Contemporary Arts Museum Houston reopens for the first time since March 2020 By Amber Elliott, Staff writer
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston director Hesse McGraw didn’t underplay how emotional reopening would be. CAMH’s doors had been closed to the public since March 15. Visitors first returned on Feb. 25, nearly a year after the coronavirus pandemic forced most art institutions to shut down.
“It’s been really difficult and challenging for many of our staff,” he admitted. “We’ve tried to really stabilize as much as we could. But this opportunity to reopen… it feels quite extraordinary. It’s something that our entire team has waited for.”
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Tickets to Frazier s talk are $10 for the general public, and free for UCSB students (registration required). For tickets and more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures, 805-893-3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
Treating art as activism, Frazier’s body of work includes The Last Cruze, which documents the devastating effects of a GM plant closure in Lordstown, Ohio; a chronicle of the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan, for Elle Magazine; and an aerial photography series depicting Memphis, Baltimore and Chicago in The Atlantic’s Martin Luther King issue.
For “Flint is Family,” “Frazier spent five months with a family encompassing three generations of women, chronicling daily life at the heart of a man-made ecological disaster. The project was a natural extension of her already well-established commitment to social justice,” The New York Times reported, noting Frazier donated the proceeds from her exhibition to help
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