Cult of Color: Ballet/Art Collaborative

The fantastical world of an artist’s imagination will come to life during a special collaborative project that incorporates visual art and ballet. The Arthouse at the Jones Center’s latest exhibit, Cult of Color: Call to Color—Notes on a Collaboration, which opened Saturday, is held in conjunction with a new ballet of the same name at Ballet Austin.

The exhibit traces a two-and-a-half-year collaboration among three Texas-based artists: Trenton Doyle Hancock of Houston and Austinites Graham Reynolds and Stephen Mills. Cult of Color: Call to Color is a chapter in Hancock’s ongoing artistic mythology, which incorporates stories about imaginative creatures like the Mounds and the Vegans. On display will be Hancock’s colorful paintings, notes, and sketches that inspired the design and concept of the ballet, as well as artwork that inspired the backdrop curtains, stage props, and costumes.

Ballet performances will be at the Austin Ventures Studio Theater on April 3-4,6, 10-12; curtain times vary. For the ballet, Reynolds composed the music and sound and Mills created the unique choreography. Hancock designed the whimsical costumes and sets.

The exhibit is on display through April 27. In addition to Hancock's artwork, Reynold's musical score will be available, and Mill's choreography process will be represented through video collages.