The seventh issue of the CSPA Quarterly is now available! Cultures around the world rely deeply on both local creativity and agricultural activity. Creative culture and agriculture are inextricably linked, and both are facing challenges as we globalize. This issue contains stories from public projects, visual installations, film, and theater, and examines local vegetable farming,
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This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects *in deference to the essay by M. Jimmie Killingsworth and the photographs by Geoff Winningham in the book Going Back to Galveston “THROUGH THE YEARS, THE MOSQUITO FLEET DOCKED HERE AMONG OTHER SHIPS. ENRICHING THE CITY AND NATION, AND BLENDING ASIAN AND EUROPEAN This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects These maps show the tracks of our first two weeks of shrimping on Galveston Bay aboard the F/V Discovery, at three different scales. The tracks are recorded by our onboard GPS chart plotter and then overlayed onto NOAA nautical charts and Google satellite images. This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects Map reprinted from History of San Leon, Vol.1 by Alecya Gallaway (Left); Shrimp Boat Projects map of San Leon (Right) “Why would I want to live anywhere else?” – Dusty Hill, bassist for the band ZZ Top and former San Leon resident Not only This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects The process of putting the Discovery back in the water began with a traditional christening including the smashing of a bottle of champagne over the bow of the boat. We are happy to report that after nearly two months of work out of the water, This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects Although historically a rite of passage for commercial fishing boats only, the annual Blessing of the Fleet on Clear Lake channel now includes both work boats and pleasure boats alike. “The Blessing of the Fleet is an annual event that is practiced in fishing communities This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects We are happy to report that our boat was successfully hauled out of Dickinson Bayou, is sitting comfortably on blocks and appears poised for a new paint job. After working on the boat in the water for a month and half, we knew the time This post comes to you from Shrimp Boat Projects The iconography of a Texas oil field (postcard from Tyler, TX); Scrap yard in Houston where we bought our used oil field pipe; Fitting the pipe to the starboard bulwark of our boat; Testing the pipe for Alpha radiation with a rented geiger counter; Safe |
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