Podcasts about Project Row Houses

On Tuesday's show: Once a year, in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, the Houston Matters team gives thanks to you for listening and supporting this program and to each other for the work we've done this year.Today, the tradition continues as we revisit interviews and segments from the past year that members of the team found especially enjoyable. That includes conversations with actors George Takei and Joe Pantoliano.Plus, we get a history lesson about Pullman Porters, we learn about a short film that tries to encapsulate all that is Houston in about four minutes, and we head to Crumbville, TX Bakery, a business Project Row Houses helped get started.

On Tuesday's show: We're still recovering from Hurricane Beryl with a couple hundred thousand Houstonians still in the dark. How soon can Houston become 100 percent energized? And could there be some light for those facing economic hardships? Also, what actions are city council members taking in response to the storm? Also this hour: It's been a rough week for many Houstonians: Beryl, extended power outages, death and violence in the news. We explore how to take better care of ourselves mentally after these latest shocks to the system.Then, we discuss the history, challenges, and future of Houston's Freedmen's Town and efforts to preserve its legacy.We visit Project Row Houses as part of our ongoing summer series heading to Houston-area museums and attractions.

A conversation with artist Rick Lowe. Renowned for his pioneering work with Project Row Houses in Houston, Lowe's creative endeavors have reshaped the landscape of contemporary art and in 2014 earned him a MacArthur Fellowship. In our conversation, we explore the concept of social sculpture and its ability to transcend traditional art boundaries to catalyze societal transformation. We also explore Lowe's personal evolution, including his celebrated return to painting and his current exhibit in Venice.https://www.ricklowe.com/https://gagosian.com/artists/rick-lowe/https://gagosian.com/news/museum-exhibitions/rick-lowe-the-arch-within-the-arc-museo-di-palazzo-grimani-venice/https://projectrowhouses.org/https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2014/rick-lowe

The SLC Performance Lab is produced by ContemporaryPerformance.com and the Sarah Lawrence College MFA Theatre Program. During the course, visiting artists to the MFA Theatre Program's Grad Lab are interviewed after leading a workshop with the students. Grad Lab is one of the core components of the program where graduate students work with guest artists and develop group-generated performance experiments. Autumn Knight is interviewed by Chisom Awachie (SLC 23) and Red (SLC 23) Autumn Knight is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, video and text. Her performance work has been on view at various institutions including DiverseWorks Artspace, Art League Houston, Project Row Houses, Blaffer Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Skowhegan Space (NY), The New Museum, The Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Optica (Montreal, Canada), The Poetry Project (NY) and Krannart Art Museum (IL), The Institute for Contemporary Art (VCU), Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) and Akademie der Kunste, (Berlin). Knight has been an artist in residence with with In-Situ (UK), Galveston Artist Residency, YICA (Yamaguchi, Japan), Artpace (San Antonio, TX) and a 2016-2017 artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem (NY). Knight is the recipient of an Artadia Award (2015) and an Art Matters Grant (2018). She has served as visiting artist at Montclair State University, Princeton University and Bard College. Her performance work is held in the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016) and holds an M.A. in Drama Therapy from New York University.

On this week's episode, DJ/radio host/filmmaker/artist/registered organ donor Drew "Risky Cereal" Evans shows up (along with his snoring dog) to give us everything we need to know about dude: his days in LA doing street promotion for labels, managing musicians in Houston, what he's been doing over at online radio station All Real Radio, his battles with the new Popeyes across the street from his house (which he's making a documentary on), the times he has seen UFOs, his side hustle selling coffee, etc. As usual, Camilo shows up a bit late to the party. But once he gets there, he and Risky start talking about the art installation they recently worked on for Project Row Houses. You can hit up Craig at @unclecrizzle. You can hit up Camilo at @camilohannibal.

The year was 1990, and artist Rick Lowe had invited a group of high school students into a studio. Standing surrounded by his billboard size paintings, one of the kids made a comment that stopped him in his tracks. Why was Lowe illustrating problems everyone already knew about rather than proposing creative solutions? The moment changed everything. It pushed Lowe to create art outside the studio and sent him on a path to becoming one of the leading figures in an art movement known as social practice. The term social practice describes art that is created with, and for, communities. Over the past three decades Lowe has done this in a variety of forms, including his most famous work Project Row Houses, a hub for community housing and art-making in Houston's Third Ward. All the while Lowe has maintained a painting practice alongside his socially engaged work, and he won a MacArthur Genius Grant for all of it in 2014. This month, after a long hiatus from the New York gallery world, he returns with his first solo show of paintings at Gagosian. Artnet News contributor, Sade Ologundudu spoke with Lowe as part of a four part series on Artnet News about artists across generations who work with social practice.

Spirituality, and religion are two ways colonialism still lives in the US. In this entertaining, informative conversation with Thea Monyee, we discuss decolonizing psychotherapy, the role of African spirituality in grounding a spiritual awakening and more. Bio - Thea Monyee Monyeé's unapologetic work stems from her unwavering commitment to healing and her belief that true healing can only occur in a liberated and non-oppressive society. Monyeé is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has contributed to online publications such as For Harriet, UpSpoken, and Black Girl in Om online publications; co-host of Dem Black Mamas podcast- Kinship Partner of Black Mamas Matter Alliance and art contributor to Project Row Houses 50th Round on Race, Health, & Motherhood; solo host of Shaping The Shift Podcast; and Director of Decolonization for the multimedia platform Black Girl Mixtape and co-creator of The Free Joy Experience; co-creator of EverWell, and intervention and education program to promote wellness for artists and their teams; as well as curator of The Blacker The Brain Decolonizing Mental Health Cohort, Campaign, and Conversation. Monyeé has partnered with corporations such as SnapChat, Spectrum, presented at the first annual CantuXCurlboxMasterclass, and is currently featured as a GoDaddy Maker to discuss mental health in marginalized communities and accessing joy & pleasure. She is the founder of MarleyAyo, a creative wellness consultation company focused on creating and nurturing a multi-dimensional eco-system that prioritizes the reintegration of spirit and liberation through education, media, consulting, and land stewardship. Monyeé enjoys creating work that dives into the intersections of healing through decolonization of joy, pleasure, and mental health. She serves as a contributor to SayWordLA and a board member of Manhood Camp for At-Risk males. Her most recent work Blood & Bajareque is available now through theamonyee.com/shop. Monyeé's Murmurs of a MadWoman: An Unconventional Memoir is available through Amazon. She is a signed fiction writer with Dystel, Goderich & Bourret with upcoming projects as well. She is currently studying to add certified sex therapist to her list of credits. About the Host Sanaa Green is a Divine Feminine spiritual teacher who helps women see their sacred essence through Nature, Sound (Center Her Power Podcast) and Belly Dance. In 2007, Sanaa began teaching Healing Belly Dance that has evolved in Belly Dance for Earth and Soul, Dance of the Priestess course. Her purpose is to support the reestablishment of the Divine Feminine principal in Black Women. She is a Lemurian Priestess with Tantric orientation, Belly Dance Teacher, Urban Nature Lover, Reiki Master, Feng Shui Consultant, Environmental Educator, Community Activist and a contributing Creative in the Wisdom Institutes' Passing The Torch Preserving the The Flame non-profit, transformational Womynst program. Sanaa has been spiritually trained in Black Hat Sect Tantric Buddhist Feng Shui, Reiki, Belly Dance, Dagara Elemental Rituals and more. Her academic training includes; Masters work in Ecopsychology at Naropa University and a BA in Communications from Howard University. Subscribe to the website for regular Divine Feminine connection! www.centerherpower.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sanaa-green0/message

Tony Diaz speaks with Richard Santos and Monica Villarreal regarding the importance of representation, whether in the work Richard does providing literary access to youth in Austin, or through the arts and performances Monica does through her dancing. Richard Z. Santos is a novelist and the Executive Director of Austin Bat Cave, a nonprofit that provides creative writing workshops to students in underrepresented areas. He's a former high school English and Social Studies teacher, and in a previous career worked for some of the nation's top political campaigns, consulting firms, and labor unions. Trust Me, published by Arte Público Press, was named one of the best debuts of 2020 by Crime Reads and was a finalist for The Writers League of Texas Novel Prize. Monica Villarreal is an interdisciplinary artist native to Houston. Her art explores ethnic identity, gender roles, migrant and environmental issues. She is a recipient of multiple awards in photography and filmmaking, and has participated in installation and performing art productions organized by Voices Breaking Boundaries, Project Row Houses, Houston Arts Alliance, Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts, Santa Fe Arts Institute, and Alabama Song. Monica studied typography under Mainz Gutenberg Award winner Mahendra Patel and is currently learning printmaking from Master Printer Armando Rodriguez. She has a B.A. in Entrepreneurship from the University of Houston and an M.A. in Digital Media Studies from the University of Houston-CL. Monica wears various hats, as the founder of Creative Women Unite, a local feminist arts collaborative and as a traditional Aztec dancer with Danza Azteca Taxcayolot, a local group that practices Mexican indigenous traditions through spirituality, and community engaging performances. She has over a decade of experience organizing with local grassroots and nonprofit organizations. Staying active allows her to continue her research and create art focused on issues she's passionate about. Thanks to Roxana Guzman, Multiplatform Producer Rodrigo Bravo, Jr., Audio Producer Radame Ortiez, SEO Director Marc-Antony Piñón, Graphics Designer Leti Lopez, Music Director Bryan Parras, co-host and producer emeritus Liana Lopez, co-host and producer emeritus Lupe Mendez, Texas Poet Laureate, co-host, and producer emeritus Writer and activist Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, hosts Latino Politics and News and the Nuestra Palabra Radio Show on 90.1 FM, KPFT, Houston's Community Station. He is also a political analyst on “What's Your Point?” on Fox 26 Houston. He is the author of the forthcoming book: The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital. www.Librotraficante.com www.NuestraPalabra.org www.TonyDiaz.net

Anita Hill speaks with Gagosian artist and social sculptor Rick Lowe about his Project Row Houses, which redefined space in one Houston neighborhood and is a direct investment in his community's future. Lowe explains the role of creativity and art in helping people imagine equality for themselves.   If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to subscribe to our email list. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"There's so much interesting space to talk about who can tell a story, and who has the right to tell a story, and how we tell stories about ourselves and each other. I think that it's something to be handled with such intentionality and sensitivity." - Julie Knutson Welcome back to another episode of Discover More. This week, we have a special episode to celebrate Women's History Month. This week's guest is Julie Knutson. (KIN-UT-SEN) Julie is an author and educator with a wide-ranging background in history, humanities, and the social sciences. She also serves as editorial director at ThinkCERCA. A true multipotentialite, Julie holds an undergraduate degree in cultural studies from NYU, a master's degree in Political Sociology from The London School of Economics, and additional post-grad degrees in education and art history from Rice University. One of her recent books, “Global Citizenship: Engage in the Politics of a Changing World,” was awarded a Skipping Stones Honor for Multicultural books, and helps young readers examine what it means to be a global citizen. Julie is an active member of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), having served as the Chair of its Middle School Teacher of the Year Award in 2018. She also maintains membership in the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). Show Notes: Julie Knutson Website: http://www.julieknutsonauthor.com/ Julie's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JulieKnutson2 Books Referenced The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Teaching to Transgress and Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by Bell Hooks We Want to Do More than Survive by Bettina Love Improv for Writers by Jorjeana Marie Improvisation and the Theater by Viola Spolin Videos and Documentaries Inventing Improv (PBS) Rick Lowe of Project Row Houses on Social Sculpture Web Resources on the SDGs The 17 Goals World's Largest Lesson Benefits of Improv & Expressive Arts Therapy https://www.artrelief.info/improvlab-action-theatre-tm * Connect with Us: Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/discovermorepodcast/ Follow Benoit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benoitkim/ Follow Aidan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aidanjames24/ Subscribe to Our Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/discovermorepodcast * Thank you for Discovering More with us!

2021 marked the 100 year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre - one of the ugliest events in American history, where a white mob destroyed the affluent Black neighborhood of Greenwood, dubbed “Black Wall Street,” for its thriving economic power. Hundreds were killed in the attack. More than 10,000 people were left homeless overnight, and the neighborhood was razed. This massacre led to years of silence and shame, suppressing the history for the following decades. The residents of Greenwood rebuilt their community, but it was ultimately destroyed due to disinvestment and urban renewal efforts -- which placed the I-22 highway in the middle of Greenwood.To commemorate this history and honor Greenwood, the City of Tulsa and the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission applied for the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge. Their winning concept, “The Greenwood Art Project,” features dozens of temporary public art works celebrating and commemorating this community's history, present, and future.The Public Art Challenge is a Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative encouraging cities to work with artists to create temporary public art projects that celebrate creativity, enhance urban identity, encourage public-private collaborations, and address significant civic issues.The MacArthur Award-winning artist, Rick Lowe worked with local artists to showcase the legacy and resilience of Greenwood. Lowe previously founded Project Row Houses, a community platform that engages residents, artists, and businesses in Houston's Historic Third Ward, one of the city's oldest Black neighborhoods through community initiatives, art programs, and neighborhood development activities.In this episode - which is part of a series about how memorials, monuments, and temporary pieces can be more reflective of our society - Stephanie Dockery from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Arts team sits down with Rick Lowe for a conversation around community-centered public art projects. They discuss the importance of creating community through public art, what they've learned from working with the City of Tulsa on the Greenwood Art Project, and how cities can implement art as a catalyst for community healing.

TIMESTAMPS00:00:50 - Introductions00:02:45 - Flight Deck: OBS Defends OBJ with Game Tape00:23:30 - ‘NEEDS' Introduction & Lyric Video00:51:55 - Gimme Some Headlines I: Flowers & Groundbreaking01:10:10 - Gimme Some Timeline: Astroworld & Transition01:23:20 - Chop Session: Drink Champs - Ye (Interview)01:37:10 - Gimme Some Headlines II: Issa Rae, Can't Stop Won't Stop02:03:20 - That's A Bet: Houston Open02:17:05 - Welcome to the Black Market - Project Row Houses02:29:30 - Tell Me Something Good: God Body Bingo EPISODE PLAYLISTGSH Theme Song x C.O.D. DecaturboyMusicCalifornia Roll x C.O.D. DecaturboyMusic ft. Buckhead ReddNeeds x C.O.D. DecaturboyMusicLate Nights x C.O.D. DecaturboyMusic“Episode 2” TV N Da Studio x C.O.D. DecaturboyMusic“Episode 3” TV N Da Studio x C.O.D. DecaturboyMusic“Episode 6” TV N Da Studio x C.O.D. DecaturboyMusic“Episode 2” TV N Da Studio x C.O.D. DecaturboyMusic“Episode 8” TV N Da Studio x C.O.D. DecaturboyMusicBrand New x C.O.D. DecaturboyMusic + P. Henry Trotter IVImported (Remix) x C.O.D. DecaturboyMusic + P. Henry Trotter IV“Episode 9” TV N Da Studio x C.O.D. DecaturboyMusic LINKSGSH I - Ashley M. Jones - https://goodblacknews.org/2021/11/05/birmingham-native-and-reparations-now-author-ashley-m-jones-named-poet-laureate-of-alabama/GST - Astroworld - https://www.npr.org/2021/11/06/1053177597/houston-concert-deaths-astroworld-festival-travis-scottChop Session - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27NstO1qOJkGSH I - Issa Rae - https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/issa-rae-e2-80-99s-reality-show-e2-80-98sweet-life-los-angeles-e2-80-99-renewed-at-hbo-max/ar-AAQkM8nBlack Market - Project Row Houses - https://projectrowhouses.org/TSG - God Body Bingo - https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2021/08/god-body-bingos-debut-album SOCIAL MEDIAIG - https://www.instagram.com/gimmesomeheadlines/Twitter - https://twitter.com/GimmeSomeHead_sTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@gimmesomeheadlines?lang=en

“Wait on or create your own platform” is one thing artist Linda Simien Kellywanted to leave the ICW audience with. We have a choice as to what we do with our lives. We can wait on others to decide for us or like Linda, we can plan our path, and make it happen for ourselves. Check out this week's episode for more. If in Houston, check out Linda's pieces at Max's Wine Driveon Washington. About Artist Linda Simien Kelly The Louisiana native is a proud Bachelor Science in Accounting graduate of Southern University, A & M in Baton Rouge and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She has over 20 years of accounting experience in the oil and gas industry. Linda Simien Kelly also is a primarily self-taught, abstract expressionist artist who has been pursuing her craft on a full-time basis for over a decade. Black identity, cultural solidarity and ethnic perception have been important themes in her work. The artist lives in Houston with her husband and is the mother of three sons. Her considerable professional accolades include first-prize honors in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston's 17th Annual Citywide African American Artists Exhibition at the Glassell School of Art and recognition as a prize winning artist at the Lawndale Art Center's “The Big Show” annual juried exhibition. Her work has been featured in Citywide Artists Juried Exhibitions at the University Museum at Texas Southern University, The Community Artists' Collective Gallery, Project Row Houses, The Assistance League of Houston Artists Exhibition at Williams Tower Gallery, The Art on The Avenue Juried Exhibition, the Archway Gallery, the Gallery Jatad and the “M” Gallery. Artist Profile: For over decade, Linda Simien Kelly has been an advocate for Sickle Cell Disease and Trait using her artworks as the platform to help bring awareness of the disease and trait. The annual event was held at the Ensemble Theatre. Exhibits: The MFAH's ''Citywide African American Artists - Exhibition' held at the Community Artists Collective, Museum of TSU & MFAH Glassell. First Place Winner of the 17th MFAH Citywide African American Artists Exhibition. Lawndale Statewide “The Big Show” Artists Exhibition - First Place Winner 2015. Participant of six (6) MFAH's ''Citywide African American Artists - Exhibitions'. Women's Work, Mind, Body and Spirit Exhibit, Community Artists' Collective Archway Gallery Ninth Annual Juried Exhibition Art On The Avenue Annual Juried Exhibition Collectors Club Exhibits, Project Row Houses Creative Women United Annual Citywide Exhibitions Annual Art League Citywide Exhibit, Williams Tower Gallery Hurricane Harvey Artist Exhibit, Community Artists' Collective Gallery Artist Exhibit Jatad Gallery Artist Exhibit M Gallery in the Heights Annual Artist of the Month Exhibit, The Breakfast Klub Exhibiting Artist Exhibition, Lucille's Restaurant Exhibiting Artist Exhibition, Bohemeo's Cafe Exhibiting Artist Exhibition, Urban Eat's Exhibiting Artist Exhibition, Max's Wine Dive Ways to Connect Call or Text (713) 417-8261 of Email: lindasimienkelly@icloud.com Instagram: lindakelly6116 and Twitter: lindasimienkelly@gmail.com WATCH + LISTEN + SUBSCRIBE + SHARE Let's #Soar and #ElevateWOCVoices #IntimateConversationWOC

Dear Mama, When it comes to Black Maternal Health, our work is not over when Black mothers survive and the child is born alive.  Black maternal health should not fade into our peripheral because Black Maternal Health Week has passed  In this episode we discuss being invited to do an art installation for Round 50 of Project Row Houses that centered Black Maternal Health, the importance of art in this movement and art’s capacity like nothing else to creep into the crevices of culture and push us forward.  Before we jump into that convo we take a discuss witnessing our children during hard situations inspired by card number 19 from our Black Mama Magic Card Deck: I honor my child’s divine path.  We hope this episode reminds you that motherhood is not the graveyard of dreams, that our children are divine beings on their own divine journey, and when your mothership hits rough waters to soften.  SYLLABUS Church Announcements/Praise Reports/Prayer List Requests: Black Mama Magic Card Pull: Card #19 - I honor my child’s divine path.  Black Mama Magic Mini Card Deck  & Magic Evermore Summer Solstice Box ON SALE NOW  Crystal's teaching writing and healing.  NeKisha is getting her keynote on! Thea has a new web home & published her FIRST book from her press! Check the show notes for this episode on our website for ALL links to support the mamas! Mac & Cheese: In this episode we discuss being invited to Houston to do an art installation for Project Row Houses and the importance of art as mothers and in the Black Maternal Health Movement. Black Mama Say: A word from the mamas to mamas. ASSIGNMENTS Visit our website demblackmamas.com to do TWO important things:  Invest in us by purchasing the Magic Evermore Summer Solstice Box or a Black Mama Magic Mini Card Deck  on SALE NOW!  Check our website for pictures & video from our installation. All of these things can be done on our website demblackmamas.com As always thanks for rockin with us.  For full show notes & time stamps check out website: demblackmamas.com  MORE WAYS TO INVEST IN US Invest in a platform curated by 3 Black women actively cultivating spaces rooted in healing, creativity, and liberation for Black mamas. Help us continue to be #BlackMamaBuilt:⠀⁣ Don't just listen, subscribe Share with at least one person Follow us on any social media platform @demblackmamaspodcast Engage through social media comments, DM us or email with questions magic@demblackmamas.com Join our email list by visiting our website Patreon   One Time Donation: PayPal Venmo Now let's get free yall & jump into Episode 39 of Dem Black Mamas!

Amanda K. Edwards is an attorney and native Houstonian with a passion for empowering communities through solutions, engagement, and public service. Amanda currently serves as the President & CEO of The Community Based Solutions Firm, and she is the founder and Board President of Be The Solution: Community Empowerment Organization. Amanda recently concluded her bid for the United States Senate in the Texas Democratic Primary. From 2016-2020, Amanda served as the Houston City Council Member in At-Large Position 4. During her tenure as a City Council Member, Amanda served as Vice-Chair of the Budget and Fiscal Affairs Committee. She also served on the Economic Development Committee and the Transportation, Technology, and Infrastructure Committee.While on City Council, Amanda initiated and led the Mayor's Technology & Innovation Task Force to cultivate a stronger innovation economy in Houston, and now sits on the Houston Exponential Board of Directors. She also led the High Capacity Transit Task Force for the Houston Galveston Area Council Transportation Policy Council. Amanda also launched and led Houston's Women and Minority-Owned Business Task Force to assist women and minority business owners with gaining access to capital. She also led national efforts to address the future of work. In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Amanda mobilized hundreds of volunteers to render aid to residents in Harvey recovery efforts. Finally, Amanda launched numerous programmatic efforts ranging from an annual senior conference to town halls under her Community Empowerment Signature Series to empower residents to be the solution in their communities.Amanda attended Eisenhower High School in Aldine ISD. She earned a B.A. in Political Science from Emory University, where she served as president of the undergraduate student body and was later inducted into the Emory University Hall of Fame. While in Atlanta, Amanda gained valuable community building and public policy experience working in community development corporations as a Community Building & Social Change Fellow as well as in the Georgia Legislature.After graduating from Emory, Amanda worked for Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee in Washington, D.C. Amanda then earned her juris doctor from Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, Amanda served as a Criminal Justice Institute student attorney and was awarded the Elaine Osborne Jacobson Award for serving underserved populations in the healthcare law arena.Compelled by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Amanda relocated to New Orleans. While in New Orleans, Amanda served as a judicial law clerk for Federal District Court Judge Ivan Lemelle and founded Project NOW: The New Orleans Writing Project, which inspired New Orleans youth to empower themselves and their community through the power of writing.Amanda returned to Houston with a broadened perspective and interest in impacting her community. Amanda practiced law for years as a municipal finance lawyer, where she solved complex issues relating to tax-exempt bond financings, public-private partnerships, and non-profit organizations. She has practiced law at both Vinson & Elkins LLP and Bracewell LLP.Amanda has served as President of the Board of Directors for Project Row Houses and on numerous other boards, including the National League of Cities and Texas Lyceum. In addition to her service on the Boards of Directors for Houston Exponential and Be The Solution: Community Empowerment Organization, Amanda serves on the Advisory Council of Accelerator for America. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., as well as the Houston Chapter of The Links, Inc. Amanda is a For(bes) the Culture Contributor and has been featured by multiple media outlets, including ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, Essence, Black Enterprise, The Root, The New York Times, NPR, Politico, and The Texas Tribune, among others. While Amanda has received many accolades for her legal and community work, she finds empowering communities to be her greatest reward.

#DearMama, sometimes you just need to gift yourself with a deep whoo-sah!⁣ ⁣ Put yourself on time out, go to an empty room or a quiet corner, and just allow your chest to expand with breath. ⁣ ⁣ Feel gratitude. Feel frustration. Feel whatever it is that you need to feel for that moment, without self-judgment.⁣ ⁣ Allow yourself to simply be.⁣ ⁣ Exist fully and unapologetically in your Blackness. Suspend yourself in love. Love for self, love for our people, love for your children, love for your partner.⁣ ⁣ And then you can get back to everything & everyone. Just remember; first, you are everything thing to yourself.⁣ ⁣ Join Crystal Tennille Irby for a much needed #MeditationWithMamas -- just in time to get us centered for the holiday whirlwind!⁣ Crystal Tennille Irby is a spoken word poetry grand slam champion, published writer, director and identifies as a #BlackMamaCreative, an artist creating work across multiple artistic disciplines centering Black women and mothering, absent of the white gaze.  She is the current co-host and executive producer of Dem Black Mamas Podcast, a podcast that delves into the unique experience of Black mothers raising free children in an unfree world.  Crystal is a TEDxGreenville presenter,  a Watering Hole Poetry Fellow and the founder and Director of Writers Well Youth Fellowship, a program for Black girls ages 14-19 focused on writing and performance. Her recent credits include, Untitled Reconstruction Project, which she directed and co-produced and Untamed Womb: Reclaiming Wonder Through Healing, Liberation & Creativity, a Project Row Houses installation which she co-curated.  Crystal has presented at numerous conferences including Black Maternal Health Conference & Training Institute; Let’s Talk About Sex, & HIV Prevention & Education Summit.  In addition to her creative endeavors, Crystal has over 15 years of experience working to dismantle systemic and institutional racism.  She works as a community doula helping Black birth persons stay connected to their body and as a facilitator for Speaking Down Barriers pushing communities forward by helping Black people heal from race and gender trauma. Crystal is the mother of 4 children and shares her life with an Omega man.  #MeditationWithMamas -- just in time to get us centered for the holiday whirlwind!⁣#MeditationsByMamas are lead by Black mamas to help us maintain in alignment with healing, creativity, and liberation to manifest joy and abundance. ⠀ INVEST IN US! When you invest in us, you invest in a platform curated by three Black women actively cultivating spaces rooted in healing, creativity, and liberation for Black mamas. There are multiple ways to help us continue to be #BlackMamaBuilt Patreon Merch 1 Time Investment/Venmo Don't just listen, subscribe Share with at least one person Engage with us on social media: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Email us with questions, comments, and/or show topic suggestions: demblackmamas@gmail.com Join our email list through our website. 

Each city is its own ecosystem of artists, organizations, and revenue with particular notions of identity and value. For example, Austin is known as the music capital of Texas, but Houston boasts one of the largest & most diverse populations in the United States. Should a Houston musician move to Austin to capitalize on that reputation? Should any artist move to another city for the sake of their art? Artists can find success in either scenario dependent on several circumstances. We will have two guests to offer their experiences of moving to and/or staying in cities for their creative practice and succeeding as a result.Ashley DeHoyos is a cultural producer and educator born and raised in Baytown, TX. She received a BFA from Sam Houston State University (2013) and MFA in Curatorial Practice from Maryland Institute College of Art (2016). As of 2018, they have served as the Curator at DiverseWorks in Houston, TX, where they have organizes a full range of visual, performing, and public arts programming. Through their curatorial practice, Dehoyos is focused on creating cultural platforms with intersectional perspectives and speculative futures as they relate to history and the environment. Recent projects include the performance Jefferson Pinder: Fire & Movement; the 2019 Bayou City Be All LGBTQ+ performance festival; and the group exhibition Collective Presence. In addition to their role as curator at DiverseWorks DeHoyos also manages the Diverse Discourse and The Idea Fund, a regranting program co-adminsitrated by DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, and Project Row Houses, supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation.Artist, Mario E. Figueroa, Jr., artistically known as GONZO247, was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist with over 25 years of experience in street art, public, and private art commissions. Community involvement has been a considerable component of his activities as an artist. His experiences as a youth in the Houston community and his ancestors’ culture artistically inspire GONZO247. His early on admiration of the arts was the public art mural, The Rebirth of our Nationality (1973), by Leo Tanguma located in East End Houston, Texas, where he spent most of his childhood. He realized later on in life that the mural was the spark of his becoming a future artist. In his teens, he discovered and realized his artist identity through the visual language of Hip Hop, the graffiti art culture. The culture of Hip Hop was artistic expression by kids who were his age, and looked like him, more so than the examples he was being shown in school those days. He produced an Aerosol Warfare video series, established the Houston Wall of Fame in the 1990s (the city’s first and significant art production of its kind of that time), and has participated in projects working with top brand campaigns that speak to urban communities. He is known to be a key figure in pioneering the graffiti and street art culture as a leading underground art movement in Houston. Although he fully embraced, breathed, and participated in the Hip Hop culture, the primary element he practiced was graffiti art, and today he gives nod to his roots in his current works that have evolved overtime. In addition to public and private commissions, he strives to make time for independent studio work and on-going and longer-term collaborative endeavors through Aerosol Warfare, The Graffiti and Street Art Museum of Texas, and the Houston Urban Experience (HUE) Biennial Mural Festival. He continues to educate communities through civic art engagement, leading by example, and meaningful large-scale creative activities. Intro music: "Ike is Gone" by Nick Gaitan.Support the show (https://fresharts.org/about-fresh-arts/friends-of-fresh-arts/)

Burning Questions with Jason Griffiths explores the topic of climate change and how engineered lumber can help architects and designers achieve a more sustainable world. Our guest, Jason Griffiths received his Master’s in Architecture with distinction from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UK, in 1994 and began a career that mixed practice with teaching and competition work. After his first competition win, he was invited to teach with Sir Peter Cook on the Bartlett’s M. Arch. and Dip 9 Unit with Professor David Greene. During the 90s he built a portfolio of competition prizes and teaching positions in London and Oxford. He co-directed graduate studies at the University of Westminster and was senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. In 2003 he moved to North America and taught at the Tech de Monterrey, University of Texas at Austin, Iowa State University and Arizona State University. He has also held visiting positions at ESTAM in Madrid, the AA Visiting School in Chengdu, Sharda University in Delhi and Nirma University in Ahmedabad and from 2017-19 was professor of summer immersion at The School of Architecture at Taliesin in Wisconsin. Griffiths has lectured widely throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Griffiths’ teaching career is paralleled with architectural competition work winning prizes in eleven competitions including first prize in both the AA FAB 2009, Temple of Laughter, Millennium Café competitions. Other competition prizes include Future Visions of Kyoto, Aomori Housing, Shinkenchiku Residential Design (three times) and the Oklahoma Memorial. In 2018 he established PLAIN Design-Build to integrate engineered lumber construction with design-build pedagogy at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He is responsible for the first three CLT buildings within Great Plains region with projects for The Baxa Fellowship Residence, the South Sioux City Orchard Facility and the Santee Sioux Child Resource Center. Other projects include Emerge at the Bauman Tree Farm in Eugene, Oregon, and Mazo in Wisconsin along with recent projects in Delhi and Ahmedabad. His work with PLAIN has been recognized by 2017 WoodWorks/ Wood Products Council Wood Design Award, the 2019 and 2020 ACSA Design-Build Awards. Griffiths also received a 2017 USDA Forest Service Wood Innovations grant and 2020 Nebraska Environmental Trust grant. Griffiths’ book Manifest Destiny – A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Housing” Published by the Architectural Association Press explores a visual anthropology of the North American suburbs. Following its publication Mr. Griffiths received the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) book award (Typology) at the Frankfurt Book Fair and was included as one of the ten entries in “2011 year in review: Best in architecture” by Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne. Other publications include chapters in recent issues of 306090 through Princeton Architectural Press, Volume Magazine, Mas Context and regular contributions to UnCube. He has also been published in AA Files, Architecture, JA, JAE and the Sunday Times. Griffiths’ professional practice is based on a multidisciplinary approach to architecture working through buildings, competitions, public art, writing and photography. Built work includes The Lowest House and the Duerinckx Residence along with public art and furniture installations for the City of Tempe. He has exhibited work in London and North America including the solo exhibition Not What We Bought at Project Row Houses in Houston.

Philadelphia-based curator and author, Nato Thompson was chief curator at Creative Time 2007-2017 and recently has been developing ideas for a civically engaged contemporary museum in Philadelphia. His Instagram Live series - Let's Talk Alternatives - has brought together change-makers, activists and artists globally. Here Nato talks candidly about his roots, what scares him and his aspirations for the way we might make new worlds. Instagram: @natothompsonnatothompson.comYou can discover Creative Time projects hereNato mentions the following projects: The Interventionists at Mass MoCARick Lowe's Project Row Houses in HoustonTheaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation in ChicagoChristine Tohme's Ashkal Alwan in Beirut

PROARTESMEXICO.COM.MX Interview in English with Jorge Rojas by Peter Hay on May 14, 2020 Entrevista en inglés con Jorge Rojas por Peter Hay, mayo 14, 2020. In Episode 1.3 we talk with Jorge Rojas, a multidisciplinary artist, independent curator, and art educator born in the State of Morelos in Mexico. He studied Art at the University of Utah and at Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Rojas makes performances examining cultural, social, and mediated forms of communication. Jorge is interested in performance art for its ability to bring people together, as well as provoke public participation, action, and collaboration. His interests include spiritual histories, interpretations of ancient rites and customs, institutional critique, and responding to abuses of power. In recent years, his performances have primarily responded to political injustice and cultural tensions. Their work and curatorial projects have been exhibited nationally and internationally in venues including Museo del Barrio and Queens Museum of Art in New York; New World Museum and Project Row Houses in Houston; Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara; FOFA Gallery at Concordia University, Montreal; Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City. Since 2015, They have been director of learning and engagement at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, where they oversee all education, community engagement, and adult programming initiatives for the Museum. Jorge Rojas is a passionate advocate for advancing racial and cultural justice through the arts. En el Episodio 1.3 hablamos con Jorge Rojas, es un artista multidisciplinario, curador independiente y educador de arte nacido en el estado de Morelos en México. Estudió Arte en la Universidad de Utah y en Bellas Artes en San Miguel de Allende, México. Rojas realiza arte performance, que examina formas de comunicación culturales, sociales y mediadas. Jorge está interesado en el arte del performance por su capacidad para unir a las personas, así como para provocar la participación pública, la acción y la colaboración. Sus intereses incluyen historias espirituales, interpretaciones de ritos y costumbres antiguas, crítica institucional y respuesta a abusos de poder. En los últimos años, sus actuaciones han respondido principalmente a la injusticia política y las tensiones culturales. Su trabajo y proyectos curatoriales se han exhibido a nivel nacional e internacional en lugares como el Museo del Barrio y el Museo de Arte de Queens en Nueva York; Museo del Nuevo Mundo y Project Row Houses en Houston; Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara; Galería FOFA en la Universidad Concordia, Montreal; Museo de Bellas Artes de Utah y Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Utah en Salt Lake City. Desde 2015, ha sido director de aprendizaje y participación en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Utah, donde supervisa todas las iniciativas de educación, participación comunitaria y programación para adultos del Museo. Jorge Rojas es un apasionado defensor del avance de la justicia racial y cultural a través de las artes. Here&There: Conversations with Creators from the MX &USA: In this bilingual series, PROArtes México sits down with contemporary artists working in the USA or MX and discusses their work, concepts, ideas, and interests in their preferred language. A translated version of the interviews available on our website. En esta serie bilingüe, PROArtes México invita a creadores de arte contemporáneo que trabajan en Estados Unidos de América y México, y charlan sobre su trabajo, conceptos, ideas e intereses. Las versiones traducidas de las entrevistas se encontrarán disponibles en nuestra página web.

Yanira Collado lives/works in Miami FL. Education, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Collado was awarded first place in the 2013 South Florida Biennial at the Art and Cultural Center/Hollywood, Hollywood, FL and was a recipient of The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, 2018. Group shows include, 10 – A Decade at Dimensions Variable, Fragment at Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL, FL, Penumbras: sacred geometries at Project Row Houses, Houston, TX 2019. http://yaniracollado.net/

Jamal Cyrus (born 1973, Houston, TX) received his BFA from the University of Houston in 2004 and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. In 2005 he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and in 2010 he was an Artist in Residence at Artpace San Antonio. Cyrus has won several awards, including the Driskell Prize, awarded by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; a BMW Art Journy; the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; the Artadia Houston Award, and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. He has participated in national and international exhibitions, including Direct Message: Art, Language and Power at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2019); The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 – Now, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL (traveled to ICA Philadelphia, 2016); Arresting Patterns, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT (traveled to the African American Museum in Philadelphia, 2016); two exhibitions at the Studio Museum, Harlem (both 2013); the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2012); the New Museum, New York (2011); The Kitchen, New York (2009); the Museum of London Docklands, London (2009); and The Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp (2007). In 2006 Cyrus was included in Day for Night, the 2006 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art.Cyrus is also a member of the artist collective Otabenga Jones and Associates. As a member of the collective, Cyrus has exhibited at Lawndale Art Center, Houston (2014), Project Row Houses, Houston (2014), the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2008), the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC (2008), the California African American Museum, Los Angeles (2008), the Menil Collection, Houston (2007), the 2006 Whitney Biennial, and Clementine Gallery, New York (2006). Cyrus’s and Otabenga Jones's work has been reviewed in Artlies, The Houston Chronicle, Houston Magazine, and The New York Times. Cyrus participated in the New Orleans triennial, Prospect.4, with Otabanga Jones.Jamal Cyrus lives and works in Houston, TX.https://inmangallery.com/index.htmlhttps://inmangallery.com/artists/cyrus_jamal/bio.htmlhttps://twitter.com/photogsofcolorhttps://www.instagram.com/photogsofcolor/?hl=enhttps://fulbright.uark.edu/departments/art/https://www.photographersofcolor.org/

Episode #100!!!! Made it to triple digits!Today's special guests are the epitome of the feminine... creative, artistic, talented, nurturing, healing, and mystical. What a pleasure it is to share their stories.My first guest, Natasha Althouse@musicbynatasha, is a musician, vocalist, wife, mom and holistic bodyworker whose healing practice focuses on postural imbalances, stress induced tension, injury care, and digestive and reproductive health. I met Natasha a few years ago for Mayan Abdominal Massage work and was blown away by the profound nature of what she does, blending massage, sound and energy work together in a very powerful way. We get to chat about life, how and why she makes music, the unique nature of Mayan Abdominal Massage, her connection to Ixchel and so much more. She's in the studio NOW working on an album which she expects to be birthed into the world sometime in 2020. She even gifts us with a little song during the interview. I cry...again.Today's second guest is the multi-dimensional Stephanie Diamond, Artist, Entrepreneur and Community-Builder. She founded Listings Project -- listings and other opportunities geared towards artists and creatives -- 17 years ago and talks about how it has transformed over the years into a legit community building business! She also facilitates 5-Rhythms and explains how the nature of the experience of dancing 5-Rhythms so closely mirrors the reality of life. Before doing any of those things, Stephanie was and always has been an artist, creating, largely around community. Her Art has been exhibited at MoMA, MASS MoCA, MoMA/P.S. 1, Studio Museum in Harlem, Queens Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Project Row Houses, Philadelphia Mural Arts, SculptureCenter, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, Lithuania, to name a few. We talk about all this, plus the fact that she does not have a smart phone! I want what she doesn't have!!!Today's show was engineered by Manuel Blas at Radio Kingston, www.radiokingston.org.We heard music from our fave, Shana Falana, http://www.shanafalana.com/Feel free to email me, say hello or let me know who you think should be a guest on the show: she@iwantwhatshehas.orgLeave me a voicemail with your thoughts or a few words about who has what you want and why! (845)481-3429** Please: SUBSCRIBE to the pod and leave a REVIEW wherever you are listening, it helps other users FIND IT :)http://iwantwhatshehas.org/podcastITUNES | SPOTIFY | STITCHERITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i-want-what-she-has/id1451648361?mt=2SPOTIFY:https://open.spotify.com/show/77pmJwS2q9vTywz7Uhiyff?si=G2eYCjLjT3KltgdfA6XXCASTITCHER: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/she-wants/i-want-what-she-has?refid=stpr'Follow:INSTAGRAM * https://www.instagram.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcast/FACEBOOK * https://www.facebook.com/iwantwhatshehaspodcastTWITTER * https://twitter.com/wantwhatshehas 

Marc Furi is the creator of Project Row Houses most successful/viral homes. He is not stopping there though! He is poised to take his place in history by telling the story of a great man who contributed to him being a great man. Intrigued yet? He is funny too! We had a great time talking with Marc and reminiscing about all he's created and accomplished in these H-Town streets! Salute to a legend in the making! Listen and enjoy! Peace, -M.

Regina Agu has been researching and engaging green spaces in Houston, including Emancipation Park, especially to understand the legacy of communities of color in these spaces. As an artist, in a city where zoning laws, or lack thereof, impacts preservation, Agu also has seen the ways artists are on the forefront of innovating around and along with those parameters. As she notes, “I think that artists in Houston are actually quite vocal, some of them more vocal constituents who are really thinking through, ‘Okay, what can historic preservation look like given the policies and rules on the books in Houston?’” Agu has been a visiting artist and resident of Project Row Houses and the University of Houston, where she studied the psychogeography of Emanciaption Park. She has witnessed the aftermath of monument takedowns in New Orleans, and seen firsthand how artists can take the lead in reclaiming, re-naming, public spaces. Agu’s project Expanding Monuments is included in the High Line Joint Art Network’s New Monuments for New Cities Initiative. Over the last six months, Monument Lab has been research residents of this project and we are speaking with artists from each of its 5 partner cities – New York, Chicago, Austin, Houston, and Toronto – about monuments, memory, and public space.

In part two of a two part episode, Hannibal Johnson and Rick Lowe, discuss the future of Tulsa, Oklahoma in historical context, along with the potential impact of the Greenwood Art Project. Tulsa is the winner of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Public Art Challenge. The Greenwood Art Project commemorates the 100th anniversary of the destruction of a thriving black community in Tulsa known as Black Wall Street. The project celebrates the resilience and recovery of the community. Hannibal Johnson is an author, attorney, professor and consultant. He is an expert on the African-American experience in Oklahoma and its broader historic impact on American history. Rick Lowe is an artist, best known for Project Row Houses, which he started in Houston in 1993. He has worked with communities and exhibited all over the world. Stephanie Dockery of the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Arts team moderates a conversation with Johnson and Lowe. Listen to Part 1 of the episode by subscribing to Follow the Data

In the 2nd part of the conversation with Glasstire editor Rainey Knudson, she talks about: The farewell tour leading to her departure from Glasstire in June, which is taking the form of a series of talks, covering social media, its power and expanding reach and influence, as exemplified by someone like Jerry Saltz, and its evils, particularly Facebook, which she’s gotten off of and says her life is so much better because of it; how museums have become experiences of commerce as opposed to venues of self-reflection, including the Broad, the long-lined Yayoi Kusama touring hit, and others; artists who are running away from, or not engaging in, the proper art world – including local Houston heroes Jim Pirtle (of the iconic notsuoH bar), and Rick Low of Project Row Houses; how she doesn’t buy into the traditional metrics for success in the art world; and how she’s surprisingly optimistic about the future, despite all signs to the contrary.

In Part One of a two part episode, we hear from Hannibal Johnson and Rick Lowe, detailing work in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the most recent winner of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Public Art Challenge. Hannibal Johnson is an author, attorney, professor and consultant. He is an expert on the African-American experience in Oklahoma and its broader historic impact on American history. Rick Lowe is an artist, best known for Project Row Houses, which he started in Houston in 1993. He has worked with communities and exhibited all over the world. Listen to Part 1 of the episode now – and read more from Rick Lowe here: https://www.bloomberg.org/blog/honoring-past-shaping-future-public-art-five-questions-artist-rick-lowe/

Eureka Gilkey is the executive director of Project Row Houses and Ryan Dennis is their curator and programs director. The famously artistic social services is celebrating 25 years of history with a beautiful book: Collective Creative Actions: Project Row Houses at 25. The famous 3rd non-profit is now immortalized in the Smithsonian where the Org took a group of kids last year. That's a great story you'll want to hear as we discuss Project Row Houses' efforts to preserve and share the history of the African American experience. They also run a program to help single mothers reach financial independence. The curriculum includes parenting classes, education and of course, arts. They also incubate small business like the extraordinarily successful Workshop Houston which has been featured on Houston P.A. in the past. Go to www.projectrowhouses.org to support their programs.

Kevin Robinson is a performer-composer, educator and multi-woodwind instrumentalist who explores various interdisciplinary approaches to composition and improvisation. He is a native of Baltimore, MD and is currently based in Oakland, CA. He has a MA in Composition Program from Mills College where he is studied with Roscoe Mitchell, Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins and others. He received his BFA in Jazz Reeds from California Institute of the Arts where he studied composition with Wadada Leo Smith and Vinny Golia. Robinson is the leader of the band The Kevin Robinson Ensemble (KREation) which was established in 2003. The group has recorded several studio albums. He has performed at various festivals and venues throughout the United States. Some highlights include performances at the Studio Museum in Harlem in New York City, The Made in LA 2012 Biennial, The Hammer Museum in LA, Artscape Festival in Baltimore and at The Outsound Festival in San Francisco. He has collaborated with dancers, poets, visual artist, writers and film makers -including visual artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and Warren Niedrich – film makers Sola Bamis and Shirley Kim. He has also performed with the Ulrich Krieger Sextet, Marilyn Crispell, Nicole Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith’s Creative Orchestra, the Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, Copper Root, Kuumba Collective, Warren Niedrich, the trio BRL and krautrock group Faust. He was a participant at the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute (2012) at UCLA, a resident at Project Row Houses in Houston Texas (2013) and a resident at Atlantic Center for the Arts. The books he mentions in the interview are Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock Possibilities and Octavia Butler,  Lilith's Brood. KREation Ensemble, Outsound Festival 2018 San Francisco, Marilyn Crispell- Piano, Lee Hodel - Bass, Tony Gennaro -Percussion

In part 9 of Redlining & White Noise, Charles Rotramel and Gregg Taylor are on location at Project Row Houses in Houston to talk with Eureka Gilkey about Closing the Racial Wealth Gap. Eureka Gilkey is the Executive Director of Project Row Houses, an innovative organization in the Third Ward, which combines art, community development, and historic cultural representation to offer creative solutions for building economic vibrancy for this redlined neighborhood. For more information on Project Row Houses, visit projectrowhouses.org

Danny Samuels, FAIA, is a Professor in Practice at the Rice School of Architecture, Director of the Rice Building Workshop (now Construct), and, since 1972, a founding Partner of Taft Architects. Since 1996, students of the Rice Building Workshop have designed and built various projects at Project Row Houses, including research and development in affordable housing. In this episode we discuss: The different aspects between architecture and engineering. How important are communication skills in the work that you do? How does STEM intersect with your work? Contact: Donate to CSTEM CSTEM.org Annual Report  

Project Row Houses is a neighborhood based nonprofit art and cultural organization working on grassroots development in Houston’s 3rd ward.

Maria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist born in Chicago. She has presented her work at The MCA Chicago, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, the Alpineum Produzentengalerie, and Artspace New Haven, amongst others. Recently, Gaspar was awarded a Creative Capital Award, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Award, the National Museum of Mexican Art Sor Juana Women of Achievement Award, and residencies at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago and Project Row Houses in Houston. She was featured in the Chicago Tribune as Chicagoan of the Year in the Visual Arts in 2014. She is an Assistant Professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Gaspar received her MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

Urban Visions: Art as Social Practice is a three-part series exploring the ways in which certain ubiquitous elements of city life somehow seem invisible. At a time when the arts as social practice is becoming increasingly institutionalized, can artists continue to promote ethical and meaningful public engagement? Participants are invited to experience interactive and immersive media art, talk with artists about how they reimagine urban space, and explore nearby neighborhoods with a guided arts tour. Speaker: Rick Lowe Founder, Project Row Houses Discussant: Annette M. Kim Associate Professor, USC Price Director, Spatial Analysis Lab (SLAB) Artist Rick Lowe, a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius Grant,” is known for his pioneering work combining art practices with urban renewal to revitalize neglected neighborhoods. In a lecture, he will present an overview of his own work, including the celebrated Project Row Houses, a community-based arts and culture organization in one of Houston’s oldest African American neighborhoods. Project Row Houses turned a block and a half of rundown homes into a vital cultural center that now houses arts programs for youth, exhibition spaces, artist residencies, a mentorship program for young mothers, an organic garden, and an incubator for designs for low-income housing in the surrounding neighborhood. From Houston to New Orleans to L.A., Lowe’s visionary work shifts the view of art from traditional studio practice to a focus on engaging with and transforming the social environment. After his talk, Lowe will lead a workshop that involves brainstorming with participants about ways to connect art to neighborhood revitalization and community engagement.

On today's THE FOOD SEEN, we have Tattfoo Tan, Michael Pribich and Jorge Rojas, contributing artists to Project Row Houses' “Matter of Food” exhibition. From Tattfoo's “S.O.S. + Greenhouse Collective” which serves as a incubator of ideas through community collaboration, to Michael's “Sugarland” that deals with the labor practices in sugar harvesting, to Jorge's “Gente de Maiz” looking at corn as an ingredient of worship (includes the “Tortilla Oracle” readings), see how their projects inform how societal beliefs and practices effect our food systems. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch. For more information visit HearstRanch.com

Rick Lowe has given new meaning to the phrase "artist-in-residence." This Heinz Award winner and former Loeb fellow at the Harvard School of Design is the founder of Project Row Houses, an organization that merges art and architecture with social activism. In an audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Lowe describes how this experiment in "social sculpture" is redefining the role of art and artists in society. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/rick_lowe_-_urban_villages_art_as_social_innovation