Skydive to Publish Houston Fringe Art Omnibus in March
Houston artspace Skydive has announced a forthcoming publication: Satellites and Socialists: On the Fringe of Houston Arts, a book of “essays, letters, fictions, floorplans, scandals and more”, to premier in March 2013. Edited by Sasha Dela & Nancy Zastudil, and published in conjunction with the Temporary Art Review, the proposed publication includes contributions from nearly [...]
Sustainable Practice: Sasha Dela
Sasha Dela moved to Houston about seven years ago as a fellow in the MFAH Core Program and quickly became an important part of the Houston art scene as a founder of SKYDIVE Art Space and regional editor of Temporary Art Review, where she recently wrote an insightful take on our city that recognized the [...]
Sustainable Practice: Nancy Zastudil
In many ways, Nancy Zastudil was the inspiration for this series of interviews about sustainable practices. We worked together at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston, which organized a symposium called Systems of Sustainability. In the course of planning for the event, we talked about ways that the [...]
Land as Lab: LHI’s 2011 Sci-Art Symposium Collects Concerned Artists Outside San Antonio
On the 1200-acre Watson ranch on the Medina River outside San Antonio, the Land Heritage Institute’s longhorns graze near a retrofitted dairy barn and a newly-donated portable classroom that will be the site of next weekend’s 2011 LHI Art-Sci Symposium: Land as Lab. Land as Lab continues the conversation begun at last year’s confab: a [...]