Cultural Warrior: Michael Peranteau
It’s hard to think about the arts in this city without Michael Peranteau’s name coming up. From DiverseWorks to Project Row Houses (PRH), Peranteau has been a steady presence on Houston’s artscape for decades. He spoke with A + C editor, Nancy Wozny, about the next chapter in his arts life as executive director of [...]
Read MoreCultural Warrior: Elizabeth Dunbar
DiverseWorks’s Elizabeth Dunbar It has been a busy year for Elizabeth Dunbar, who became executive director at DiverseWorks in January. As the multidisciplinary arts space celebrates its 30th anniversary, Dunbar has honed its programming focus, brought in new staff and a new artist board, and prepared for a move from its north-of-downtown location to 4102 [...]
Read MoreCultural Warrior: ROCO’s Alecia Lawyer
Alecia L. Lawyer is the founder, executive and artistic director, and principal oboist of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO). With a tag line of “the Most Fun You Can Have with Serious Music,” Lawyer takes to heart the job of making classical music welcoming to all [...]
Read MoreCultural Warrior: John Guess Jr.
Houston Museum of African American Culture’s John Guess Jr. For a guy prone to joking that he’d like to get his hands on “whoever invented 24/7,” John Guess Jr. is pretty good at it. A native Houstonian active on the boards of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston Arts Alliance, and other cultural institutions, Guess [...]
Read MoreCultural Warrior: Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard is the engine behind such ground-breaking HGOco/Houston Grand Opera programs such as Song of Houston and Home and Place. She also is the lead on numerous other projects that bring HGO into Houston’s multi-cultural communities in a way that sets the standard for [...]
Read MoreCultural Warrior: James Nelson
Houston Ballet’s Executive Director James Nelson In February of 2012, James Nelson took over the reigns of the executive director job from C.C. Conner. Nelson, a former Houston Ballet dancer, was groomed for the job during his 12-year tenure as general manager. Even though his office has just moved down the hall, more than his [...]
Read MoreCultural Warrior: Mercury’s Antoine Plante
One of the city’s leading early music organizations, Mercury Baroque, has recently re-branded itself as Mercury-the Orchestra Redefined. Antoine Plante, conductor and artistic director, left Montreal to attend Rice University’s [...]
Read MoreCultural Warrior: Matthew Lennon
HAA’s Director of Civic Art & Design With Ai Weiwei’s “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads” guarding Mc-Govern Lake at Hermann Park, now seemed like the ideal time dig deeper into ideas surrounding public art in Houston. A+C editor Nancy Wozny chatted with Matthew Lennon, Houston Arts Alliance’s director of Civic Art & Design. A+C: The days [...]
Read MoreCultural Warrior: Nancy Henderek
NOW ON HER 17TH SEASON, AND her 20th if you count the work she did in Brussels, Belgium, Dance Salad Festival director Nancy Henderek is a cultural ambassador on the international stage. [...]
Read MoreCultural Warrior: Inprint’s Executive Director Rich Levy
Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series February 27 Rae Armantrout & Christian Wiman March 26 Téa Obreht & Gary Shteyngart April 23 W.S. Merwin POET RICH LEVY HAS PRESIDED over Inprint since 1995. He holds a MFA in poetry from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his writings have appeared in numerous publications, and in 2011, he [...]
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