The USAA is now open Monday-Saturday until 2am!
Baal by George Sabra
Baal
by George Sabra

What is the United States Art Authority?
The Art Authority is the newest venture brought to you by the master minds behind Spiderhouse, I Luv Video and EcoClean. It's located on the corner of 29th and Fruth St. and is currently being used as a community art space. It's been previously used for art galleries, performance art, live bands, dj's and dancing, a haunted house, book signings and lecture series.
The building houses a full bar with beer on tap as well as 3,600 square feet just for your imagination.

~ This week check out ~
Kiss this City
The Art of Federico Archuleta, on exhibit July 1-31

Federico was born and raised in the bordertown of El Paso, Texas, with Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on the other side of the Rio Grande. Like siamese twins, these cities are joined by bridges that hustle humanity, commerce, and contraband to and fro between the north and south.

Ever since Federico was thigh-high, he wanted to be an artist, and in his youth he crossed these bridges for cross pollination, letting that mad mexican culture get under his skin and that big daddy american pop get into his hair.

Forsaking a formal art school education, Federico went for the "school of the streets" approach instead, recieving his education by directly working at jobs that honed his skills. This took him from creating mascots for platoons at Ft. Bliss,Texas to being a portrait artist on the market squares of Guadalajara, Mexico, all the way to Las Vegas and other cities as a display artist for Tower Records.

Now you can find him in Austin, Texas, where he creates in a style that is uniquely "Tex-Mex-Sexy." Enjoy!
Monte Hellman Cocktail Mixer
Thursday, July 24th, 3-5pm



Cult director Monte Hellman will stop by the United States Art Authority for a meet and greet with his fans. Working with Roger Corman in the 50s, Hellman is considered a major, if forgotten, part of the late 60s, early 70s film renaissance. His existential western, The Shooting, and his seminal road trip film, Two Lane Blacktop, were well received by critics, but forgotten at the box office. He’s appearing at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of the I Luv Video sponsored Weird Wednesday the night before as part of a special triple feature that includes screenings of the afore mentioned films as well as a free midnight showing of Hellman’s Better Watch Out. Go, watch the movies, then come and hang out.
Red Leaf Rocks! Summer Show
Thursday, July 24th, 7:30-9:30pm


Red Leaf Rocks will feature another awesome line up of performers, featuring our Kids Camp rock bands as well as our adult groups.  Come see our students tear it up at the United States Art Authority! FREE to the public!

Student bands and staff of Red Leaf School of Music will join together for a night of performing and celebrating.  April marks the one year anniversary for the school and the staff would like to thank their clients for their continued support!  Come celebrate, see some great live music...and the refreshments are on us.  Donations will also be taken for Red Leaf's Scholarship fund for need and merit based music scholarships.
Lovey and Lovey
Friday, July 25th, 10pm


Comedy! Music!
Lovey and Lovey—ColdTowne’s Michael Jastroch and Tami Nelson bring their award winning (Best of Fest 2005 Austin Sketch Festival and 2008 Frontera Fringe Fest) sketch comedy revue to the United States Art Authority Fridays in July. Lovey and Lovey trade in world-weary quips that follow in the grand tradition of The Thin Man's wet-whistled wits Nick and Nora. Over sweaty glasses of Dewars and a rapidly filling ashtray, Lovey and Lovey snarkily recount their shared worldly adventures in a modern take on the screwball comedy, trading the kind of stinging barbs and thinly veiled hostilities that are the hallmark of any successful marriage. Love, after all, is a many-splendored pain in the ass. More details TBA. Presented by ColdTowne Theater.
Mortified
Saturday, July 26th, 8pm


Hailed a "cultural phenomenon" by Newsweek and celebrated for years by the likes of This American Life, The Today Show, Esquire, The Onion AV Club, Daily Candy, Entertainment Weekly, and E!, Mortified is a comic excavation of the strange and extraordinary things we created as kids. Part comedy, all theater and all therapy. Witness adults sharing their own adolescent journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories and more. After all, where else can you hear grown men and women confront their past with firsthand tales of their... first kiss, first puff, worst prom, fights with mom, life at bible camp, worst hand job, best mall job, and reasons they deserved to marry Jon Bon Jovi?  

Following two sold out premiere shows, the Austin chapter of the cult comedy sensation "Mortified" returns on July 26th at the United States Art Authority with brand new cast of brave locals ready to share their shameful past, including: bitter cartoons of a frustrated middle school social climber, dairies of a nerd seducer, romance novels of a teenage danielle steele wannabe and much, much more!  

$12 advance/$15/day of show. Buy them here!

www.getmortified.com
KOOP Radio Benefit & Scooter Raffle Party!
Sunday, July 27th, 4pm - 10pm


$5...free with Raffle Ticket

KOOP Radio presents an evening of music, live art, and good times, culminating in a raffle for a scooter. That’s right, a scooter will be raffled off for all ticket holders. Bands will also include Bellfuries, Peel, La Snacks, and Foot Foot! More information online at koop.org.