For this DiverseWorks on Wednesdays, members of the DiverseWorks Artist Board are throwing a slide jam - come and see what their work is all about! Participating Artists: Regina Agu, JooYoung Choi, Oscar Rene Cornejo, David Feil, GONZO247, Rebecca Novak
The Third Coast Dance Film Festival, curated by Rosie Trump, Lydia Hance, Ashley Horn, and Rebecca Salazar, celebrates the intersection of contemporary dance and the moving image with a screening series of short dance films. The 2014 festival will screen nineteen film shorts, including thirteen international films from Canada, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Norway, South Korea, Spain, and the UK. The program includes three world, six USA, and ten Texas premieres. Opening night is at DiverseWorks, as part of DiverseWorks on Wednesdays. The Third Coast Dance Film Festival was founded in 2010 by Rosie Trump, and the 2011 and 2012 Festival toured to the Kaleidoscope Arts Festival, outside of Pittsburgh, PA. Rosie Trump is a dance choreographer, filmmaker, educator and Artistic Director of Rosie Trump | With or Without Dance, a pick up company with a hybrid practice of dance and video media.  Trump's choreography and films have been shown throughout California, Texas, and the northeastern United States, as well as internationally in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Recently, her work was presented at the Prague Fring Festival, Dance New Amerstdam's Frameworks (New York City), the Toothache Duets (London) and Your Move Dance Festival (New Jersey). Trump holds a MFA in Experimental […]
DiverseWorks on Wednesdays goes off-site to MECA for a Parco dei Mostri performance! As part of Pepe Mar's residency at DiverseWorks he collaborated with participants in the after-school arts programs at Houston's Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts (MECA). Together with MECA and Nameless Sound's instructors in art, music, and dance they conceived a series of live events, to be produced and performed by the students, which fuse Mexican folk traditions with contemporary urban life in an exploration of personal narrative and collective immigrant identity. Students in the visual arts class, ranging from grades 1 - 8 and joined by a group of 7th grade volunteers from St. John's School, are creating wearable art influenced by Mar's aesthetic. These head pieces, props, and other adornments will be key components of a performance piece featuring members of the contemporary dance, Ballet Folklorico, mariachi, and Nameless Sound music classes.
DIVERSEWORKS ON WEDNESDAYS DiverseWorks Associate Curator Rachel Cook will give a gallery talk and lead a discussion about the current exhibition, Chelsea Knight & Â Mark Tribe: Posse Comitatus.
DIVERSEWORKS ON WEDNESDAYS Five University of Houston graphic design graduate students - Jim DeVega, Laura Hill, Seth Lapeyrouse, Allen Van Luu, and Jason Wheeler - were tasked with conceptually responding to exhibition artists Chelsea Knight and Mark Tribe's work through personal investigations that converge cultural, social, historical, methodological, and/or technological contemporary issues within a graphic design context. This graduate-level graphic design seminar offered through the University of Houston School of Art encourages students to pursue advanced research in graphic design and critical theory. The students worked together with Professor of Art Sibylle Hagmann and DiverseWorks Associate Curator Rachel Cook to push the boundaries of design thinking and visual expression. Each student will give a presentation about their project and process, and each project will be on view in the DWOW gallery space.
