A SHOUT OUT TO THE CREATIVE COMMUNITY!
Science is great, but bats are more than just science projects.
We seek collaboration with creatives of all kinds.

Bats are unique living beings with their own personalities, life stories, and souls.
We strive to support artists who celebrate & honor the non-human animals of this world.
Our friends in the creative community see and celebrate the rich lives of our fellow earthlings in their art.
Here are a few of our friends and family, who help us bring science to heart.

Laura Cañas
We love everything about her Classifieds for Poets art project.

Linh Le – ABR Volunteer
Gardener-in-Residence at ABR in spring 2024, her work with Becoming Species Performative Activist Collective is of the utmost importance in becoming fully human.

Amanda Stronza – ABR Volunteer
Anthropologist, professor, photographer, conservationist, who’s work extends from Texas roadsides to the Amazon to the Masai Mara.
Her animal memorials are visual poetry of the highest order and have been celebrated at the Sonoran Desert Museum.
Her Matilda Day (January 17th) has become a sort of Giving Tuesday for senior dogs in shelters worldwide.

Fernando Flores – ABR Volunteer
A brilliant mind whose novels (including Brother Brontë) extoll the community-mindedness that will be necessary to survive in the dystopian world on our doorsteps.

Marianne Hoffmeister Castro – ABR Soulmate & -Filmmaker-In-Residence
Filmmaker, House of Day, House of Dusk – works primarily with drawing, film/video, artist’s books, experimental writing and multidisciplinary research-based projects to bring attention to the ways nonhuman beings are depicted in visual culture. Her bibliographical-ecosystem

Juliet Whitsett – ABR Volunteer
Her Really Small Museum art project is just a really small part of her creative talent. We can’t wait to collaborate this October at The Austin Nature & Science Center installation.

Barbara Attwell – An immensely talented artist who has been wishing B.At(ts)well for decades. Her paintings of local cave fauna are unparalleled and her mythic felt creations achieved legendary status at Austin Bergstrom International Airport. Her ode to local endangered species and pioneering wildlife architecture can be found At The Well

Mystic Krewe of Chiroptera – A super fun & creative group that just loves making art with their friends!
Austin’s best Mardi Gras Krewe just happens to be really into bats! Their Halloween parade is the highlight of our year. Join them in New Orleans for Chewbacchus, the kickoff to NOLA’s parade season on Jan. 24th. Their collaboration with the amazing Dead Music Capitol Band makes us Austinites proud!

Baroque Coco – Our Goddottir
Incomparable, indescribably wonderful, multi-talented, and family to us. Documentarian of the Krewe of Bats Halloween Parade and so, so much more