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Otabenga Jones & Associates, Luke Savisky, Cauleen Smith and Lili (Kaneem) Smith receive Creative Capital Grants
Creative Capital has announced the 41 recipients of its 2008 Film/Video and Visual Artist Grants, including former testsite participants Luke Savisky and Cauleen Smith, Houston-based collective Otabenga Jones & Associates and Houston-based artist Lili (Kaneem) Smith. Each has received a $10,000 initial grant. As the projects develop, the organization offers additional funds. Projects may receive as much as $50,000 each through the tenure of the multi-year grant. Among the many panelists on the selection committee were Andrea Grover (Aurora Picture Show, Houston) and Valerie Cassell Oliver (Contemporary Arts Museum Houston).
Austin Video Bee DVD Released on February 11
The Austin-based multimedia collective, Austin Video Bee, released its first compilation, Failure, on February 11. AVB seeks to promote experimental and innovative work and to provide exposure for under-represented and female video and performance artists. The group focuses on inexpensive and accessible theme-based compilations on DVD, as well as screenings and festivals that serve to promote the work to everyone, artists and non-artists alike.
The Blanton receives award for its 2007 exhibition The Geometry of Hope
The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas has received the prestigious award for “Best Thematic Show Nationally” from the United States section of the International Association of Art Critics for its 2007 exhibition The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. The award will be presented to the museum at an awards ceremony at New York’s Guggenheim Museum on March 17, 2008.
Staff Changes at the Blanton
In November 2007, Kelly Baum, former Assistant Curator of American and Contemporary Art at The Blanton Museum of Art, left to become the Locks Curatorial Fellow for Contemporary Art at the Princeton University Art Museum (see the interview with Kelly Baum in this issue). At the Blanton, Risa Puleo has replaced Kelly as Assistant Curator of American and Contemporary Art. Gabriel Perez-Barreiro, Curator of Latin American Art at since 2002, will leave the museum as of March 31, 2008, to take a position in New York as director of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. Jessie Otto Hite, who has been the director of the museum for 15 years, is also retiring at the end of the month and Ann Wilson, Associate Director of the Blanton, will serve as interim director as of March 1, 2008.
The McNay Art Museum galleries closed until June 2008
The McNay Art Museum temporarily closed its galleries beginning January 7, 2008. The museum will remain “dark” until the grand opening and celebration of the Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions in June 2008.
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