Systems of Sustainability: Art, Innovation, Action

“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.

First Annual Booker Lowe Lecture

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.

via Glasstire: Texas visual art online – It’s all a blur.