Station Museum, a champion of outsider art, will shut down. Houston’s art community is devastated.

The Station Museum of Contemporary Art introduced as we speak that it is closing indefinitely, devastating information for Houston’s art community. For greater than 20 years, the personal museum, run by James and Ann Harithas, has devoted itself to a rare array of worldwide art, outsider art, socially aware art, and all kinds of expression that falls outdoors the mainstream.

“We’ve had a lot of questions about what’s next for the Station Museum,” learn a put up from the museum. “As most of , we’ve only in the near past completed screening ‘Clark v. Fox: Subversion and Spectacle.’ In the meantime, the Station Museum of Contemporary Art will be on hiatus from public exhibitions and packages till additional discover.

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Station supported many artists from everywhere in the world. It offered explicit worth to regional artists like Jesse Lott, who grew up within the Fifth Ward. Lott exhibited a collection of line drawings and thread sculptures a 12 months in the past.

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Lott, in 2021 opened The Road So Far, on the Station and expressed his affinity for the best way the museum offered his work. “They gave me a lot of space,” he stated, waving his arm towards the partitions stuffed together with his works.

As for what occurs subsequent, the assertion stated: “We will communicate further information as it becomes available.”