Spotlight: Vox Events Specialist!

Introducing Pamela Morrison, Vox Culture's Events Specialist! As we seek to continue to provide high quality events, Pamela will be contributing her amazing skills in assisting with the strategy and organization of Vox events. Find out soon about the upcoming events at Vox and keep up with all the ways in which you can help design and participate in creating our events via Pamela!

I moved to Houston in 2001 from the Bay Area in California. I worked in corporate real estate so I could pay for my undergrad at U of H and law school at South Texas. Deciding to take a different route from becoming an attorney, I started my own crafting/art business called La Ubertina Crafts and support my art habit by working with my family business in commercial janitorial/maintenance/construction. I love making things and am always coming up with ideas for how to integrate art and life in almost everything I do. I believe that the world is a canvas of inspiration and this keeps me moving forward for following my passion. 

What is your favorite ice cream? Cherry Garcia by Ben & Jerry's.

What do you love the most about art? My art is my passion and everything I create is a piece of me. I hope to get my artwork, mostly Day of the Dead inspired (Dia de los Muertos), to many people's eyes and hearts so they may see the beauty in celebrating life after death and just the opposite. Life is like art in that it keeps reinventing itself with different colors, lines, applications, mediums, inspirations, doubts, fears, starting over and a huge bag of uncertainty. This is when we create our biggest masterpiece.

How do you see art inspiring Houston? Houston has become much more tolerant and acceptive of urban and renegade art. Though fine art is still very alive and known in Houston, I feel a shift in the type of art that is being accepted as "great and inspiring". From graffiti street art to installation pieces throughout the city, artists are being inspired to take social issues and share them with the city through their art form. The beautiful thing is that the city is embracing it and taking awareness of the social issue and working towards creating their own type of awareness within the smaller communities. When I moved here in 2001 there weren't very many street murals. I see a large growing trend to turn old buildings into beautiful, colorful, and inspiring pieces of art.

What are your thoughts on the art scene in Houston? The Houston art scene is about artists and not so much how much about how much their art sells for. There is a growing appreciation for their techniques, visions and stories. This is the type of art which inspired me to become the renegade artist in the sense that it's a mixed up version of blurring the lines we are meant to color in and sending a message that touches many different types of people.