Elizabeth Dunbar
Diverseworks Reboot: Goodbye Docks!
By Bill Davenport on August 9, 2012
After 20 years of love/hate in the “docks” warehouse north of downtown, Houston art space DiverseWorks is relocating to 4102 Fannin Street in the heart of midtown. This move, the third in the organization’s history, jumps the gun on the org’s anticipated move into proposed Independent Arts Collaborative. Located at the intersection of Fannin and [...]
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Rachel Cook Returns to Houston As Diverseworks Assistant Curator
By Bill Davenport on July 30, 2012
Curator, writer, and onetime Glasstire editor Rachel Cook is returning to Houston with a n MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College as the newly created Assistant Curator at Diverseworks Artspace. She’ll start work on August 20, coordinating exhibitions, performances, and public programs. DiverseWorks Executive Director Elizabeth Dunbar, in a directorial quote, [...]
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The Cost of Turnover, or how museums could pay more and spend less
By Claire Ruud on June 27, 2012
There’s been a lot of management turnover within top tier Texas museums over the past year. [Quick recap: Just 13 months ago, Simone Wicha replaced Ned Rifkin as Director of the Blanton Museum of Art after Rifkin had spent only two years in the post. Five months later, Maxwell Anderson became the new Director of [...]
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Dunbar on Display at Diverseworks’ Houston Reception Wednesday
By Bill Davenport on January 31, 2012
It was too loud to talk to her at her at last weekend’s Glasstire/Fresh Arts Disaster Ball at the Colombe D’Or, so Diverseworks is inviting artists to meet and greet its new Executive Director, Elizabeth Dunbar, at a reception on Wednesday, February 1 from 6-8pm.
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Arthouse: The Dilemma of Authenticity and Visibility
By Rachel Cook and Claire Ruud on April 20, 2011
Recent events (scandal?) at Austin’s Arthouse have provoked plenty of public and private conversations amongst artists and curators in Texas and beyond. The duo Cook & Ruud, recently separated by graduate school (Rachel Cook is at Bard in curatorial studies; Claire Ruud is at Yale in business school), have been engaged in conversation around [...]
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