Houston has a brand new purchasing initiative, launching simply forward of the vacation gift-buying crush. The inaugural Houston Artwork Weeks 2025 runs October 10-19. It’s the creation of the StellaNova Basis, a Houston nonprofit that gives funding to help the psychological well being care, remedy and restoration of Houstonians and their households.
Styled after acquainted packages just like the Vacation Purchasing Card, Houston Artwork Weeks permits customers to buy works from native artists, galleries, and occasions just like the Bayou Metropolis Artwork Competition, not solely supporting the native arts group, but additionally realizing their contributions will go to help Houston-area organizations that join these in must needed psychological well being providers. This yr’s main beneficiary is The Montrose Middle, Houston’s main LGBTQ+ social providers group, which empowers the group to reside more healthy, extra fulfilling lives by a variety of social providers, packages, and sources.
A pop-up exhibition and store will kick off the week on Saturday, October 18, on the Montrose Middle from 9 am to six pm.
This yr’s beneficiaries additionally embrace Healthcare for the Homeless-Houston, Guitars 4 Vets, The Purple Coronary heart Undertaking, and AHEPA Service Canine for Warriors
Doug Harris, StellaNova Basis’s govt director, says the first purpose of HAW is to stimulate consciousness and patronage of Houston-based artists. “The depth, breadth, and progress of Houston’s artwork group is one in all our metropolis’s most notable cultural achievements. The aim of Houston Artwork Weeks is to attach these artisans, together with the galleries and studios who serve them, with a brand new group of artwork lovers and collectors.” he stated.
Two Houston artwork galleries are already on board. The Bisong Gallery in Houston’s warehouse district facilities on modern artwork, and Bisong works to assist purchasers uncover one-of-a-kind items in a wide range of media. Connection is necessary to gallery proprietor Carla Bisong, a former funding banker, who opened her gallery in 2013.
Heidi Vaughan Tremendous Artwork in Higher Kirby on town’s Gallery Row showcases established, museum-level artists primarily based in Houston and in addition promote secondary market artworks.
Among the many artists collaborating this yr are Tra’ Slaughter, Damon Thomas, Taft McWhorter, and Phyllis Hand. Slaughter is a painter who usually depicts topics who’ve battled psychological well being issues. Thomas is a story-driven sculptor creating items in “abstracted realism.” McWhorter’s eclectic works have been proven in additional than 100 exhibits across the nation. A number of of Hand’s intensive images of notable Houstonians are within the assortment of the Museum of Tremendous Arts Houston.
The collaborating artists and galleries have paid a registration price and conform to donate a proportion of their gross sales throughout HAW to the Stella Nova Basis, which can then distribute the funds to this yr’s beneficiary. These wishing to participate within the occasion can register on Stella Nova’s web site.
Consumers can discover a full record of members on the web site as nicely.
