{"id":139993,"date":"2026-01-27T17:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/139993\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:22:07","slug":"austin-public-library-to-host-black-history-month-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/139993\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Public Library to host Black History Month panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Austin Public Library on West C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Street is hosting a panel on Feb. 25 titled \u201cHolding Space Through Food: Black Stories from Soil to Stove.\u201d It will discuss Black foodways in Austin, centering \u201cstories of land, labor, culture and community all through lived experiences,\u201d according to their <a href=\"https:\/\/library.austintexas.gov\/events\/exhibit\/holding-spaces-project-7772055\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The panel is part of an art exhibit over two months long at the library\u2019s gallery called Holding Spaces Project, dedicated to Black entrepreneurs in Austin. According to the library\u2019s description, the project is \u201ca love letter to the people who make Austin feel like home.\u201d It is located on the second floor of the library in its gallery. The exhibit\u2019s main artist is Steven Hatchett, and it\u2019s curated by Taylor Danielle Davis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenhatchettphotography.com\/about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hatchett<\/a> is a portrait photographer who has been based in Austin for eight years. His work seeks to \u201ccapture the identities, expressions and auras of people,\u201d he said on his website. Hatchett is also the co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofcolor.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">_OFCOLOR<\/a>, a nonprofit arts alliance supporting artists of color in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>The Holding Spaces exhibit opened on Jan. 15 and will run until March 29. The exhibition reception with an opportunity to meet the artist will take place on Feb. 5 and can be registered for on the library\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/holding-spaces-exhibition-tickets-1980931769247?aff=oddtdtcreator\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Austin Public Library on West C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Street is hosting a panel on Feb.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4283,132,134,133,5604,56124,35957,223,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-139993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","13":"tag-black-history-month","14":"tag-corinne-piorkowski","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}