Connie Barr is the Business Administrator for the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston. She received her B.S. from Louisiana State University and a M.A. at the University of Houston. She is glad to be back on campus here at the University of Houston.
When a Priest Marries a Witch is a special performance created by artist Suzanne Bocanegra and performed by Paul Lazar. Through a story about a priest, an artist, and a young girl in Pasadena, Texas, Bocanegra weaves a tale that brings together her development as an artist, Elvis, the Astrodome, a controversial Art commission, the Pope, astronauts, and a notorious local witch.
red, black and GREEN: a blues (rbG:b) is a full-length, multimedia performance work designed to jumpstart a conversation about environmental justice, social ecology and collective responsibility in the climate change era.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles is a New York based artist known for her feminist and service oriented artwork. Her manifesto Maintenance Art—Proposal for an Exhibition, challenged the domestic role of women and proclaimed herself as a "maintenance artist". Maintenance, for Ukeles, is the realm of human activities that keep things going, such as cooking, cleaning and child-rearing and her performances in the 1970s included the cleaning of art galleries.
Ray Carrington, photographer known for his innovative Arts Education program at Yates High School, Eye on the Third Ward, leads a walking tour focused on community spaces that are the result of creative thinking and grassroots leadership.
Architecture and Community: Exploring John Biggers's principle of "Good and Relevant Architecture" is an alternative bus tour, lead by local architectural historian Stephen Fox.
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