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Opening Reception: Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston - Who We Are

Art League Houston is pleased to announce the opening of its first micro exhibit, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston: Who We Are, an installation of photographs and stories featuring Houston-based evacuees and survivors of the hurricanes, with photographs by Alice McNamara, April 30 – June 15, 2007.

Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston: Who We Are is part of a much larger documentary project, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston (SKRH): A Survivor-Centered Storytelling and Documentation Project, initiated by folklorists Carl Lindahl and Pat Jasper in partnership with Texas Commission on the Arts, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the University of Houston and the American Folklore Society.

Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston is the first large-scale project, anywhere, in which the survivors of a major disaster have taken the lead in its documentation.

The project’s goal is to voice, as intimately as possible, the experiences and reflections of those displaced to Houston by the two major hurricanes that pounded the Gulf Coast in August and September of 2005. The stories and accompanying photographs will ultimately be housed at The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and the University of Houston.

The Art League Houston’s exhibition photographs for Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston: Who We Are, were taken by Alice McNamara, a native Houstonian who is herself a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, and was one of the hundreds of thousands of people who evacuated to Houston in the aftermath of the storm. McNamara first participated in SKRH as an interviewer and is now photographing many of the individuals who have told their story through the project.

The opening reception is May 8, 2007, 6-8 p.m., beginning with a talk by project co-directors Pat Jasper and Carl Lindahl, and photographer Alice McNamara at 6 p.m. Music will be provided by Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, a native of New Orleans, who is one of the Houston-based survivors featured in the show.
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Tonight
Opening Reception | Tuesday, May 8, 6-8pm
Art League Houston | 1953 Montrose Blvd. Houston

Regular Gallery Hours | Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday, 11am-5pm

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