March 24 - April 2, 2022
From the Houston Museum of African American Culture:
“The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) is delighted to present Tierney Malone’s The Jazz Church of Houston for one week in the museum upstairs gallery from March 24 through April 2, 2022. The temporary installation will then move to a 3D virtual interactive space on the HMAAC website as a living archive.
While there are museums in Texas dedicated to music, a space does not exist that chronicles the jazz history of Houston. After conversations with HMAAC CEO John Guess, Jr. Malone agreed to make the temporary installation much bigger and to allow it to become a living archive on the HMAAC website sharing the story of Houston’s musical tribe.
The name “Jazz Church” draws its name from the Church of John Coltrane in San Francisco. Established in 1970, the church uses Coltrane’s music as an expression of worship. At HMAAC, Malone pays particular homage to Houston jazz greats Arnett Cobb, Milt Larkin, Eddie “Clean Head” Vinson and Jewel Brown.
Tierney Malone is a visual artist and storyteller who uses African American history and pop culture to create mixed media works that challenge contemporary culture and politics. Born in Los Angeles, raised in Mississippi, and based in Houston’s Third Ward, Malone considers himself a Southern Seed.
According to HMAAC CEO John Guess, Jr., “We felt that we had to find a way to have Malone’s work enlarged and made permanent for our audiences. Through his labor and artistry we have taken The Jazz Church to a level that makes it accessible to a broader public.”
The Jazz Church of Houston is generously sponsored by HEB and the Board of Directors of the Houston Museum of African American Culture.
ABOUT THE HOUSTON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE
The mission of HMAAC is to collect, conserve, explore, interpret, and exhibit the material and intellectual culture of Africans and African Americans in Houston, the state of Texas, the southwest and the African Diaspora for current and future generations. In fulfilling its mission, HMAAC seeks to invite and engage visitors of every race and background and to inspire children of all ages through discovery-driven learning. HMAAC is to be a museum for all people. While our focus is the African American experience, our story informs and includes not only people of color, but people of all colors. As a result, the stories and exhibitions that HMAAC will bring to Texas are about the indisputable fact that while our experience is a unique one, it has been impacted by and has impacted numerous races, genders and ethnicities. The museum continues to be a space where a multicultural conversation on race geared toward a common future takes place.”
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