Spring invited lectures:
April 4 2020: Portland Oregon, Oregon ASLA Design Symposium
April 14 2020: Rhode Island School of Design, Spring Lecture Series
April 29 2020: Lone Star College, Department of Fine Art
Falon Land Studio Summer Internship Program
Falon Land Studio is hiring two intern positions in Houston, Texas to work with our diverse team. Our work is a hybrid of landscape architecture at a variety of scales and public art commissions for municipalities and non-profits. We are looking for ambitious emerging designers with an interest in crafting construction drawing sets for permanent public art commissions, landscapes, and urban plazas…….READ MORE
TOPO for Outdoor Voices opens December 13th
TOPO is a constructed landform of artificial and living plants, commissioned for the new Outdoor Voices retail shop in the Heights Mercantile. Opening is December 13th at 6pm.
Details and RSVP here: https://events.outdoorvoices.com/ovhoustongrandopening
Invited Lectures: Falon Mihalic upcoming talks in Autumn 2019
Falon Mihalic is speaking at the Texas Society of Architects Conference and the National Conference on Landscape Architecture this Autumn. Details about the talks and how to register are included here……
Falon Land Studio to design new Playground for Atkinson Elementary School
Falon Land Studio is working in partnership with the Kaboom Foundation and the Rebuild Texas Fund to design a new resilient playground for Atkinson Elementary School in Pasadena, Texas. For the first time, this playground will….
Field Playground Phase One Now Open
Field Elementary School in the Houston Heights now has a new and improved soccer field. It is open for use by the community after school hours and on the weekends. Thank you to the Friends of Field and the Field Elementary PTO for all of their hard work bringing this vision to life.
New Public Art Commission in downtown Houston Opens June 1st
Falon Mihalic was commissioned for a permanent public art installation for Understory at Capitol Tower in downtown Houston. The work, Rain, is an installation of a large scale painted water body with glistening rain drops. It’s created from layers of paint and pure pigment on a 20’ x 12’ wall. Acrylic sculptures welded from mirrored acrylic sheet create three dimensional prismatic water beads. Additionally, Falon was invited to be an inaugural artist for the Milam Art Wall with a 10’x8’ dyed paper work for the public entry of Understory.
Falon Mihalic selected as Pre-Qualified Public Artist in Arizona
The Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona has accepted Falon Mihalic as a pre-qualified public artist. We look forward to pursuing environmental art projects in the desert southwest in the near future.
Phase One Field Playground Opens April 7th
Phase one of the Field Elementary school playground is set to open Sunday, April 7th. Please join the Friends of Field, the kids, and the Houston Dynamo street team for a fundraising auction and soccer event from 2-4pm. The first phase of the playground design includes a new soccer field and walking track. Phase two includes natural areas, a frogland with rainwater harvesting, native plantings, and a stump jump…..
Selected Finalist for two public art projects in DC
Falon Land studio is shortlisted for new public art projects at the Maury Elementary and Addison-Hyde schools in Washington DC. In April, we will present a full concept design for each location to the schools and the commissioning agency, the Department of General Services, and the stakeholders who oversee the percent for art in DC schools program…..
Falon Mihalic invited to create land art at Rice University
Inuksuit
Installation and Performance
February 16, 2019 4pm
Rice University
Falon Mihalic has been invited to create a site-specific work of land art for the Spring 2019 performance of John Luther Adams’ Inuksuit at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Produced in partnership with the Humanities Research Center Spatial Studies initiative, the work is funded by the Mellon Foundation with collaboration from the Moody Center for the Arts and Rice Public Art. The performance will take place Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 4pm in the live oak grove near Entrance one on the Rice University campus.
Florida Thesis Project Book selected for exhibition and publication
RISD graduate thesis book selected for exhibition…
Falon Mihalic featured in Voyage Houston Magazine
Today we’d like to introduce you to Falon Mihalic.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Falon. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there…….
Stories from the Florida Panhandle now published in Tempor Magazine
Falon Mihalic and Ross Wienert receive grant for bringing innovative artwork to Houston
Falon Mihalic and Ross Wienert won a Let Creativity Happen! Grant as part of the city’s initiative to support “innovative ideas that redefine artistic boundaries”. The project is an interactive sculpture that responds to the weather environmental conditions and will be installed along the Columbia Tap Rail Trail in Houston’s Third Ward. Using programmed LED lights, the work will respond to Houston’s weather variations in temperature, light, and rainfall as it changes over the course of several months. This project is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.
Falon Mihalic to be interviewed on LARCHITECT
Falon Mihalic to be interviewed on Landscape Architecture podcast. Subscribe here to be notified of its release.
Interactive Art creates playful spaces for Houston kids
We won! With support from Kaboom and Target, we are implementing two interactive public art projects for kids in Houston.....
Now on view: Grounding, solo show of paintings and sculptures
Grounding: Paintings and Sculptures by Falon Mihalic now on view at m Architects Gallery. 1206 Nance Street, Houston Texas.
Grounding is the process of touching the ground to transmit the body’s electrical energy to the earth. The work is inspired by this idea of coming into direct contact with the earth as a way of exchanging energy and explores ground as physical material and bodily experience. The work is based on real terrain that I have touched in Texas, Florida, and New Mexico. These landscapes are defined by sand, mud, salt, rock, erosion, and deposition. They are places that have been sculpted across a geologic timeframe. The process of making the work puts me into a kind of invented terrain somewhere between imagination, memory, body, and place. I find it deeply satisfying to emulate the earth and express it here in the form of paintings and sculptures.
FGLA’s Interactive Periscope Public Art for Central Avenue approved by Baltimore City
The Baltimore City Public Art Commission approved FGLA’s public art concept for an interactive Periscope tower and plaza at the intersection of Central Avenue and Pratt Street. This work is the percent-for-art commission part of the Central Avenue streetscape project. The Periscope’s angled mirrors will make it possible for people walking by to see elevated views of the neighborhood. Its color, form, and integrated plaza are inspired by local waterways, including City Springs, Harford Run, and the Patapsco River. The 25’ tall Periscope will be constructed of cast-in-place concrete, colored plexiglass supported by a welded frame, and surrounded by a plaza of....