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Round 58: Free Someone

On View: March 8, 2025–June 1, 2025

Free Someone celebrates Houston artists who have overcome adversity to become renowned for their artwork in public places, using the city’s landscape as their canvas. Graffiti is typically painted without permission, yet BE SOMEONE, prominently displayed over I-45, has been embraced by the public, questioning the relationship between public art without permission and public art by commission. GONZO247, Phillip O. Perez (Article), Lee Washington (Theonelee), Erik Del Rio (Colors oner), Iris Karami, Craig “BBC” Long, Chandrika Metivier and DUAL have come together to highlight their journey with collaborators, appreciators, and law enforcement over the last thirty years. Court cases, news stories, documentary film, large scale murals, and Hip-Hop music all tell a complex and unfinished history, educating audiences about graffiti art in Houston while encouraging viewers to free someone – the artist within.
 

This Round is curated by PRH Curator and Programming Manager Cydney Pickens.

COMMUNITY GALLERY

Creative Careers Cohort 6 Showcase

ON VIEW: February 21, 2025-April 6, 2025

The Showcase celebrates the work Creative Careers participants have accomplished over six months in their Mentorship Cohort, which pairs each emerging artist with an established Houston artist who shares their experience, resources, and guidance. Creating community through knowledge and skill sharing, this program works to promote a richer, more accessible art scene in Houston.

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

2020s

2020s

2020–
present

 

The pain and uncertainty in our country, from COVID-19 to social unrest, is undeniable. We are struggling and a reckoning is happening in the country. Art is an integral part of redirecting that struggle…

2010s

2010s

2019–
2010

 

Though creative resistance is nothing new, contemporary artists and activists have built upon the longstanding legacy of cultural organizing and social movement…

2000s

2000s

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…

1990s

1990s

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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