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Upcoming Events and Exhibitions |
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Paint a Pet Paint your favorite pet in watercolor and gouache with Lawndale Artist Studio Program participant Dawn Black! Learn how to transfer your pet's image onto a piece of watercolor paper and how to paint it using water-based paints. This program is free of charge and for all ages and all skill levels. Please bring a few photos of your pet. |
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GET OUT! OF THE CLOSET! A breakthrough in reality television, “Get Out! Of The Closet!” follows host Natty Ice as she crosses the country helping those struggling with their sexuality in a direct, no-nonsense, in-your-face fashion. She dishes out truth sticks – sticks made out of THE TRUTH - to each and every Closet CaseTM that she meets, inspiring them to lead a brand new life full of exciting opportunities. Natty emphasizes (through an intervention-style confrontation) that there’s no reason to live your life full of shame, or more importantly, full of shame-rage. Each person that appears on the show is given carte blanche access to the life they could have – opportunities to say yes to themselves, to fussy meals and tight, expensive clothing – to explore themselves, their own bodies, and the bodies of strangers who share the same sex. If you, a loved one or even a casual acquaintance needs to GET OUT! And OUT OF THE CLOSET!, the bold new reality show is for you! |
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11th Annual Midtown Visions Cultural Arts Tour
Midtown artist's studios, galleries, complexes and collectives will be open for you to purchase artwork from the artist's studios and view compelling installations, mixed media and performances. Come enjoy some of Houston's most creative visual and performing arts environments and be a part of Midtown's growing art community! Stop by Lawndale and visit with current Lawndale Artist Studio Program participants Dawn Black, Nick Meriwether and David Waddell. For more information on this event, please visit www.midtownvisions.com. |
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Art Car Parade Trophy Making Workshop On Saturday afternoon, April 10, from 1–4 PM, come to Lawndale and make a one-of-a-kind work of art to be awarded to prize-winning art cars in the 2010 Art Car Parade. Rain or shine—come join us and support Houston’s Art Car Parade—the first and largest Art Car Parade in the world! |
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April 21 – April 25, 2010 O'Quinn, Cavnar and Mezzanine Galleries |
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May7–June 12, 2010 Lawndale Artist Studio Program Exhibition John M. O’Quinn Gallery The Lawndale Artist Studio Program is part of Lawndale’s ongoing commitment to support the creation of contemporary art by Gulf Coast area artists. With an emphasis on emerging practices, the program provides three artists with studio space on the third floor of the Lawndale Art Center at 4912 Main Street in the heart of Houston’s Museum District. This exhibition features residents for the fourth year of the Lawndale Artist Studio Program, Dawn Black, Nick Meriwether and David Waddell. |
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Spoiler | Ann Wood Mezzanine Gallery Since becoming one of the many unfortunate victims of Hurricane Ike, Ann Wood has been making pieces that are loosely about objects or events that can “get you” or “spoil” your day. A subtle undercurrent in her newest work has also been the idea of the food chain and how danger is relative: a bird is wonderful to look at unless of course you are a worm. While nature has always informed Wood’s work, the idea of the food chain, looming danger in seemingly innocent situations, and the uneasiness that comes with that knowledge has begun to take on new meaning and increasing importance because of her own new-found sense of vulnerability. |
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The Stand | Lily Cox-Richard Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Lily Cox-Richard is interested in the historic and commemorative roles of sculpture, from public monument to personal grave marker. Her current work explores the power of icons and objects, and how this power shifts with time, context, and readability. The Stand is an exhibition of new work exploring the props used in neo-classical sculpture to shore up both structure and allegory. In Hiram Powers' 1872 marble The Last of the Tribes, a Native American woman flees western civilization. As she runs, the edges of her skirt flip as they brush past a tree stump. In Lily’s sculptures, these props and trappings are freed from their roles of symbol and support and reinvested with new visibility and presence. |
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Farming of the Future (Now is The Only Thing That is Real)
Mary E. Bawden Scuplture Garden Aquaponics is a high-density food production arrangement that produces both plant matter and fish in one system with an absolute minimum of water usage. |
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Also on view Snack Projects
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Snack Projects is a miniature and portable art space, a “gallery” measuring 11” x 20” x 13”, organized by artists Michael Guidry and Robert Ruello. Snack Projects will feature the work of both local and regional artists throughout the 2009-2010 exhibition season at Lawndale Art Center. |
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Altered Realities David Waddell, media artist, Director of Media Studies at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and Lawndale Artist Studio Program participant, curates a video screening in two parts. The first part will include work from HSPVA’s digital lab. The second part will be an eclectic group of artists selected from around the United States. |
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Audio Transmission for Beginners Make a contact microphone with Lawndale Artists Studio Program participant Nick Meriwether. In this class you will learn the basics of electronics. You will also learn the fundamentals of soldering while creating your very own contact microphone*. Plus you will learn how to transmit sound through a laser beam! |
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July 9–August 7, 2010 The Big Show John M. O’Quinn Gallery, Grace R. Cavnar Gallery |
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August 2010-May 2011 2010-2011 Exhibition Season Lawndale Art Center's 2010-2011 exhibition season will include artists Boozefox, Curt Gambetta, Deb Karpman & Kimberly Hennessy, Robert Jackson Harrington, Tobiah Mundt and Rachelle Vasquez. |
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