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Blaffer Gallery is located in room 120 of the Fine Arts Building on the University of Houston's main campus, entrance #16 from Cullen Boulevard, near the intersection of Cullen and Elgin.
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Website: http://www.hfac.uh.edu/blaffer/index.html
INFORMATION / COLLECTIONS / EXHIBITIONS: The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston was founded in 1973.
Major programs organzed by the Blaffer Gallery include the Houston Area Exhibition, presented every four years and open to artists residing in the Houston are. The 2000 Houston Area Exhibition honed 1,600 entries down to a presentation of emerging and established local talent.
The 1997 exhibition, Michael Ray Charles: An American Artist's Work drew more than 10,000 visitors and later traveled to the Austin Museum of Art and the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Museum´s two-volume catalogue won the First Prize for Publications from the American Association of Museums.
During the course of its history, the Museum has organized EXHIBITIONS, such as: the fascinating paintings, works on paper and assemblages of Spirited Journeys: Self Taught Texas Artists (1998); Luis Jimenez: Working Class Heroes (1999); Donald Lipski: A Brief of Twine (2001) and the Here & There/Aquí y Allá: Six Artists from San Juan (2002).