Long Center Austin skyline
— the city, framed by the lake it built around.
Not only on a wall.
Long Center Austin skyline, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“The Long Center for the Performing Arts sits on the south bank of Lady Bird Lake, on the bones of the old Palmer Auditorium. The terrace looks straight across the water at the downtown skyline, and the view sharpens as the towers light up in the half-hour after sunset. The building gave the city back a view it had been ignoring. From the studio, a piece of the place.
The place, in three passes.
The Long Center for the Performing Arts stands at 701 West Riverside Drive in Austin, on the south shore of Lady Bird Lake, just west of the South First Street bridge. The building opened in 2008 on the structural footprint of the former Palmer Auditorium, which had stood on the site since 1959. The Long Center is the resident home of the Austin Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Austin, and Austin Opera, and sits within a few minutes' walk of the Auditorium Shores park and the Ann and Roy Butler Hike and Bike Trail.
The City Terrace on the north side of the building faces directly across Lady Bird Lake at the downtown skyline. The view runs from the Frost Bank Tower on the right to the Austonian and the newer waterfront towers on the left. The strongest light is the thirty minutes after the sun is gone in summer, when the sky behind the buildings holds and the windows begin to come on. Bats from the Congress Avenue Bridge fly upriver at the same hour from late spring through fall.
The City Terrace is open to the public during daylight hours at no charge, regardless of whether there is a performance in the halls. Visitors can walk up from the hike-and-bike trail or from the Auditorium Shores lawn to the west. The Long Center sits in the South Central Waterfront district, two blocks south of the lake and a short walk from the Congress Avenue Bridge, which holds the largest urban bat colony in North America from roughly March through October.
