Carnegie Vanguard High School rooftop garden.
Rey de la Reza and Melissa Matsu.
Flora Yun Yeh, Raquel Puccio, and Linda Sylvan.
Carnegie Vanguard High School courtyard and rooftop gardens.
Sarah Welch, Raj Mankad, and Chuck Jackson.
Sarah Balinskas Fine Framing
Nicola Springer.
Cite 92.
Anna Walker, Kathryn Hall, and Mary Headrick.
Sarah Balinskas and Kendall Milton.
Monica Savino and Mark Kusey.
Sarah Welch and Harbeer Sandhu.
Hank Hancock, Hannah Wolfe, Steven Wolfe, Melanie Schlossberg, and Chuck Jackson.
Scott Cartwright and Jenny Lynn Weitz-Amaré Cartwright.
Lady Lazarus Press
At right, Isaac Menge and Eric Leshinksy.
James Beard.
Jermaine Rogers and Raj Mankad.
Jermaine Rogers.
Jorge Galvan and Ben Koush.
Risograph printer.
Risograph drum.
Cite celebrated the release of issue 92 with a progressive pedestrian-friendly party. We began at Carnegie Vanguard, which opened in 2012 and is the newest high school in the Houston Independent School District (HISD). Rey de la Reza, the architect of the school, and Melissa Matsu, Dean of Instruction at Carnegie, led the tour, which echoed many of the themes explored in the special issue on education.
The highlights included the courtyard and rooftop garden with landscape design by Asakura Robinson, and the restored Settegast Building, which will soon open as the school's art annex and theater. You can read more about the school in the issue and here.
After the tour of Carnegie, we walked down Taft Street to Sarah Balinskas Fine Framing for a launch party. Writers, architects, artists, and teachers mingled over wine and cubed cheese. From there, we walked further down Taft to the corner of West Dallas, where we visited Lady Lazarus Press, which specializes in screen printing for artists. None other than rock poster artist Jermaine Rogers was at the press, signing a fresh batch of posters for Queens of the Stone Age.
