Art Dirt: How Does Texas Arts Funding Work?by Glasstire January 17, 2021
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“We shouldn’t try to abstract arts funding from our daily lives. We really depend upon it… we have to have the arts in our lives in order to feel human.”
Brandon Zech talks with Houston artist and Glasstire contributor Henry G. Sanchez about the challenges of public arts funding during a pandemic. If you’d like to learn more, you can read Sanchez’s recent articles about arts funding in Texas: Part 1 & Part 2.
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Top Five: April 25, 2019 with Chad Plunket and Paul Allen Hunton
by Glasstire April 25, 2019
Christina Rees and guests Chad Plunket and Paul Allen Hunton on a new arts festival in Lubbock, art with pontoon boats, and what cars pair well with Post-war paintings.
For day one of Glasstire's podcast from the Satellite Art Show in Austin, we talked talked to Houston artist Henry Sanchez about his upcoming project along Houston’s Buffalo Bayou. We also talked to Houston-based performance artist and Experimental Action festival co-organizer Julia Claire Wallace, and Satellite's performance art curator and Performance Is Alive founder Quinn Dukes, about the challenges of producing performances at an art fair, Texas' performance art community, and their advice for budding artists.
This is the first in a series of podcasts brought to you by Glasstire from Satellite.
Yesterday, April 28, wrapped up a two-week run of Henry Sanchez’s BioArt Bayou-torium project along Houston’s Buffalo Bayou. A combination science lab and art studio set up inside a shipping container, and accompanied by pontoon-boat tours of the bayou, Sanchez’s project was funded by Warhol’s Idea Fund.
"To me, artists would play a central role in helping to create a new kind of aspirational society."
Houston-based Henry G. Sanchez is an artist and organizer, the founder and director of LOCCA: Law Office Center for Citizenship and Art, and founder and director of the ENGLISH KILLS PROJECT. Last month, on the occasion of Sanchez’s participation in DiverseWorks’ recent group exhibition Lines Drawn, Robert Boyd sat down with Sanchez to talk about art, politics, the issue of community and citizenship, and the role of artists in today’s roiling political environment.