Bridging the Gap
Between Art Lovers
and the Art World.
Emerging Collectors Brunch Series
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Who
Each brunch will include no more than 30 people. Invited to every brunch will be an established artist, an emerging artist(s) who is chosen by the established artist, established collectors, leaders in local arts leadership and the remainder of the invitees will be emerging art collectors.
John Abodeely, CEO of Houston Arts Alliance led the conversations at ECBs 1 & 2.
Necole Irvin, Director of the Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs served as our conversation facilitator for ECBs 3 & 4 .
Seba Suber, creative business strategist, and cultural producer, will be our conversation facilitator for ECB 5
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What
Curated in the vein of a salon dinner, The Emerging Collectors Brunch Series is designed to cultivate an arts ecosystem that empowers emerging art collectors in their collecting journey. We do this by creating an intimate environment of 25-30 people per brunch.
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Where
Locations vary between collector’s homes, art galleries, and various artists’ studios.
2023
The March 26, 2023 brunch was held at the home of Drs Jakeen and Garfield Johnson.
The April 30, 2023brunch was held at the studio of artist Delita Martin.
The September 9, 2023 brunch was held at the Hogan Brown Gallery.
The October 29, 2023brunch was held at the Art Is Bond.
2024
The May 5, 2024 brunch was held at Anthony and Seba Suber’s
The October 27, 2024 brunch will be held at Sanman Studios.
The November 10, 2024 brunch will be held at McClain Gallery.
Emerging Collectors Brunch Pt 6
Date: October 27, 2024
Time: 1-3 pm
Location: Sanman Studios | 1109 Providence, Houston, TX 77002
Artists: Tay Butler and Chayse Sampy
Tay Butler is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Houston, TX. He received his BFA in Photography and Digital Media from the University of Houston and completed his Photography MFA at the University of Arkansas. After retiring from the US Army and abandoning a middle-class engineering career to search for purpose, Tay reignited a rich appreciation for Black history and a deep obsession with the Black archive. Through collage, photography, drawing, video, sound, performance and large-scale installation, Tay utilizes past histories and imagery to create new understandings of the present while imagining a brighter future.
Tay's solo exhibitions and installations include A Friendly Game of Basketball, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, The Triangle, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, RE.Migrant I & II at Project Row Houses, Houston, TX and We Are Still Searching at the Louise J. Moran Fine Arts Courtyard, Houston TX. His work has been featured in group exhibitions for Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX and the Texas Biennial at Fotofest, Houston. He has collaborated with the Houston Rockets, Coca-Cola, amongst many others. His awards include the Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council, the Idea Fund grant from Diverse Works, and First Prize in the 2019 Citywide African-American Artists Exhibition at TSU. He currently teaches Art & Design at San Jacinto College, and has also led over 70 public and private workshops for many institutions from Crystal Bridges Museum, Arkansas to The Center for Fine Art Photography, Colorado.
Date: October 27, 2024
Time: 1-3 pm
Location: Sanman Studios | 1109 Providence, Houston, TX 77002
Artists: Chayse Sampy and Tay Butler
Emerging Collectors Brunch Pt 6
Chayse Sampy is a mixed media, Afro-surrealist artist based in Houston, TX. She completed artist residencies at Sanman Studios and Asia Society Texas in 2024, the same year she debuted her first solo show at Sanman Studios and is participating in the Texas Biennial. Sampy holds an MFA from Florida State University and a BFA from Louisiana State University. Her figurative narratives throw bodies into relation in an effort to capture the resourcefulness, adaptability, and complexity of Black experience. She currently serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston and teaches at the Glassell School of Art. Her work has been exhibited regionally and nationally, with recent group exhibitions at Pen + Brush (2024), the FSU Museum of Fine Arts (2023), the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans (2023), ArtFields (2023), the African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta (2023), the Ritz Theater and Museum (2023), Nia Cultural Center (2022), and Working Method Contemporary Gallery (2022).
