galveston artist residency

The Galveston Artist Residency has announced that it is now accepting applications for the 2018-2019 residency year. As always, the organization will award three artists fully-funded eleven-month residencies. Each artist-in-residence will receive…

There’s a pretty interesting event happening tomorrow, February 3, called “The Festival of the Beautiful,” beginning at 5pm. From the Galveston Artist Residency: “We will leave the Galveston Artist Residency…

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech are in Houston, counting down the top five art events opening this weekend in what we call “The Harvey Zone.”

(Ed. note: we will continue to update this post as we receive more information.) (If any readers have additional information on the status of these art spaces or others, please…

This week, the Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) announced the three artists participating in the organization’s 2017-2018 artist-in-residence cycle: Pamela Council, Kristina Estell, and Justin Raphael Roykovich. Pamela Council is a Bronx, NY-based artist who…

Special Edition: Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on the top five artist residencies in Texas.

For three artists so deeply tapped into the cultural consciousness to collectively experience an event as monumental as the election of Donald Trump, bonding and the sharing of a common sense of urgency seems inevitable.

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on a show too important to be called a summer show, emerging Latinx artists in Austin, and skewering a sacred cow.

Rainey Knudson and Christina Rees on which shows to take which relatives to over the long holiday weekend. “What do we do at Thanksgiving? We get out of the house,…

In April, the Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) launched the first edition of its quarterly arts zine called BINDER. Published by Super Hit Press (along with GAR), the first volume features…

Yesterday the Galveston Artist Residency announced their 2016-2017 artists-in-residence: Leonardo Benzant, Fidencio Martinez, and Pat Palermo. This year, the GAR received a record number of submissions, and the three artists were chosen by former…

The Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) is currently exhibiting the work of its 2015-2016 residency artists – Zachary Moser, Diana Puntar and Michael Waugh. Zachary Moser‘s bell responds to #allswell. It…

The Galveston Artist Residency is in its fifth year and is currently accepting applications for the 2016-17 season. There are three artist slots. Residencies last 11 months and begin September 1…

If you have seen Island Time: Galveston Artist Residency – The First Four Years at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (on view through Valentine’s Day) and thought that you, too,…

I imagine that as a resident it would be difficult not to make work about Galveston. It’s a swirling black hole of beauty and charm and repulsion.

The Galveston Artist Residency made an interesting curatorial choice in pairing works with actual plants. The plants made more sense with some work than with others.

After the beach, old times are Galveston's main attraction. Tintypes and a new Wild West Village pull visitors back into the 19th century, sort of.

Fall begins this weekend. Go see some art!

A new round of artists have joined the Galveston Artist Residency (GAR) for the 2013-2014 program. GAR was established to give intense studio time to emerging and established visual artists,…

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