Organization	Pauline Oliveros Foundation Houston
Category	Contemporary Music and Arts Education
Description	The Pauline Oliveros Foundation Houston was established to support creative music and innovative arts education. The Pauline Oliveros Foundation Houston (POF Houston) has presented concerts by many of the premiere international artists in the world of contemporary music. Artists supported by POF Houston work directly with young musicians in Houston's inner-city through workshop and residency programs. POF Houston helps nurture a new generation of artists and inspire a new generation of creative thinkers.
Events and Traditions	POF Houston hosts an annual Summer Residency in collaboration with MECA, an arts community center. This June, world renown jazz saxophonist and trumpeter will be in Houston leading this workshop. His week of rehearsals will culminate in a performance with the young artists. For information about the residency and the MECA Improvisation Program contact David Dove (see contact below).
Classes and Workshops	POF Houston works closely with MECA. Young musicians interested in the MECA Improvisation Program can contact David Dove (see contact below). Visit the MECA website at www.multiculturalarts.org. POF Houston also has occasional workshops for adult musicians in the community.
Additional Information	POF Houston is a program of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation. Pauline Oliveros is an internationally acclaimed composer, performer, humanitarian, and pioneer in American music. For four decades she has explored sound and forged new ground for herself and others. Through improvisation, electronic music, teaching, ritual, and meditation she has created a body of work with such breadth of vision that it profoundly affects those who experience it. Oliveros was born and raised in Houston, Texas to a musical family. In 1985 she started the Pauline Oliveros Foundation, a non-profit organization in New York, to "support all aspects of the creative process for a worldwide community of artists." "Creativity is the vital spirit of personal and public growth." -- Pauline Oliveros
Web Address	www.pofinc.org/houston
Contact	David Dove
Phone	713-928-5653
Email	dovedavedove@yahoo.com
Address	1458 Lawson Houston, TX 77023