MyFox Houston/Sally MacDonald, May 7, 2009

A team of Rice University students is putting the finishing touches on an 800 square foot solar house that will eventually be located in Houston's Third Ward. For the first time on Friday, the students will be showing off the house to the public.

Free Press Houston/Omar Afra, May 4, 2009

Most artists could only wish for their work to have a transformative effect on their community. Their effect is ultimately bound by the respective work they do. But creator of Project Row Houses Rick Lowe's work is transforming his neighborhood. Lowe answers questions about Project Row Houses’ role in renewing and beautifying Houston’s 3rd Ward. 

NYU Wagner/ April 22, 2009

Learn how Risë Wilson, founder of the Laundromat Project, transformed local coin-op laundromats into dynamic public art projects and self-sustaining revenue models. This innovative social enterprise provides communities of color living on modest incomes with broad access to visual art as a tool of personal and social transformation.

Mercury News/Joe Rodriguez, April 20, 2009

Yosimar Reyes remembers the stares as he and his grandmother pushed a shopping cart through East San Jose streets looking for beer bottles and soda cans. The 5-cent deposits helped pay the rent for their small, two-bedroom apartment in the tough Tropicana neighborhood, but little did he know at the time he was picking up poetic gems that would pay much more later.