Wednesday February 18, 2009 - 7pm
"Toward Social Sculpture – Rick Lowe:
Project Row Houses"
Reception at 6:30
Fifth Street School Auditorium
401 South 4th Street
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Sponsored by the City of Las Vegas Arts Commission and UNLV Art Department and the "Art in Public Places" lecture series.
Rick Lowe is the founder of Project Row Houses, an arts and cultural community located in a historically significant and culturally charged neighborhood in Houston, Texas.
Rick Lowe has participated in exhibitions and programs nationally and internationally. From 1992 to the present he has exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, Kwangil Bienale, Kwangil Korea, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Glassell School and the Kumamoto State Museum, Kumamoto, Japan.
Rick Lowe has received many honors. In 1997, he and Project Row Houses were awarded a silver medal by the Rudy Bruner Awards in Urban Excellence.
In 2000 he was a recipient of the American Institute of Architects Keystone Award. In 2002 he was awarded the Heinz Award for arts and humanities,
and he was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University from 2001 to 2002. He has received the Brandywine Lifetime Achievement Award and he is an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
[graphic from Project Row Houses Web site.]
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