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Glasstire
is a website about visual art in Texas. We've been online since January 2001. We are a
non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, and we're supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance, The
Brown Foundation, Inc., the Greater Houston Community Foundation, The
Houston Endowment and the Texas Commission for the Arts.
The
greatest artist ever to come from Texas was Robert Rauschenberg. (Yes, he was a Texan. From Port Arthur, actually, also the hometown of Janis Joplin. Who knew?) The
name "Glasstire" is an homage to his sculptures of tires cast in glass. The names of the actual sculptures aren't "glasstire," but
something complicated and esoteric. We miss you, Bob!!
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 Michael Bise is an artist living in Houston, TX. Sometimes he thinks making art
is a good thing that helps elevate the human spirit above the terrible reality of our
physical existence. Other times he believes that we are destined to
repeat a cycle of war, genocide and dictatorship, and that art is
pointless. His inability to believe completely in either scenario is
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Dan R. Goddard has been writing about the arts in
Texas for more than 35 years. Former art critic for the San Antonio
Express-News, he is a freelance critic and feature writer. Also,
he's an online book dealer at A Good Read.
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Andrea Grover is
an independent curator, artist and writer. In 1998, she founded Aurora
Picture Show,
a now recognized center for filmic art, that began in Grover's living
room as “the world’s most public home theater.” She has been a migrant
curator for apexart, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Dia Art
Foundation, The Menil Collection, and Parkinggallery, Tehran. Currently
on view is 29 Chains
to the Moon, an exhibition she curated for Carnegie Mellon University's
Miller Gallery, which expands her research into cooperation and
distributed thinking across disciplines. She likes to share.
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 Chris Jagers
is an artist & entrepreneur with a passion for Art and Technology.
He is the Founder/CEO of SlideRoom.com, which provides a web-based
system to institutions wanting to streamline their process of
application & review. Christopher earned his MFA from the
University of Washington and his BFA from SMU, Meadows School of the
Arts.
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 Ben Judson is a freelance writer, web designer, and artist living in
San Antonio. He founded Emvergeoning.com in 2006, where he has been
writing regularly ever since. He also contributes to Art Lies and the
San Antonio Current.
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Kelly Klaasmeyer is the editor of Glasstire. An artist and writer, she was selected as a Fellow for the 2009 USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program. She lives in Houston for the fresh air and Alpine scenery.
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If she'd been shorter, Rainey Knudson would have been a jockey. As it
is she's proud that Glasstire has survived and grown for an astonishing nine years (almost). She lives in Houston, where she grew up being
dragged to art openings in her Sunday school dresses.
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 Roy Neinast has written for various regional and national publications,
usually under his real name, which is not Roy Neinast. He's not trying
to be sketchy, promise. He's just got other obligations and using a nom
de plume makes things easier.
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 Mark and Angela have been working together as filmmakers since the age of sixteen. After their recent marriage they established Walley Films, an independent production company currently owned and operated in San Antonio, Texas. Their interest in art and documentary film has found the perfect outlet since they began their partnership with Glasstire in 2009. |
 Robert Pruitt is an artist originally from Houston TX, now living and
working in Chicago, IL. He is a founding member of the organization
Otabenga Jones & Associates, has a secret crush on Erykah Badu, and
has recently been following Marvel Comics' Thor.
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 Christina Rees is a writer and curator who lives in Dallas, Texas (and
does not like having her picture taken, does not have pictures of
herself on her computer, and does not do the Facebook thing. She did a
quick google image search thinking maybe one of her friends might have
put something usuable out there, and instead found this blurry one,
taken of her and posted online by some random blogger without her
consent, which she finds shitty. So she stole it back and Glasstire can
have it).
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 Beth Secor is easily distracted and burnt her lunch while taking this photo
and preparing this bio. She lives in Houston, Texas.
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 Lubbock native Hills Snyder lives in San Antonio. He is an artist, curator, song writer and Director of Sala Diaz.
You are invited to follow his writing on the Facebook page U.S. 87.
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 Kate Watson is a freelance artist, critic and curator. She is a founding member of multimedia collective Austin Video Bee and is currently a writer for Glasstire, the Austin Chronicle, and ...might be good. She is also the co-founder of the new initiative Circulatory System,
a curatorial project focusing on traveling video, performance, and
installation exhibitions within the state of Texas via a renovated school
bus. |
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