THROUGH MAR 21
heavy metal exhibits at hccc
The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft rocks the metal arts with two new exhibitions: Iron: Forged, Tempered, Quenched on view through May 16, and eXtreme Tea, on view through March 21.
Iron: Forged, Tempered, Quenched celebrates the rich history of American blacksmithing by bridging historical and
contemporary works and illustrating the wide variety of blacksmithing
techniques and processes currently practiced in the U.S. The exhibition is one
of the most significant exhibitions of blacksmithed objects in decades.
The exhibition educates audiences about the processes used to create historical
and contemporary ironwork. Contemporary pieces are exhibited alongside
important historic works, such as farm implements and tools, to allow visitors
to visually identify how blacksmithing artists combine contemporary design
sensibilities with historical traditions and techniques to create their pieces.
The exhibition features more than 40 pieces by 38 artists from across the U.S.
eXtreme Tea is a surprising exhibition of tea infusers and strainers—seemingly mundane household items that hold loose tea leaves for brewing in a
pot or cup. However, because of the small scale and potential for minute
decorative detail, these items present an exciting challenge for contemporary
artists.
Located in the Museum District at 4848 Main Street, HCCC is open
Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Admission is free.
For more information, call 713-529-4848 or visit
www.crafthouston.org.
BEGINNING
MAR 26
bayou city
art festival
memorial park
Vic Lee is part athlete, part cartoon artist, part dreamer, part rebel and part
religious scholar. His paintings reflect his life altering experiences through
his quest to challenge his own deeply ingrained religious beliefs. This unique
perspective and his stunning artistic capability has led him to be honored as
featured artist of the nationally ranked Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park
on March 26-28.
Lee’s painting Waiting To Fly is the Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park’s featured artwork and will be displayed among his series of acrylic and oil
paintings at the festival alongside a juried selection of 300 top galleried
local, national and international visual artists.
The 13th Annual Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park is an award-winning
one-of-a-kind outdoor art gallery that showcases local, international, and top
galleried artists from all over the country. Juried fine art, representing 17
media formats. In addition to this visual art feast, the festival will feature
multicultural music and dance performances, international food and wine,
interactive art at the Capital One Bank Creative Zone, and much more.
The festival is located in Houston’s Memorial Park located at S. Picnic Lane. There is no public parking in
Memorial Park; however, the festival provides a free, convenient shuttle
service from 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Northwest Mall
located at the 610 North Loop at 18th Street and shuttle service located at the
Downtown Theatre District parking lot from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. on Saturday and
Sunday only. Parking at the Northwest Mall is free and parking at the Downtown
Theatre District parking lot will be at the standard rate.
Admission is $10 for adults and free for children 12 and under. Festival hours
are 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
cancer patient & caregiver conference, march 5
Mark your calendar for the 2010 Cancer Patient & Caregiver Conference hosted by Cancer Counseling Inc., Interface-Samaritan Counseling Centers, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Memorial Hermann Healthcare System on March 5 from 8:30
a.m.-3:30 p.m. in The United Way Building, 50 Waugh Drive in Houston.
River Oaks Garden Club 75th Anniversary Azalea Trail, march 5-7
The River Oaks Garden Club’s 75th Anniversary Azalea Trail will be held March 5-7. The Azalea Trail
features tours of four private homes and three well-known historic sites: Bayou
Bend, Rienzi and River Oaks Garden Club Forum of Civics Building and Gardens.
Tickets for seven admissions are $15 before March 1 and $20 during the Azalea
Trail or $5 per location.
Proceeds from the Azalea Trail support city beautification projects,
scholarship, educational, horticultural and civic programs in the Houston
community.
HCCC Hands-on houston, march 6
Join Houston Center for Contemporary Craft for a special edition of Hands-On
Houston, a free, craft-activity open house on the first Saturday of every
month. On March 6, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., HCCC will host a celebration of the
metal arts in conjunction with its current exhibitions,
Iron: Forged, Tempered, Quenched, featuring American blacksmithed objects, and eXtreme Tea, featuring exquisite tea implements. Families and visitors of all ages will
enjoy participating in a metal-embossing activity, watching live demonstrations
by Houston Area Blacksmiths
’ Association and other artists, and viewing the exhibitions. Complimentary tea
will be served by T
é House of Tea.
contrast and only in texas on exhibit, through march 16
Thornwood Gallery’s exhibits, Contrast and Only in Texas, will run through March 16. The exhibitions feature the contemporary
photography of Misha Gordin and Michael Levin and
the traditional Western works of C.A. Smith, Cheng Lian, Maxine Price, as well
as guest artists. In
Contrast, Gordin and Levin blur the line between classic and modern methods of
photography.
The back room of the gallery features the exhibit Only in Texas, a collection of work by Texan artists featuring romantic and iconic characters
and scenes of The Lone Star State. The sculpture, landscapes and genre scenes
showcase Texas
’ vast beauty and celebrate its roots and modern rural life.
The gallery is located at 2643 Colquitt Street in Houston. Gallery hours are
Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. For more information,
go to
www.thornwoodgallery.com.
2010 jr. miss, miss teen texas world pageant, march 27
The 2010 Jr. Miss and Miss Teen Texas-World Pageant will held on Saturday, March
27, at 7 p.m. at the Houston Marriott Energy Corridor Hotel, 16011 Katy
Freeway. All Jr. Miss contestants will be competing in Casual Wear, Evening
Wear and Interview, and all Teen Contestants will be competing in Swimsuit,
Evening Wear and Interview. These pageants are an official preliminary to the
Jr. Miss and Miss Teen United States-World Pageant, which will be held this
summer. Tickets sales begin March 1, and can be purchased on-line at
www.missteentexas-world.us or at the door the day of the event. For more information, contact Angie Neal
at
Angie@AngelaNealProductions.com or 713-826-6361.
earth day houston festival, april 3
Earth Day Houston, the city’s official Party for the Planet, will host a Family Festival, 5K Race for Clean
Air and Green Expo at Discovery Green on April 3 from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. as part of
a national effort to honor the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day.
Festivities kick off at 8 a.m. with the Earth Day 5K “Race for Clean Air” followed by a day-long celebration with family entertainment, environmental
education and a Green Expo filled with consumer-friendly booths promoting green
products and services to live a greener lifestyle.
Also on tap, a Farmers’ Market in support of locally-grown produce, the Green Bank Environmental
Education Zone full of activities using recycled materials, and the Green Expo,
a 30-booth display of consumer-friendly products and services. Live music plus
plenty of food and beverage on site will round out the day
’s events.
40th anniversary of apollo 13, april 9
Forty years ago the world watched the saga of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission
unfold when a spark of innovation blazed a trail home for the crew aboard their
crippled spacecraft. On April 9, Apollo 13 astronauts Fred Haise, James Lovell
and famed NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz will come together to commemorate
this legendary voyage
’s 40th anniversary during a special celebration hosted by the Astronaut
Scholarship Foundation at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Event goers will relive the adventure of NASA’s most “successful failure” mission with a behind-the-scenes journey at the very Space Center where the
crew launched into the history books.
Afterward, guests will savor a fun-flared dinner under a restored Saturn V
rocket alongside the crew, Kranz and key mission contributors while they share
the story of what it took to safely return the ill-fated mission to Earth.
Tickets are $250 each and may be secured at www.astronautscholarship.org or by calling 321-455-7014. Tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served
basis.
“JUNCTION BOYS” TO BE HONORED
AT BENEFIT FOR TEXAS CHILDREN’S
CANCER CENTER, april 27
Celebrating one of Texas football’s greatest stories, Texas Children’s Cancer Center hosts its sixth annual “An Evening with Texas Legends,” presented by Wells Fargo honoring 20 Texas A&M University “Junction Boys.” The event is planned for April 27 at The Hilton Americas Hotel, beginning with a cocktail
reception at 6:15 p.m., dinner at 7:30 p.m. and interviews at 8:30 p.m.
The football heroes will be interviewed live by legendary sportswriter Mickey
Herskowitz. Chaired by Susan and Steven Solcher, proceeds benefit pediatric
cancer research conducted at Texas Children
’s Cancer Center.
Live interviews with 20 of Texas A&M’s “Junction Boys” will delve deep into their journeys as Texas A&M football players. They will provide extraordinary insight into their personal
experiences during the 10 grueling days at the now-famous summer football camp
coached by Paul
“Bear” Bryant in Junction, Texas in 1954.
