’s sculptures are like utterances of deep quiet made solid and real. These newest ones have been built over two years, with skeletons of wood, muscle of foam, tissue of paper clay. The forms are painted with acrylic and oil, adorned with feather-feelers of plastic or scales of dyed resin. Some of these sculptures are the size of rabbits; others loom like growing trees. Gentle suggestion: FFS, don't miss this magnificent show.

Northern-Southern: Others

Laura Lit’s sculptures are like utterances of deep quiet made solid and real. These newest ones have been built over two years, with skeletons of wood, muscles of foam, tissues of paper clay. The forms are painted with acrylic and oil, adorned with feather-feelers of plastic or scales of dyed resin. Some of these sculptures are the size of rabbits; others loom like growing trees. Gentle suggestion: FFS, don't miss this magnificent show.

Here's an exhibition that's ready to wow the craft-craving public. (That's you, citizen.) This is the new solo show by Austin's own Donya Stockton, weaver extraordinaire, featuring her latest works of basketry (and its stunning deconstructions), incorporating driftwood, Oaxacan seed pods, and copper into her signature, serpentine loops of cane and reed.

Northern-Southern Gallery: Endless

This is the new solo exhibition by Austin’s own Donya Stockton – yes, the multitalented woman behind legendary club venues Beerland, Rio Rita, King Bee, and more. So, the show’s about music? No, because this Stockton is also a world-class weaver, and her latest works of handmade basketry (and its stunning deconstructions) incorporate driftwood, Oaxacan seed pods, and copper into her signature serpentine loops of cane and reed, bringing topology itself to its knees in Philip Niemeyer’s excellent Downtown gallery.  – Wayne Alan Brenner