Christopher Blay

Until next year (fingers, toes, and everything else crossed): Here are a dozen images from last year's parade. Happy MLK Day!

Gunn's "GIANT STEPS: Celebrating Extraordinary Achievements of African-American Leaders in STEM," was selected by panelists Dr. Lauren Cross, Byron Sanders, and Arthur Simmons.

The annual fair, which usually takes place in mid-April, will be held September 30–October 3, 2021.

The Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the MFAH will begin her position at the National Gallery on February 1.

Jager was also recipient of the second annual Houston Artadia Fellowship for Immigrant Artists.

The new grounds will feature a mural by 105-year-old Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera.

The murals are at the following four sites: Airline at Crosstimbers, Airline at Cavalcade, Jensen at Crosstimbers, and Moody Park.

No one thought it could ever happen. Until it did.

"This year’s Idea Fund seeks to support new projects developed by Black, Indigenous, and POC artists and encourages creative projects that raise awareness of local social and cultural issues."

“There are things that are happening in Dallas that Black artists will never know about, because there wasn’t a Black person in the room to share the information with a Black artist.” 

Meek's exhibition follows other successful installations in the series, including works from Bernardo Vallerino, Giovanni Valderas, and most recently, Nyugen E. Smith.

Covid threw a wrench in traveling exhibitions; shows planned for years are postponed, giving opportunity for museum collections in storage to come out and fill the galleries.

Houston Art History from 1890-1960 will be a four-session course by Houston Earlier Texas Art Group's coordinator Randy Tibbits.

The list also includes literary works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, and Alain Locke, among others.

“With the current climate we are living in, one where walls are being proposed, I wanted to create a work that speaks to the importance of keeping doors open and being vigilant about true equality.”

“No one who knew her could ever forget her vitality and fierce intelligence.”

Artists we have lost include the world-famous, such as John Baldessari, Christo, and Susan Rothenberg, to Texans like Alvaro Perez and Jeremy Joel, who left us far too soon.

These new museums would be the first of their kind on the National Mall, which also includes The National Museum of African American History and Culture, and The National Museum of the American Indian.

Valentina Jager​, Cindee Travis Klement​, ​Bria Lauren, Anna Mavromatis​, and ​Phillip Pyle II have been selected as finalists for the award.

The sitcoms on this list usually aired a Christmas episode (two involving dream sequences), and although mostly campy, they remain part of my childhood Christmas memories.