Houston Arts Alliance is fixing to hire globe-trotting Australian public artist Konstantin Dimopoulos to install a version of his popular “Blue Trees” in Houston. The current proposal is to plant saplings painted with harmless, washable dye in memorial for trees lost in last years drought. Culturemap’s Shelby Hodge reported on a reception in Dimopoulos’ honor at the home of patrons Scott and Judy Nyquist earlier this month that collected “a heavy-hitter group of civic leaders, collectors and Hermann Park Conservancy leadership including Ann Kennedy, Divya and Chris Brown, Marc Melcher, Lea Weingarten, Brad Bucher, Doreen Stoller, Michael Cordua, Leigh Smith, Minnette Boesel, Karen and Byron Hood, Jereann Chaney, Sarah Whiting and Ron Witte and Houston Arts Alliance CEO Jonathon Glus and partner Alton LaDay.”
