Stumbling upon UH public art projects on my social media!

Just found Justin's tape art on my Instagram feed! Thought I would share.

Public Farewell

The timing of this envelope was too perfect.

Thank you 

Layla 

Text art...as text art...

                        Realize by Sarrah Khan

I was trying to figure out what I should do for text art...and then I found Zalgo text. I was inspired to use this to text a friend and make a point to help people realize...

                           Human Is Human

Light art

                          Blue by Sarrah Khan

This is my light art. I took a photo of my friend wearing my cat headphones. She was dancing to music and I snapped this photo of her retarded dance. I liked how it turned out...it looks like an i...for Inspiration.

Proposal

Here is the link for the slideshow for my project proposal for public text art in Houston!

I would like to establish a public art campaign geared to engage Houstonians with our arts world through riddles posted on billboards that will be executed by local artists and poets. These riddles will focus on locations, artworks, individuals, etc. throughout Houston.


proposal

This is my light Art piece. It is a ceramics piece thag I made and it was originally intended to be a light piece from the get go. I really enjoy playing with light inside my pieces because they are usually grotesque and filled with openings, and I feel like when light radiates through jt, it adds a sense of fear because it's dark and all you can see is the silhouette of the mouths gaping open at you 

Public Art Proposal - MiniMurals

For my public art proposal I chose the Houston MiniMurals project going on which was graciously presented to me by our fellow colleague Liia. :)

The Houston MiniMural program is a reproduction of a similar program started in Emeryville, California where artists painted traffic utility signal boxes.  This idea was brought to Houston in 2015 and culminated by the UP Art Studio, Houston Art Alliance, the Mayor's Office for Cultural Affairs, and of course City of Houston Public Works.  Originally, the plans were smaller scale, spanning Houston's District K, and including 13 chosen artists.  The widespread popularity and overall acceptance of the colorful traffic signal boxes called for more and more areas of Houston wanting their own taste of public art.

Here are some examples of current MiniMurals in the greater Houston area.

For my public art proposal I would like to create a minimural of my own, in the neighborhood I currently live in which borders 3rd Ward.  I would like to create a mural that is respondent to the environment and people surrounding it.  For that reason I would like to create a piece that speaks and perhaps uplifts those who see it.  I would like to spray paint a quote by Marcus Garvey wrapping around the signal box.  

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."

Here is a very rough preliminary sketch of what I was envisioning for my signal box:

My desired budget is no more than $1000 and I would like my piece to be on the corner of MLK and OST.