About PRH

Our Mission

We empower people and enrich communities through engagement, art, and direct action.

Who We Are

Project Row Houses is a community platform that enriches lives through art with an emphasis on cultural identity and its impact on the urban landscape. We engage neighbors, artists, and enterprises in collective creative action to help materialize sustainable opportunities in marginalized communities.

Project Row Houses occupies a significant footprint in Houston’s Historic Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American neighborhoods. The site encompasses five city blocks and houses 39 structures that serve as a home base to a variety of community-enriching initiatives, art programs, and neighborhood development activities.

This became a place of transformation. That’s what art does. It transforms you.                          -Assata Richards

Our Programs

PRH programs touch the lives of under-resourced neighbors, young single mothers with the ambition of a better life for themselves and their children, small enterprises with the drive to take their businesses to the next level, and artists interested in using their talents to understand and enrich the lives of others.

Although PRH’s African-American roots are planted deeply in Third Ward, the work of PRH extends far beyond the borders of a neighborhood in transition. The PRH model for art and social engagement applies not only to Houston, but also to diverse communities around the world.

Supporters

Programming at Project Row Houses is generously supported by an incredible community of people including:

BBVA Foundation; The Brown Foundation; James V. Derrick and Carrin Patman; John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation; The Elkins Foundation; First Unitarian Universalist Church; The Ford Foundation; Goethe Pop Up Houston, Greater Houston Community Foundation; The Jacob & Terese Hershey Foundation; Houston Endowment Inc.; Houck Family Foundation; Sis and Hasty Johnson; The Kinder Foundation; The Kresge Foundation; The Lewis Family Foundation; Local Initiative Support Corporation; John P. McGovern Foundation; the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Mid-America Arts Alliance; MUFG Union Bank Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts; Picnic; The Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation; Rockwell Fund; Mackenzie Scott and Dan Jewett; Silicon Valley Community Foundation; Stanley Black & Decker, Texas Commission on the Arts; 2020 Don Tyson Prize; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Joan Hohlt & Roger Wich Foundation; and grants from the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.