During the ten years that I was with Aurora Picture Show, I hosted at least 300 visiting artists, and gave almost that many tours of Houston. Like an old cabbie, I have fine-tuned these trips into a scripted tour that features folk art environments, underground tunnels, celebrity grave sites, art cars, urban bayous, museums, mega churches, and art chapels. Imagine my gravelly voice coming through an old p.a. system as I humbly present to you, “Grover’s Guide to Houston, Part I.”
Graphic Novel Workshop
The Graphic Novel Workshop, taught by UH Creative Writing faculty Mat Johnson, will host a public presentation on September 22, 2010 from 7:00-9:00PM in the University of Houston M.D. Anderson Library Honors College Commons
Here is an video about the Graphic Novel Workshop
Aquaponics for Urban Sustainability
We have invited Artist and Urban Gardener, Keba Konte to Houston and participate in the Nov 6 Life is Living festival. Keba will be constructing a Kijiji Grows Aquaponic system for Houston’s 3rd Ward. This video features Eric Mandu, his partner at Kijiji Grows.
Sustainable design at Project Row Houses
http://www.1stdibs.com/introspective/on_location/project_row_houses_2010/
http://www.ricesolardecathlon.org/accessible/houses.html
Marc Bamuthi Joseph presents The Spoken World (Words that Move Us Series)
The Artistic Director of HBO’s Brave New Voices series returns to Dance Place with text and choreography from his solo works Word Becomes Flesh and the break/s, as well as new material from the upcoming red, black and GREEN: a blues. Words Become Flesh is a National Performance Network (NPN) Re-Creation Fund Project sponsored by La Pena in partnership with Dance Place, Painted Bride Art Center, Youth Speaks and NPN. The Re-Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). Dance Place is a NPN Partner of the National Performance Network (NPN). This project is made possible in part by support from the NPN Performance Residency Program. Major contributors include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).
More information: http://www.culturecapital.com/event.php?id=10896
Inbound: Houston
Public Art for an automotive culture. Karyn Olivier, 2009 Artist in Residence with the Mitchell Center for the Arts at University of Houston replaced 13 billboard ads with life-sized photographic representations.
Mitchell Center Residency: The Center for Land Use Interpretation
Beginning in January 2008 the Mitchell Center, in partnership with the University of Houston School of Art and Creative Writing Program, hosted the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) for a residency that focused on the Buffalo Bayou, the Houston Ship Channel, and their environs.
Grover’s Guide to Houston: Part I
During the ten years that I was with Aurora Picture Show, I hosted at least 300 visiting artists, and gave almost that many tours of Houston. Like an old cabbie, I have fine-tuned these trips into a scripted tour that features folk art environments, underground tunnels, celebrity grave sites, art cars, urban bayous, museums, mega churches, and art chapels. Imagine my gravelly voice coming through an old p.a. system as I humbly present to you, “Grover’s Guide to Houston, Part I.”
Got Skills? Marc Bamuthi Joseph Does
This is a taste of Bamuthi’s work, not to be missed in NYC from 9/23/2008 -- 9/27/2008. Part of the HHTF Festival and presented by the Skirball Center @ NYU. Visit www.myspace.com/bamuthi for more info! Shot by Greg Landua for the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Office of Multicultural Education & Initiatives (OMEI).
Thelma Golden: How art gives shape to cultural change
Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The “post-black” artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race and culture — and about the meaning of art itself.
Love this town
lady Gaga went to Spanish Flower
http://culturemap.com/newsdetail/07-26-10-lady-gaga-dines-late-at-spanish-flower-and-goes-unnoticed/
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