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Sneak preview of Are You There? @ruth_street_projects
Just finished install and I am so excited for you all to see the show- Next Saturday September 12 4-7pm
Come hang and enjoy community, food, and beverages!
See you there!! Plus Wolfen will be there! taken in Houston, Texas by @erikawhitneyg

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Spare Room Resident - Saran Alderson @bleuran
Saran is also currently in her studio intensive week!
Currently working on painting, drawings, and printmaking that try to take the shrapnels from bombs of identity and put them back together in sometimes funny, sometimes not ways. But it all gets pieced back together to make a beautiful Frankenstein’s monster of self. Or at least that’s what I tell myself! by @erikawhitneyg

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4 months ago

Project Row Houses offers an artist residency program that provides subsidized studio space for up to three years on site. This residency supports artists by giving them affordable space to create, experiment, and grow their practice while being part of the vibrant Third Ward community.

PRH has announced Saran Alderson as one of their newest Artists in Residence!

@bleuran

New Jersey born and Houston based multidisciplinary artist and educator Saran Alderson explores the possibilities of beauty, abstraction, and interference using the
human figure. Originally trained as a Fashion Designer in NYC and Nottingham, England, she uses her keen eye for detail and construction to interrogate contemporary viewership of the human form. She holds a MFA from the University of Houston with a focus on Painting and Printmaking as well as a BA (Honours) in Fashion Design from Nottingham Trent University, and an AAS from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Saran has shown her work at the Vincent Price Art Museum, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston Museum of African American Culture, Big Medium Austin, the Art Museum at Texas Southern University, By Proxy*, the Jung Center, Community Artists’ Collective, Elgin Street Studios, United Art Fair Houston and Foltz Fine Art Gallery. Her artwork is in private collections in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Houston, TX

Filmed by @soil.childcinema

#projectrowhouses #artistresidency #artiststudio taken in Project Row Houses by @erikawhitneyg

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5 months ago

Project Row Houses has selected its newest Artist-in-Residence cohort — and the three artists chosen from more than 180 applicants reflect exactly the kind of depth, range and intention that has made this Third Ward institution one of the most important arts organizations in Houston.

Tay Butler is a multidisciplinary artist and U.S. Army veteran whose practice spans collage, photography, video and installation. During his residency, he is developing NEWBAM, the New Black Arts Movement, a collective rooted in Black consciousness and cultural production.

Saran Alderson is a painter, printmaker and educator whose work moves between abstraction and figuration, exploring identity, beauty and transformation through the body.

Nathaniel Donnett is a Houston native, Guggenheim Fellow and Yale MFA graduate whose work across painting, sculpture, sound and installation explores Black aesthetics and diasporic narratives through what he calls “Dark Imaginerance.”

What makes this residency different is its depth of commitment — three years, quarterly community programming, and the expectation that artists are embedded in Third Ward, not isolated from it.

“The program reflects our mission to support artists not only as creators, but as educators, cultural leaders and community builders,” said Brian Ellison, senior program manager at Project Row Houses.

Read the full story by Associate Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Chelsea Lenora Small using the link in our bio 🔗

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#ForwardTimes #ProjectRowHouses #HoustonArt #ThirdWard #BlackArtists taken in Project Row Houses by @erikawhitneyg

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Print-making workshop with Saran Alderson ( @bleuran ) at @projectrowhouses yesterday left my cup overflowing with joy and energy and light and inspiration to create create create. I was surrounded by beautiful souls coming together to be themselves, make art, and share sweetness. I can’t wait to be back. :)

#printmaking #fuji #fujifilm #fujifilmxpro2 #art taken in Project Row Houses by @erikawhitneyg

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Getting ready for the Big Press moves soon @rosinandtalc . Reinforcing the floors. PS I know I look big boss here but I asked for help from a friend and a stranger. Asking for and accepting help is so hard for me but I’m doing it! Thanks @butta_bites and random parking lot man for the assist! by @erikawhitneyg

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6 months ago

Say hello to our first two presses to arrive to @rosinandtalc. They have a few little things to get done to them to get them up and running. So happy to be 2 presses and 3 litho stones richer today! More to come soon! by @erikawhitneyg

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6 months ago

Thanks @lambiislambiis and @fowlerw8000
@rosinandtalc is one step closer to being a thing now that we have flat files. They are still garage fresh but we’ll start cleaning them one drawer at a time this week. More equipment moving opportunities in the future if anyone ever wants to be my friend with a truck 🤣! by @erikawhitneyg

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7 months ago

@rosinandtalc and @bleuran the two halves of my creative practice are going to co-exist. Get ready! by @erikawhitneyg

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7 months ago

@rosinandtalc , my new printmaking project space in my studio @projectrowhouses before we started moving in! Watch as it gets transformed! by @erikawhitneyg

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7 months ago

Highlighting Round 19 Grantees! 💡

Saran Alderson – Rosin & Talc Community Printmaking Project @rosinandtalc @bleuran

Rosin & Talc Community Printmaking Project seeks to develop a flexible, community-centered printmaking space. The project will establish a collapsible, hybrid printmaking studio that can be easily set up and taken down to accommodate shared use of space. The Idea Fund support will assist with equipment purchases, modular infrastructure, and a series of printmaking workshops. Centered on slow, analog processes, the project fosters conversation, collaboration, and collective “plotting.”

Learn more about this project and meet the Grantees at the 2026 The Idea Fund Award Presentation on March 3, 2026, 7:00PM, at Aurora Picture Show, 5601a Navigation Blvd, Houston, TX 77011

We hope to see you there! 💡

PC: Saran Alderson, Rosin & Talc Community Printmaking Project Collage, 2026. Courtesy of the artists.

#theideafund #regionalregrantingprogram #warholfoundation #houstonartists

@diverseworks @projectrowhouses @aurorapictureshow @warholfoundation by @erikawhitneyg

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8 months ago

We are honored to welcome three new Artists in Residence to Project Row Houses, continuing a long tradition of artists working and creating in dialogue with community. As they occupy studio space and engage in public programming, they will add their voices to an ongoing history of art, place-keeping, and collective care.

Please give a warm welcome to:

Saran Alderson
@bleuran

Nathaniel Donnett
@nathaniel_donnett1

Tay Butler
@stayclosetay taken in Project Row Houses by @erikawhitneyg

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