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On Thursday, January 31, 2013, the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston (MOCAH) invites you to celebrate 13 years of youth development social awareness and public art, by joining us at our 2012 “L’Art Nouveau” Masquerade Ball – Peinture a Les Etoiles. This dazzling event will raise awareness of MOCAH’s mission in serving at-risk youth in local communities and further our creative cultural art programming.

This year’s event theme will feature the pairing of influential local celebrities and talented local artists to produce a one of a kind piece of art, which will be live auctioned at the January Gala.

The list of collaboration between Artists and Celebrities include:

Shelby Hodge (Columnist, CultureMap-Houston) and Taft McWhorter

Mayor Annise Parker and Hanh Tran

Michael Garfield (The High-Tech Texan®, Radio Personality) and Allan Rodewald

Peter Remington (Publisher, Houston Magazine) and Katarina Conrad

Connor Barwin (Linebacker, Houston Texans) and Grant Marnier

 MOCAH is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) cultural arts organization with a mission to use art and creativity as tools for social awareness, educational enrichment and community development. Since its inception in 1999, MOCAH has served over 14,900 at-risk underserved Houston youth and our programs have operated in over 40 public schools throughout the city.  MOCAH has invested more than $3MM in community art projects and civic art commissions, providing over 90 professional and emerging artists with employment opportunities.   

The estimated audience of 300 business, civic leaders and patrons of the arts would benefit tremendously from your generosity. We would be most appreciative of a telephone call to let me know of your interest.  We look forward to hearing from you soon.  Thank you for considering this invitation and request.  We would like to meet with you to make a formal presentation about the organization, the event and historical information about the past performance of this function and of the organization.

The Art of Leadership (AoL) is a Spring Break and Summer Camp program that revolves around field trips, guest speakers and hands-on art projects that help middle and high school students recognize the importance of creative expression, innovation, entrepreneurship and civic responsibility.  The purpose of the art-based leadership camp is to enrich, develop, and empower the lives of the young people in and around the Houston area by exposing them to local business/civic leaders, team building exercises and art experiences that reinforce their learning journey.

The first of its kind in the city of Houston, the AoL is the evolution of spring break and summer camps offered by the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston (MOCAH) over the past 8 eight years.  For 2013 MOCAH seeks to refine the camp by providing the students with access and exposure to creative professionals and field trips to the work environments of these professionals.

Join us as we work to empower our youth and beautify Houston by putting the “public” back in to public art.

For more information visit www.mocah.org.