Join us in celebrating the closing of the 2025 Witness Series with a Pop-Up Community Art Show. This unique community art show will feature nature journals from attendees of the Witness Series events at Yolanda Black Navarro Buffalo Bend Nature Park. The works created by artists Maverick and Kristi Rangel will also be displayed. Photographer, Joe Robles IV, will curate a survey of photos he has taken during the series. A facilitated artist talk will take place highlighting the activations in the Buffalo Bayou Partnership green spaces during this year’s Witness Series. Light bites and refreshments will be provided for attendees.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS & PARTNERS
Erandi Trevino - Panelist
Joe Robles IV - Panelist
Kristi Rangel – Moderator
Maverick - Panelist
Nature Heritage Society- Houston
*Artist Joe Robles IV and his camera will bear witness to this event. Through his art, we will be able to experience the power of community building and creating art in green spaces.
**Buffalo Bayou Partnership will provide information about the importance of Yolanda Black Navarro Buffalo Bend Nature Park and its ongoing transformation in Buffalo Bayou East. Kristi Rangel is the 2025 Artist in Residence with Buffalo Bayou Partnership.
The Witness Series 2025 experiences will be in collaboration with Bayou City Waterkeeper, Blaffer Art Museum, Buffalo Bayou Partnership, Chinese Community Center- Houston, Community Artists’ Collective, East End Management District, Friends of Columbia Tap, Harris County Precinct One, Houston Audubon, Houston Botanic Garden, Houston Climate Justice Museum, Houston Health Department, Houston Parks & Recreation Department Houston Public Library (HPL), Journey HTX, Latino Outdoors Houston, Lualo Studio LLC, National Wildlife Refuge System, Nature Heritage Society- Houston and Texas Center for African American Living History.
Underwritten by the Jacob & Terese Foundation