How Artists Are Using Row Houses To Empower Citizens In Houston
How Rick Lowe’s “Project Row Houses” brings art and change to ordinary places and ordinary lives.
In 1993, Lowe was part of a group of artists that bought 22 run-down row houses in Houston’s historically black Third Ward. In the years since, the string of houses has blossomed into an arts community, offering everything from artist residencies to after-school programs to temporary shelter for single mothers.
“At its core, it’s really just about thinking [of] the social environment as a sculptural form so that we understand some of the everyday, mundane things that happen,” Lowe explained to Art Practical, “from transitional housing for single mothers or education programs or real-estate development — not only from the standpoint of the practical outcomes from these services but also the poetic elements that can be layered into them.”
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