Marfa needs power like everyone else. That power comes from a BILLION $$$$ corporation. A corporation REQUIRED BY LAW TO PROVIDE POWER to Marfa. That corporation is asking the City of Marfa to DOWNZONE 4 acres of City RESIDENTIAL to industrial. It’s because this corporation wants cheap, fast, easy. AEP says Marfa is “growing” but we are still way smaller than we were 10 years ago. It’s an excuse to shove this down our throats.
Marfa is an AEP company town and we all love AEP, but this is not the issue. When they say $7 million investment and no brownouts and no blackouts, people believe and listen. These are ALL company selling points and scare tactics. $7 million for whom?
Why would the City of Marfa EVER downzone/devalue their property from Residential to Industrial? When you go to Industrial, it’s done. You’ve lost everything.
Please, City Council: take care of our property and our people. Downzoning is terrible for a community. We will still have electricity when they choose another site. Don’t downzone this because it’s easy and scary.
Augie will still have a job. Cosme will still have a job. Manny the Mayor will still have a job. Eddie the City Council person (who should recuse himself) will still get his 46 year AEP pension.
But so many adjacent home owners will deal with property value loss and quality of life issues.
Lastly, we will say: this is AEP’s issue. They have billions. Why would the City of Marfa take on a corporation’s problem? This is not a City of Marfa issue.
Once you change residential to industrial, you’ve lost all control and investment.
Marfans: please get involved. Please work with us to stop this downzoning. It’s super important. We understand that we love our AEP family. They lose nothing, but our neighbors our friends our community lose so much.
welcomes Jade Walker Hemming + Hawing Thursday, July 3, 5-7 opening at Wrong downtown Marfa, Texas @jadewalker_studio
Jade Walker’s textile-based work is infused with expanded materials and color choices, layered with a freedom to embrace her abstract storytelling methods. Her body of work compares textile patterns, written text, and elements from the natural world as systems of communication. Historical female knitters engaged in espionage during wartime, forward-thinking cautionary fairy tales like Rumpelstiltskin and fables like The Wolf and the Crane, the historical notions of “women’s work”, and the ways people all over the world rely on textiles to tell their story and the story of their ancestors have led to Walker’s investigation of how woven materials both hold notions of comfort and communication simultaneously. Hemming + Hawing consists of works that address both the shifting tide in America’s relationship to our planet and methods of survival for the next generation.
Jade Walker is a sculptor and an active member of the arts community living in Austin, Texas. She received her BFA from the University of Florida and her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been included in solo exhibitions at the Women and Their Work (Austin, TX), Elisabet Ney Museum (Austin, TX), the Austin Museum of Art (now The Contemporary Austin), Blue Star Contemporary Arts (San Antonio, TX), Dimension Gallery (Austin, TX), Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX), The Museum of Pocket Art (Austin, TX and traveling). Walker’s most recent group exhibitions included a two-person exhibition (with Margaret Meehan) at grayDUCK Gallery (Austin, TX) and a group exhibition at Artspace (Wimberley, TX) curated by Jules Buck Jones. Residencies have included Facebook Artist in Residency, Elsewhere, and Penland School of Craft.
Text Inspirations: Aesop’s Fables The Lord of the Flies- William Golding Hatchet- Gary Paulsen Maddaddam Trilogy- Margaret Atwood...
We’ve had some crazy, some wild, some trippy, some sexy times at El Cosmico. We’ve seen so many great bands at El Cosmico. We’ve walked home a million times from El Cosmico and wish we’d worn a heavier coat. The only Ferris wheel we’ve ridden in Marfa was at El Cosmico. We slept in a crotcheted trailer at El Cosmico. We’ve made a lot of friends at and because of El Cosmico.
