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Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.

She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.

Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.

Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.

She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.

Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.

Trained in literature and entrepreneurship, Rainey is the founder of Glasstire, the online magazine of visual art in Texas and the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. In 2019, she stepped down as publisher after over 18 years at the helm.

She is currently editing a book about the Rice Gallery and writing for magazines.

Rainey has spoken or written about arts journalism at Emory University, the USC Annenberg School, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, College Arts Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other places. She has also spoken about caregiving at Houston Methodist Hospital. She lives in Houston.

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Apr 8, 20211 min read

What Was Sown: Blind Alley Projects (195 words)

In March of this year, the wonderful new Fort Worth space Blind Alley Projects solicited open submissions for a project titled IDES OF MARCH. Timed to coincide with the one-year anniversary of Covid lockdown, the project ran for two weeks, March 13 to March 28, from the new moon to the full moon. Coincidentally, or serendipitously, it was also the spring equinox and therefore a traditional time of reckoning—an ending of one thing and beginning of another.

Each day offered a different prompt, including "How was time marked?" "Where was the power?" and "Why go on?" Participants sent in responses, mostly photographs, that ranged from funny one-liners to sublime beauties (sometimes both). The responses were collected by the proprietors of Blind Alley, artists Terri Thornton and Cam Schoepp, and added daily to the gallery space. Like the moon, it started empty and ended full.

This was my submission to the March 16 prompt: What was sown?

Blind Alley is a "drive by" art space. It is only open to the public by viewing through its front glass wall. There is no electricity, so you have to visit during daylight hours to see the art.

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