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[UPDATED, September 18] Arts Accountability Houston Publishes List of Demands for The Mayor of Houston and HAA
AAH's demands include calls for a plan to pay all 2020 individual grantees in full, the halting of grantmaking based on projected HOT funds, and the creation of a new plan for funding based on other public funding models.
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The Houston Arts Alliance will manage the selection process, and selected artists must be willing and able to sign a commission contract.
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The art community is responding to the Covid-19 shelter-in-place challenge in innovative and inspiring ways. The arts continue to bring us together, even when we stay home. Based on the…
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So often in the art world, there are organizational departures, mix-ups, and mishaps amid rumors and innuendo. Richard Graber, Director of Grants and Capacity Building at the Houston Arts Alliance…
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Today the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) announced the appointment of its new CEO, John Abodeely. Abodeely, the former Acting Executive Director and Deputy Director for the President’s Committee on the…
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This Friday, March 31 at 10am, Houston’s Fresh Arts (in partnership with the Center for Art and Social Engagement at University of Houston) will present a workshop called “Funding Strategies…
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That $4 million we’re planning to spend on public art this year is apparently THE straw that will break the city’s $2.5 billion total budget.
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On Wednesday, the new Houston city council met and complained about having to pay to the artist Ed Wilson for his public artwork* in the George R. Brown Convention Center, voting…
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The warehouse that is Spring Street Studios, the artist community in Houston’s First Ward neighborhood, will be the canvas for a new public artwork going up Tuesday, Feb. 2. Local…
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Another Texas Contemporary Art Fair has come and gone. This one had its fair share of dogs, chairs, and shiny sculptures, but it also had some smart, intriguing work. Here are a…
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Certainly Houston Arts Alliance has gotten its share of public criticism lately from artists and more, and its new website isn’t complete yet, but in the wake of all the region’s…
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BlogGlasstireOp Ed
Houston First Corporation: George R. Brown Convention Center Request for Qualifications for Exterior Commission (Phase 2)
Houston area artists, artist-led teams and team members are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Houston artists Nohelia Vargas Bolivar and Liza Littlefield have asked that their work be removed from Houston City Hall as a show of solidarity with artist Ed Wilson, who was…
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Sara Kellner, quickly appointed as interim Director of Civic Art + Design by the Houston Art Alliance on December 10 after the resignation of former Civic Art Director Matthew Lennon,…
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In a carefully worded press release Thursday, the Houston Arts Alliance announced the beginning of a new attempt at selecting an artist for a large commission at the George R.…
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In response to cries of "foul!" from artists, the public, and their own Civic Art Committee, Houston Art Alliance has has posted an outline of its public art selection procedures on its website. It's as clear as mud.
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I tried getting money from the Non-creative Arts Council of Houston. The NACHO people think their job is to turn artists into submissive, fear-based art-bureaucrats like them. Ugh. I'd rather hustle. At least I'd get to keep some self respect.
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The Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) may not be inspiring a lot of confidence within the local arts scene as of late, but they’re now looking elsewhere to make new friends.…
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BlogEssayGlasstireOp Ed
HAA Dogpile! Artists of Transported + Renewed Weigh In
by Glasstireby GlasstireAmid the blizzard of anti-HAA ink coming in from all quarters of the Houston art scene, Glasstire today received a collective letter from artists involved in T+R.