Houston Green Expo

Saturday & Sunday, April 18-19, 2009                  Free and open to the public 10AM to 5PM

Reliant Park, Houston, between Kirby & Fannin @ South Loop 610

The Gulf Coast Green Symposium and the Houston Green Expo is proud to present an Interactive art installation at Reliant Park Center by ¡The Alter Girls! entitled “Trash: Our Kids!”

• Accessible by MetroRail, the art installation will emphasize the importance of personal choices in relation to sustainability and communities where our children play and learn.
• The public is encouraged to bring one item of clean recyclable trash to be recycled at the end of the event. Please, no glass or large items.
• Those who bring an item can participate in the installation. The Houston Green Expo is free and open to the public. The Expo educates the public about a variety of ways to “go green” and save money and resources.

¡The Alter Girls! are Alicia Duplan and John Linden. The artists live and work in the Heights, incorporating found objects and other landfill-bound materials in much of their work. ¡The Alter Girls! use humor in their art to take some sting out of serious subject matter. This installation promises no less as the title implies: “Trash: Our Kids!”   The central element of their installation at Reliant is comprised of re-used materials, the modular components of the piece having been re-purposed and reconfigured several times, most recently as a sculpture at the Art Car Museum’s Texas Green show.

¡The Alter Girls! thank their sponsors, Keep Houston Beautiful, Modern Mannequin, Reliant Center and the City of Houston for making this art installation possible.

Also coming soon:

Alicia Duplan- Abstact works- Waldo's in the Heights- May 2009

John Linden- Works on Paper- Waldo's in the Heights- June 2009