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      Embracing Your Fears as Fuel With Zinzi Gugu Johnson
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      Mary Sherwood Brock and Joshua Wattles On Hope and Aspiration for Indivisibility in America
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      Open Call for Artists: ‘Modern Love: Reflections on Intimacy and Eros’
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      Catching Up With Joan Cox, Winner of the 2022 NOT REAL ART Grant
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      The NOT REAL ART Guide to Summer Festival Season 2023
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      Finding Home in Unexpected Places: Malti B Lee on Tracing Global Roots Through Austin’s Architecture
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Events & News 2 min read
Open Call for Artists: ‘Modern Love: Reflections on Intimacy and Eros’

Submissions are now open for our spring exhibition, ‘Modern Love.’ Artists can submit their pieces until April 1, 2026, for a chance to be featured.

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Features Artist Profiles 4 min read
These Women Are Rewriting the Rules Around Art, Technology, and Gender

Explore how women working at the crossroads of art and tech are changing narratives, making history, and expanding what’s possible this Women’s Histor...

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Curator Statements Features 4 min read
‘Out of Bounds’: An Exhibition Statement From Curator Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis

Our latest exhibition, ‘Out of Bounds,’ features inventive, tech-savvy, critically aware artists navigating the porous terrain between technology and...

Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis
Q+Art 6 min read
Finding Home in Unexpected Places: Malti B Lee on Tracing Global Roots Through Austin’s Architecture

Austin-based artist Malti B Lee discusses how motherhood, migration, and city streets inspire her architectural paintings and shape her sense of home.

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Q+Art 4 min read
Corn Is More Than a Crop in Suzy González’s Visionary Portraits

San Antonio artist Suzy González blends activism and ancestral wisdom in her ‘Plantcestors’ series, redefining identity and place through natural mate...

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Q+Art 6 min read
How Alicia Garza Turns Thrifted Finds Into Wearable Art

Rio Grande Valley artist Alicia Garza transforms secondhand textiles into something bright and unexpected, somewhere between fashion, craft, and activ...

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Podcast 2 min read
FotoFest at 40: Chris Wicker Unpacks Houston’s ‘Global Photo Party’—and His Own Absurdist Art

Chris Wicker, exhibitions manager at FotoFest, shares insights on organizing Houston's 40th anniversary photo biennial and his own multidisciplinary a...

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Q+Art 3 min read
Why This Pakistani Artist Washes Away Her Own Paintings—And What It Reveals About Memory and Migration

Dallas designer Maria Rasheed transforms heirloom carpets into fragile paper art that fades over time, a meditation on diaspora and disappearing histo...

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Q+Art 4 min read
Brazil and Texas Suburbia: Julia Fisher Photographs the Space Between Two Worlds

Houston’s Julia Fisher uses color and collage to reconstruct childhood memories, exploring the gap between her Brazilian heritage and American upbring...

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Q+Art 4 min read
Chris Wicker's Houston Studio Is Where East Texas Nostalgia Goes to Get Weird

In this Quick Q+Art interview, Houston-based new media artist Chris Wicker discusses how his East Texas upbringing shapes his video installations.

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Q+Art 7 min read
Standing at the ‘Universal Corner’: Punk Poet Mitchell L. H. Douglas on Finding Your Creative Intersection

Collage artist Mitchell L. H. Douglas discusses his upcoming poetry collection, ‘Universal Corner,’ where different worlds and cultural influences col...

Morgan  Laurens  Morgan  Laurens 
Podcast 1 min read
Embracing Your Fears as Fuel With Zinzi Gugu Johnson

Filmmaker Zinzi Gugu Johnson joins us to discuss ‘Fears,’ her new short film that turns American anxieties into darkly humorous cinema.

Scott Power Scott Power
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