Houston-based artist/ activist Rick Lowe paid a brief visit to Cape Town in 2002 where Public Eye arranged for him to deliver a lecture and slideshow at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. Lowe is best known for the Project Row Houses, an initiative in which 22 historic slave houses were saved from demolition through a community-based programme of restoration. While some of the houses function as temporary homes for single mothers, others are used as venues for art installations. Lowe is a board member of the Rice Design Alliance at Rice University and a Loeb Fellow at Harvard Design School.
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