Rick Lowe is an artist, architect, urban designer, developer, businessman, and activist. In 1993, Lowe founded Project Row Houses, which turned 22 "shotgun" houses in the middle of one of Houston's poorest neighborhoods into art galleries, workshop spaces, offices, and housing for young single mothers. Now a well-established public art program, Project Row Houses has become the model for bringing local people together to engage their own creative energies and aesthetic values in producing a "collective expression" to reinstate a community. Lowe was a Harvard University School of Design Loeb Fellow, and has worked as the chief arts planner with architect Rem Koolhaas. Lowe received the Rockefeller Foundation Arts Award for Organizations Tackling Critical Issues in 2003. United States Artists awarded Lowe a USA Booth Fellowship in 2009. He currently serves on the boards of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Menil Foundation. Lowe lives in Houston.
Portrait photo courtesy Kethora Smith
Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; photo courtesy Danielle Miles
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