Start the New Year with a Funeral Party!
Houston artist Emily Sloan is inviting the public to start the new year right, with a Funeral Party on January 1! Although no actual deaths are involved, Sloan has included almost everything else in her participatory performance: an interactive funeral service (write a eulogy!), funeral pyre (bring your symbolic memorobilia!) improvised funeral music parade (bring [...]
Pan Art Fair
Last year, the Houston art fairs were the talk of the town, and most people were dubious that two fairs would be able to survive. Well, not only did both return this year, but a third satellite project has been added– The Pan Art Fair. Organized by Robert Boyd, author of the blog The Great [...]
Laura Lark Loves You #1: Hatin’ ‘n Spankin’
Questions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: lauralark@glasstire.com (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Thanks for the overwhelming number of responses! In this first post, I will be addressing just two of your submissions. Not to worry, though; no one who goes to the trouble of writing will be ignored. Unless you are Josh Werminger. [...]
Southern Naptist Convention II: Taking It To The Beach
Houston artist Emily Sloan is taking her Southern Naptist Convention on the road to Venice CA next weekend. Sloan, also noted for being the curator of The Kenmore, and “exhibition object” that encloses artistic expressions inside a working mini-fridge, held her original napping performance at the Houston Art League in 2010; the first Southern Naptist [...]
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 [...]
Skydive Celebrates Its 4th Year
Four years ago, Sasha Dela and Ariane Roesch opened a studio on an upper floor of an outdated and slightly ominous looking office building across from Montrose Krogers and the Chinese Consulate after the artists were both in the 2008 Houston Area Exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum. They decided to curate small exhibitions in [...]
Magid Salmi wins $1000 Gambol from Art League Houston, Kelly Alison and Emily Sloan come in 2nd and 3rd
At Friday evening’s opening at the Art League Houston, juror Mary McCleary awarded this year’s $1000 Gambol for Visual Art Award to Magid Salmi for small fruits embedded with computer circuits. Salmi won the Gambol second prize in 2010, after moving to Houston from Paris in 2009. Kelly Allison won the second prize of $500 [...]
Naptistm Interpreted: Is it Art or Just Healthy Living?
The Houston Chronicle‘s Naheeda Sayeeduddin attended Emily Sloan’s Southern Naptist Convention at 14 Pews, leaving confused about the event’s message. Although appreciating Sloan’s piece as religious satire, she sees Sloan’s Napping Affects Performance group primarily as an advocacy org for the health benefits of afternoon naps with albeit kooky ways of getting the word out!
Southern Naptist Convention Sunday offering Naptisms and Napture preparedness
The Southern Naptist Convention, a project of Napping Affects Performance artist Emily Sloan and the Universal Nap Church is congregating on Sunday, June 12 at 1pm at 14 Pews in Houston. The major topic of discussion this year is the upcoming NAPTURE to take place on October 21, 2011. The Bring Your Own Pillow (BYOP) [...]
TX BI 2011
Outlaw Independent curator Emily Sloan has organized TX BI 2011, an exhibition of Bisexual artists from the LSS*, at Curation Myth Ministries, the latest incarnation of her studio on the first floor of Box 13 Art Space in Houston. The opening is on Saturday, April 30 from 7-9:30pm. Featuring work by Daniel Adame, Sasha Dela, [...]