Austin Handmade Re-opening Party & Austin Fashion Week Event

Austin Handmade is celebrating the Grand Re-opening of its new store location at 2009 S. First St. Combining launch efforts with this year’s Austin Fashion Week. Showcasing fashion show by local designer Robie Dodson of Parsimony.
 
July 9, 2009 - PRLog -- Austin Handmade will be celebrating the Grand Re-opening of its new store location on Thursday July 16, 2009, from 8:00-11:00pm, at 2009 S. First St. Combining launch efforts with this year’s Austin Fashion Week. The Austin Handmade Grand Re-opening Party will showcase a fashion show by local designer Robie Dodson of Parsimony. This fashion lineup will feature some of the coolest, trendy, chic, and comfortable items in all of Austin. The Austin Handmade store’s Grand Re-opening Party will offer special in-store discounts, along with giveaways from participating sponsors such as the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls, select Austin based artists and a membership for a free year of classes provided by The WonderCraft. Party guests will be able try out the new Austin Handmade Do-It-Yourself Room using simple kits created by Austin artists with instructions and basic supplies available for purchase at the event. Continue with the on-site DIY fun with make n’ take projects provided Austin’s newest creative craft-force, The WonderCraft. Show entertainment to be provided by local band Lost Werks and DJ Beef Eigler "Hot Britches" of High Society. Event and fashion show photography by local photographer, John Pesina featured in The Austin American Statesman, Envy Magazine, Tribeza, SXSW World and Austin 360. Enjoy drinks from Austin’s favorite, Sweet Leaf Tea  and Treaty Oak Platinum Rum. Rum truly made in the spirit of Texas. Texas’s first & only distillery that both brews and distills locally, using only Texas ingredients.

Austin Handmade is the brainchild of forward thinking local art supporters Jason Butler and Catherine Jones. Butler, a native Texan and graduate from the Art Institute of Dallas also owns and operates Sixgunlover Records and Sonance Rehearsal Studios. His partner Catherine Jones, UT alumni and co-founder of Austin Handmade, helped to establish this business as her way of giving back to a community that has offered her so many possibilities. Austin Handmade began as an online store, marketed toward a national audience. Their idea was to have an inclusive array of arts to represent the diversity of talent in Austin. After receiving many requests from Austinites to create a local showroom, owners Catherine and Jason decided to open up shop. Austin Handmade’s mission is to provide an outlet for artists and to expand the notion of what art is, with a focus on affordable art.

Visit the Austin Handmade online store at www.austinhandmade.com to find an array of Austin’s talent with a wide diversity of art including screen printing, book binding, candle making, fabric art, graphic design and more, including detailed information on upcoming featured monthly artist events and the bi-weekly local Handmade Market.
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