In partnership with Citizen Schools, an after-school apprenticeship program, and through a commission from the Houston Arts Alliance, artist Reginald Adams lead a team of 15 students in the design and production of 30 mosaic murals that will be incorporated into the neighborhood multi-service center which is just blocks away from where the students attend school.
The 10 week long apprenticeship program provides the students with hands-on experience working alongside a professional artist in the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston (MOCAH) downtown art studio. The program offers a positive and creative outlet for the youth to express themselves but equally as important is the benefit that is provided to the community through the beautification of the multi-service center, a well visited civic space located in the heart of the community.
The art apprenticeship program began in October 2008 and will be completed January 2009. The art project will be unveiled along with the Grand Opening of the renovated multi-service center in the spring of 2009.
The project is sponsored in part by Citizen Schools and Dal Tile with support from the Houston Arts Alliance through the city of Houston.
For more information contact Reginald Adams, at 713.224.2787 or via email at Reginald@mocah.org
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