Art. Culture. Other Words.
Art. Culture. Other Words.
Michael
Michael McFadden is a Houston-based art critic and cultural writer. He earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio and an MA in Arts Leadership from the University of Houston. His criticism and cultural writing has been published in Arts+Culture Texas, the Brooklyn Rail, Free Press Houston, Glasstire, and Houstonia as well as in exhibition catalogs.
He is a former member of the Houston and Chicago-based curatorial collaborative Suplex and has aided in the presentation of works by numerous artists and curators in addition to working closely with arts organizations including Project Row Houses & Art League Houston.
Paul
Paul Middendorf is a writer, curator, and creative living and working in Houston. While he has resided in Houston for the last 14-plus years, Middendorf has curated and organized exhibitions across the country and around the world in cities such as Portland, New York, Chicago, Istanbul, Zurich, Basel and Berlin, and has exhibited at MoMA PS1. He has written and published with many print affiliations, assisted with investigative articles from national publications, and served as arts editor for Free Press Houston.
Middendorf is deeply involved with the local community and beyond. His works are both collaborative and independent. Middendorf has worked with or interviewed creatives and leaders such as Mayor Sylvester Turner, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Olafur Eliasson, Margo Price and more.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Rhodes is an editor with an aggressive, outside-the-box approach. Focusing primarily on covering arts and music, she spent six years writing professionally, starting as a staff writer at CultureMap Houston before serving as the editor of Free Press Houston. She currently works as the marketing manager at a small nonprofit, but her passion for writing, editing, creativity and the arts thrives through her work with Flak.
