Event reflects on shotgun house

Event
reflects on shotgun house
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“Shotguns,
2001,” a three-day event that reflects on the contemporary
shotgun house design, is being presented Oct. 11-13 by Rice’s
Center for the Study of Cultures and School of Architecture,
Prairie View A&M and Houston’s Project Row Houses.

Speakers at
the event will offer comments on the shotgun house by responding
to two appropriations of the form — the houses presented
in paintings by John Biggers and those at Project Row Houses
in the Third Ward.

Bell Hooks, a
cultural critic, feminist theorist and writer, will deliver
the keynote talk and kick off the symposium Oct. 11 at 7
p.m. at Hamman Hall. Her talk is titled “House Art:
Merging Public and Private.”

Presentations
will continue Oct. 12 from noon to 5 p.m. at Prairie View
A&M and Oct. 13 at Project Row Houses, 2500 Holman,
from 2:30 to 4 p.m. All events that are part of “Shotguns,
2001” are free and open to the public.

Speakers at
Project Row Houses will include Stephen Fox, adjunct lecturer
at Rice’s School of Architecture; Darrell Fields, architecture
professor at Harvard University; Alvia Wardlaw, professor
of art history at Texas Southern University; and Laverne
Wells-Bowie of Florida A&M University.

The talks at
Project Row Houses will be followed by the opening of the
15th round of artist installations at the houses. The exhibit
will run through February 2002.

Project Row Houses
is a public art project involving artists in issues of neighborhood
revitalization, historic preservation, community service
and youth education. The site, with its 22 renovated shotgun-style
houses, provides a place for the creation of artwork that
both engages the community in the creative process and celebrates
African-American history and culture.

For more information
contact David P. Brown, <dpbrown@rice.edu>
or (713) 348-3466, or William D. Williams, <wmwms@rice.edu>
or (713) 348-3388.