Really Small Museum | Jules Buck Jones

The Really Small Museum at Austin Nature & Science Center Presents: Jules Buck Jones Plague, 2026 Drawing Installation - Ultraboard and wire LOCATION: POND TRAIL NORTH Grackles are the true face of Austin. They capture and hold the imagination of locals and visitors. Whether you are face to face with a grackle eyeing each other for a french fry, or mesmerized by the sheer size and noise of a flock, they are omnipresent. I moved to Wimberley in 2019, only 30 miles away from Austin, and with all of the bird diversity and activity out here in the Hill Country there are zero grackles. A group of Grackles is called a Plague. For the RSM project I decided to pay homage to the amazing, cunning, noisy, brazen, numerous, beautiful, iridescent Great-tailed Grackle. I drew 8 frames of a grackle in flight. I scanned the drawings, and printed them out in different sizes to layer in a three-dimensional space and suggest the mass and depth of a Plague of Grackles. The numbers of Great-tailed Grackles is increasing rapidly as they follow human development and activity. The days of zero Grackles in Wimberley may be limited. TEMPORARY ART INSTALLATION JUNE EXHIBITION 2026, Located in The Austin Nature & Science Center, 2389 Stratford Drive, Austin, TX 78746 The Really Small Museum is brought to you by artist & curator: JulietWhitsett.com | @juliet_whitsett_art| @ReallySmallMuseum_atx __________________________________________ This project is supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music, & Entertainment.