MATCH Catches Fire: Former IAC Promised $6.75 Million in Funding for Houston Midtown Arts and Theater Center
The MATCH (formerly the Independent Arts Collaborative), has received a $750,000 grant from the Fondren Foundation, and has been promised $6 million from the Houston Endowment Inc. “Beyond grateful,” the nascent arts space also announced Mid-Main First Thursday on October 4, in which neighborhood restaurants, with an eye on future theater crowds, will donate part of their evening’s take to the MATCH project.
While the visual arts aren’t generally crying out for gallery space in Houston, small performing arts groups desperately need decent theaters. MATCH will meet that need.