SLFEMP 1999-2017 | Mike Frost
This event featured a 1000 image slideshow documenting Houston's underground rap culture and panel discussion with Mike Frost, a photographer and graphic designer who has defined the image and branding of rap and hip hop albums in Texas and beyond, and guests Paul Wall, Brandon Holley, Orbit, G-Dash, and Michael "5000" Watts of the Swishahouse. This event celebrated the induction of the SLFEMP/Mike Frost collection into CERCL's Hip Hop archive in the Woodson Research Center Special Collections and University Archives in Rice’s Fondren Library.
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The event was part of Moody Center for the Arts Dimensions Variable, a full day of programming held in conjunction with Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-Time Star. Dimensions Variable brings together a wide range of arts, from music and design to fashion and performance, all in conversation with the exhibition on view.
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