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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

http://www.1stdibs.com/introspective/on_location/project_row_houses_2010/

http://www.ricesolardecathlon.org/accessible/houses.html

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

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.

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.