The Blaffer Courtyard

On our fourth episode of the Blaffer Courtyard, we invite a group of young Gen Z entrepreneurs from the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston to discuss their collaborative marketing project, titled Dynamic Marketing at the Blaffer Art Museum.Timestamps:0:00 Episode Introduction1:30 Introduction Bauer College of Business Project team members6:25 What was your knowledge of the Blaffer Art Museum before this project?11:00 How did assign project roles?13:00 What makes a business

Honduras based artist Adán Vallecillo joins Laura Augusta for intimate talk about art, friendships and the slow yet important process of building integral support networks across cultures. Adán Vallecillo makes site-responsive and research-driven projects, many of which think about political economies and the natural world. Trained in visual art and sociology, Vallecillo considers the connections between abstraction and daily experience in his work, untangling the visual and historical relationships

Our second episode features a discussion on the exhibition “away to mend” with Artist/Curator Doug Welsh and Blaffer Art Museum Curator of Education Katherine Veneman.We discuss the emotions and excitement surrounding the formulation, construction and approaching conclusion of the exhibition, which presents recent work by 19 Gulf Coast artists whose work engages relationships between abstraction and landscape, and whose practices connect art with processes ofhealing.The exhibition features work by

On our inaugural episode, we celebrate fresh starts and new beginnings with University of Houston undergrads Kalyn, Bosola and Wura.We speak about the exciting prospect of graduation, finding answers for the career conundrum, their Blaffer internships as well as their thoughts on how New Beginnings are expressed in our present exhibitions. We touch on their sleeping habits, school/work/play balance and how the arts can help business majors. We shared a few laughs and explored how a Duchamp-esque