Projects tagged "Houston TX"

‘forward-thinking’ art installation about climate change
Practitioner:
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Date:
Oct 16 2024
Rice University’s O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science now houses an immersive public art installation titled “Climate Parliament,” a thought-provoking work by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Commissioned by Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts for the Rice Public Art collection, the interactive artwork engages visitors with a dynamic experience that addresses the growing global climate crisis.
52 School Buses to Ted Cruz's Home - Carrying Items from School Shooting Victims
Practitioner:
Change The Ref
Date:
Jul 14 2022
A mile-long convoy of empty school buses drove through Texas on Thursday, on a mission to get to Sen. Ted Cruz's home. Each empty seat of this mobile art installation by Change The Ref founder Manuel Oliver represents over four thousand other victims of school shootings from the past three years alone. Oliver and his wife Patricia lost their son Joaquin in the Parkland shooting in 2018.
Project Row House
Practitioner:
Rob Lowe
Date:
Jan 1 1993
Project Row Houses (PRH) is a neighborhood-based nonprofit art and cultural organization in Houston’s Northern Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American communities. PRH began in 1993 as a result of discussions among African-American artists who wanted to establish a positive, creative presence in their own community.
'I am not your scapegoat': See the art created by Asian Americans in a year of anti-Asian hate
Practitioner:
Kezia Gabriella, Andrew Kung, Kathleen Namgung, Cindy Trinh, Christine Fang, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Date:
Dec 27 2021
In mid-November, the nonprofit group Asian American Federation released 10 travel posters designed to subvert a question that can instantly get under the skin of any person of Asian descent in the United States: “Where are you really from?”