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	Archives 2007: June - Dec
On View Coming Up 20th Century Modern Market The Big Show Day of the Dead Dia de los Muertos Archives Jan-June 05 July-Dec 05 Jan-June 06 July-Dec 06 Jan-June 07 July-Dec 07 Jan-June 08	Installation Workshop July 07, 2007 Noon-1pm Lawndale Art Center invites Doug Romans to lead a free workshop on installing artwork in a gallery setting. Topics discussed will cover proper handling, typical hardware for a variety of hanging situtations, measuring and centering and some alternative hanging methods for artwork. The Big Show \| 2007 July 13 - August 18, 2007 O'Quinn, Cavnar, and Mezzanine Galleries The Big Show is Lawndale Art Center’s annual open-call, juried exhibition. It has been an important venue through which emerging and under-represented Houston area artists gain exposure since the show’s conception in 1984. The Big Show was formerly the East End Show, sponsored by the East End Progress Association, at Lawndale’s original location. The Big Show 2007 drew in 1,143 artwork submissions from 458 Houston area artists. The selected show - curated by Rita Gonzalez, Assistant Curator, Special Exhibitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA - consists of 117 works from 86 Houston Artists...More Info Guest Juror: Rita Gonzalez, Assistant Curator, Special Exhibitions, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA [ back to top ]
	The Big Slide Show August 8-9, 2007, 7pm Please join Lawndale and Houston's talented Big Show artists for short, informal presentations about their work. Presentations start at 7:00 pm each night at Lawndale Art Center. Artists in the Big Show are invited to present a short and informal slide presentation of their work over a two-evening event. Wednesday, August 8, 2007 John Adelman, Chuy Benitez, Gregory Carter, Mindy Kober, Joan Laughlin, Pattii Montgomery, Rebecca Novak, Rosane Volchan O'Conor, Ebony Porter and Dustin Ryan Smith, John Slaby, Emily Sloan, Lillian Warren, E June Woest, Daniel Adame. Thursday, August 9, 2007 Andis Applewhite, Heather Bause, Garland Fielder, April Hernandez, Keith J R Hollingsworth, Maria Cristina Jadick, Sharon Joines, Edgar Meza, Linda Peyton Huff, Roberto Jaime Ramirez, Sergio Santos, Carol Ellen Scott, Camargo Valentino, Paul Zeigler, Constance Braden. [ back to top ]
	Final Exam \| 2007 July 13 - August 18, 2007 Project Space A last look at work by the three artists involved in the first round of the Lawndale Artist Studio Program: Dawolu Jabari Anderson , Donna Huanca and Stephanie Saint Sanchez. Dawolu Jabari Anderson was recently included in the "Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY (2006) and has shown work in other group shows such as "Who Goliards? Artists at the Turn of the Century", The University Museum at Texas Southern University, Houston, TX (2004); and "Symerical Patterns of Def", collaborative project as a member of Otebenga Jones, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2004). Otebenga Jones was also exhibited at the 2006 "Whitney Biennial." Born in Chicago to Bolivian parents, Donna Huanca now lives and works in Houston. She received her BFA in painting from the University of Houston in 2004. Solo exhibitions and projects include "Remitting Sound Back into the Woods", Skowhegan, Maine (2006); "Warscapes" at Plush, Dallas, TX (2005); and "Forty Foot WARSCAPE" at Richland College in Dallas, TX (2005). Donna has been included in group exhibitions such as "Manic and Wasted" at Swing Space in New York, NY (2006); "Sugarcoated" at Women and Their Work, Austin, TX (2006); and "Culture and Conflict" as part of "imagining Ourselves, International Museum of Women, San Francisco, CA (2006). Stephanie Saint Sanchez was raised in the small town of Beaumont, Texas where her imagination was encouraged and thrived. As founder of La Chicana Laundry Pictures she has written, produced and directed over 16 genre splitting shorts based on the images, sounds and psychoses in her surroundings both real and Imagined. Arty-pants wise her video, "Mrs. Pickel's Third Grade Class" was included in Lawndale Art Center's recent exhibition, "Impossible Exchange" (2006) and she has also crossed over into multimedia installations like "Dolls House" and art car creations, the "Video Washing Machine" and the "La Loteria truck." ( 2006). Look out this October as she hosts The Lone Star State's very first Latina Film Festival "Senorita Cinema". [ back to top ]	Dawolu Jabari Anderson Donna Huanca Stephanie Saint Sanchez
	Museum District Day August 18, 2007, 10-5pm On Museum District Day, Lawndale Art Center hosts a "Tag Lawndale" party. Visitors will have the opportunity to work along with local grafitti artists, Christian Azul and GONZO247 of Aerosol Warfare, Adrian de la Cerda of the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, a.k.a. Mr. Bristle, and *Color One*, as we "tag" our North exterior wall with sidewalk chalk. The artists will be on site from 10am - 2pm to help explore the historical, cultural and social aspects of this often controversial art form. The temporary markings will be left up for public viewing till August 28th (or until the rain washes it away). All ages encouraged to participate. [ back to top ]
	Mercedes-Benz C-Class Launch Thursday, August 23, 2007, 6:30-9PM Please join us for the Mercedes-Benz C-Class Launch at 4411 Montrose, with Houston Magazine. A silent auction during the event will benefit Lawndale Art Center. Lawndale wishes to thank Mercedes-Benz, Houston Magazine and the galleries at 4411 Montrose for making this event possible.
	August 30-October 6, 2007 Opening Reception Thursday, August 30, 6:30-8:30PM With an artist talk at 6:00PM Round Up \| Jamie Wentz and Kurt Mueller August 30-October 6, 2007 John M. O'Quinn Gallery Round Up is a participatory exploration of the myth of the Western cowboy/ranger and its provisions for the establishment and maintenance of law and order. The exhibition, Round Up, will utilize video taken on site at Lawndale Art Center to then project onto a wall in the gallery. Designed with the John M O'Quinn Galley in mind, the installation is site specific to the Lawndale Center, as well as greater Texas. On Friday, August 31 and Saturday, September 1 as well as Friday, September 14 and Saturday September 15, viewers can, one at time, enter a tent that will act as an on-site filming studio and be taped by Jamie and Kurt (on all other dates the interior of the tent would be open to view, but not active as such). Each viewer would have the chance to become an actor-participant in a small scene from a hollywood western film. Participants will be provided with either a script, something to the effect that we need to go get an evildoer or there is going to be a showdown and culminate in a suggested affirmation, or Yee-Haw! The resulting video segments will be edited together, for viewing throughout the exhibition. [ back to top ]
	House Painting \| Erin Curtis August 30-October 6, 2007 Mezzanine Gallery House Painting re-imagines a painted installation that the artist created at an experimental art space in Austin, Texas (MASS Gallery, Nov. 2006) in a new and site-specific way for the Lawndale Art Center Mezzanine Gallery. In House Painting, the space of the gallery will be transformed to suggest the interior of a house. Within the gallery, large, life-size paintings of rooms will be placed among wallpapered hallways, claustrophobic corridors, secret rooms, and hanging ceilings, to create a failed illusion of a domestic home. Combining painting and installation into a coordinated whole, this environment will create a vivid, unfolding experience that disorients the viewers while simoultaneously allows for a fresh experience of space. Life-size and lavish, the paintings depict frozen interiors, subversive in their empty promise of space. The house that I plan on building will be an uncomfortable one, says artist Erin Curtis, made more so by the uncanny period rooms that reverberate with familiarity. Seemingly frozen in time, layers of history will peel back from the installation to expose a whole greater than its parts, a debunked mythology of peace and prosperity. [ back to top ]
	SOS\| Emily Sloan August 30-October 6, 2007 Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Using the idea of “SOS”, Emily Sloan refines the word to its very essential meaning of being lost or in distress for her exhibition in the Grace R. Cavnar Gallery. Emily Sloan’s recent work is inspired by words and their meanings. She constructs them as sculpture and installation in manners portraying their vague, non-precise meanings, often combining constructed objects, found objects. The artist juxtaposes these fragments through differing sizes, fonts, styles, materials, and presentations. Emily says of her own work, “In essence, the word as an object describes the definition of the word. The pieces also define my approach to artmaking, struggles in my life, and our collective struggle to understand and interpret situations.” [ back to top ]
	New Work \| Carl Suddath August 30-February 23, 2008 Mary E. Bawden Sculpture Garden Carl Suddath installs new work in the Mary E. Bawden Sculpture Garden. [ back to top ]
	Señorita Cinema: The Lone Star State's Very First All Latina Film Festival October 12-13, 2007 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Friday's screenings will be repeated on Saturday. La Chicana Laundry Pictures presents a screening of videos by Latina film makers and video artists for the first annual all-Latina film festival, Señorita Cinema. Señorita Cinema selected submissions of work from any genre 15 minutes or less; including trailers for larger work and music videos. Join us for film and refreshments. For more information about Señorita Cinema please visit http://www.myspace.com/senorita_cinema [ back to top ]
	Bayou City Art Festival Downtown October 13-14, 2007 10:00am-6:00pm Admission: $10 for adults and free for children 12 and under The annual, juried, fine art event boasts a stress-free outdoor gallery brimming with 300 artists working in 19 artistic media. Adding to the festive outdoor gallery are wine cafés, an interactive Creative Zone for children, restaurants, Broadway in Houston’s Broadway Café, and a performing arts stage with on-going multicultural musical and dance entertainment presented by The Houston Arts Alliance. Click here to view postcard of event or click here for more information [ back to top ]
	20th Annual Día de los Muertos Retablo Exhibition Lawndale Art Center is pleased to present its 20th Annual Día de los Muertos exhibition, a celebration of the art, music and practices of Mexico. Lawndale invites Texas artists to create their own interpretation of the traditional tin devotional painting practice in Mexico known as the retablo in this annual series of programs. Every year the works created for this exhibition range from the very traditional to very contemporary and abstract. All proceeds from the silent auction help to fund Lawndale’s annual programs. This year retablos will be on display from nationally known artists such as The Art Guys, Joe Havel, Sharon Kopriva, David McGee, Jesús Moroles and Al Souza. Up and coming fresh Texas talent will also be represented by Nina Craig, Francesca Fuchs, Thomas Glass, Allison Hunter, and many, many more. Over 250 retablos will be on display during the exhibition and available for auction at the gala. Lawndale Art Center wishes to thank H-E-B for underwriting these programs. Click here for more information on the 2oth Annual Día de Los Muertos. [ back to top ]	Image courtesy of Tina Hernandez
	We Are All From Here October 22-November 10, 2007 3rd Floor Hallway Houston Grand Opera recently launched a new initiative to connect our company to our community. The first large-scale project for this initiative is Song of Houston, celebrating those who have chosen Houston as their home. Over a long weekend in May 2007, twenty African teenage refugees explored their southwest Houston community to photograph, edit and design a portrait of their lives as recent arrivals in America. During this four day workshop led by staff from the National Geographic and Houston Chronicle at the Multi-Ethnic Community Center, students learned the fundamentals of photojournalism and spent several hours each day on location capturing the images and stories of daily life in their community. Curated by Madeline Yale and Ebony Porter; Houston Center for Photography Produced and presented by Lawndale Art Center, Houston Center for Photography and Houston Grand Opera. Click here for more information
	Launch Party for HIWI The Book Thursday, November 29, 2008 6:30 - 9:00 pm Lawndale Parking Lot The much anticipated book of the season is now available. HIWI The Book is the third phase of the brilliant HIWI campaign. The 300+ page book features 258 photos, 121 photographers and 48 quotes. www.houstonitsworthit.com Join us for the official launch party presented by ttweak. Images from the book will be projected on north wall of Lawndale Art Center. DJ Pooks rocks the parking lot. Refreshments provided. Proceeds from sales of the book that night benefit Lawndale Art Center's programs. About Houston. It’s Worth It. (HIWI) HIWI happened organically in the summer of 2004. Dave Thompson and Randy Twaddle were sitting around discussing why they love Houston and why the city has a bad reputation and they came up with the phrase “Houston. It’s Worth It.” Dave and Randy put up a website where other Houstonians could express why Houston was worth it in their own words. The website continues to provide opportunities for Houstonians to voice their passion for a city that is so routinely misunderstood by outsiders. The HIWI campaign has been covered by newspapers across the country, including the Houston Chronicle, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Boston Globe. Each has run stories about the campaign, calling “Houston. It’s Worth It.” the city’s new “unofficial slogan.” Dave and Randy were guests on an array of local radio stations, as well as NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” and NBC’s “Saturday Today Show.” [ back to top ]
	November 16, 2007 - January 5, 2008 Opening Reception Friday, November 16, 2007, 6:30-8:30PM With an artist talk at 6:00PM Little Known Facts \| Curated by Michael Guidry November 16, 2007-January 5, 2008 John M. O'Quinn Gallery What are the things that simmer in an artist’s head? What do they surround themselves with that consciously or subconsciously affect they way they approach their work or think about the process of making art? How might we be surprised by what we see and what might be expected? These are the things I thought about in curating Little Known Facts and selecting these artists such as David Aylsworth, Robert Ruello, Laura Lark, Andrew Groocock and Gabriela Trzebinski. I hope this will be an insightful peek at things art goers seldom get a chance to see.
	Locked Horns and Shed Antlers \| Elaine Bradford November 16, 2007-January 5, 2008 Mezzanine Gallery Trying to change images of taxidermy into ridiculous, fun objects, and in the process comfort them and herself, Elaine Bradford covers animal heads in hand-crocheted sweaters. Juxtaposing traditional ideas of the process with the absurdity of its application she is creating new lives for these forgotten animals. This newest work embraces oddity. Covered entirely in crochet, antlers stretch across rooms, necks extend to the floor, and legs sprout from the ends of horns.
	Lawndale has Many Friends \| Brian Piana November 16, 2007-January 5, 2008 Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Lawndale Has Many Friends will be a large scale abstraction of the Friends section of Lawndale’s own MySpace site. The iconic blue, white, and gray MySpace Friends template will be painted floor-to-ceiling – on the walls of the Grace R. Cavnar Gallery. Connecting lines, recreating an online user’s clickable pathway through the site, will be included to bridge the individual pages together. The individual abstracted portraits of the Lawndale’s friends will be crafted from plywood, individually painted, and hung offset from the wall. Each “friend” piece will hang separately on the gallery wall so that the artist can change the order of the pieces as friends are added to Lawndale Art Center’s MySpace page. The construction and development of Lawndale Has Many Friends is currently being documented on its own MySpace page, which may be viewed at www.myspace.com/bplawndale. [ back to top ]
	Differentia \| Lily Hanson November 16, 2007-January 5, 2008 Project Space The sculptural pieces in the gallery consist of smaller, sometimes, miniature items that are placed within a “stage” or “place” created by larger components. The space and the format of the gallery provide the spatial context around which the pieces were developed. This idea comes loosely from the circumstance in painting where the overall image, when examined up close breaks down into marks and shapes that swing out from the whole as separate events. The individual components of these pieces reference other objects and structures giving them diagrammatic qualities.
	Operaskia \| Julie De Vries and Heather Shore University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for The Arts Studio Residency Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Repeat Performance 7:00PM Room 317 Lawndale Art Center and the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts present Operaskia, a performative work-in-progress by visual artist Julie De Vries and classical musician and singer Heather Shore. With free studio space provided by Lawndale, Operaskia is the result of the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Studio Residency, part of an ongoing collaboration between Lawndale and the Mitchell Center. The Studio Residency is a new program that considers proposals for the production of a new multi-disciplinary work from University of Houston students who have previously participated in the Mitchell Center Collaboration Among the Arts classes. "Silhouettes, through abstraction, amplify the meaning of recognizable objects and allow a viewer to identify with characters and images through an economy of means. Opera is similar in its power to romanticize through music and voice causing an audience to identify with a character." - De Vries and Shore. [ back to top ]



	Archives 2007: June - Dec
On View Coming Up 20th Century Modern Market The Big Show Day of the Dead Dia de los Muertos Archives Jan-June 05 July-Dec 05 Jan-June 06 July-Dec 06 Jan-June 07 July-Dec 07 Jan-June 08	Installation Workshop July 07, 2007 Noon-1pm Lawndale Art Center invites Doug Romans to lead a free workshop on installing artwork in a gallery setting. Topics discussed will cover proper handling, typical hardware for a variety of hanging situtations, measuring and centering and some alternative hanging methods for artwork. The Big Show \| 2007 July 13 - August 18, 2007 O'Quinn, Cavnar, and Mezzanine Galleries The Big Show is Lawndale Art Center’s annual open-call, juried exhibition. It has been an important venue through which emerging and under-represented Houston area artists gain exposure since the show’s conception in 1984. The Big Show was formerly the East End Show, sponsored by the East End Progress Association, at Lawndale’s original location. The Big Show 2007 drew in 1,143 artwork submissions from 458 Houston area artists. The selected show - curated by Rita Gonzalez, Assistant Curator, Special Exhibitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA - consists of 117 works from 86 Houston Artists...More Info Guest Juror: Rita Gonzalez, Assistant Curator, Special Exhibitions, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA [ back to top ]
	The Big Slide Show August 8-9, 2007, 7pm Please join Lawndale and Houston's talented Big Show artists for short, informal presentations about their work. Presentations start at 7:00 pm each night at Lawndale Art Center. Artists in the Big Show are invited to present a short and informal slide presentation of their work over a two-evening event. Wednesday, August 8, 2007 John Adelman, Chuy Benitez, Gregory Carter, Mindy Kober, Joan Laughlin, Pattii Montgomery, Rebecca Novak, Rosane Volchan O'Conor, Ebony Porter and Dustin Ryan Smith, John Slaby, Emily Sloan, Lillian Warren, E June Woest, Daniel Adame. Thursday, August 9, 2007 Andis Applewhite, Heather Bause, Garland Fielder, April Hernandez, Keith J R Hollingsworth, Maria Cristina Jadick, Sharon Joines, Edgar Meza, Linda Peyton Huff, Roberto Jaime Ramirez, Sergio Santos, Carol Ellen Scott, Camargo Valentino, Paul Zeigler, Constance Braden. [ back to top ]
	Final Exam \| 2007 July 13 - August 18, 2007 Project Space A last look at work by the three artists involved in the first round of the Lawndale Artist Studio Program: Dawolu Jabari Anderson , Donna Huanca and Stephanie Saint Sanchez. Dawolu Jabari Anderson was recently included in the "Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY (2006) and has shown work in other group shows such as "Who Goliards? Artists at the Turn of the Century", The University Museum at Texas Southern University, Houston, TX (2004); and "Symerical Patterns of Def", collaborative project as a member of Otebenga Jones, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2004). Otebenga Jones was also exhibited at the 2006 "Whitney Biennial." Born in Chicago to Bolivian parents, Donna Huanca now lives and works in Houston. She received her BFA in painting from the University of Houston in 2004. Solo exhibitions and projects include "Remitting Sound Back into the Woods", Skowhegan, Maine (2006); "Warscapes" at Plush, Dallas, TX (2005); and "Forty Foot WARSCAPE" at Richland College in Dallas, TX (2005). Donna has been included in group exhibitions such as "Manic and Wasted" at Swing Space in New York, NY (2006); "Sugarcoated" at Women and Their Work, Austin, TX (2006); and "Culture and Conflict" as part of "imagining Ourselves, International Museum of Women, San Francisco, CA (2006). Stephanie Saint Sanchez was raised in the small town of Beaumont, Texas where her imagination was encouraged and thrived. As founder of La Chicana Laundry Pictures she has written, produced and directed over 16 genre splitting shorts based on the images, sounds and psychoses in her surroundings both real and Imagined. Arty-pants wise her video, "Mrs. Pickel's Third Grade Class" was included in Lawndale Art Center's recent exhibition, "Impossible Exchange" (2006) and she has also crossed over into multimedia installations like "Dolls House" and art car creations, the "Video Washing Machine" and the "La Loteria truck." ( 2006). Look out this October as she hosts The Lone Star State's very first Latina Film Festival "Senorita Cinema". [ back to top ]	Dawolu Jabari Anderson Donna Huanca Stephanie Saint Sanchez
	Museum District Day August 18, 2007, 10-5pm On Museum District Day, Lawndale Art Center hosts a "Tag Lawndale" party. Visitors will have the opportunity to work along with local grafitti artists, Christian Azul and GONZO247 of Aerosol Warfare, Adrian de la Cerda of the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, a.k.a. Mr. Bristle, and *Color One*, as we "tag" our North exterior wall with sidewalk chalk. The artists will be on site from 10am - 2pm to help explore the historical, cultural and social aspects of this often controversial art form. The temporary markings will be left up for public viewing till August 28th (or until the rain washes it away). All ages encouraged to participate. [ back to top ]
	Mercedes-Benz C-Class Launch Thursday, August 23, 2007, 6:30-9PM Please join us for the Mercedes-Benz C-Class Launch at 4411 Montrose, with Houston Magazine. A silent auction during the event will benefit Lawndale Art Center. Lawndale wishes to thank Mercedes-Benz, Houston Magazine and the galleries at 4411 Montrose for making this event possible.
	August 30-October 6, 2007 Opening Reception Thursday, August 30, 6:30-8:30PM With an artist talk at 6:00PM Round Up \| Jamie Wentz and Kurt Mueller August 30-October 6, 2007 John M. O'Quinn Gallery Round Up is a participatory exploration of the myth of the Western cowboy/ranger and its provisions for the establishment and maintenance of law and order. The exhibition, Round Up, will utilize video taken on site at Lawndale Art Center to then project onto a wall in the gallery. Designed with the John M O'Quinn Galley in mind, the installation is site specific to the Lawndale Center, as well as greater Texas. On Friday, August 31 and Saturday, September 1 as well as Friday, September 14 and Saturday September 15, viewers can, one at time, enter a tent that will act as an on-site filming studio and be taped by Jamie and Kurt (on all other dates the interior of the tent would be open to view, but not active as such). Each viewer would have the chance to become an actor-participant in a small scene from a hollywood western film. Participants will be provided with either a script, something to the effect that we need to go get an evildoer or there is going to be a showdown and culminate in a suggested affirmation, or Yee-Haw! The resulting video segments will be edited together, for viewing throughout the exhibition. [ back to top ]
	House Painting \| Erin Curtis August 30-October 6, 2007 Mezzanine Gallery House Painting re-imagines a painted installation that the artist created at an experimental art space in Austin, Texas (MASS Gallery, Nov. 2006) in a new and site-specific way for the Lawndale Art Center Mezzanine Gallery. In House Painting, the space of the gallery will be transformed to suggest the interior of a house. Within the gallery, large, life-size paintings of rooms will be placed among wallpapered hallways, claustrophobic corridors, secret rooms, and hanging ceilings, to create a failed illusion of a domestic home. Combining painting and installation into a coordinated whole, this environment will create a vivid, unfolding experience that disorients the viewers while simoultaneously allows for a fresh experience of space. Life-size and lavish, the paintings depict frozen interiors, subversive in their empty promise of space. The house that I plan on building will be an uncomfortable one, says artist Erin Curtis, made more so by the uncanny period rooms that reverberate with familiarity. Seemingly frozen in time, layers of history will peel back from the installation to expose a whole greater than its parts, a debunked mythology of peace and prosperity. [ back to top ]
	SOS\| Emily Sloan August 30-October 6, 2007 Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Using the idea of “SOS”, Emily Sloan refines the word to its very essential meaning of being lost or in distress for her exhibition in the Grace R. Cavnar Gallery. Emily Sloan’s recent work is inspired by words and their meanings. She constructs them as sculpture and installation in manners portraying their vague, non-precise meanings, often combining constructed objects, found objects. The artist juxtaposes these fragments through differing sizes, fonts, styles, materials, and presentations. Emily says of her own work, “In essence, the word as an object describes the definition of the word. The pieces also define my approach to artmaking, struggles in my life, and our collective struggle to understand and interpret situations.” [ back to top ]
	New Work \| Carl Suddath August 30-February 23, 2008 Mary E. Bawden Sculpture Garden Carl Suddath installs new work in the Mary E. Bawden Sculpture Garden. [ back to top ]
	Señorita Cinema: The Lone Star State's Very First All Latina Film Festival October 12-13, 2007 7:00 pm-9:00 pm Friday's screenings will be repeated on Saturday. La Chicana Laundry Pictures presents a screening of videos by Latina film makers and video artists for the first annual all-Latina film festival, Señorita Cinema. Señorita Cinema selected submissions of work from any genre 15 minutes or less; including trailers for larger work and music videos. Join us for film and refreshments. For more information about Señorita Cinema please visit http://www.myspace.com/senorita_cinema [ back to top ]
	Bayou City Art Festival Downtown October 13-14, 2007 10:00am-6:00pm Admission: $10 for adults and free for children 12 and under The annual, juried, fine art event boasts a stress-free outdoor gallery brimming with 300 artists working in 19 artistic media. Adding to the festive outdoor gallery are wine cafés, an interactive Creative Zone for children, restaurants, Broadway in Houston’s Broadway Café, and a performing arts stage with on-going multicultural musical and dance entertainment presented by The Houston Arts Alliance. Click here to view postcard of event or click here for more information [ back to top ]
	20th Annual Día de los Muertos Retablo Exhibition Lawndale Art Center is pleased to present its 20th Annual Día de los Muertos exhibition, a celebration of the art, music and practices of Mexico. Lawndale invites Texas artists to create their own interpretation of the traditional tin devotional painting practice in Mexico known as the retablo in this annual series of programs. Every year the works created for this exhibition range from the very traditional to very contemporary and abstract. All proceeds from the silent auction help to fund Lawndale’s annual programs. This year retablos will be on display from nationally known artists such as The Art Guys, Joe Havel, Sharon Kopriva, David McGee, Jesús Moroles and Al Souza. Up and coming fresh Texas talent will also be represented by Nina Craig, Francesca Fuchs, Thomas Glass, Allison Hunter, and many, many more. Over 250 retablos will be on display during the exhibition and available for auction at the gala. Lawndale Art Center wishes to thank H-E-B for underwriting these programs. Click here for more information on the 2oth Annual Día de Los Muertos. [ back to top ]	Image courtesy of Tina Hernandez
	We Are All From Here October 22-November 10, 2007 3rd Floor Hallway Houston Grand Opera recently launched a new initiative to connect our company to our community. The first large-scale project for this initiative is Song of Houston, celebrating those who have chosen Houston as their home. Over a long weekend in May 2007, twenty African teenage refugees explored their southwest Houston community to photograph, edit and design a portrait of their lives as recent arrivals in America. During this four day workshop led by staff from the National Geographic and Houston Chronicle at the Multi-Ethnic Community Center, students learned the fundamentals of photojournalism and spent several hours each day on location capturing the images and stories of daily life in their community. Curated by Madeline Yale and Ebony Porter; Houston Center for Photography Produced and presented by Lawndale Art Center, Houston Center for Photography and Houston Grand Opera. Click here for more information
	Launch Party for HIWI The Book Thursday, November 29, 2008 6:30 - 9:00 pm Lawndale Parking Lot The much anticipated book of the season is now available. HIWI The Book is the third phase of the brilliant HIWI campaign. The 300+ page book features 258 photos, 121 photographers and 48 quotes. www.houstonitsworthit.com Join us for the official launch party presented by ttweak. Images from the book will be projected on north wall of Lawndale Art Center. DJ Pooks rocks the parking lot. Refreshments provided. Proceeds from sales of the book that night benefit Lawndale Art Center's programs. About Houston. It’s Worth It. (HIWI) HIWI happened organically in the summer of 2004. Dave Thompson and Randy Twaddle were sitting around discussing why they love Houston and why the city has a bad reputation and they came up with the phrase “Houston. It’s Worth It.” Dave and Randy put up a website where other Houstonians could express why Houston was worth it in their own words. The website continues to provide opportunities for Houstonians to voice their passion for a city that is so routinely misunderstood by outsiders. The HIWI campaign has been covered by newspapers across the country, including the Houston Chronicle, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Boston Globe. Each has run stories about the campaign, calling “Houston. It’s Worth It.” the city’s new “unofficial slogan.” Dave and Randy were guests on an array of local radio stations, as well as NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” and NBC’s “Saturday Today Show.” [ back to top ]
	November 16, 2007 - January 5, 2008 Opening Reception Friday, November 16, 2007, 6:30-8:30PM With an artist talk at 6:00PM Little Known Facts \| Curated by Michael Guidry November 16, 2007-January 5, 2008 John M. O'Quinn Gallery What are the things that simmer in an artist’s head? What do they surround themselves with that consciously or subconsciously affect they way they approach their work or think about the process of making art? How might we be surprised by what we see and what might be expected? These are the things I thought about in curating Little Known Facts and selecting these artists such as David Aylsworth, Robert Ruello, Laura Lark, Andrew Groocock and Gabriela Trzebinski. I hope this will be an insightful peek at things art goers seldom get a chance to see.
	Locked Horns and Shed Antlers \| Elaine Bradford November 16, 2007-January 5, 2008 Mezzanine Gallery Trying to change images of taxidermy into ridiculous, fun objects, and in the process comfort them and herself, Elaine Bradford covers animal heads in hand-crocheted sweaters. Juxtaposing traditional ideas of the process with the absurdity of its application she is creating new lives for these forgotten animals. This newest work embraces oddity. Covered entirely in crochet, antlers stretch across rooms, necks extend to the floor, and legs sprout from the ends of horns.
	Lawndale has Many Friends \| Brian Piana November 16, 2007-January 5, 2008 Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Lawndale Has Many Friends will be a large scale abstraction of the Friends section of Lawndale’s own MySpace site. The iconic blue, white, and gray MySpace Friends template will be painted floor-to-ceiling – on the walls of the Grace R. Cavnar Gallery. Connecting lines, recreating an online user’s clickable pathway through the site, will be included to bridge the individual pages together. The individual abstracted portraits of the Lawndale’s friends will be crafted from plywood, individually painted, and hung offset from the wall. Each “friend” piece will hang separately on the gallery wall so that the artist can change the order of the pieces as friends are added to Lawndale Art Center’s MySpace page. The construction and development of Lawndale Has Many Friends is currently being documented on its own MySpace page, which may be viewed at www.myspace.com/bplawndale. [ back to top ]
	Differentia \| Lily Hanson November 16, 2007-January 5, 2008 Project Space The sculptural pieces in the gallery consist of smaller, sometimes, miniature items that are placed within a “stage” or “place” created by larger components. The space and the format of the gallery provide the spatial context around which the pieces were developed. This idea comes loosely from the circumstance in painting where the overall image, when examined up close breaks down into marks and shapes that swing out from the whole as separate events. The individual components of these pieces reference other objects and structures giving them diagrammatic qualities.
	Operaskia \| Julie De Vries and Heather Shore University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for The Arts Studio Residency Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Repeat Performance 7:00PM Room 317 Lawndale Art Center and the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts present Operaskia, a performative work-in-progress by visual artist Julie De Vries and classical musician and singer Heather Shore. With free studio space provided by Lawndale, Operaskia is the result of the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Studio Residency, part of an ongoing collaboration between Lawndale and the Mitchell Center. The Studio Residency is a new program that considers proposals for the production of a new multi-disciplinary work from University of Houston students who have previously participated in the Mitchell Center Collaboration Among the Arts classes. "Silhouettes, through abstraction, amplify the meaning of recognizable objects and allow a viewer to identify with characters and images through an economy of means. Opera is similar in its power to romanticize through music and voice causing an audience to identify with a character." - De Vries and Shore. [ back to top ]