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The Texas Contemporary Art Fair sent out an email recently announcing that exhibitor applications are now open for its 2018 fair. Scheduled to run October 4-7, 2018 at the George R. Brown…

Not too long after Luis Purón relocated to Rockport, Texas to accept the position of executive director of the Rockport Center for the Arts (RCA), Hurricane Harvey hit, devastating the…

“It is my sincere desire that, when looking at my work, the viewer experiences the wonderment of the birds in their natural habitat.”

In its last session, the Texas legislature passed House Bill (HB) 85, which prohibited the State of Texas from doing business with any company that boycotts Israel. The Dallas Morning News and…

This week, the Rockport Center for the Arts’ former home is being razed due to damages resulting from Hurricane Harvey. There are still many places throughout coastal South Texas that…

We have been following Routine Fables, a yearlong project and collaboration between Houston-based artist Elaine Bradford and poet Sara Cress, since they began it in early 2017. For the project, the duo created…

April 27-29, rain or shine, South Texas’ Port Aransas will host the annual Texas SandFest. Sand sculptors will spend the weekend creating beautiful (but temporary) works of art. The event…

The Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts in Spring, TX (named the 2015 Best Small Museum by the Houston Press) was hit hard by Hurricane Harvey last August. Despite the…

The Rockport Center for the Arts (RCA), destroyed by Hurricane Harvey six months ago, has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Rebuild Texas Fund to aid in rebuilding efforts.…

This weekend, February 10th and 11th, marks the 16th Annual Rockport Clay Expo held in the coastal town of Rockport, Texas. The city is just getting back on track after it…

The Rockport Center for the Arts recently named Elena Rodriguez the organization’s new Curator of Exhibitions. Born in the Dallas area, Rodriguez spent her undergraduate years studying painting, film, and media at Washington University in St.…

2017 was a boon year for Glasstire. Here are the most widely read (and in some cases, commented on) pieces we've run over the past 12 months.

Glasstire staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal ”best lists” for 2017.

Following the destruction Hurricane Harvey visited on Rockport and the Rockport Center for the Arts, the Beeville Art Museum, an hour northwest of Rockport, offered exhibition space for the damaged…

Round ten of The Idea Fund, a re-granting program administered by a partnership of DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, and Project Row Houses and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation (at…

If you’re an artist interested in exhibiting at Art League Houston, we have good news: the organization has extended its open call deadline to January 31, 2018. Jennie Ash, the organization’s Visual Arts…

Earlier this year, David Lindsay, artist and art professor at Texas Tech in Lubbock, developed and launched a clever new smartphone app that allows artists to create site-specific works that play…

A show of photographs by Houston artist John Herrin. The pieces in the show were inspired by Herrin’s experience during Hurricane Harvey.

“Amy Hauft produces architectural-scale installations in which landscape seems to occur in indoor settings. Each artwork is an intersection of the viewer’s haptic and cognitive experiences. Initially, one’s physical experience…

Valerie Powell’s solo exhibition On Water features new drawings, sculptures, and a site specific wall installation that are informed by the rising water of hurricane Harvey on the Houston area.