One more of the children of CORE
It was pointed out that I forgot one art space founded by a CORE Fellow. This is the Aurora Picture Show, which gets a substantial chapter in Impractical Spaces: Houston.
The CORE Fellow that founded it was Andrea Grover. She founded the Aurora Picture Show in 1995 and ran it until 2008. I started The Great God Pan is Dead in 2009, and never got a chance to meet Grover. But she did something remarkable—she created an art space that survived her departure.
Aurora Picture Show derived its name from Aurora Street, in the Brook Smith neighborhood of Houston. Grover had acquired an old church building and turned it into a theater for showing experimental films. (You can see the church in the photo at the top of the page reproduced above.) This building is now the home of 14 Pews. It is interesting that this building was the home of two distinct art spaces at different times.
Aurora Picture Show has had a couple of different homes since the original Aurora Street location. (Which reminds me of Lawndale—an art space that originally took its name from Lawndale St., but is now located on Main St.)
Grover had been a CORE fellow from 1995-1997.
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