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by Brewing America | Nov 23, 2020 | All, Art, Dallas art, Painting, Roger Winter, The Culture | 0 |
Roger Winter is a significant figure in Texas art history, a painter of profound sensitivity and technique. For a period that’s now almost forgotten, in the late seventies and eighties, he was one of the most prominent artists...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 20, 2020 | All, Art, houston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, visual art | 0 |
When Houston philanthropist Caroline Wiess Law died on her eighty-fifth birthday, on Christmas Eve, 2003, she left her collection of twentieth-century paintings—including masterpieces by Willem de Kooning, Joan Miró, and Andy...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 16, 2020 | All, Art, Black art, Blanton Museum, Diedrick Brackens, Juneteenth, LGBTQ | 0 |
The visual artist Diedrick Brackens was born in Mexia in 1989. The small city, which has a population of about 7,500, is home to many members of Brackens’ extended family; although his immediate family moved around for his...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 16, 2020 | All, Art, Casa Colombia, Food, Terlingua, Tin Valley Retro Rental, TM Recommends, To the People of the Land | 0 |
Tin Valley Retro Rental At Tin Valley Retro Rentals, just outside of Terlingua, recycled old school buses, cars, and trailers are renovated to make for a cozy stay. This campground, located between an open desert in the middle...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 15, 2020 | All, Art, Becca Reitz, colorado, Craft/Operations, Denver, Finca Monteverde, FRNDS, Hiero Veiga, Jon Jon Kalisz, Luke Byington, Marketing, Micro, packaging, Plains/Rockies, Queen City Collective Coffee, Roasting, Scott Byington | 0 |
Denver roasting company Queen City Collective Coffee is attempting to highlight the uniqueness and character found in a new line of limited-release coffees through equally charismatic local artwork. Queen...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 8, 2020 | All, Art, Cafe Femenino, Cecanor, fair-trade, Fairtrade America, Fairtrade International, Giovannie “Just” Dixon, Industry, Kaladi Coffee Roasters, Lassens, Levi Ponce, Marketing, murals, Norandino, Peru, Rosine Bekoin, Segundo Alejandro Guerrero Mondragón, Tarabella Aversa | 0 |
The purchasing behaviors of coffee consumers in the COVID-19 era in the United States have turned, in a word, topsy-turvy. In an attempt to refocus consumers and draw attention...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 6, 2020 | All, Art, houston, Jim Pirtle, notsuoH, The Art Guys | 0 |
Jim Pirtle would once claim that it was the center of Houston. The address of the venue and performance space—314 Main Street—was his evidence: 314 backwards spelled “PIE,” he’d say, and pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Aug 17, 2020 | All, Art, Black Lives Matter, Pandemic, Race, texas a&m, The Black Student Yearbook, The Black Yearbook, UT Austin | 0 |
I have always loved my hands. In their deftness, flexibility, and deep brown color, they represent my strength and totality. My freshman year of college, though, my love for them wavered. One afternoon in 2007, as I chowed down...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 31, 2020 | All, Art, Astroworld, houston, Jim Koehn, Painting, visual art | 0 |
Every July, Jim Koehn used to pack his silver Jeep Liberty with three duffle bags—one each for himself and his two daughters—along with hiking gear and a cooler with drinks and snacks. Koehn ran an events business in Houston,...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 23, 2020 | All, Alvin Ailey, Art, Black Lives Matter, dance, Pandemic, Revelations | 0 |
One warm spring day in the late nineties, I walked hand in hand with my father as he led our family—my mom, my three siblings, and me—into Houston’s Jones Hall for an Alvin Ailey performance. At eight years old, I was more...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 10, 2020 | All, Art, Black Lives Matter, Dallas Contemporary, Everything Hurts, George Floyd, Jammie Holmes, Race, visual art | 0 |
On May 30, a small plane flew over downtown Dallas, trailed by a banner bearing the words “My Neck Hurts.” These were some of the last words spoken by George Floyd, a Houston man who had been killed five days earlier and pleaded...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 9, 2020 | All, Art, Black Lives Matter, Black power, MFAH, Race, visual art | 0 |
In my mother’s house, a lonely picture used to hang over the piano. In it, a man stood alone in an unfurnished room, his arms reaching toward the heavens. Before him sat an old-school radio. He had broad shoulders and a long,...
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