Hive Swarms Towards Reality: Chron Outlines Its History, and Future
Hive, Nestor Topchy’s “master-planned, artist-centric utopia” is stepping closer to becoming a reality- Lisa Gray reports in the Houston Chronicle that the seven-story dome constructed of shipping containers, housing work space for creatives of every stripe, has submitted a plan to lease/purchase a 10-acre site of bottomland from the Buffalo Bayou Partnership. Gray’s piece outlines [...]
Aromatic Archetypal Jello: 2012 Idea Fund Grantees Announced
The Idea Fund has announced it’s 2012 list of Texas-based artists and groups for it’s 2012 awards: Scott Gleeson & Dane Larsen, Carrie Schneider, Michelle Benaim Steiner, Lope Gutierrez Ruiz & Alexander Wright (Gopher Projects), Aaron Dubrow, Xochi Solis, Jules Buck Jones, Drew Liverman, Scott Eastwood, Margit Raczkowski, Timothy Schmidt & Carlos Rosales-Silva (The Alleycat [...]
To Boldly Fund, Where No One Has Funded Before: Idea Fund 2012 Grantees Announced
The Idea Fund, the re-granting program that funds ideas too weird for anyone else has announced the awardees for its 2012 grants: Scott Gleeson & Dane Larsen (Dallas) Carrie Schneider (Houston) Michelle Benaim Steiner, Lope Gutierrez Ruiz, & Alexander Wright (Austin) Aaron Dubrow, Xochi Solis, Jules Buck Jones, Drew Liverman, Scott Eastwood, Margit Raczkowski, Timothy [...]
Hive begins to swarm
On Friday, April 29, Hive Houston is raising awareness (and cash) with musical performances at AvantGarden. What is Hive Houston? It’s a utopian community of creatives inside a tower of repurposed cargo containers- all on paper so far, but teetering ever closer to reality, even as its instigator, Nestor Topchy, whose track record of similar [...]