Community Calendar

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love will be on view to the public at the ModernArt Museum of Fort Worth from July 5 through October 19, 2008. Special exhibitions are included in general museum admission: $10 for adults; $4 for seniors (60+) and students with identification; free for children 12 and under; free for Modern members.

The first full-scale American museum survey of the work of Kara Walker opens at the Modern on July 6, 2008. The exhibition is organized by Philippe Vergne, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, and Yasmil Raymond, Assistant Curator, at the WalkerArtCenter, Minneapolis, in close collaboration with the artist. My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love features works ranging from Walker's signature black cut-paper silhouettes to film animations to more than one hundred works on paper.

Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained national and international recognition for her room-size tableaux depicting historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence, and subjugation through the genteel eighteenth-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the American South before the Civil War, Walker's compositions play off stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely, life on the plantation, where masters, mistresses, slaves, women, and children enact a subverted version of the past.

Over the years the artist has used drawing, painting, light projections, writing, shadow puppetry, and, most recently, film animation to narrate her tales of romance and oppression, power and liberation. These scenarios thwart conventional readings of a cohesive national history and expose the collective and ongoing psychological injury caused by the tragic legacy of slavery. Her work leads viewers through an aesthetic experience that evokes a critical and emotional understanding of the past and proposes an examination of contemporary racial and gender stereotypes.

Walker's visual epics systematically and critically walk a line-the "color line," to quote W. E. B. DuBois-that moves us from the antebellum South to an analysis of many of the prevailing economic, social, and individual power structures still in place today. Deploying an acidic sense of humor, she examines the dialectic of pleasure and danger, guilt and fulfillment, desire and fear, race and class. "The black subject in the present tense is the container for specific pathologies from the past," says the artist, "and it is continuously growing and feeding off those maladies."

Organized as a narrative, the exhibition articulates the parallel shifts in Walker's visual language and subject matter-from a critical analysis of the history of slavery as a microcosm of American history through the structure of romantic literature and Hollywood film to a revised history of Western modernism and its relationship to the notion of "primitivism."

About the Artist
Born in 1969 in Stockton, California, Kara Walker received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. Since that time, she has created more than thirty room-size installations and hundreds of drawings and watercolors, and has been the subject of more than forty solo exhibitions. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award (1997) and, most recently, the Deutsche Bank Prize (2004) and the Larry Aldrich Award (2005). She was the United States representative for the 25th International São Paulo Biennial in Brazil (2002). She currently lives in New York, where she is associate professor of visual arts at Columbia University, New York.

Catalogue
The WalkerArtCenter has published a 432-page illustrated catalogue to accompany the exhibition. The book contains critical essays by scholars and cultural critics on the myriad social, racial, and gender issues present in Walker's work, including texts by exhibition curator Philippe Vergne; cultural and literary historian Sander L. Gilman; art historian and critic Thomas McEvilley; art historian Robert Storr; and poet and novelist Kevin Young. The publication features more than 250 full-color images of the artist's work, a complete exhibition history and bibliography, a 36-page insert contributed by the artist, and an illustrated lexicon of recurring motifs in the artist's most influential installations by Yasmil Raymond. The catalogue will be available in The Modern Shop.

Ranged Event
From: 7/5/2008
To: 10/19/2008

Christmas in July Banquet and Auction

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:00:00 -0400

The Spring Klein Chamber of Commerce (SKCC) will hold their first annual Christmas in July banquet with a live auction on Friday, July 25, 2008 from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. All proceeds from the auction will be to support the startup of the Chamber, a not-for-profit organization that operates to promote business development, a strong community and superior quality of life in Spring and Klein Texas. To be held at the Augusta Pines Savannahs in Spring, Texas , the event will have all the ambience and air of Christmas complete with dinner, dancing, holiday decor and live music. Tickets are $55.

Spring Klein Chamber of Commerce

Christmas in July Banquet and Auction video

Single Day Event On: 7/26/2008

Free Summer Band Concert

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Summer Band Concerts
Every Tuesday
7:30pm

As we usher in the Summer season, we embrace the humid weather and sunny days - and welcome the annual return of the Summer Band Concert Series.

Now in its 81st year, the Island Beach Band, directed by Frank Incaprera, is as a part of Galveston summers as snow cones, flip flops, and trips to the beach.

Join your neighbors, friends, and family by attending band performances at the historic Sealy Gazebo on 24th Street and Avenue I across from Rosenberg Library. Family friendly entertainment attracts a casual crowd of locals and tourists to the downtown site.

Summer band concerts are free to the public. Performances start at 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday in June, July, and August.

For more information, please call the Parks and Recreation Department at (409) 621-3177.

Schedule of Events...

Tuesdays, June thru August Summer Band Concert Series
Time 7:30pm
Location Sealy Gazebo, 24th &�Avenue I
Admission Free

Recurring Event
From: 6/3/2008
To: 8/26/2008

Weekend College Information Session

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Lone Star College-North Harris invites you to attend our free information sessions. The dates, times and locations are posted below. Prospective students will learn first-hand about the certificates and degrees offered. Individual counseling will be offered each session. Also, financial aid information will be shared. For more information or to RSVP, please call 281.765.7969 or e-mail debra.j.harper@lonestar.edu.

Programs Include:

* Drafting
* Office Assistant
* Physician Office-Based Coding
* Hospital-Based Coding
* Medical Front Office
* Medical Transcription
* Hospitality Operations
* Hospitality Management
* Accounting

Single Day Event On: 7/30/2008

Movie on the Strand: Grease

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Movie on The Strand: Grease
Saturday, August 2, 2008
8:30pm

Options for date night or an evening with friends just increased for residents and visitors to Galveston Island. Downtown visitors can now enjoy monthly Movies on The Strand at Saengerfest Park, 23rd and Strand, just after sunset. This evening's movie will be Grease.

Dates for the movies are as follows:

March 22
April 5
May 3
June 7
August 2
September 6
October 4
Enjoy dinner on the Strand and then the 7:30 p.m. movie in the comfort of your own blankets and lawn chairs.

Movies on The Strand is sponsored by the Galveston Park Board of Trustees/Galveston Island Convention & Visitors Bureau, GPM, Inc. and the Historic Galveston Downtown Partnership.

For more information please visit www.galveston.com or call 1-888-GAL-ISLE.

About the Event...

Scheduled Saturdays thru Year Movies on The Strand
Time Just after sunset
Location Saengerfest Park, 23rd & Strand
Admission Free

Single Day Event On: 8/2/2008

Art in the Park

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Art in the Park
First Saturday of Every Month
10am - 6pm

Don't miss Art in the Park, an open-air market event held the first Saturday of the month (March thru October) at Saengerfest Park, 23rd & Strand. Dozens of artists will set their masterpieces out for all to see. This event is free to the public and whether youre an art enthusiast or not, it is a great chance to see some unique artwork by local Galvestonians.

Schedule of Events...

First Saturday of Month Art in the Park
Time 10am - 6pm
Location Saengerfest Park, 23rd & Strand
Cost Free

Single Day Event On: 8/2/2008

Rice Design Alliances Buffalo Bayou Charrette

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:00:00 -0400

8am-4pm
(Note: Site visit is Saturday, July 19)
Reservations required
www.rda.rice.edu

With its hike and bike trails, lush landscaping, exciting public art, and imaginative lunar lighting scheme, Buffalo Bayou is being transformed into an active and vibrant waterfront destination in downtown Houston. Routine flooding, however, restricts other entertainment from further activating this valuable public space. But does it have to? For its 2008 Design Charrette, Rice Design Alliance joins with Buffalo Bayou Partnership to investigate how Houstons design community can stir things up along Buffalo Bayou by creating a movable kiosk system. Potential activation sites include the bayous 10-mile trail system, the Allen Parkway dog park, Sabine Promenade, and Sesquicentennial Park.

For more information, visit www.rda.rice.edu or call 713.348.4876.

Single Day Event On: 8/2/2008

How to Research the History of Your House

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:00:00 -0400

How to Research the History of Your House - with David Hille

An award wining restorer of historic homes in the inner loop, Hille will
demonstrate step by step his research of an historic home on State St.
in the Historic Old Sixth Ward; Houston's first and only fully protected historic district.

David Hille is a Realtor with Karen Derr & Associates, he has restored more
than a dozen historic homes in the inner loop, several winning national awards
and two have been published in magazines and two more regulars on home tours.

Saturday August 2, 10 a.m. at Buchanan's Native Plants, 611 E. 11th St
Call Hille for more info at 713-551-1350

Single Day Event On: 8/2/2008

Spring Klein Chamber Networking Luncheon

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Held the first Tuesday of every month, from 11:30 to 1:00 pm. Special speakers and networking for the local business community. For more information, visit the Spring Klein Chamber of Commerce website.

Single Day Event On: 8/5/2008

Community Calendar

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor

Christmas in July Banquet and Auction

Free Summer Band Concert

Weekend College Information Session

Movie on the Strand: Grease

Art in the Park

Rice Design Alliances Buffalo Bayou Charrette

How to Research the History of Your House

Spring Klein Chamber Networking Luncheon

Rice Design Alliances Buffalo Bayou Charrette