Project Row Houses

Published May 13, 2011

Sasha Dela from …might be good: “I was able to catch up with Linda Shearer, Executive Director of Project Row Houses (PRH), upon her return from the ArtTable 30th Aniversary Celebration in New York, where she was recognized as an ArtTable Honoree. Her work in Houston has been invaluable. First arriving in 2007 to serve as the interim director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, she became the executive director of Project Row Houses in 2009. She has recently co-curated PRH’s Round 34: Matter of Food with Ashley Clemmer-Hoffman, which remains on view through June 19th.”

Read the entire article at …might be good.

Published April 10, 2011

As part of Round 34: Matter of Food at Project Row Houses, Rojas has devoted his installation to the adoration of corn, bringing to life its divine allusions to Mexican and Native American cultures, while creating his own. After studying the flexible crop’s references, especially at a time when it rules as a genetically modified organism (GMO), Rojas’s work is interactive, thoughtful and playful.

Read the entire article at Houston Culture Map.

Published Mar 29, 2011

Round 34: Matter of FOOD emerged as an opportunity to not only address issues of nutrition, accessibility and sustainable urban farming practices but to also celebrate how food traditions enrich lives, create connections and preserve history both in our Third Ward community and beyond.

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Published March 28, 2011

Project Row Houses regularly plays host to art that promulgates direct political messages as much as it engages the aesthetic sensibility. Visitors should be ready to encounter a wide range of approaches to the central theme. At one end of the spectrum, “Spirit House” by Tamalyn Miller, presents art objects exhibited in space, as you might expect from any art gallery. She crochets clothesline and electrical cords into enormous doilies, which have an unexpected magical influence, protecting the house from evil. Miller’s artworks are the exception in this show: the other projects are much more about involving the local community in ongoing processes, providing tools for living, and restoring traditions.

Read the entire article at Houston Press.

Published March 26, 2011

Food is culture.

Project Row Houses’ Round 34: Matter of Food uses that as a departure point to inspire artists Tarsha M. Gary, Michael Pribich, RootDown H-Town, Toni Tipton-Martin & Luanne Stovall, Jorge Rojas and Tattfoo Tan to create their own environment.

CultureMap goes “Art and About” to chat with New York-based art activist Tattfoo Tan, who has used his passion for eco-friendly living to better himself and the communities around him, guerilla style.

Read the entire article at Culture Map Houston.

Published March 2011

This is a neighborhood consisting of several blocks of shotgun houses in Houston’s Third Ward, some of which are open to the public as art spaces. The rest are subsidized housing for single mothers and offices for nonprofits. The idea was to preserve a fast-disappearing, traditionally black housing type and to use it as a springboard for community development.

Read the entire article at Travel and Leisure.

Published February 6, 2011

A block of 22 shotgun houses from the 1930s had been abandoned and overgrown with weeds. Enter artist and community activist Rick Lowe, who rallied organizers and volunteers to renovate the homes, and Project Row Houses became a mixture of workshops and galleries for artists in residence.

Read the entire article at the Los Angeles Times