Rick Lowe, J. Donald Feagin Guest Lecture Series

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Rick Lowe has moved from creating paintings and sculptures dealing with social issues to an art practice that directly engages in the life of the community. In the process, he abandoned traditional art materials and made the community itself the basis for his work

 

Rick Lowe, artist, community activist and founder of Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas as part of the J. Donald Feagin Guest Lecture Series 


Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 7:00 pm
University of Tulsa, 207 Lorton Hall
Open to the Public
 

Rick Lowe has moved from creating paintings and sculptures dealing with social issues to an art practice that directly engages in the life of the community. In the process, he abandoned traditional art materials and made the community itself the basis for his work. What began as a volunteer effort to restore a series of row houses in the historical Third Ward district of Houston turned into Project Row Houses, an arts and cultural community center, which now offers programs that encompass arts and culture, neighborhood revitalization, low-income housing, education, historic preservation, and community services.

Lowe also has participated in exhibitions and public art projects internationally; he collaborated on the arts plan for the Rem Koolhaus designed Public Library in Seattle, worked with Suzanne Lacy and Mary Jane Jacobs on the Borough Project for Spoleto Festival 2003 in Charleston, S.C., and was the lead artist in the development of the Delray Beach Loop, Delray Beach, FL. His own work has been exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Contemporary Arts Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angele;, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York; Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea; and the Kumamoto State Museum, Kumamoto, Japan. He is currently involved in the Transforma Project New Orleans, LA, which draws on the creative problem-solving skills of artists in an effort to revitalize a community devastated by hurricane Katrina.

Lowe has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work, including the Rudy Bruner Awards in Urban Excellence, the American Institute of Architecture keystone Award, the Heinz Award in the Humanities, and the Brandywine Lifetime Achievement Award.

For more information on the artist and Project Row Houses visit: http://www.projectrowhouses.org/ 

 

Contact:
Mary Whitney
918 631 2739
mary-whitney@utulsa.edu