Image courtesy of the artist

Join us in celebrating Rian (raven) Crane as we gather for the closing of their LINE Artist Residency. Connect with them and immerse yourself in work created during their 6-week tenure while we give them a heartfelt Austin farewell!

Sable waters :: hesperidium lands

Closing Event Open to the Public 6:30pm- 9pm
The LINE Hotel, Quartz Kitchen 3-Bay studio

“sable waters :: hesperidium lands, is an extension of my Blk landscapes series that reflects on Tiffany Lethabo King's book "Black Shoals,” as a place where Black and Native studies meet. A musing on Blues as a color/ sound/ feeling using cyanotypes. I use words, found “Texas” wild flowers, drawings, photos of a lover, daily life, and friends to explore the range of Blues as a way of liveliness.”

Rian (raven) Crane (he/they) is a post-disciplinary performance artist interested in Black diasporic rebellion as an anti-thesis to borders, gender, and prisons. Their work explores the paradox of hypervisibility for Black +/ Trans folks as well as the ongoing genocidal settler project of Anti-Blackness, displacement, colonial-made borders and severed ties from the land. Their work posits Black fugitivity as a refusal to the colonial imagination; they imagine Blackness in relation to land, water, and nonhuman kindred. He collaborates with other artists and communities to counter isolation, individualism, and the hyper-productivity of end-capitalism.

The LINE Residency is an artist-in-residence program produced by Big Medium in partnership with the LINE Austin. Artists selected for the residency program will have access to a private studio space within the LINE Austin, located in the heart of downtown Austin overlooking Lady Bird Lake. In a city where art spaces are disappearing, Big Medium sees this as an innovative way to address a critical issue with a partner that is similarly committed to nurturing the art community. The residency program is a six-week opportunity for local artists to experiment and create in a new environment.