Culture Wire
May 20, 2012
Exhibition on view Friday, May 25 – July 6, 2012
Art League Houston, Hallway Gallery
Art League Houston presents Tu Eres O No Tu Eres Mi Baby (Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby), a series of text-based carved paintings by San Antonio artist Ricky Armendariz, which combine themes of narco-pop-culture, with romantic-style landscape painting from the 1800’s. Raised in El Paso, which borders Las Cruces, New Mexico and Juarez, Mexico, Armendariz was influenced by the...
May 14, 2012
The Houston Arts Alliance Folklife and Traditional Arts Program
Presents
WEAVING HOME:
Textile Traditions From Houston’s Karenni Community
@ The Alliance Gallery, 3201 Allen Parkway, 77019
Opening Reception Thursday May 24th 5:30-7PM
Houston is home to refugee communities from around the world. They all bring with them distinctive traditions. The exhibition Weaving Home focuses on the weaving traditions practiced by women from one such community – a collection of Karenni families...
May 10, 2012
COME ONE, COME ALL!
Writers, Directors, Producers, Cinematographers, Production Designers, Gaffers, Editors, and more:
This workshop is for YOU!
VISUAL STRUCTURE SEMINAR
with Hollywood Guru BRUCE BLOCK!
Just as a writer is concerned with story structure, a moviemaker must be concerned with visual structure. Visual structure is the only “language” available to directors, cinematographers and production designers yet it is often misused or simply ignored.
The key to using...
May 10, 2012
Lights! Camera! Action! Moviemaking Camp is a week-long course designed to teach teenagers (ages 13-17) how to use a camera to tell a story. Each student will get hands-on instruction in digital camera operation, lighting, sound and editing while working as a team in the production of a short film. At the end of the camp, the students will premiere their film on the BIG SCREEN for all their family and friends to enjoy!
Day One: The Story
Storytelling Techniques
Pitching Your Story...
May 4, 2012
Misha Penton & Divergence Vocal Theater Present:
Klytemnestra - The Original Subversive Female
A new chamber opera by Dominick Diorio. Libretto by Misha Penton
She is Seductress. She is Confidante. She is Chaos.
The woman who single-handedly annihilated the most powerful war hero of her time and destabilized a society.
Klytemnestra, a chamber opera by Dominick DiOrio (Houston Press Best Composer 2011), is a musical setting of soprano...
May 3, 2012
New Works Celebrating 40 Years of the DoV System
Artist Reception, Saturday, May 12, 2012, 6:00 – 8:30 pm
On view May 12 – June 9, 2012
"The year of the Bott" has arrived according to PaperCity Magazine's Art's and Social Editor, Catherine Anspon. HJ Bott celebrates the 40th anniversary of the DoV System with the presentation of his most current paintings at Anya Tish Gallery in Rhythm & Rhetoric, followed by other...
Apr 27, 2012
Betz Art Foundry, located in Houston, Texas, has two immediate openings for volunteers for Summer Internships. We are looking for bright, talented people, either high school or college students, who have a passion for and an interest in the lost wax method of casting bronze sculpture.
Interns will have a structured experience, from learning how to handle the day to day operations of a foundry, access to a working art studio, and experience of all phases of bronze casting for sculptures....
Apr 23, 2012
Exhibition on view May 4 – May 11, 2012
Art League Houston, Main and Project Gallery
Art League Houston is excited to invite the public to our annual fundraising event The Marty: A Montrose Art Party, on Friday, May 4, from 6:00 - 9:00 PM. The event benefits Art League's Healing Art program, which provides free art instruction and supplies to adults living with serious illness and physical disabilities. Entry to the event is free.
This year's theme is...
Apr 20, 2012
Five photographs from the Luscious Lips series, by Houston photographer, Frank White, are being featured at Panopticon Gallery, Boston, during the group exhibit Childs Play. Child’s Play, which opened April 12th and runs through May 29, 2012, examines how toys are portrayed through contemporary photography. White’s images explore the latent meanings that reside within familiar objects, in this case, a five image series of cherry red wax lips in the various stages of melting. He...
