Since 1985, the City of Houston has awarded more than 780 Houston artists more than $4.5 million through individual artist grants. Yesterday the Office of the Mayor announced the list…
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[Updated 2/2/17 20:46 pm CST]: In a statement released this morning, Jonathon Glus, the CEO of the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) for the past nine years, announced that he is…
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Houston Artists: Today’s the Day to Learn How to Get That Cash!
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonIf you haven’t yet applied to the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) Individual Artist Grant Program, today (Thursday, November 10) is the day to learn how. HAA is offering two Application…
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The Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) has announced the 2016 Individual Artist Grant (IAG) awardees. The IAG is open to artists living in Houston, working in all media and at any…
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Dumpsters and underpasses are two common sites of (often illegal) graffiti, but Dallas and Houston will be paying artists to place their work in these locations. Dallas’ Sanitation Services is…
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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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Those who have been following the ongoing calamity surrounding Ed Wilson’s public art commission at the Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center (GRB) probably have already read the article “Houston…
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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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Yesterday, the Houston Chronicle posted an editorial called “Bad impression” and the folks at the Chronicle don’t seem to have a very good impression of the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA).…
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HAA Announces Phase 2 GRB Commission (Let’s see if this one sticks.)
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonYesterday, the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) announced that Joe O’Connell + Creative Machines was recently awarded the $1.34 million commission to create a major exterior artwork as part of the…
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How do local arts communities organize? In a few weeks, the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is setting out to answer that question, or at least to see how Houston stacks…
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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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Houston’s Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs held its Arts and Cultural Plan Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday evening to a pretty packed house at the basketball court-sized Metropolitan Multi-Service Center.…
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Houston Artist Ed Wilson has, finally, been re-awarded the artwork commission for the George R. Brown Convention Center. After Wilson’s original award was strangely withdrawn in late November, it drew…
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The panel for the $830,000 commission at the George R. Brown Convention Center (GRB) met Monday night and the Civic Art Committee (CAC) of the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) met…
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Jonathon Glus, President and CEO of the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA), may not have been getting much love in Glasstire’s comment sections since the late November brouhaha over the artwork…
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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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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.
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Houston isn’t just a big maze of cars and its art scene isn’t restricted to the Museum District, according to the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA). HAA has teamed up with…