14 Pews Film Academy makes films on Houston artists, while teaching the art of filmmaking. This summer we will be teaching several one-week filmmaking workshops to teens. And we are ecstatic that the documentaries created in our school will have their World Premiere at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival in November 2016. For our summer documentary workshops we are highlighting Houston artists: Jesse Lott, Terrell James and HJ Bott. In addition, several individuals and organizations will also be highlighted within these videos like: Art League, Burning Bones Press, Project Row Houses, DM Allison Gallery, Dan Allison, Vida Lott, Margaret Bott and Rick Lowe.
However we need your help in covering the costs of our film school and the films we produce.
Your generous donations will be used to fund:
- Paying our teaching staff
- Paying our post production
- Paying for additional equipment
14 Pews Film Academy will be posting pictures and videos of the classes. We will also post our clips from our interviews -- so YOU will get to see your donations hard at work. Make sure you "LIKE" us on facebook and check out our website for updates!
So, please give what you can -- and be rewarded with documentaries on local artists and that warm fuzzy feeling of knowing you're helping your friends in the art world.
ABOUT OUR AMAZING ARTISTS!
TERRELL JAMES: Terrell James is a well-known Houston-based artist whose abstract painting and works on paper are characterized by an expansive vocabulary of gestural mark-making, automatist brushwork and illuminating interactions of form, light, color and density, embodying strong references to the natural world. For the past thirty years, her methodology has been playfully intuitive and intellectually rigorous. The work is grounded in a process of constant rediscovery of what is hers in nature, while integrating with it what she experiences in the more time bound landscape of human artifacts. She has produced an extraordinary body of work which reflects the conviction and knowledge of a skillful painter whose work is an ever-expanding study of the experiential essence of landscape and memory.
JESSE LOTT: Jesse Lott is an African-American Houston-based artist who is known for his visionary wire sculpture, papier-mache figures and works on paper made using found materials. Lott is one of Texas’ most respected artists and has exhibited in major museums and universities in Texas and throughout the South. His art has also been shown at the Studio Museum and The Alternative Museum in New York. His primary goal however has not been recognition and financial success, but simply to communicate true realism (Harithas, 1999). For the past forty years, his work has been grounded in an approach to art that he calls “Urban Frontier Art,” which involves the recycling of discarded urban material into art. His work expresses deep feeling and a magical sense of the mysterious other. In the words of the artist, “creativity is that part of awareness that goes beyond knowledge.” His signature sculptural aesthetic reflects a sophisticated grasp of folk art and often depicts a cast of characters including mythological beings, heroes, and ordinary people, as a way to explore the many complex dimensions of being human (Harithas, 1999).
HJ BOTT: Born 1933, Gill, Colorado. Attended adult life-drawing classes, summers, for five years, Greeley State College, starting age 9; first major exhibit (2-person) at 14, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX. At 15, developed scale model business working with architectural firms. Thereafter began Tri-Coastal & European education AND exhibition adventure; including galleries, art centers and museums in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Denver, Köln, Dusseldorf, Mexico City and others. Over 80 solo exhibitions, 16 solo ROBOTT™ performances, 24 in-situ installations (including 12 deep space/luminescent drawings), more than 700 group survey exhibitions. Over 70 public (museum, city & university) and over 130 corporate collections include the work. Completed 20 government and over 160 private and corporate commissions. First American sculptor to win the "Premier les plus Sculpture," Prix de Paris, 1965. Only American to win the "Plastik Reisestipedium/Europa," "Köln Kunstuerein, Plastik Kunste," 1956.
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