“Entry Points” features large-scale environmental pieces by six contemporary Houston artists working with creative reuse and community engagement: Jonathan Paul Jackson, Ronald L. Jones, Gabriel Martinez, Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud, Patrick Renner, and Emily Sloan. In each case, visitors enter a site-specific environment, as defined by the artist, that in some way intersects with the aesthetic or spirit of the Orange Show and its expanding campus.  Jonathan Paul Jackson  Jonathan Paul Jackson is an African American Visual Artist working across various disciplines including painting, sculpture, and illustration. He has some formal education in art but is mostly self-taught. He interrupted his own practice for several years to focus on presenting the work of others, and in 2011, he returned fulltime to artmaking with a series of oil pastel works depicting jazz greats, political figures, and everyday objects. Successive waves of productivity have yielded Neo-Expressionism and action painting; color studies informed by Matisse, Warhol and Gauguin; and works inspired by Jackson’s interest in African, Latin and Native North American indigenous sculpture and culture.  Ronald L. Jones  Ronald Llewellyn Jones is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist whose artwork explores barriers between creatives and audiences and encouraging conversations about the relationship between individuals and their communities. Originally a filmmaker and photographer, he’s become best-known for his site-specific string and wire installations in gallery spaces and public outdoor areas that reference both the connections that build community and the barriers that impede progress. Jones challenges individual perceptions in relation to the availability of access and agency within normative societal structures.  Gabriel Martinez Gabriel Martinez is an artist, writer, and performer who takes the urban environment as a frame within which to examine concerns both local and global. Installations, discrete artworks, and even performative works may be made from the recontextualized detritus of city life--traffic barriers, shattered auto glass, empty cans, found fabric scraps. Martinez graduated with an MFA from Columbia University and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program before moving to Houston as a Core Program fellow and as an artist-in-residence at Project Row Houses. He is the founder of Alabama Song, an experimental arts space in Houston, and an active participant in Houston’s creative music community.   Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud  Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud is a native Houstonian, a fourth-generation artist, and a community leader. Inspired by mapping and geography; the natural environment; and diaspora, memory, and loss, she works across disciplines including site-specific land installations, studio-based work, and writing. She has led interdisciplinary community initiatives throughout the U.S. connecting arts, culture and the environment; and she frames new ways of imagining and advocating for natural resources and environmental justice. Currently, she is Executive Director of Bayou City Waterkeeper, where she works on wetland protection and urban water management, promotes watershed resiliency efforts that center equity and nature-based solutions, and supports community efforts to improve water quality in greater Houston.  Patrick Renner  Sculptor Patrick Renner explores refuse as a vehicle for memory and a way of exploring the human condition. He is best-known for his first large scale public sculpture, Funnel Tunnel, a 180’ woven wood and metal construction commissioned by Art League Houston and placed for over a year on Montrose Boulevard. During his decade of teaching at the High School for Performing and Visual Arts and at Sharpstown International High School, Renner led four student art car projects, winning three prizes including the Mayor’s Cup in 2011. He’s also among the founding members of El Rincon Social and of the {exurb} projects collective. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2004 and his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2006. Emily Sloan Social sculptor Emily Sloan’s “recreational aesthetics” encompass performance, education, and visual arts. She works with a variety of materials including wood, clay, humor and dreams. Projects have included a faux burning house, funeral wakes for the undead, baptisms out of a pick-up truck, an art gallery in a refrigerator. She is the founding reverend of the controversial Southern Naptist Convention and Co-Director for Houston International Performance Art Biennale. In 2009, Sloan received her MFA in sculpture at the University of Houston, and in 2013 she established the Mystic Lyon art space in the Fifth Ward.