August 2017 – Art Based Education that goes Beyond the Classroom

Pixel Forest and the Revolution

The Swiss artist Pipilotti – a name the artist derived from a cartoon heroine Pipi Longstockings and the artist’s childhood nickname Lotti – exhibited her work Pixel Forest at the MFAH over the summer. This exhibit was in part in response to last summer’s Kisame exhibit which was billed as “social media worthy”. Themes that…

Exploring Sacred Geometry with Texitles and Paintings of the African Diaspora

Basket Weaving Background inspired by West African Textiles Tradition Painted Cloth tapestry also know as mudcloths and Batiks A Batik Cloth is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to whole cloth, or cloth made using this technique. Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines of the resist with a spouted tool called a…