HAA Individual Artist Grants Spread $185,000 Among 22 Houston Artists
Twenty-two Houston artists recently received individual artist grants from the Houston Arts Alliance: Regina Agu; Kristine Mills Borisewitz; Teresa Chapman; Jade Cooper; Rebecca French; Ashley Horn; Charlotte Kennedy; Alex Luster; Ayanna Jolivet McCloud; Jerry D. Ochoa; John Pluecker; Britt Ragsdale; Robin Reagler; Erin Reck; Andre Sam-Sin; Carrie Schneider; Soody Sharifi; Emily Sloan; Kelly Switzer; Patrick [...]
Cool People Doing Cool Stuff: Houston Counter Crawl 3 at High Noon TODAY
Beginning at El Rincon Social in Houston’s East End, Counter Crawl III, is a sprawling multi-venue art festival which takes place at different underground, off-the-beaten-path type spaces where “cool people are doing cool stuff.” The point is to showcase emerging talents as well as community- and sustainability- minded initiatives. The first Counter Crawl took place [...]
See Art! Get Inspired! Write Poems! (Oh, But No Plagiarism, Use 14 Point Times New Roman and Please Be Appropriate)
There’s a new contest for Texas writers called ARTlines: An Ekphrastic Poetry Competition, sponsored by a new reading series in Houston called Public Poetry in conjunction with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. When I first read about the contest, I was excited; I want to support any opportunity for cross-fertilization between writing and visual [...]