Honor
Rick Lowe
National Council on the Arts
In 2013 Rick Lowe was appointed to the National Council on the Arts by President Barack Obama. The appointment recognizes distinguished service or achieved eminence in the arts. Members advise the chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts on agency policies and programs. Selected to equitably represent all geographical areas of the United States, they are appointed by the president and approved by the Senate for staggered six-year terms.
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Rick Lowe at Project Row Houses, Houston, 2014. Photo: Brett Coomer/Associated Press
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Rick Lowe
Posey Leader-In-Residence and Posey Leadership Award 2024
Rick Lowe has been named the Posey Leader-In-Residence and winner of the Posey Leadership Award. As the Posey Leader-In-Residence, Lowe will offer four sessions for students throughout the year touching on different aspects of his work. Formally launched in 2005 and made possible through the generosity of Sally and Lee Posey of Dallas, the Austin College award honors an outstanding individual who has shown great leadership with regard to a humanitarian or educational issue, worked to improve the quality of health, educational, or community services for young people, or created opportunities for the youth within education and social advancement.
Rick Lowe, Project Row Houses: If Artists Are Creative Why Can’t They Create Solutions, 2021 © Rick Lowe Studio
In Conversation
Rick Lowe
Elyse A. Gonzales
Thursday, November 10, 2022, 7pm
Carver Community Cultural Center, San Antonio
www.rubycity.org
As part of Taller Talks, a series of public talks organized in collaboration by Ruby City and the Carver Community Cultural Center, both in San Antonio, Rick Lowe will discuss his work and process with Ruby City director Elyse A. Gonzales. In 2021 the contemporary art center acquired Lowe’s painting Untitled (2021) and it is currently on view for the first time in the exhibition Tangible/Nothing through July 30, 2023.
Rick Lowe, Untitled, 2021 © Rick Lowe Studio. Photo: Thomas DuBrock
Honor
Rick Lowe
National Academy of Design
Rick Lowe will be inducted into the National Academy of Design on October 25, 2022, in a ceremony that will be viewable online. Founded in 1825, the organization advocates for the arts as a tool for education, celebrates the role of artists and architects in public life, and serves as a catalyst for cultural conversations that propel society forward. National Academicians are a community of artists and architects who are elected by their peers in recognition of their extraordinary contributions to art and architecture in America. The number of living Academicians is limited to 450, and more than 2,400 artists and architects have been elected since the organization’s inception.
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