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The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft’s inspired current show, “Interstitial Spaces,” brings together Julia Barello and Beverly Penn in their first collaborative installation. This is

Spindles and webs of organic shapes span the hallway like an alien garland, interlinking peculiar bulbous nodes. Hard ceramic cages squinch and shape the interlinked

The two nationally known artists of “Interstitial Spaces: Julia Barello and Beverly Penn” have several things in common. Both use unusual materials; Barello uses X-ray

Ceramicist Piero Fenci, this year’s Texas Master Artist at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, shows us around Battlement, the HCCC’s exhibition of body armor,

Systemic Expansion, David Katz’s on-site, large-scale installation, starts from a definite point of origin: a corner of the Artist’s Hall inside the Houston Center for

21st century Houston is a thriving art nexus, the home of world-class museums, acclaimed art galleries and a huge community of talented artists. At the

Whatever the reason was — whether it was the feeling of helping others or scoring a bowl handmade by a troupe of talented local artists

I would say hats off to the young professionals at Candlelighters, but a south-of-the-border hosanna would be more fitting — sombreros off!

Since its opening in 2001, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft has inspired all manner of creative thinking and that bent for the out-of-the-ordinary was

While a handcrafted bowl is a beautiful object in and of itself, an empty vessel serves as a reminder of the 900,000 people — 53,000