2016 Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor Rick Lowe
The Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor Program provides an opportunity for students and faculty to connect with prominent individuals whose lives and careers have had significant public impact and who have distinguished themselves in one or more forms of public service. Distinguished visitors help bridge the divide between knowing and doing and between theory and practice. The 10-week residency program allows distinguished visitors to reflect upon their work while offering a variety of venues to share their story with a new generation of leaders.
Residency includes
- delivering the Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor Lecture on Public Service and the University
- leading a weekly discussion with undergraduate and graduate students on relevant civic and political topics
- serving as a mentor to undergraduate and graduate students
- forging connections with faculty who have relevant disciplinary expertise
- connecting with community partners and deepening the interplay between theory and practice
- writing or researching projects
For more information about the Distinguished Visitor program, contact Thomas Schnaubelt, executive director.
2016 Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor
Rick Lowe is a Houston-based artist who has exhibited and worked with communities nationally and internationally. President Barack Obama appointed Mr. Lowe to the National Council on the Arts in 2013, and in 2014 he was named a MacArthur Fellow.
His work has appeared in: Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York; Phoenix Art Museum; Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea; the Kumamoto State Museum, Kumamoto, Japan; and the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Mr. Lowe is best known for his Project Row Houses community-based art project that he started in Houston in 1993. Further community projects include the Watts House Project in Los Angeles, the Borough Project in Charleston, SC (with Suzanne Lacy and Mary Jane Jacobs), the Delray Beach Cultural Loop in Florida, and the Anyang Public Art Program 2010 in Anyang, Korea.
Among Mr. Lowe’s honors are the Rudy Bruner Awards in Urban Excellence, the AIA Keystone Award, the Heinz Award in the arts and humanities, the Skowhegan Governor’s Award, the Skandalaris Award for Art/Architecture, and a U.S. Artists Booth Fellowship. He has served as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University, a Mel King Fellow at MIT, and an Auburn University Breedan Scholar.
Mr. Lowe will give a lecture on Thursday, February 4, 2016, entitled "Art in the Social Context." The event begins with a reception at 5:15pm, followed by the lecture at 5:45pm, in McCaw Hall at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center. The event is free and open to the public; RSVPs are required.
The Haas Center welcomes requests to engage with Mr. Lowe during his residency from January through mid-March 2016. Please complete this request form.
