Art Opening & Party
Saturday Nov 26th, 2011
Michael Kahlil Taylor
Art Reception 5-8pm, (featuring DJ N9NE)
Khon’s Bar 3 year Anniversary Party 8pm – until!
DRINK SPECIALS ALL NITE LONG!
2808 Milam St. | Houston, TX | (713) 523-7775
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2011 (Communograph Sidewalk Talk)
Sidewalk Talk: Life Archived through Art, a poetry performance hosted by artist & poet Michael K Taylor Preceded by a moderated discussion with 3rd Ward Elders including members of S.H.A.P.E.’s Elders Institute of Wisdom. Poems Specific poems written about Elder and Shape within 3rd Ward will be read, an open mic, and dinner will be served (early).
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Place: 2521 Holman Street
Houston, TX 77004
(713) 526-7662
(image is MKT’s piece from the Communograph installation within Ashley Hunt’s Row House.)
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Images from the New York Performance at the New Museum
Book Club Book: Reading and Book Launch
The book SOLD OUT at that nite and will be available again soon, please send email if interested in preorder.
Book Club Book is a collection of stories, emails, poems, indices, and reflections
by Houston artists with an oral history of Project Row Houses. This is the sixth
in a series of books published by Future Plan and Program, a publishing project
initiated by Steffani Jemison that features book-length literary works by visual
artists.
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Image from the Opening Reception of
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”
A group exhibition featuring a new work by MKT.
@ Mountain View College in Dallas, Texas
Title: “She’s HeLa Complex : 82 Chromes”
Engraving on Wood
40in Circumference, 2 inches deep
Represents the HeLa cells modal chromosome number of 82 and the way the “immortal” cells multiply.
Michael K Taylor received a residency to study poetry from May 16th – June 5th and will share and sell works from his art studio followed by hosting a poetry night to help cover his final travel expenses. At the ACA Residency he will study for three weeks with acclaimed poet Thomas Sayers Ellis.
Saturday 12-7pm with reception from 4-7pm.
Black Heritage Gallery
5408 Almeda
(713) 529-7900
Followed by a night of poetry co-hosted by Michael K Taylor
@ Secret Word Cafe
2016 Dowling St
http://www.secretwordcafe.com
THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS, poetry
Thomas Sayers Ellis co-founded The Dark Room Collective (in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1988); and received his M.F.A. from Brown University. He is the author of Skin, Inc. (Graywolf Press, 2010) and The Maverick Room (Graywolf Press, 2005), which won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award, and a recipient of a Mrs. Giles Whiting Writers’ Award. His poems and photographs have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Callaloo, Best American Poetry (1997, 2001 and 2010), Grand Street, The Baffler, Jubilat, Tin House, Poetry, and The Nation Mr. Ellis is a contributing writer to Waxpoetics and Poets & Writers. He is also an Assistant Professor of Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, a faculty member of the Lesley University low-residency M.F.A Program and a member of the Cave Canem Faculty. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and is currently working on The Go-Go
Book: People in the Pocket in Washington, D.C.
Residency program at the Atlantic Center for the Arts
A residency at Atlantic Center allows artists to devote time and attention to their art in a community of like-minded artists. Atlantic Center for the Arts provides workspace and equipment to create without interruption. After the residency, many artists-in-residence continue to maintain close ties with one another.
Master Artists spend two hours per day, five days per week with their Associate Artists. This time can spent in formal or informal group settings, individual conferences, or just working in the studio. Master Artists are available for questions and consulting.
CALLALOO Volume 34, Number 1
Featured in this issue: an interview with Michael K Taylor during his solo exhibition “Re : Vision Pro :Cess” at Prairie View University Gallery, also Thomas Sayers Ellis,Carl Phillips, John Edgar Wideman, Zora Neale Hurston, Albert Murray, Louis Edwards, Alena Hairston, Dawn Lundy Martin, Amber Flora Thomas, and GerShun Avilez among others.
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