Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Visual Artist Talk - Community Artists Collective

You are invited to join us Saturday, November 22, for Visual Artist Jean Shon's artist talk

Today is the day we honor and remember our veterans, those who have sacrificed their time and/or their lives for the security of our future.

Visual artist and educator Jean Shon similarly honors this connection through loss in The Collective’s current exhibition “What Would I Not Give.”

Shon will give an artist talk Saturday, November 22, from 2 to 5 p.m. at The Collective. She explains how redefining our relationships to a being, a space, a notion or a thing creates a new archive--a speculative one based upon her evolving relationship with the material. Rather than being reduced to static archival relics, her work opens up space to reconstruct memory in perpetuity.

As a second-generation daughter, designated memory keeper and family link—Shon is perpetually negotiating the burden of debt, guilt and obligation with her kin. Her work is a testament to this struggle: piecing together fragments and residue in order to understand, honor and carry forward who and what came before us.

Art League Houston's Curator and Exhibitions Manager Zhaira Costiniano will serve as the moderator in conversation with Jean Shon.