Vangartist

Doing some speed chalk art for KPRC2 / Click2Houston Houston Life to help promote Houston Via Colori this weekend!

Little known fact: my nickname in college, where I first started taking my art seriously, was "Tex" for the simple reason that I'm from Texas. No accent, no boots. Still Tex. My psuedo-godchildren call me Uncle Tex to this day...

And now here I am doing on live TV of a dog named Tex, the KPRC mascot. This is the kind of full circle, universe is awesome type of experience upon which I thrive. See you tomorrow at !

JAG Creative Jon Gardner KPRC2 Courtney Zavala KPRC2 Derrick Shore

Micah and Chapa collabo, live and outside at Disco Green. Discovery Green, Houston, TX. 04.16.2011.

If you're in Austin this weekend, go check out ¡el grupo! and their Moustache Ride as part of the Pay Phone Revival Project.

Main : The Pay Phone Revival Project

Stumbled across this project, with some cool parallels to VP's Conversation Piece 1 & 2.

PASTOR/AL is a collaboration between a musician (Graham Hill / Roman Ruins) and a visual artist (Hunter Mack) with aspirations of producing a vinyl record and an archival art print. The basic premise is as follows: Hunter produces a painting and gives it to Graham, Graham crafts a song based on the painting and gives it to Hunter, Hunter creates a painting based on the new song - then the process repeats itself. It's an artistic version of the childhood game "Telephone"!

http://gold-robot.com/art/index.php?%2Fpastoral%2Fabout%2F

El Grupo Gr**go (friends of Vangartist Project) new installation: The idea of the public payphone as a mechanism to link two people and facilitate interaction presents a unique opportunity. We are proposing to reinterpret the interaction from a two way verbal communication mechanism to a mechanism that encourages play as physical communication.

¡el grupo!

Follow the close of Conversation Piece I, culminating in the Closing Remarks Party this December.

http://www.vangartist.com/cp1

Kindred spirits
http://www.woostercollective.com/

Wooster Collective Sara and Marc Schiller are the Wooster Collective. Their mission is to discover and document authentic art experiences via salons, publishing, gallery shows, and - of course - their website - www.woostercollective.com.

Conversation Piece II is a real-life, experiencial manifestation of the logo and its underlying philosophy. Coming March 2011...

New Vangartist Project logo: the new logo represents the multiple points of the Project, namely artists, art, people, ideas. Each is equally important, but part of the concept first and foremost. Each point connects to two others, interlocking and interweaving with the other connections. Complementary colors differentiate the individuals from the collective, and vice versa.