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Cora was a relentless and ambitious maverick. She was constantly reinventing her work. She wouldn’t settle, wouldn’t stop exploring abstraction. The paintings always seemed to lead her. 

When I met him for the first time, I was in my twenties—an international student from Japan, studying art in Houston, Texas, where I had no relations. At that time, I had a big dream, like “meeting all the people in the world,” or “seeing the bigger world,” and I was quite enthusiastic about challenging whatever interested me. One day, my art teacher, Joanne Brigham, took the class to a private museum about five minutes from the school on foot. I hadn’t noticed there was a museum at such a close distance until then, probably because it didn’t look like a typi...

James Harithas’s twinkling eyes and broad smile drove his desire to enlist Art as a vehicle for truth and social justice. With curatorial talent he fearlessly enlisted incredible artists to exhibit at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art. Through this venue, Jim promoted artists that corporate funded museums could not. The community was invited to exciting openings with titles like Portrait of a Corporate Crime, Crude, Red Fall, Torture, or Hermann Nitsch: The Orgies. For inspiration, I would take my students on field trips to those exhibitions.

The studio visits from Jim meant a lot to me at that point in my life. He gave me a sense of community and that somebody was listening.