At the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, we look at the work of artists Julia Barello and Beverly Penn. Both of them create installations that evoke the plant world: Penn by making bronze castings of real flowers, leaves, stems, branches and seed-pods; Barello by cutting plant-parts out of sheets of exposed x-ray, MRI, and other types of medical-imaging film. Julia Barello and Beverly Penn talk with Bob Stevenson, click here to listen.
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Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is located in the Houston Museum District, two blocks south of Highway 59, near Rosedale St. Visitors should park in the free parking lot located directly behind the building, off Rosedale and Travis Streets, and enter through the back entrance.
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is located in the Houston Museum District, two blocks south of Highway 59, near Rosedale St. Visitors should park in the free parking lot located directly behind the building, off Rosedale and Travis Streets, and enter through the back entrance.
