MOTHER DOG STUDIOS
10 AM - 9 PM
The ORIGINAL & HISTORICAL Downtown Artists’ Warehouse District will open working art studios and exhibition spaces to the public for the official 29th Annual ARTCRAWLhouston2021.
Since 1992, the tradition of the artists "open studios" takes place on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Visitors have the opportunity to pARTicipate in the live/work/show spaces of these neighborhood "urban pioneers”. The mission of the ARTCRAWL is to assist the public in understanding contemporary art by directly involving the visitors in a dialogue with local artists in the Artist Warehouse District of Downtown Houston.
DATE: One day event, Saturday, November 20, 2021, from 10AM to 9PM. (Some warehouses will be open on Sunday)
LOCATION: The Original ARTISTS’ WAREHOUSE DISTRICT
(North of Downtown between San Jacinto, Interstate 10 and McKee Street)
PARKING: Street parking available at each participating warehouse and at Reef Parking, 1016 N. San Jacinto
ADMISSION: FREE
CONTACT: John Runnels at motherdogstudios@earthlink.net, 713.229.9760
ALL CDC, state & city guidelines for COVID-19 will be followed by ALL pARTicipating buildings!
NO MASK = NO ENTRANCE. SOCIAL DISTANCE. BUILDING CAPACITY LIMITS ENFORCED.
This year's event marks the 29th anniversary of Artistic Survival from flooding, demolition & gentrification in an ever changing cluster of Artists’ warehouses in the 4th largest city in the United States.
This year's pARTicipants in Houston’s ORIGINAL cluster of artists’ warehouses and business sponsors include:
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Bisong Art Gallery
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Hardy & Nance Studios
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m ARCHITECTS
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Mother Dog Studios
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NDT Seals
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Reef Parking
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Cake Life Co.
An exciting, never-seen-before addition to our ARTCRAWLhouston2021 walk-about experience, will be the collaboration with Chalk Crawl (www.chalkcrawl.com). Artists will transform sidewalks & pavements into ARTWORKS to guide visitors through the neighborhood.
MOTHERDOGSTUDIOS, the oldest surviving Artists’ warehouse in Houston, is ARTCRAWLhouston2021 headquarters
and will present an exhibition entitled FACEtoFACE-Portraits.SELF.portraits- a response to the isolationism created by Covid-19.
IN MEMORIAM
ARTCRAWLHouston2021
dedicated to:
Peter Dickson
PARTICIPANTS
Bisong Art Gallery specializes in contemporary art from emerging and mid-career artists. The gallery exhibits a variety of mediums from paintings, photography, hand blown glass, sculptures, mixed media, and public art.
Bisong Art Gallery
1305 Sterrett Street
Houston, TX 77002
713-498-3015
info@bisonggallery.com
Located in Erie City Iron Works
The 1st Annual Chalk Crawl Houston is a chalk-art infused family-friendly scavenger hunt celebrating all things Houston.
Chalk Crawl
Houston, TX
713-492-6899
info@chalkcrawl.com
Hardy & Nance Studios
902 Hardy Street
Houston, TX 77020
The work of m ARCHITECTS represents a context driven design process with careful attention to detail backed by technical know-how. They offer a full range of client focused design services including architecture, interior design, planning and urban design, sustainability, and brand design. They specialize in commercial, education, and healthcare projects.
m ARCHITECTS
1206 Nance Street
Houston, TX 77002
Located in the former Fifth Ward Hotel
Mother Dog Studios, the oldest surviving warehouse in Houston and ARTCRAWL headquarters, will present the art exhibition "Face-to-Face: Portraits. Self. Portraits", curated by John Runnels.
Mother Dog Studios
720 Walnut Street
Houston, TX 77002
713-229-9760
motherdogstudios@earthlink.net
NDT Seals Inc, founded in 1992, is a family-owned and managed business. They design, manufacture and distribute the patented NDT Inspection Plug and NDT Inspection Point Labels. These products are used in the Process Safety Management and Mechanical Integrity efforts underway in the refining, chemical, petrochemical, paper and pulp, household products, food processing, and transportation industries.
NDT Seals
1333 Sterrett Street
Houston, TX 77002
713-222-7584
Located in Bienville Furniture Company
Reef Parking
1016 N San Jacinto Street
Houston, Texas 77002
Entrance on Walnut Street and Rothwell Street
Cake Life Co.
Local cakery in the best little part of downtown! They specialize in custom cakes for any occasion. Cake tastings available by appointment only.
Cake Life Co.
801 William Street
Houston, TX 77002
(832) 716-8699
www.facebook.com/cakelifecoLLC
Located in Bienville Furniture Company
ARTCRAWL HOUSTON 2021 MAP
For more information, contact:
John Runnels
Mother Dog Studios
720 Walnut Street
Houston, TX 77002
713-229-9760
History of Participants' Buildings
Erie City Iron Works: 1305 Sterrett & 1310 Nance
Erie City Iron Works dates back to1906 and used to be an iron foundry warehouse where metal was delivered by railroad and stored until it was sold to builders. The metal used to build Houston came through here first. The warehouse has been converted into lofts. Some artists live there, using their places as studios to showcase their work. The other tenants are up-and-coming businesses.
Bisong Art Gallery is located at this building.
Fifth Ward Hotel: 1206 Nance
The former Fifth Ward Hotel building is a near-miraculous survivor of Victorian commercial architecture in Houston. Built in 1883 as a hotel, it was three stories tall with load bearing masonry walls of locally produced brick and cast iron columns supporting timber framed floors. By 1915, the hotel had closed and the building saw a succession of uses. During the 1950s, the two upper floors were removed because the masonry walls were near the point of collapse and the remainder of the historic building was concealed behind sheet metal siding. After a disastrous electrical fire in 1993, the last owner abandoned it. The structure was sensitively rehabilitated in 2002 by Rice Construction Company in consultation with historic preservationist Anna Mod.
In 2003 Michael Morton, AIA of m ARCHITECTS reconfigured the interior for use as an architecture studio and art gallery.
Mother Dog Studios: 720 Walnut
Mother Dog Studios is the oldest surviving artists studios warehouse space in Houston. Surrounded by universities, cathedrals, jails, warehouses, architectural sculptures and skyscrapers somewhere in the natural forest and the cultural forest. Mother Dog Studios is unequivocally in the heart of the vortex of the 4th largest city in the United States. Founded in 1984, by Charlie Jean Sartwelle and John Runnels, it is a 22,000 square foot warehouse with 25 artist studios and an expansive exhibition space called the Mother Dog Museum of Modern Art.
Bienville Furniture Company: 1333 Sterrett / 801 William St.
The Bienville Furniture Company Building on Sterrett Street is Houston’s little touch of European charm with that patina we used to only find in New Orleans. In 1973, home to Reggie Bowman’s Plastics company… the folks who invented the Beverage Buddy can holder that hooks onto your car window. Until around 1994, it survived as Bienville Gallery. We assume it was eponymously named after the Founder of the City of New Orleans Jean Baptiste Le MoyneSieu de Bienville. Thanks go to Pete Dickson for historical archives.
