The Breeze and Current

05/10/2024

Today, we held a joint meeting of the Budget & Fiscal Affairs and Arts & Culture Committees, where Randy Cohen, Vice President of Americans for the Arts, shared powerful insights on the economic impact of the nonprofit arts in Houston. Huge thanks to Randy for coming down to present!

Here are some key takeaways: The arts are a net income generator for Houston, helping pay the city’s bills. The nonprofit arts generate over $31 million in tax revenue and employ nearly 20,000 people in our city. Visitors alone bring in over $280 million, with out-of-towners spending 50% more than locals. The arts don’t just enrich our culture—they fuel our economy!

30/04/2024

A $4,000 grant helping Midwestern nonprofits present performing and visual arts activities between September 2024—May 2025.

26/08/2023

Art, Fort Scott, Gordon Parks Museum, History Gordon Parks Museum Receives Arts and Culture Grant by the Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas August 24, 2023 Loretta George Leave a comment Fort Scott, Kan. Aug.24, 2023 – An Arts and Culture grant through the Community Foundation of Southeast K...

19/12/2022

Twenty-first-century artists find visual exuberance in Buddhism, a religion too often viewed as somber and austere.

19/12/2022

Fitz Henry Lane was born December 18, 1804

Lane's luminous "Starlight" in Harbor pays homage to the large ship anchored near the center of the painting. Built in 1854, Starlight was one of a new generation of clipper ships built for great speed, which facilitated international trade and aided in expanding the nation's economy. The setting is Boston Harbor, where various vessels and laborers are harmoniously arranged, betraying the usual bustle of the port.

Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Lane was essentially untrained as a painter. His style combined precise drawing, which he learned as a printmaker's apprentice, and atmospheric effects typical of British and American marine paintings available to him in Boston. Here, Starlight's crisply painted and highlighted sails especially suggest the ship's power and beauty. [Gift of Sarah and Landon Rowland through The Ever Glades Fund, 2002.8] Currently on view in American Art gallery 215.

Fitz Henry Lane
American, 1804-1865
"Starlight" in Harbor, ca. 1855
Oil on canvas

19/12/2022

19/12/2022

Here’s a look back at the past year and some of its biggest news events through 15 of our most striking research findings.

19/12/2022

: "Whether onstage at a Black Pumas show or streaming on Spotify, Marshall has proven himself as one of Austin’s rising musical ambassadors." - Austin Monthly.
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Producer and Black Pumas keyboardist Jaron Marshall has released two EPs of "fluttering piano and soulful brass" including this year's The Prequel. JaRon and his band perform Jan 14 at ! 🎟Tix LINK IN BIO🎟

19/12/2022

✨ Thursday, December 15 - Sunday, December 18: Larry Goldings (Hammond B-3 organ), Peter Bernstein (guitar) and Bill Stewart (drums) make their highly anticipated return to Smoke! Don't miss this all-star trio!

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16/12/2022

The albums highlighted below are benchmarks in the history of jazz on record and if you are discovering jazz for the first time then you've just found the perfect place to start

16/12/2022

On this cold December evening, let's look at "Winter Count" from approximately 1902. Winter counts are pictorial, sequential histories created within a number of Plains tribes. Each image—symbol, object, figure or scene—represents an event by which an entire year, or winter, is counted and recorded in the history of the group. Framed within rectangles and organized as an inward-turning spiral, these images served as a memory aid for the keeper of the count, who could recite the history they represented to others. In this way, all important personal and tribal events were recalled and placed in time relative to what had been documented in the images. The keeper’s narrative, an oral tradition, was an essential component in relating the meaning of each drawing. This count spans the years 1826 to 1902.

Winter Count
Brule Lakota (Teton Sioux), South Dakota
ca. 1902.
Ink and watercolor on muslin
Gift of George Terasaki
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