Steelwired: This week @ CAMH

03.27.08
Design Life Now Lecture

Thursday, March 27, 2008
7:00 p.m.

Karim Rashid, a leading figure in the field of product, interior, fashion, furniture, lighting design and art is featured in the second and final evening of the Design Life Now: National Design Triennial Lecture Series. The lecture will be held in the MFAH's Brown Auditorium.

03.28.08
Teen Council Presents

Friday, March 28, 2008 7:00 and 9:00 p.m.

The Museum's Teen Council in collaboration with the MFAH Film Department present Noi (93 mins.) at 7:00 p.m. and The Endless Summer(95 mins.) at 9:00 p.m. in the MFAH's Brown Auditorium.

03.28.08
Steel Lounge Underground

Friday, March 28, 2008 8:00 – 11:00 p.m.

View the latest in contemporary art while enjoying cheap drinks and listening to some of the finest DJs in Houston every last Friday of the month. This month Dayta, DJ Sun and Eddie Spettro will man the tables. For more information visit the Steel Lounge Underground myspace page.

03.29.08
Story Book Club

Saturday, March 29, 2008, 10:30 a.m.

Parents and children five and under are invited to attend the Museum's Storybook Club, presented free every Saturday morning. Members of the Teen Council, a select group of high school students employed by the CAMH to design education programming, will read from a variety of children’s tales in the Museum’s Cullen Education Resource Room. A new art activity relating to the story will be offered at each meeting.

Design Life Now

Design Life Now:
National Design Triennial
January 26 – April 20, 2008

Perspectives 160
Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey
March 14 – May 11, 2008

Design Life Now: National Design Triennial presents the experimental projects, emerging ideas, major buildings, new products and media that were at the center of contemporary culture from 2003 to 2006. Inaugurated in 2000, the Triennial seeks out and presents the most innovative American designs from the prior three years in a variety of fields, including product design, architecture, furniture, film, graphics, new technologies, animation, science, medicine and fashion.

Design Life Now: National Design Triennial focuses on four principal ideas that characterized elements of the design world during the last three years: emulating life; community; hand-crafted and do-it-yourself design; and transformation. On view throughout the exhibition will be the work of 87 designers and firms, ranging from established design leaders such as Apple, architect Santiago Calatrava, and Nike, Inc., to emerging designers like Joshua Davis, Jason Miller, and David Wiseman.

The National Design Triennial is organized by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and curated by Barbara Bloemink, Ellen Lupton and Matilda McQuaid, along with guest curator Brooke Hodge of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s presentation of Design Life Now is made possible by Target, with generous support from The Susan Vaughan Foundation, Inc. and the Anchorage Foundation of Texas.

Since 1992 Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey has been working exclusively on large-scale portraits of American teenagers. These photographs reveal the individual character of members of this age group. In his recent work Bey, made in high schools around the country, Bey has included texts that the subjects have written about themsleves. For Bey, the creation and presentation of these portraits and texts allows for a more complex and nuanced representation than the photographic portrait alone. Perspectives 160: Dawoud Bey marks the artist’s debut at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where Bey will collaborate with the Museum’s Teen Council.

Perspectives 160: Dawoud Bey is organized by Aperture, a not-for-profit organization devoted to photography and the visual arts, and installed at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston by curator Valerie Cassel Oliver. It will be accompanied by a Perspectives-format catalogue with an interview of the artist by Cassel Oliver, reproductions of exhibited work, and documentation on the artist’s career.