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  • Burned pine trees along Park Road 1A.
    Photo by Kathleen Jennings
  • Park Road 1A is open.
    Photo by Kathleen Jennings
  • Damage from the September 2011 fire.
    Photo by Kathleen Jennings
  • The Jennings family riding through Bastrop State Park.
    Photo by Kathleen Jennings
  • Bastrop State Park historical cabin.
    Photo by Kathleen Jennings

growing back

Back from the ashes: Our family's first visit to a new Bastrop State Park

  • Peter Mangan, "Melted Moon"This glass lens in a steel ring has lost its initial purpose. The wildfire heathas melted it into a new shape, added colors, added textures. The fractures areheld together by melted marbles. This changed lens now references a full moonrising over the pines.
  • Peter Mangan, "Looking Glass"When I first saw this hunk of melted amber glass, there was an "Aha!" moment. This glass used to be a mirror. Since medieval times, glass artists have usedsilver on heated glass to achieve this coloring effect. Think of the saint'shalo in a stained glass window. Here is an example of a wildfire being thestained glass artist. The beautifully colored glass also gained a jaggedlayered new shape. This found object is held aloft by two steel hinges, whosewooden door is gone. Here stands a fire transformed figure.
  • Peggy Jo Hilburn, " A Sunday Afternoon" A wax mold of the bark of a burntloblolly pine.
  • Peggy Jo Hilburn
  • The Bastrop fire from above.
  • Burned forest

Wildfire Benefit

ART from the ashes: Artists band together for exhibition that reclaims beautyfrom the devastating Bastrop fires

  • Photo by Doug Shupe
  • Photo by Doug Shupe
  • Photo by Russell L. Minton
  • Photo by Esteban Rubio
  • Photo by Krista Jezek
  • Photo by Troy Hollan
  • Photo by John Wylie

Central Texas wildfires

Fires cool: Help pours in

  • Photo by Doug Shupe
  • Photo by Doug Shupe
  • Photo by Russell L. Minton
  • Photo by Esteban Rubio
  • Photo by Krista Jezek
  • Photo by John Wylie
  • Photo by Troy Hollan

Central Texas wildfires

Disaster declaration signed; weekend benefits planned

  • Willie Nelson
  • Lyle Lovett
  • Concert organizers speaking at the press announcment - from left: Steve Shook,Austin Community Foundation; Michael Hall, organizer; Ray Benson, musician; JohnGraham, Frank Erwin Center; Eric Johnson, musician
    Photo by Kevin Benz
  • Ray Benson
    Photo by Kevin Benz

Superstar concert announced

Ticket update: Willie, Lyle Lovett, the Dixie Chicks and more will perform atFire Relief: The Concert for Central Texas

  • Photo by KXAN
  • Photo by Cecilia Roberts
  • Photo by Aaron Bennett
  • Photo by Russell L. Minton

Central Texas burns

Running for their lives: One family's story

  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins
  • Photo by Andrew Collins

Inner City Sanctums

The Prairie: Texas Time Traveling