On View
ART HOUSES
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ON VIEW: March 2, 2024–June 2, 2024
Seven art houses host Artist Rounds and Summer Studios.
Artist Rounds are a biannual event, with openings in March and October, for visiting artists to display works that address a topic, question, or challenge facing the community.
Summer Studios is a summer residency that provides opportunities for emerging artists, at local colleges or universities, to transform the art houses into temporary studios and engage with Houston’s Historic Third Ward.
HISTORY
While renovating the PRH site, the founders began to focus on how to infuse a visible presence of art into the project. The earliest iteration of this was the Drive By exhibition, conceived by Jesse Lott. With the windows and doors still boarded up during renovations, artists were invited to create installations on the exteriors of the houses. This tradition evolved into what we call Art Rounds.
Project Row Houses engages and serves a diverse community of emerging and mid-career local, national, and international artists. By encouraging them to expand their practice outside of the studio, PRH helps artists evidence new methods of bringing communities together and engaging audiences in important dialogues. Today, the Public Art Program has grown to include commissioned projects, residencies, and fellowships that pass on the lessons that have made Project Row Houses a model for preserving identity, history and cultural richness.
The Art Houses and Community Gallery are open Wednesday through Sunday from Noon-5pm through the duration of their viewing periods.
Past Rounds
2020–
present
The pain and uncertainty in our country, from COVID-19 to social unrest, is undeniable. We are struggling and a reckoning happening in the country. Art is an integral part of redirecting that struggle…
2019–
2010
Though creative resistance is nothing new, contemporary artists and activists have built upon the longstanding legacy of cultural organizing and social movement…
2009–
2000
Social practice brings together a group of artists deeply engaged in collaborative practices that speak to social issues related to identity, politics, activism. “Social practice” emerged from academia to…
1999–
1993
Since its founding in 1993, PRH has sought to engage artists in a process that connects them directly with residents, neighborhood institutions, and the environment of a low-income neighborhood…
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Sustainable Opportunities
In Marginalized Communities.