The African American Art Advisory Association (Five-A) of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the 12th Annual Citywide African-American Art Exhibition at nine venues from February 1 to 29, 2008. Photography dominates the works by the 28 artists in this year´s exhibition, and fashion is included for the first time. Other media represented are paintings, drawings, sculpture, mixed media, and assemblage.
An opening reception is planned from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, February 1 at Farnsworth Pavilion at Rice University, 6100 Main Street.
The Citywide Exhibition is a community outreach program that gives emerging African-American artists the opportunity to display their artwork to a larger, more diverse audience. The exhibition´s goal is to introduce these underrepresented artists to the community and help to further their careers in the visual arts by showing their work at public venues. The artwork is for sale.
The exhibition also awards a $500 prize for the show´s top entry selected by a panel of judges. Judges this year are Eugene L. Foney, artcetera; Clint Willour, Galveston Art Center; and Valerie Cassel-Oliver, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. -- www.mfah.org
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