VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The Houston Arts Alliance Folklife and Traditional Arts Program presents Weaving Home: Textile Traditions From Houston’s Karenni Community, in Alliance Gallery, 3201 Allen Parkway, 77019. On view May 16 – July 6, 2012.

Houston is home to refugee communities from around the world. They all bring with them distinctive traditions. The exhibition Weaving Home focuses on the weaving traditions practiced by women from one such community – a collection of Karenni families who now live in the city. Formerly from Myanmar (until recently known as Burma), the Karenni are a distinct ethnic community with origins in the country’s mountainous region bordering Thailand.

In conjunction with this exhibiton, HAA presents the following Special Exhibition Program @ Alliance Gallery:

World Refugee Day Reception
Thursday, July 5, 5:30 – 7pm

This reception honors and celebrates the wide community of refugees that have found their way to Houston and the many agencies and volunteers who serve them.

Houston’s World Refugee Day Co-Chairs, Lizeth Zavala and Emily Stickle, will review the 2012 event and share plans for 2013.

SPECIAL NOTE: Volunteers from The Community Cloth will have work from all of the refugee artists they serve available for purchase at all the exhibition events. All proceeds return to the artists.

Weaving Home, an exhibition produced by the Houston Arts Alliance Folklife + Traditional Arts Program, is funded in part by the Houston Endowment, Inc., the National Endowment for the Arts, and Wells Fargo Bank.