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November 17 - November 23, 2014Info
UC Berkeley
Berkeley
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The Arts Research Center is delighted to host a 10-day residency with acclaimed artist, community organizer, and 2014 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Rick Lowe.
Lowe has long been a leader in community art practice and neighborhood development, especially with the success of his project, the Project Row Houses. Located in Houston’s Northern Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American neighborhoods, 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 experimentatio n for new economic models in sustaining social and artistic communities, particularly within the community of socially-engaged art.
During his time on campus, Lowe will present the 2014 Regents Lecture “Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial” on Monday November 17 and participate in the symposium “Public Art/Housing Publics: Conversations on Art and Social Justice” on November 21. He will engage in class visits, studio critiques, and tours of innovative art and architectural projects with ARC’s partners throughout the Bay Area. For more information about each event, please visit our website or email us at: ucb_arts@berkeley.edu.
Complete information and RSVP details can be found here: http://arts.berkeley.edu/?p=2211.
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This residency is coordinated by The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, and co-sponsored by UC-Berkeley Regents Lecture Program, the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, The College of Environmental Design, Art Practice, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.