Comments (0) Best Public Art Project - 2011
Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance and the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston Mural
Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance and the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston Mural
3217 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006
713-348-4536
The Rice University Boniuk Center for Religious Studies and Tolerance turned to the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston (a past Houston Press MasterMinds Award winner) to add a visual arts aspect to the 2011 Sacred Sites Quests program. The program hosts high school students on an annual tour of churches, temples, mosques and other places of worship. This year, the students visited 16 sites, after which they designed and created a four-piece mural reflecting both the unity and diversity among the various traditions they observed. The four panels, which include a tree topped by a globe instead of leaves and a couple staring at a star-shaped sun, were installed on the Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston headquarters in May, becoming the first public art project of its kind.
