Please help FotoFest welcome the fall season by volunteering to Gallery Host during re/thinking photography/contemporary conceptual photography in Texas.
Gallery Hosts welcome visitors, ask them to sign in, answer questions and are a presence in the Gallery. Volunteers are the foundation of FotoFest.
PLEASE USE Signup.com TO VOLUNTEER OR CONTACT MARIANNE AT INFO@FOTOFEST.ORG
Shifts are 3 hours long: 11am to 2pm and 2pm to 5pm
The Gallery is open: Wednesday-Saturday
October 25 to November 25, 2017
FotoFest is located in Silver Street Studios
2000 Edwards St., Houston, TX 77007
FotoFest Office: 713 223 5522
Rabéa Ballin, Amasunzu (Hip-Hop gains a classic), 2017. Courtesy of the artist
FotoFest International and HCP, come together again to present the 7th in a series of exhibitions highlighting Texas artists. re/thinking photography opens Oct. 20, 2017 at FotoFest, and the following Friday, Oct. 27, 2017 at HCP. re/thinking photography is a single exhibition split between the two venues. The exhibiting artists from Houston are: Bennie Flores, Ansell, Drew Bacon, Rabéa Ballin, Rosine Kouamen, MANUAL [Suzanne Bloom & Ed Hill], Emily Peacock, and Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin. Austin: Peter Leighton, Bucky Miller, and Sherwin Rivera Tibayan. Dallas: Kalee Appleton, Rachel Cox, Molly Shigemoto, and Kevin Todora. And San Antonio: Joe Harjo, and Mark Menjivar. Image: MANUAL, Monet.
FotoFest International is a non-profit photographic arts and education organization based in Houston, Texas. Co-founded in 1983 by Frederick Baldwin and Wendy Watriss, FotoFest promotes U.S. and international engagement with artists and ideas through museum-quality photo-based art from around the world. The first FotoFest Biennial was held in 1986. It is the first and longest running photographic arts festival in the United States, and it is considered as one of the leading international photography Biennials in the world.
