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Big Ideas in Art and Culture: Rick Lowe
Houston-based artist Rick Lowe is the founder of Project Row Houses, an arts and cultural community located in Houston, Texas. In 1993, moved by the imminent demolition of several blocks of shotgun-style houses in the neighbourhood - one of the city's oldest African American communities - Lowe came up with a plan to preserve the neighbourhood's historic homes and provide essential services for its residents. Project Row Houses has created homes for single mothers and their children, residency spaces for artists to create new work with the local community, health centres, community gardens, and more. Originally occupying a group of twenty-two houses covering one and a half city blocks, Project Row Houses has grown to include over forty renovated properties, containing exhibition spaces, a literary center, a multimedia performance art space, offices, low-income housing, and other amenities.
Rick Lowe spoke at the Kitchener City Hall as part of the Big Ideas in Art and Culture lecture series, January 8, 2014.
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Laura Watson: Spell for the End of the World
An animation and visual poem created for CAFKA and supported by the Digital Originals initiative from the... read more
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CAFKA.18: ARENA Open Mic Night with Spooloops
ARENA is a mobile interactive sound sculpture by Berlin-based artist Benoît Maubrey. ARENA is conceived in the shape of a small amphitheater, constructed with 320 recycled loudspeakers. The... read more
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Big Ideas in Art and Culture: Susan Blight
CAFKA.18 artist Susan Blight spoke about her work on Thursday, June 28, 2018 as part of the Big Ideas in Art and Culture lecture series at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.
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CAFKA.18: Don Russell
For CAFKA.18 Cambridge artist Don Russell built Stone, Clay, Fire: Making a Circle in Springbank Community Gardens at the rare Charitable Research Reserve in Cambridge, Ontario. He began by... read more