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Communograph Artist Talk: Rick Lowe and Ashley Hunt
Communograph Artist Talk: Rick Lowe and Ashley Hunt
Hitting the Pavement: The Politics of Community Based Art Today
A Conversation with founder of Project Row Houses Rick Lowe and artist Ashley Hunt
October 12, 7pm
This is part of the Communograph: Mapping Community Through Creative Action series.
Project Row Houses Founder Rick Lowe is an artist whose work is inspired by the art of painter and muralist John Biggers who celebrated shotgun communities and Joseph Beuys who spoke about “social sculpture” and the idea of society as a whole as a work of art. Lowe has been recognized internationally for his work in urban revitalization and cultural preservation most recently receiving the Leonore Annenberg Award for Art and Social Justice in 2010. He was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard and also received the Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities.
Project Row Houses has grown from its original site of twenty-two shotgun style houses on one and a half blocks to over fifty-five buildings on almost ten blocks.
Lowe will have a public discussion about art and social practice, a practice that emphasizes people in their relationships to each other and their surroundings, with Ashley Hunt. Hunt is currently an artist-in-residence at Project Row Houses and the creator of the Communograph Project.
Ashley Hunt is an artist and activist who uses video, photography, mapping and writing to engage social movements, modes of learning and public discourse. He is Co-Director of the Photography and Media program at CalArts.
LOCATION: University of Houston, Fine Arts Building, Dudley Recital Hall
ADMISSION: Free
Communograph: Mapping Through Creative Action is a series of public programs co-curated by Bree Edwards, University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and Ashley Clemmer Hoffman, Project Row Houses, in conjunction with PRH’s Round 35 project Communograph, organized by artist Ashley Hunt.
Related Events:
October 2, 2011 Communograph Artist Talk: Mel Chin
October 15, 2011 Communograph PRH Exhibition Opening: Round 35
November 16, 2011 Artist Talk: Mierle Laderman Ukeles
November 19, 2011 Communograph Walking Tour: Experience the Third Ward with Ray Carrington
December 3, 2011 Communograph Bus Tour: Architecture and Community with Stephen Fox
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