Creek Monster Habitat

Our Creek Monster Habitat served as a street-level beacon for Creek Show, inviting spectators and curious onlookers of all ages to explore Waller Creek. We raised awareness of the environment and our responsibility as its stewards. Our Creek Monster Habitat welcomed 60,000 visitors into is magical space at the southern edge of Austin’s most anticipated new community park.

The Creek Monster Habitat honors the spirit and life of all creatures of the creek. Equal parts installation, soundscape, visual spectacle, and community engagement, our habitat brings together theatrical, outdoor, and performative elements. It is a space to meet the shy, bashful spirit Monster, the guardian of the creek. It is also a space to contemplate all of the life (animal, human, plant) that has touched the creek and the life that will follow.

This project was made possible through the support of the UT Green Fund, Texas Applied Arts, Texas Performing Arts, the Waterloo Greenway Conservancy and the University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts.

A group of University of Texas at Austin students built the Creek Monster Habitat, an illuminated, interactive installation for the Greenway Conservancy's 2019 Creek Show. The Creek Monster Habitat was designed and created during the fall 2019 semester by a group of students from across disciplines at UT in a course offered by Texas Applied Arts in the College of Fine Arts and taught by Karen Maness.

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Waller Creek Monster Habitat, an interactive, theatrical experience that tells the story of the Waller Creek revitalization and transformation. Designed and built by UT students in the Texas Applied Arts class, the habitat serves as a gateway into the Waller Creek Conservancy Creek Show which is, a free, open-to-the-public display of light-based art installations along Waller Creek in downtown Austin that runs from November 7th - November 17th. For more information visit: https://sites.utexas.edu/appliedarts/

With less than two weeks left until opening night, check out what the Creek Monster Habitat class was up to the first 5 weeks of the semester in preparation for Waterloo Greenway's 6th annual Creek Show! The Creek Show is a free "11-night display of illuminating art created by teams of visionary local artists, ambitious landscape architects, and extraordinary designers."

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Creek Monster Habitat

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Karen Maness