Archway Gallery Current Exhibition
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July 5 - 31, 2025
Archway Gallery's 17th Annual Juried Exhibition Benefiting Community Partner Brave Little Company - Theater for Everyone Opening Reception Saturday, July 12, 5 - 8 p.m. Juror's Remarks & Awards at 6:30 p.m. Complimentary Valet Parking and Light Refreshments Artists' Forum & Music Evening Saturday, July 26, 6 - 8 p.m. Participating Artists Speak About Their Work Live Music by Heights Fools on Stools |
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Archway Gallery is honored to present its 17th Annual Juried Exhibition, benefiting Brave Little Company. This annual event is an opportunity for area artists who are not members of the gallery to participate in an exhibition of works in Houston’s finest artist-owned space. Area artists are invited to apply. Each year an invited juror selects works by local artists for the month-long exhibition. Sales from the exhibition support a nonprofit organization chosen by the gallery members. Prizes are awarded at the discretion of the juror and include cash awards for first, second, and third place winners. The first-place winner also receives guest artist privileges for one month at Archway Gallery.
Guest Juror: Rick Lowe
This year’s juror is acclaimed artist and social activist Rick Lowe. Mr. Lowe was born in 1961 in rural Russell County, Alabama. Among Lowe’s numerous community art projects are Project Row Houses, Houston (1993–2018); Watts House Project, Los Angeles (1996–2012); Borough Project (with Suzanne Lacy and Mary Jane Jacob), Charleston, SC (2003); Small Business/Big Change, Anyang Public Art Program, Korea(2010); Trans.lation, Dallas (2013); Victoria Square Project, Athens (2017–18); Greenwood Art Project, Tulsa, OK (2018–21); and Black Wall Street Journey, Chicago (2021–). Collections include the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Menil Collection, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the UBS Art Collection. Solo exhibitions include Art League Houston (2020–21). He also participated in Documenta 14, Athens (2017). In 2013 President Barack Obama appointed Lowe to the National Council on the Arts, and in 2014 he was named a MacArthur Fellow. Lowe was a Visiting Fellow at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society from 2019-2021. He is currently a professor of interdisciplinary practice at the University of Houston.
Community Partner: Brave Little Company
Brave Little Company is Theatre for Everyone. Founded in 2013, BLC creates and produces theatre about, with and for all of Houston’s kids and their grown-ups. Reflecting Houston’s diversity in the stories told and the artists who tell them, BLC creates theatre the way kids play. A recipient of the 2023 TYA/USA National Award for Artistic Innovation, Brave Little Company has achieved national significance in creating new works for young people and is a member of the Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Roster for 2020-2026. BLC’s professional productions focus on bilingual work to spark audience imagination such as THE BIG “US” PROJECT, a collaborative piece by artists of all ages and experience levels from Houston’s refugee communities; WISH YOU WERE HERE, collaborations with individuals with disabilities and learning differences; and opportunities for all young people to express themselves creatively, wherever they are. For more information, visit www.brave-little.com
JULY 2025 EXHIBITION EVENTS
July 5 (Sat) |
Opening of Archway Gallery's 17th Annual Juried Exhibition (10 am - 6 pm) |
July 12 (Sat) |
Reception for Archway Gallery's 17th Annual Juried Exhibition (5 - 8 pm) Juror's Remarks & Awards (6:30 pm) |
July 26 (Sat) |
Archway Gallery's 17th Annual Juried Exhibition Artists' Forum & Music Evening (6 - 8 pm) |