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Marilyn Artus started her 14-month journey across the USA to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. During her travels, she's sewing Her Flag, a giant flag that will be the result of a collaboration with 36 women artists who live in each of the 36 states that ratified the 19th amendment. Note: Austin-based artist Mila Sketch created Texas stripe that will be sewn in today. Bonus: Live music by Claudia Gibson.

This monthly pop-up sells locally crafted jewelry, glassware, ceramics, and tapestry pillows; Mexican, Colombian, and African dresses, handbags and crafts; and Honduran and Texan paintings, prints, and mixed-media works.

This is an exhibition by Adrian Armstrong, exploring the topic of mental health in African-American culture, encompassing the artist's personal struggles and a discussion about why mental health is often a taboo topic in the culture he was raised in. Note: Visitors are encouraged to bring an internet-capable device and headphones to listen to the musical components of the show; free Wi-Fi is available on-site.

Photography is front and center (and all around) for this FOTO ATX show, with gorgeous images from Claire Porter, Pete Holland, Cheri Lomonte, and Steve Snyder.

You know the Workman Gallery loves this Los Angeles-based painter whose work is inspired by form and figure as depicted by the Impressionists and Modernists of the early 20th century, right? Thus, this seventh solo exhibition at the excellent Westside venue.

Each of Shana Hoehn's large sculptures consists of two women, either as a double or camouflaged in one form through double imagery, inspired by the sexualized female archetypes sourced from ship figureheads, hood ornaments, carnival portraiture, pinups painted on WWII aircraft, and horror films. Note: The Chronicle's Robert Faires recently paid a visit to the gallery, and this is his response to the show.

This group exhibition, co-curated by Erin Cunningham and Amanda Linn McInerney, focuses on artworks that have been created from discarded and undervalued materials, repurposed by a diverse group of artists from six different states: Carolina Alamilla, Doug Baulos, Michael Bonadio, Melanie Brauner, Debra Broz, Zach Clark, Erin Cunningham, Tobias Flores, Vladimir Mejia, Amanda McInerney, Karri Paul, Shalena White, and Jason Tanner Young.

This new show features a series of mixed-media paintings and drawings made by Benton Moss while living in Austin. Dense line-drawing, illustration, collage graphics, repetition of cartoonish imagery, and color are used to communicate environments of inner dialogues including spoken word, sound mixing, poetry, and humor.

Here's an exhibition – adventurous, fantastic, and let's not forget fun – by 57 Texas-based artists, featuring a diversity of styles and mediums.

Marta Lee and Cheyenne Weaver "depict the hidden and subtle aspects of our daily lives in a fairly intense way, revealing the extraordinary depth and complex emotional landscape intrinsic to the trivial moments and objects of life."

This new show highlights new developments in Jeffrey Gibson’s genre-bridging practice, with 50 works made between 2014 and 2018 – including intricately beaded wall-hangings and punching bags, paintings, ceramics, garments, helmets, and a new video commissioned for this exhibition.

This is a solo exhibition of 14 large photographs and photographic collages by artist Elizabeth Chiles, showcasing two series of her work: "Figs from Thistles," created in 2013 during the worst Texas drought in over a century, and "On Water," created in 2018 during months of historic flooding along the Colorado River.

Yippee ki yay, space cadet, it's time to head 'em off at the Pass Nebula as the State History Museum presents an exhibition that spans more than 150 years of Western and science fiction history and features 100-plus artifacts (including props from Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, and other skiffy media fare). And our arch-geek himself, the estimable Richard Whittaker, also a part-time Sith Lord, reviews the show for you here.

This is one extensive group exhibit focused on repetition and daily practice, for which each of the participating artists has created a new work or carefully chosen a work from the past. And we mean, these are some of the most fascinating artists who ever breathed our city's air – Steve Brudniak, Malou Flato, Denise M. Fulton, Jan Heaton, David Leonard, Randall Reid, Caprice Pierucci, John Sager, Chun Hui Pak, and many more. So, even if visiting galleries isn't part of your, ah, daily practice, you'll be well rewarded by checking out Davis Gallery's array of visual creations.

The elegant Eastside gallery of three-dimensional creation – those folks responsible for the public beauty of that Sculpture Garden on Springdale – present GD Wright's first solo show in Austin, featuring works composed of metal structures, concrete castings, and blown glass with mirrored surfaces. Note: This show exists partly via sponsorship from UT-Arlington to produce more than 200 pounds of blown glass.

This is a solo exhibition by Leslie Kell, about whose digitally manipulated photography we've fairly raved, because she does it so well and frequently handcrafts and embellishes the frames she displays it in. For this show, in addition to her typical graphic deconstructions of nature and so on, Kell's created at least one work using images of the Ney's own sculptural inventory. It's never a poor idea to visit this Hyde Park gem of a venue, and right now it's an even better idea than usual.

This new group exhibition at grayDUCK features a wide range of new work by eight artists – Veronica Ceci, Madeline Irvine, Paloma Mayorga, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Michael Jay Muelhaupt, Manik Raj Nakra, Matthew Steinke and Jenn Wilson – who participated in the Contemporary Austin's Crit Group, an eight-month-long program supporting artistic growth through monthly critiques and professional development workshops.

Here's "a new wave" of artwork from the Imagine Art community.

The six figurative painters represented in this new show – J.C. Amorrortu, Lawrence Jolly, Meena Matocha, Rhea Pettit, Kristi Standley, and Linda Wandt – may have different styles, but all the works tell a story.

In which the MASS gallery space is transformed into a working studio, giving selected artists in this seventh annual, five-week residency program the opportunity to explore new ideas or practices and engage with the Austin community. And this year's artists are Andie Flores and Cynthia Muñoz (working together as Payasa) and Zoe Berg.

This 24th annual exhibition is, as ever, dedicated to the professional development of emerging Latina/o/x artists and curators, with Tatiane Santa Rosa bringing together the works of eleven Latina/o/x artists defining Buen Vivir.

This exhibit showcases the work of Martha Grenon, one of Austin's premier music photographers, her images capturing the excitement of bands performing in Austin since the early Eighties.

This installation presents new work that expands Lily Cox-Richard’s research into the contextual history of materials, making visible unseen systems that dictate materials’ production, value, and use, and engages larger questions of natural resources, labor, the specifics of place, and the politics of viewership.

This place, ah, it's one of our favorite places in the entire city; and of course they're properly corona-closed. But check 'em out online right now – it's a rich, wonder-filled website – to whet your appetite for when things get back to … uh … are we still calling it "normal," these days?

Bruce Lee Webb of Waxahachie, Texas, is a folk art gallerist and an antique dealer and in his travels he collects vintage cotton sacks and journal paper on which he then paints and draws. That's putting it mildly. That's without saying, "Whoa, damn, don't miss this terrific show at Randy Franklin's excellent gallery there on South Congress." Need we remind you, it was Webb's collection that was responsible for the most amazing show in the too-brief history of the gallery of Domy Books back in the day? Recommended, recommended, recommended.