A bulldozer waited near the Martel Center at Rice University on Monday, ready to demolish the 45-year-old corrugated metal building ... known as the Art Barn, said it had been granted "a stay ...

They are being replaced by metal buildings.” Jan ... The Crummers met in 1969 at an Orange County, Calif., sidewalk art exhibit and married in 1972. They moved to Arkansas in 1983 when Marv ...

Metal art by Donna Freebury. Freebury is one of the artists who will have work on display at the Christmas at the Fairgrounds event this weekend. The event begins on Friday, Nov. 29 and goes until ...

created art there out of abandoned metal. Some of it was discarded by the Southern Pacific Railroad, for which he worked as a brakeman before an accident in 1986 put him in a wheelchair. His barn ...

of Rice University's historic Art Barn (aka, the Martel Center), a metal-clad gallery and studio space that has been a landmark for the Houston arts community since its opening in 1969.

With a machine-age aesthetic, it would be made of corrugated sheet metal and wood ... The reclamation of the 'Art Barn' as studios for education, experimentation and collaboration would be ...