Art League Houston has announced the recipients of its annual Texas Artist of the Year and Texas Patron of Year awards, as well as its biennial Lifetime Achievement Award in Arts Leadership.
wendy watriss
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The couple began collaborating in the 1970s, focusing on the United States, with Texas as their main subject.
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A few days ago, artnet News published an opinion piece about the detention of photographer and educator Shahidul Alam in Bangladesh. artnet’s Ben Davis wrote, “I’m convinced, however, that if more…
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With International Discoveries VI, FotoFest in Houston draws together thirteen emerging artists, many exhibiting in the U.S. for the first time, who grapple with the conceptual and material particularities of photography.
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FotoFest is gearing up for its 16th Biennial in spring of 2016 and today it announced this installment’s title and theme: “CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES: Looking at the Future of the Planet.”…
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Wendy Watriss, co-founder of FotoFest in Houston, is speaking this Thursday evening at the San Francisco Art Institute as part of Photoalliance‘s 2014 lecture series. FotoFest is, of course, the…
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FotoFest has announced that it has named Steven Evans as its new executive director. This is more than the usual arts administrative appointment—the Houston-based organization’s international photography biennial has been…
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FotoFest, the international biennial of photography and photo-related art that takes over every possible venue in Houston every other spring, will officially begin on March 15, 2014. Because of logistics…
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“After 26 years creating and developing FotoFest, it is time for new leadership,” say FotoFest Co-founders Wendy Watriss and Fred Baldwin. “As part of FotoFest’s Board of Directors, we are…
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The 14th edition of Fotofest the Houston photo-art biennial is something special this time around: featuring three massive exhibitions of sometimes overlooked historical Russian photography from the 1950’s to today,…
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Every other March, swarms of photographers and photo-related exhibitions swamp Houston’s art scene, and 2012 is one of those years: Fotofest’s 2012 Biennial focuses on Contemporary Russian Photography, blanketing the…
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Houston’s FotoFest joins the Iris Foundation, RIA Novosti and the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow to organize a bi-continental media event connecting Moscow and Houston. On August 24,…