Kate Schneider (b. 1980, Cleveland, Ohio) is an artist of settler ancestry living in Tkaronto (Toronto). A lifelong resident of the Great Lakes region, her artistic practice considers her personal and ethical relationship to her home and environment during a time of climate crisis.
She has recently received funding from the MacLaren Art Centre’s John Hartman Award (2020) and the Ontario Arts Council (2023). Kate’s works have been shown extensively throughout North America in such galleries as the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto), Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), Spellerberg Projects (Texas), and the Great Plains Art Museum (Nebraska), and published in numerous books and publications, such as PDN’s Photo Annual, Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), and What Makes a Lake by Another Earth Press. Kate’s first book, How to Understand a Rock, was produced through the Penumbra Foundation’s Risograph Publication Residency (2023).
Ryan Thayer Davis received his BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006. He lives and works in Lockhart, TX, working as an architectural interior photographer to support his painting practice. He has attended residencies in Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming, and Iceland.
Ryan works with printmaker-style layers to create sonorous, formal paintings that revel in structure. He’s interested in compositions that push and pull the eyeball brain, juxtaposing and alternating elements that recede and advance relative to the viewer. Seeking paradoxical relationships in space and color, his work allows many avenues of interpretation, from the feeling of landscape and dreamscape, to the pleasures of structural richness and texture, to the melodious nature of line. Generous up front, but deep enough to stay a while.
🎥 Spellerberg Projects Gallery Movie Nights!
Join us on January 30th at 6:30 PM for a cozy community screening of the classic “The Maze” 😉. We’ll kick things off with a few fun art-focused questions, then settle in for a night of nostalgia.
📍 Spellerberg Projects: Upstairs Space
⏰ Doors open: 6:30 PM | Movie starts: 7:15 PM
🍿 Suggested popcorn donation
🥤 BYOB + bring your own snacks + blankets encouraged!
💬 Talking during the movie is encouraged (respectfully)
Hosted by Maya, studio artist at Spellerberg Projects. 💛
JANA HORN is a writer and musician from Texas, based in Brooklyn. Her work has been described by The New Yorker as “aligning with a fraternity of the lonely that cuts across genres: traces of Young Marble Giants, Syd Barrett, and Broadcast all waft through.” At Spellerberg, she’ll be performing with drummer Adam Jones, bassist Jade Guterman and flute/clarinetist Adelyn Strei. Horn’s third album released January 16, 2026 on No Quarter Records.
KNIFE IN THE WATER is a Texas band with a history reaching back to Austin in 1997. The basis of their sound is moored by earthly pillars of STAX/SUN fluency, yet whatever anchor to tradition is unfastened by words and sounds of a surreal bent that wave in and out of waking consciousness. Their 5th LP is coming out in Spring 2026.
🎥 Movie Night at Spellerberg Projects! Hosted by studio artist Maya Endsley.
Join us on November 28th at 6:30 PM for a cozy community screening of the classic “The Continuous Tale” 😉. We’ll kick things off with a few fun art-focused questions, then settle in for a night of nostalgia.
📍 Spellerberg Projects: Upstairs Space
⏰ Doors open: 6:30 PM | Movie starts: 7:15 PM
🍿 Suggested popcorn donation
🥤 BYOB + bring your own snacks + blankets encouraged!
💬 Talking during the movie is encouraged (respectfully)
Lockhart Open Studios is a volunteer organized annual self-guided tour of artist studios in Lockhart, Texas. Join the fun and explore the unique home studios of local artists and immerse yourself in their creative process. This annual weekend event is a great way to support local artists and be inspired by their work!
16 Minutes is a pop-up photography exhibition by Daniel Hill. This show will be on view December 5th from 6-9pm
In District 25-5A, it takes roughly sixteen minutes to win a varsity boys’ 5K cross country meet, a blistering pace of just over five minutes per mile. It passes quickly, yet demands a sustained, all-out effort. Team scores are determined by the top five finishers, so a time of sixteen minutes isn’t required to contribute, but it remains the mark every runner knows is possible with enough resolve. It is the time to chase.
16 Minutes is a photographic chronicle of the Lockhart High School Cross Country Team’s 2025 season. It follows the team’s transformation under veteran coach Scott Hippensteel, from modest expectations at the semester’s start to a remarkable finish—qualifying for the regional championship and sending standout junior Ethan Herrera to the state meet.
This collection of photographs examines the instinct to run, the grit of young athletes drawn to a punishing sport, the unity forged within a team, and the bravery it takes to face a challenge.
Daniel Hill is a photographer based in Lockhart, Texas, documenting his community and life within it.
He is also an avid runner.
The evening unfolds in two parts. It begins with a presentation of videos by artist Liming Lin and her selection of videos by K-pop girl group NewJeans. This pairing places Lin’s artistic practice in dialogue with the pop iconography that influences it. A live performance follows: Alexis Wolfe and her ensemble interpret Pauline Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations, extending Oliveros’ legacy of communal listening into the present. Together, the two programs form a dialectic of spectacle and meditation, image and sound, recorded and live, inviting audiences to hold both in conversation.
Artist Bios
Liming Lin 林丽明 is a Berlin-based artist from Chongqing, China. She holds a BA from Chelsea College of Arts (2019) and an MA from the Royal College of Art (2023). Her practice spans moving image, writing, and performance. She is pebble’s lover, puppy’s eye, scar of Kuafu, and the most bright star.
Alexis Wolfe is an Austin-based cellist, composer, and producer working at the intersection of classical composition and electronic experimentation. She holds a BA in Music and Media from the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied cello performance and electroacoustic composition. Her work bridges the tactile and the technological, using sound as a space for reflection and transformation. Through performance and experimentation, Wolfe creates immersive sonic environments that blur the boundaries between artist, audience, and space.
References
NewJeans (뉴진스) is a South Korean girl group formed by ADOR, a sub-label of Hybe. The five members, Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin, and Hyein, are known for their “girl next door” image and a sound that draws on 1990s and 2000s pop.
Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016) was a composer, performer, and humanitarian whose career spanned fifty years of boundary-dissolving music. Beginning in 1950s San Francisco among a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists, and poets, she went on to shape American music through her pioneering work in improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth, and ritual.
Oliveros founded Deep Listening®, a practice rooted in her lifelong fascination with sound. She described it as “listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear”—the sounds of daily life, of nature, of one’s own thoughts, as well as musical sounds. “Deep Listening is my life practice,” she said.
This project is funded in part by Austin UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts.
Gallery hours
Saturday, October 11, 11am-3pm
Saturday, October 18, 11am-3pm
Saturday, October 25, 11am-3pm
Saturday, November 1, 11am-3pm
Friday, November 7, 6–9pm – Artist’s Reception
Saturday, November 8, 11am-3pm – Last Look
Artist’s Statement
My work explores ‘universal everyday living spaces’ using AI tools like Midjourney, DALL-E 2, and Adobe Firefly, which are neural networks that generate visuals from prompts like ‘vernacular living room.’ These AI-generated images are edited with Photoshop to create composite collages, blending AI collaboration with my artistic goals. These collages serve as blueprints for paintings, merging technology with personal narrative to capture both universal and personal perspectives.
The intimately scaled paintings of ambient interior spaces are dramatically lit by vibrant, yet limited, color palettes. These works, devoid of figures, create solitary environments that draw the viewer into moments of temporal displacement and quiet, found in the stillness of night and the nuanced light of dusk. Raised in a household where visibility often meant vulnerability, my pieces reflect a desire for peace and self-possession — spaces untouched by others, conflict, and self-doubt.
About the Artist
Alex Renbarger (b.1999) specializes in painting isolated interior scenes with intense lighting and vivid colors, based on AI-generated images. She received an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln after earning a BFA in studio art from Texas State University. Select exhibitions include the Graduate Juried Exhibition at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS; Smoke & Mirrors at the Medici Gallery in Lincoln, NE; UARK x UNL Exchange at Sugar Gallery in Fayetteville, AR; The Artist’s Studio at Spellerberg Projects Main St. Gallery in Lockhart, TX; Illusions of Reverie at Texas State Galleries in San Marcos, TX; and Here and There at Clamplight Gallery in San Antonio, TX.
The upstairs project space will be transformed into a musical instrument where the location in the room will determine what the performers and audience hear. The audience will move through the space in order to hear the instrument from their personal perspective as a piece of music is spontaneously developed through the interaction of the physical space, sine waves and pedalsteel guitar. The space will be tuned and actuated by Max Lorenzen.
Sine waves by Max Lorenzen
Bob Hoffnar will play pedalsteel
Guest Artist Aidan Berg
Doors 6:00pm
Prismatic Listening 7:00pm
About the Artists
Pedal steel guitarist Bob Hoffnar relocated to Austin from NYC in 2009 and has since become a major contributor to Austin’s cultural landscape. Originally from Silver Spring, Maryland, Hoffnar graduated from Purchase Conservatory of Music in 1998 with a BFA in Composition that included private studies with Richard Cameron Wolf. Further private studies included time with such musical luminaries as Lamonte Young, Pandit Pran Nath, and Ernest Tubb’s steel player Buddy Charleton. Bob currently runs Liminal Sound Series — a live concert performance series dedicated to the commissioning of new works and collaborations between visionary composers and Austin-based musicians and performers.
Max Lorenzen is an audio engineer in Lockhart, TX where he runs the mixing and mastering studio, Rare Ear. Originally from Summersville, West Virginia, he graduated from American University in 2009 with a BA in Audio Production. Since moving to Central Texas in 2013, Max has become a fixture in the Austin recording community. Engineering alongside producers Danny Reisch, Jim Eno, Steve Berlin, Chico Jones and Jason Chronis. His engineering, mixing, and mastering credits span across genres and include recordings by Brown Whörnet, Tele Novella, Rattlesnake Milk, The Octopus Project, Other Lives, Spoon, and Dirty Projectors.
This project is funded in part by Austin UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts.
