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– labotanica announces grants program for creative projects [DUE July 15]
– low lives call for artists [DUE June 30]
– labotanica seeks home in houston, texas
– labotanica magazine #1: classifieds, call for entries [DUE July 15]”
complete details at BS Houston blog, linked below
Not in Houston, but close enough.
“The Bone House was Dan’s baby, the 12th house to embody his Phoenix Commotion’s wild mix of art, ecoconsciousness and serious attention to affordability — all in Huntsville. Dan and his crew had fashioned the strangely beautiful house out of things destined for the dump: scrap lumber, old signs, old T-shirts. Bottle caps covered one floor, wine corks another. Mosaics made of broken mirrors and old CDs glinted from the walls of the studio in back…
The “Phoenix” part used to be purely a metaphor about rebirth and reuse, he said. Now they had actual ashes to rise from.”
via Can the Bone House rise from the ashes? | Fine Arts | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.
“The 22nd Art Car Parade is May 9…If you don’t have an art car, they’re also looking for 300 volunteers to help with everything from parade logistics and planning to t-shirt sales and artist hospitality.”
“Local Coca-Cola Bottler and Wal-Mart sponsors announced a call for entries in this year’s Art of Harmony — Eco-Project.
Artists in high schools throughout the Greater Houston and southeast Texas areas can vie for the opportunity to have their creations displayed on a tour.
The competition encourages and rewards the talent of students in grades nine through 12.
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Entry kits were mailed to high schools in the area.
Students also can call 1-800-556-6754.
Entry deadline is [March 31].”
“is part festival, part symposium. S.O.S. will bring together local, national and international artists, researchers, activists and scholars for an agenda that includes performances, afternoon field trips, lectures and panel discussions”
At the University of Houston, March 27 through 29; kickoff party at 7 p.m. Thursday. Click below for the full article.
via “S.O.S.”: timing trees and celebrating nature | Fine Arts | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.
The first annual Booker Lowe lecture at Houston’s Glassell School of Art brings Andrew Wagner, editor-in-chief of American Craft Magazine to tell us that we’re in an “era of convergence” in which craft, design, art, architecture and even fashion are coming together, in a broad, cyclical effect something like El Niño. At the Frank Freed auditorium, Saturday, March 28, 2-4 pm.