Rogers Partners is helping one of America's premier folk art destinations expand in Houston

2021-11-18T14:19:00-05:00

One of America’s premier folk art institutions is getting a major expansion for the first time thanks to a newly-unveiled design from Rogers Partners.

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art opened in 1980 and is dedicated to outsider and folk art.

Orange Show traces its origins to a transplanted local postal carrier named Jeff McKissack, who transformed his East End Houston property into a shrine for the signature fruit of his native Florida over a three-decade span until his death the same year.

Image courtesy of the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, Houston, and Rogers Partners.

The expansion allows for one unified program for the first time in the organization’s 40-year history. A 31,000-square-foot warehouse building adjacent to the center will be turned into a flexible exhibition space and education center with a special feature that will serve as the new centerpiece to one of the city’s most important public art festivals.

Since the mid-80s, the center has hosted Housto...

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Rogers Partners is helping one of America's premier folk art destinations expand in Houston