Nathaniel Donnett: ZZzzzzzz
ZZzzzzzz by Nathaniel Donnett was the result of his one-week residency at Art League Houston as part of the group show/mini residency STACKS, curated by Robert Pruitt. On opening night for STACKS, the five participating artists—Phillip Pyle II, Nathaniel Donnett, Jamal Cyrus, M’kina Tapscott and Autumn Knight—were clad in gray hazmat suits while they inventoried, announced, axed [...]
What’s New News: Interactive Racks Hit the Streets for Donnett’s Idea Fund Project
Nathanniel Donnett’s What’s The New News project has hit the streets of Houston’s Third Ward, placing eight customized newspaper racks at neighborhood sites, reinterpreting original news stories at these sites with poems and raps and sculpture. Collaborating with Donnett on the project are writers Ayanna McCloud, Egie Ighile, Michael K. Taylor, Phillip Pyle II, Tyres [...]
NEA Awards VBB $20,000 for 2012 Living Room Art Productions
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded Houston arts org Voices Breaking Boundaries (VBB) a $20,000 grant to develop and produce their Living Room Art series of events that explore and juxtapose the joys, cultures and struggles between Houston, Texas and Karachi, Pakistan. In October and November, VBB completed its first production: Third Worlds: [...]