Google Cloud
This 48” x 72” canvas commissioned for the lobby at Houston’s Google Cloud office has a timeline of Houston’s history in a live oak, and birds comprised of 70+ languages for “cloud.” Flora and fauna in the piece are all native to Houston’s bayou area.
UTHealth Houston
Many Faces. One Mission.
This is one of 9 pieces interwoven into a “storybook of gratitude” for donors to the UTHealth fundraising campaign. My tree pieces represent the concept of many individuals working side-by-side in support of a common purpose, or individuals making up a single community, and this piece represents a collective effort, a whole greater than the sum of its parts, a community working together.
20 x 20” ink, acrylic and latex on board, with a narrative of gratitude from UTHealth, a comprehensive academic health university uniting schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, public health, biomedical sciences and health informatics.
Crown Castle
Triptych, 60” x 120”, incorporating Crown Castle key words and company values. Installed outside the board room at Crown Castle, 8020 Katy Freeway, Houston.
St. Luke’s 75th
Commissioned for St. Luke’s United Methodist Church’s 75th Anniversary Celebration, this 36 x 60” mixed media college is framed and installed in the lobby at 3471 Westheimer in Houston. It includes the words City, Mission, Compassion, Hope, Love, Transformation, and Resilience, written in over 100 languages, with an incorporated map of Houston.
Iscential’s 30th
Commissioned for the 30-year anniversary party of Iscential Insurance Agency, which is headquartered in Houston with locations throughout the United States. Iscential team members at the anniversary party signed this piece, and their signatures were incorporated into a tree featuring company goals and values.
24x24” acrylic/latex/india ink on canvas.
Methodist Hospitals
Writing Our History” is a series of interactive art pieces created by Houston Methodist employees to mark the one-year anniversary of caring for their communities throughout COVID-19. The 8 pieces designed for 8 locations (Baytown, Clear Lake, Katy, Sugar Land, West, Willowbrook, Woodlands, and the main location on Fannin) are silhouettes of healthcare workers made up of names of employees and those who inspired them. What the hospital loved is that no one individually could have done what the hospital system did in that single year, but by working together all made a lasting impact: This project is a tribute to coming together and being stronger at the other side.
From the hospital: “Across the hospital system, employees shared their name or the name of someone else with pride. Watching employees line up to sign there were elbow-fives with people saying ‘YES WE DID DO IT’. There were meaningful moments where individuals with teary eyes hovered a few extra seconds above the name they wrote. There were also celebrations; I remember one woman sharing this was her last day at the hospital after decades of service and how she was always going to be a part of the history with her name on the wall! Overall the canvas signing felt like a signal of respect for where we had been and a moment to look forward to where we are going. Now that the pieces are going on the wall (one at each hospital campus), it is fun to see employees find what they wrote.”
Nashville, Sidecar
This 48” x 48” piece resides at the Harlowe Boutique Apartments in Nashville, Tennessee. It’s comprised of the history of the Sidecar cocktail, and several recipes.
Wedding Vows
Round commission, 20x20”, June 2022.
Color:Story 2021
A community event, a collaborative visual art and literary exhibition with a dynamic opening/ reading/ poetry slam, created by artists Marlo Saucedo and Leslie Gaworecki to bridge creative worlds.
Texas artists created visual art with words from poets who submitted from 17 states nationally & 6 countries internationally. Poets read their work aloud at the well-attended opening on April 17th, 2021, which was held in the upstairs gallery at Spring Street Studios, 1824 Spring Street, Houston, TX 77007. Poets traveled from Alabama, Florida, and Washington, DC to read their work. The show was up through May 8th.
For more information on poets and artists, see ColorStoryArt.com.
Color:Story 2023 is currently being organized.
Mural : Boulevard Realty
Boulevard Realty commissioned a 7’ x 9’ mural, Houston Is Home, a skyline made of the word home written in 140+ of the diverse city’s spoken and recognized languages, for their new multipurpose community/office YourSpace space, 927 Studewood, Houston, TX, 77008.
Color:Story 2019
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Color:Story is a community/visual art/literary event, a series of collaborative exhibits by artists Marlo Saucedo and Leslie Gaworecki collaborating with authors, writers, and poets to create work representing their written words. 17 Houston-area poets/writers were chosen by submission for Color:Story 2019, exhibited January 12 - March 23rd in Gallery 200 at The Silos on Sawyer, Sawyer Yards, Houston. Chosen writers were emerging creative writing talent, journalists and published authors, represented by Writespace, WITSHouston, and Houston's reading and slam poetry scenes. Each piece of art included the words of a single writer.
Color:Story 2019 had the largest opening the Silos on Sawyer building had seen to date.
Color:Story 2021 was open to national as well as local poets.
Leslie Gaworecki and I have different styles/methods/approaches, which creates interesting flow in a visual exhibit where writers’ words are a part of each piece.
This project bridged Houston’s worlds of literary and visual art, fostering connections for better understanding the different creative disciplines. It opened January 12th as an art opening/reading/poetry slam. Authors included Outspoken Bean, Rachel Massey Browne, Anjola Coker, Raie Crawford, Brandon R. Dillon, Ayokunle Falomo, Catherine Gentry, Kelli Hines, Adam Holt, G. Paris Johnson, J.S. Kapral, Lisa Levy, Jake Anant Miller, Robin Reagler, Lisa Toth Salinas, Ellen Seaton, and Holly Lyn Walrath, with special guest reader Ashley Ellington Brown.
To see co-exhibitor Leslie Gaworecki’s work, please visit lesliegaworecki.com.
M.D. Anderson
For the new M.D. Anderson Cancer Center location in League City, TX:
Commissioned & Completed: Two 40x30" Visual Art Narrative pieces (in ink and acrylic on paper) to be framed and installed in the lobby. Visuals from the Apollo missions. Narrative: MD Anderson’s Cancer Moon Shots Program. MD Anderson is doubling down across the board to find cures for 13 different types of cancers. Action plan, doctors involved, discoveries, and other details about the Program are written into these pieces.
AncesTree Project
Commissioned by The Woodlands Arts Council, The AncesTree Project is an ink and acrylic piece on 3’ diameter round canvas.
Neighbors in the community who attended the inaugural Woodlands Cultural and Heritage Festival wrote their memories, traditions, cultures and heritages – 260 personal stories – onto paper leaves hung on a papier mâché tree at the festival. I wrote the shared stories into a more permanent piece, which represents the diverse community entwined and growing together. The AncesTree Project is installed in the Arts Council's office.
Houston Methodist
Houston Methodist The Woodlands commissioned a triptych, Heart and Soul, in 2017 for their new hospital with all of the employees' signatures. 500 employees and staff members each signed one of these trees. The hospital's mission statement and goals are woven into the remaining positive space. Heart and Soul is installed on the third floor, facing the front lobby.