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Expanding the conversation about art in Texas. Founded in 2001, Glasstire is the first Texas Art Digital Media Company. Find features on Texas Artists, News, and the Top 5 Art Exhibits to See Each Week. The full shebang is at glasstire.com.
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Art Dirt: Cheech Marin Talks Texas Art
Brandon Zech talks with actor, comedian, and art collector Cheech Marin about how he came to collect Chicano art, the Texas artists he's looking at today, and his museum, The Cheech, in Riverside, California.
"The other great center of Chicano art was San Antonio, because they had a lot of artists and they supported them, but there was no director of any major museum that wanted to put their neck on the block and say yeah this is Chicano art. They loved me as a comedian but they weren't so sure about me as an authority on Chicano art, because these guys had studied it all their life and had unpaid student loans to prove it, so who is this doper comedian to say what's what about Chicano art?"
See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2024/03/10/art-dirt-cheech-marin-talks-texas-art
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Art Dirt: Music & Photography with Barry Stone's Porch Swing Orchestra
Leslie Moody Castro talks with artist, musician, and podcaster Barry Stone about how he engages with local artists, performers, and photography through his long-running project, Porch Swing Orchestra.
“The relation of image and sound is, at its core, really what Porch Swing Orchestra and 'Vast is the Sea' is about. So, all the artists are bound, in diverse ways, through explorations of image, sound, and community.”
See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2024/02/25/art-dirt-music-photography-with-barry-stones-porch-swing-orchestra
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Art Dirt: Talking With Natalia Padilla
William Sarradet talks with Natalia Padilla about making art in Dallas, her work as a designer, and tips on applying to grants in the city.
"My project, 'Yellow,' is a poem to the Dallas community. I love this city. It has taken care of me and allowed me to have a practice and explore my creativity."
See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2024/02/11/art-dirt-talking-with-natalia-padilla
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Art Dirt: An Exit Interview with the Blaffer Art Museum's Steven Matijcio
Brandon Zech talks with the Blaffer Art Museum's outgoing director, Steven Matijcio, about his approach to curating in peripheral art cities, engaging with local communities, and what he'll miss about Houston.
"I have really come to love working in the unexpected place. Because in a lot of ways, I feel like you can spread your wings, you can oftentimes have more of an impact, you can get to know the community better. I really have loved these so-called non-center cities because I found a lot of richness in curatorially responding to them."
See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2024/01/28/art-dirt-an-exit-interview-with-the-blaffer-art-museums-steven-matijcio
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Art Dirt: Talking with Glasstire Editor-in-Chief Gabriel Martinez
Brandon Zech talks with Glasstire's new Editor-in-Chief, Gabriel Martinez, about what makes a good work of art, how music, writing, and art differ, and why artists should know art history.
"Every artwork is in dialog with art history, and I think it's important for artists to contextualize where their work stands in that conversation. It becomes shorthand, because you're using these past iterations of similar ideas and you’re speaking to them."
See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2024/01/14/art-dirt-talking-with-glasstire-editor-in-chief-gabriel-martinez
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Art Dirt: Talking with Houston's Harrison Guy
Leslie Moody Castro talks with Harrison Guy about Houston's Fifth Ward, his Urban Souls Dance Company, and what keeps him motivated to build community in the city.
"Our projects are based on this thought process that memory builds the monument. The way that we look at it is that if you don't have a lot of assets in your community, because they're gone, for a lot of different reasons beyond your control, the thing that you do have is your memory...so if we look at the memories as the capital and we start to build from that, then we're starting from a place of asset versus deficit."
See related readings here: https://glasstire.com/2023/12/31/art-dirt-talking-with-houstons-harrison-guy
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