Art Week Austin: Curator Dan Cameron and New Orleans' Prospect for Art

Art Week Austin is warming up with an opening Art Talk taking place tonight at the Carver Museum. This evening's speaker, Dan Cameron, is a New York based curator with ties to the New Orleans. After Katrina, he organized Prospect New Orleans, the premiere biennial of international contemporary art in the nation. The first Prospect, which took place at the end of 2008, temporarily turned the Big Easy into a contemporary art metropolis. Tonight Cameron will be in Austin discussing Prospect New Orleans and how it helped invigorate our neighbors to the east. An accomplished curator himself, Cameron will also provide insight into current trends in the vast (and often daunting) world of contemporary art. He will also discuss the selection process for the next Prospect New Orleans which is scheduled for November 2011 through February 2012.

For those of you who are morning people, Cameron will be joining the Downtown Austin Alliance and the city's Cultural Arts Division for an Issues and Eggs Breakfast Forum at City Hall tomorrow. The focus of the discussion will be on the positive impact art can have on a downtown's economy. Breakfast will begin at 7:30am followed by an 8am presentation. Let's hope the message is heard! RSVP for breakfast and the discussion by emailing rsvp@downtownaustin.com.