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In inner-city Houston, a step ahead of demolition crews, African-American artists board-up two blocks of abandoned houses in a left-for-dead neighborhood of the Third Ward and paint art on the boarded up doors and windows. "Project Row Houses" started as guerilla public art but more than a decade later is still at work--including art exhibitions of local and famous artists, residences for single mothers in college, after-school and weekend programs for children and more.
Project Row Houses' impressive success in community revitalization through art actually increases the danger to the survival of the neighborhood because of outside development. THIRD WARD TX is there at the pivotal moment when their idea of art and "social sculpture" must include housing and local development for the people who are already in the community.
Their imaginative response to local issues, their use of art and vernacular architecture, and their commitment to making the once-lively neighborhood a lively, desirable and safe place again has made Project Row Houses a landmark for other communities, artists and architects, and even developers and planners from around the world.
THIRD WARD TX is a intimate look at the people behind the project, the artists, single mothers, kids and community members, as they take on the challenges of the neighborhood and outside pressures.
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"It's a great story, told with charm and dexterity, and really has universal appeal -- these are issues facing every city in America, and our country needs more innovative ideas like Project Row Houses. A first step is for people to see Third Ward, TX." Mark Elijah Rosenberg, The Rooftop Films Blog
"Thank you so much to [the filmmakers] for capturing this project so well on film and for sharing it with me. This is the perfect film to screen for artists, urban planners, mayor’s conferences, architecture school lectures, professional design associations, Brad Pitt, the list goes on." Becky Harris, Hatch, the Design Public Blog
"Last night, we also saw Third Ward TX, a documentary about Project Row Houses, where a group of artists rescued an urban neighborhood. It did the best thing a documentary can do: let you know about something you had no idea existed. Besides which, it was moving, funny, beautiful to watch, inspiring." Steven, Go-Like-Water
"Garrison moves deftly from past to present by tracing the history of Third Ward from its days as an enclave for African-American life along Dowling Street, just southeast of downtown Houston, during the long period of racial segregation in the 1930s to its decline in the 1970s and finally the efforts of Lowe and his collaborators to spark community renewal. Rather than follow a strictly chronological order the film goes back and forth in time to create a collage-like quality that is rich visually and in terms of content. Memorable interviews with such local heroes as Earnestine Courtney and Cleveland “The Flower Man” Turner add a layer of human experience to Garrisonʼs film, which he wrote with Nancy Bless. Garrison also adds interviews of resident artists who have come from outside Houston to participate in the twice yearly installations in a number of the shotgun cottages and participants in the Young Mothers Residential Program developed to provide transitional housing and support for single mothers and their children. In sum, Garrison strikes a good balance between showcasing the human dimension of the Project Row Houses and focusing on the local and national personalities involved its inception and day-to-day operation. By providing subtitles each time a new person is interviewed Garrison ensures that people outside of Houston learn their names." Michelangelo Sabatino, Ph.D., Journal of Architectural Education, Nov. 2008
SXSW Film Festival, Winner at Big Muddy Film Festival, Dallas/AFI Film Festival, Interferencia/Barcelona,
Andrew Garrison Garrison has worked with community organizations and film for over 30 years. He makes documentary and narrative films and is on the Production Faculty of the University of Texas at Austin. His work has earned him Guggenheim, Rockefeller, AFI and NEA individual fellowships, and has been broadcast on PBS and selected for festivals worldwide. Garrison worked for almost 15 years with Appalshop, where he made "Portraits & Dreams," "Fat Monroe," and other films. He co-founded the Dayton Community Media Workshop (Media House) with fellow-New Day filmmakers Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, and Tony Heriza.
His current project "Trash Dance," (www,TrashDanceMovie.com) is about the collaboration between a choreographer and city trash collectors to make a dance performance. Its world premiere was at SXSW 2012 where it won the Special Jury Award.
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