The Museum’s education and outreach programming is made possible by the patrons, benefactors, and donors to its Families of Steel Programming: Vera and Andy Baker, Elizabeth Howard Crowell, Melissa and Albert J. Grobmyer IV, Mady and Ken Kades  Kinder Morgan Foundation, Dillon Kyle Architecture, Inc., Leticia Loya, Marian and SperosMartel Foundation Endowment, M.D. Anderson Foundation, Andrew R. McFarland, Nordstrom, Cabrina and Steven Owsley, Texas Commission on the Arts, and David and Marion Young.

Teen Council is supported by Ms. Louisa Stude Sarofim.

Funding for the Museum’s operations through the Fund for the Future is made possible by generous grants from Chinhui Juhn and Eddie Allen, Jereann Chaney, Marita and J.B. Fairbanks, Jo and Jim Furr, Barbara and Michael Gamson, Brenda and William Goldberg, Leticia Loya, Fayez Sarofim, Robin and Andrew Schirrmeister, and David and Marion Young.

The Museum’s operations and programs are made possible through the generosity of the Museum’s trustees, patrons, members, and donors. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston receives partial operating support from The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston Endowment, the City of Houston through the Houston Museum District Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, The Wortham Foundation, Inc. and artMRKTProductions. CAMH also thanks its artist benefactors for their support including Derrick Adams, Richard Aldrich, John Bankston, Tad Beck, Chris Beckman, Lucas Blalock, Hiyme Brummett, Christopher Cascio, Mel Chin, JooYoungChoi, Joseph Cohen, Thedra Cullar-Ledford, Abigail DeVille, James Drake, James Elaine, Russell Etchen, Steven Evans, Benjamin Fredrickson, Coco Fusco, Camille Henrot, Aaron Holz, Jae Ko, Scooter LaForge, Judy Ledgerwood, Shaun Leonardo, Julian Lorber, Troy Michie, Marilyn Minter, Nic Nicosia, Joe Joe Orangias, Joyce Pensato, Gavin Perry, Jack Pierson, Laure Provost, Ryan Reitmeyer, Jacolby Satterwhite, Bret Shirley, Melanie Smith, A.L. Steiner, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Jeffrey Vallance, Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin, Carrie Mae Weems, Michael Wilson, Joe Wooten, and Haegue Yang.

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Right Here, Right Now: Houston, Volume 2 will be accompanied by a catalogue designed by Don Quaintance featuring essays by Bill Arning and Dean Daderko on the work of Thedra Cullar-Ledford and Amy Blakemore, respectively, an interview by Valerie Cassel Oliver with artist Susie Rosmarin, color and black-and-white illustrations of the artists’ work, and a biography on each artist.

This catalogue is made possible by a grant from The Brown Foundation, Inc.

Amy Blakemore (b. 1958, Tulsa, OK) received a B.S. in Psychology and a B.A. in Art from Drury College (now Drury University) in Springfield, MO, and an M.F.A from the University of Texas at Austin. She has lived and worked in Houston since 1985, when she arrived in the city to be an Artist in Residence at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Core Program. Blakemore’s photographs have been seen in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2006 biennial exhibition Day for Night. Her work has also been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (2009), the Seattle Art Museum (2010), and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (2011). Art League Houston honored Blakemore as the Texas Artist of the Year in 2015. Blakemore has exhibited with Inman Gallery in Houston for more than two decades.

Thedra Cullar-Ledford was born in Abilene, Texas. She received her B.F.A. in Painting from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1992 and her MA. in Fine Art from Oxford University in the UK in 1994. Her solo exhibitions include Drawing the Eye to Nothingness (2015); Small Stains, Big Problems (2013); Living Dolls (2012); Domicile (2003); Biometrica (2002); Other People’s Lives (2000); Encase: To Wrap Up in Something Solid (1998); Contain, Order, Move: The Box as Fundamental Form (1997); and Cradle to the Grave (1993).

Group exhibitions she has participated in include Powerful Babies: Keith Haring’s Impact on Artists Today (2015);Confluence (2014); Hullabaloo: Holiday ShaBang! (2013); Spring Introduction (2013); 10 Houston Artists: An Invasion of Space for 2011 Contemporary Art Month (2011); H2O Houston to Hyderabad (2011); Five Texas Artists: A Portrait Series (2010); among others.

Susie Rosmarin was born in Brownsville, Texas in 1950. She received her B.A. from University of St. Thomas in Houston in 1973 and her M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in New York in 1981. Her solo exhibitions include Pop-Up (2013); Some New Paintings (2013); and Paint By Numbers (2002).