Tucson Pima Artspace Development Seminar - Free and open to the public

 

From: Arizona Commission on the Arts [mailto:info@azarts.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:04 AM
Subject: Tucson Pima Artspace Seminar Announcement

 

Arizona Commission on the Arts and Tucson Pima Arts Council

Artspace Development Presentation

Artist Talk: Rick Lowe

Sunday, February 22, 2009, 1:30pm

Joel Valdez Main Library

101 N. Stone Ave., Tucson Free and open to the public

 

Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas, will discuss the variety of steps taken to develop this exemplary model of an artist-led redevelopment effort.

 

As an artist, Rick has participated in exhibitions at the Phoenix Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York; Kwangji Bienale, Kwangji, Korea; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Glassell School; Kumamoto State Museum, Kumamoto, Japan; Indianapolis Museum of Art; and the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Rick has worked as a guest artist on a number of community projects across the nation. From 2001-2002, he worked in collaboration with arts consultant Jessica Cusick on the arts plan for the Seattle Public Library, designed by Rem Koolhaus. Rick worked with California-based artists, Suzanne Lacy and curator Mary Jane Jacobs, on the borough project for the 2003 Spoleto Festival, in Charleston, South Carolina and was the lead artist on the Delray Beach Cultural Loop, Delray Beach, Florida. In 2005, he worked with British architect, David Adjaye, on a project for the Seattle Art Museum’s new Olympic Sculpture Park.

 

Rick was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 2001-2002 and an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. He has received the Rudy Bruner Award in Urban Excellence, the American Institute of Architecture Keystone Award, the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Governor’s Award. Rick serves on the board of the Menil Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

 

For more information on the presentation call 520-624-0595.

 

For more information on Project Row Houses, visit www.projectrowhouses.org.

 

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