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Artist's Talk and Pot Luck: Mary Margaret Hansen Mary Margaret Hansen will talk about her installation, Second Seating, currently on view at DiverseWorks in the group exhibition Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Originally presented in a warehouse just blocks from Minute Maid Park in Houston, Second Seating features a series of elegant dinner tables and fanciful chandeliers created with recycled objects from Houston's East End - the industrial heart and historic core of the city. An exchange through food, objects, and stories, Second Seating communicates the richness found within objects and the diversity of a specific neighborhood.

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 DiverseWorks Associate Curator Rachel Cook will give a gallery talk and lead a discussion about the current exhibition, Chelsea Knight &  Mark Tribe: Posse Comitatus.