MOTHER DOG STUDIOS
The Original and Historical Downtown Artists' Warehouse District will “open house” their working art studios and gallery exhibition spaces to the public for the Official ARTCRAWLhouston2024, a one-day event on Saturday, November 23, 2024, from 10am to 9pm. Some venues will be open for viewing Friday and Sunday.
This year’s event marks the 32nd Anniversary of Artistic Survival by an all-volunteer-artist-run, non-organization in the 4th largest city in the United States. Over 100 Artists will pARTicipate in Houston’s original cluster of artists warehouses.
Participants displaying artwork: Bisong Art Gallery, Hardy & Nance Studios, Los Muertos Tattoo Studio, Mother Dog Studios, Saint Arnold Brewing Company. For details about each participant's art exhibition and open hours during ArtCrawl, please visit their websites.
Sponsors: Clay Crawford, m Architecs (emeritus), NDT Seals, Platinum Parking, Saint Arnold Brewing Company (in kind), Studio 713
For more information, contact:
John Runnels
Mother Dog Studios
720 Walnut Street
Houston, TX 77002
713-229-9760
PARTICIPANTS DISPLAYING ARTWORK
Carla Bisong and her team of art consultants love helping individuals and corporations discover meaningful artwork. She finds great joy in supporting both emerging as well as globally known and sought-after artists. Bisong Art Gallery will provide a range of services to individuals looking to navigate the world of art. Bisong Art Consultants aid clients in Art Acquisition, Collection Management, Art Market Navigation, and Custom Art Projects.
Bisong Art Gallery
1305 Sterrett Street
Houston, TX 77002
713-498-3015
info@bisonggallery.com
Located in Erie City Iron Works
Hardy & Nance Studios
902 Hardy Street
Houston, TX 77020
713-360-8503
Los Muertos Tattoo Studio
1310 Nance St, Unit B
Houston, TX 77002
www.losmuertostattoostudio.com
Omar Hernandez
713-228-3399
Mother Dog Studios, the oldest surviving Artist-run warehouse in Houston and ARTCRAWL headquarters, will present "Gone Fishing", a thematic mixed-media group ART presentation referencing the spectrum of water from recreational pleasures to existential tragedies.
Curated by John Runnels.
Mother Dog Studios
720 Walnut Street
Houston, TX 77002
713-229-9760
motherdogstudios@earthlink.net
"GONE FISHING" ARTISTS:
Charlie Jean Sartwelle, George Krause, Tarina Frank, Tim Glover, Sarah Sudhoff, Len Kowitz, Lynet McDonald, Ken Mazzu, Ed Wilson, Mary Margaret Hansen, Earl Staley, Fernando Casas, Sam Sartorius, Jonas Criscoe, Randall Mosman, ART GUYS, Jeff Reese, Trina McIssac, Tra Slaughter, Anne Reese Hernandez, Frank White, Paul Hester, Chris Wicker
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE:
Charlie Jean Sartwelle, John Carroll Runnels, Louise Schlachter, Ken Mazzu, Liz Conces Spencer, Jeff Reese (Solomon Kane), Molly Koehn, Sara Lucinda Ince, Kevin Cromwell, Steven Potter, Jonas Criscoe, Ron Gordon, Dionne Ukleja, Michelle Vo, Micky Samii Lawrence, Josh Johnson
ENTERTAINMENT: Acoustic vocal trio Heights Fools on Stools
Saint Arnold Brewing Company
2000 Lyons Avenue (beer garden)
Houston, TX 77020
Lennie Ambrose
SPONSORS
Clay Crawford
1200 Rothwell Street
Houston, Texas 77002
713-223-3333
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.
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.
1333 Sterrett Street
Houston, TX 77002
281-220-7786
Located in Bienville Furniture Company
Platinum Parking
1016 N San Jacinto Street
Houston, Texas 77002
Entrance on Walnut St. and Rothwell St.
Saint Arnold Brewing Company
2000 Lyons Avenue (beer garden)
Houston, TX 77020
Studio 713 - Music Studios
Owner: Ricky Rich
849 Richey Street
Houston, Texas 77002
713-640-5428
History of Buildings
Erie City Iron Works: 1305 Sterrett Street & 1310 Nance Street
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.
Hardy & Nance Studios: 902 Hardy Street
Hardy & Nance Studios, founded by Donald Tucker, is located in Houston’s historic, downtown Art Warehouse District. Some of the buildings in this area have been home to area artists for as many as 60 to 70 years, putting it among the oldest remaining urban art colonies in America.
Mother Dog Studios: 720 Walnut Street
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.
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.
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.
