Hurricane Harvey

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech discuss how hurricanes, fires, floods, earthquakes, tornados, and other disasters impact art, artists, and the ethos of cities.

In this post-Harvey period, the art center has been focusing on its longevity in the city: namely, it has been engaged in a capital campaign to fund the construction of a new building and campus for its programming and sculpture collection.

Though the website was made with Houston in mind, its advice and guidance can be universally applied to artists and other organizations who are in harm's way.

Artist applications for the 2019 Rockport Art Fest are now online! It is open to all types of artists, from painting to sculpture to jewelry. The application deadline is March…

Projects awarded in 2019 include a podcast focusing on the voices of queer and transgender people of color, a new art space in Galveston, a video by JooYoung Choi, and more.

Learn how Houston plans to cope with future storms, and practice disaster preparedness yourself at these various workshops and symposia.

Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on a hallway gallery in the Panhandle, a Harvey anniversary show in Houston, and the working materials of Ed Ruscha at the Harry Ransom Center.

The lesson of loss is burned into their practices.

Of course, if you want to really dream, you could imagine downtown Houston looking like Paris with the Seine running through it.

This coming weekend, on Saturday, July 21, 2018, the Stark Foundation in Orange, Texas is hosting a public workshop to teach people about caring for collections they have, including family photos, precious…

The Houston-based arts organization FotoFest announced this week that it is now accepting submissions for the upcoming exhibition, Seeing Harvey: Personal Stories, Public Responses, set to run from September 6 through November…

Since Hurricane Harvey, cities along Texas’ coast have dealt with the post-storm fallout in a number of ways: in Rockport, a small coastal town in one of the state’s hardest-hit…

Rockport, Texas continues to be post-Harvey resilient. The Rockport Center for the Arts will host its annual Rockport Art Festival this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, July 7 and 8, 10am-6pm…

If Texas’ 2017 bout with hurricanes is any indication of what we can expect in the coming years, the state will need all the help it can get to preserve…

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…

This week, the Rockport Center for the Arts announced that its former building, located at 902 Navigation Circle, on the Aransas Bay, is to be razed. The Victorian building, which has housed…

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.…

The deadline for applications for the Harvey Arts Recovery Fund‘s (HARF) second granting round is fast approaching. Houston-area artists and organizations who are in need of assistance in recovering from the effects of Hurricane Harvey need to…

Next Thursday, February 15th, the Harvey Arts Recovery Fund (HARF) will open a second round of applications to Houston-area artists and organizations who are in need of assistance in recovering from…