Rick Lowe - 'Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial'
Organization:
Berkeley Center for New Media/Art Techonology & Culture Colloquium [ATC]
Category:
Political/Special Interest
Geographical Area:
Oakland
Start
Date:
11/17/2014
End Date:
11/17/2014
Start Time:
7:00 PM
End Time:
9:30 PM
Event
Info:
Rick Lowe's Project Row Houses, founded two decades ago, has created a blueprint for using urban renewal practices within an artistic context to enrich lives. Located in Houston's Northern Third Ward, one of the city's oldest African-American neighborhoods, Lowe's Project Row Houses was founded with 22 houses on a block-and-a-half and today occupies six blocks that are home to 40 properties, including exhibition and residency spaces for artists, office spaces, a community gallery, a park, low-income residential and commercial spaces, and houses in which young mothers can live for a year and receive support as they work to finish school and get their bearings.
By committing to what has been called a "politics of staying," Lowe has been able to develop Project Row Houses into a wide ranging social service center, a center for ideas, and an influential artist residency program. The organization has developed over the past twenty years to become a site of experimentation for new economic models in sustaining social and artistic communities, particularly within the community of socially-engaged art. Lowe has been honored with the Rudy Bruner Award in Urban Excellence the AIA Keystone Award the Heinz Award in the arts and humanities Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Governors Award Loeb Fellow at Harvard University Skandalaris Award for Excellence in Art Architecture USA Booth Fellowship and the Creative Time Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change.
Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium is an internationally recognized forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about art, technology, and culture. This series, free of charge and open to the public, presents artists, writers, curators, and scholars who consider contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history, from a critical perspective.
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