The Santa Fe-based arts and entertainment company that creates immersive, interactive experiences is opening its latest installation in Houston. As the second location in Texas, visitors get a uniquely Houston experience with many of its artists and creators from the area.
Meow Wolf Houston: Radio Tave
Meow Wolf is centered on venturing into the unknown and exploring unexplored areas. Each experience starts with a familiar location, such as a house, grocery store, or transit station.
For the Houston location, visitors enter the fictional small town East Texas radio station, ETNL. Then, visitors explore the Radio Tave exhibition through a series of doors or portals.
Meow Wolf states it is at the “intersection of art and social impact, aiming to foster creative growth and community engagement.”
Designed by over 100 artists, including 50 from Texas, Meow Wolf Radio Tave showcases a blend of local talent and Meow Wolf’s signature, mind-expanding storytelling.
“Diversity on the inside and as Houston is on the outside,” said Jose Tolosa, Chief Executive Officer of Meow Wolf.
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Obsidiodyssey by Janell Langford
In this six-room installation, Langford guides visitors through the ebbs and flows of the creative process with her characters, CJ and Fantastrophe. Like Ying and Yang, CJ is the creative assigned to craft a music video for the singing phenom Fantastrophe.
With her background in graphic arts, the Obsidiodyssey blends bright colors and world-building to hone a retro-futuristic space that feels both nostalgic for the long-gone 80s and of the moment.
In this space, guests can take to the turntable to craft their own vision. Opposite the creation comes to life on the floor-to-ceiling LED screens. Bold color and design make this space particularly energetic.
by Cole Bee Wilson
This soon-to-be Houston downtown hangout is the recreation of a dive bar. Visitors will experience the best of the cultural phenomenon without the stale beer smell and sticky floors.
There was a neon sign, a central pool table, and long-forgotten holiday decorations hanging haphazardly from the ceiling. The light is low as the Naugahyde stacking chairs ring each dark wood grain Formica table.
Cowboix Hevvven offers a menu of mid-century bar fare on a redux, like the Hot Mess. It’s a standard-issue Frito pie mixed with a deluxe nacho plate and served in a paper boat. It’s messy, not good for you, and somehow satisfying to your inner high schooler.
Guests in the Cowboix Hevvven will mingle with the dive bar flies, ranging from the Pool Shark (who looks like he got snagged in the Gulf) to the winged cowboy sitting at the bar.
It’s not a bar without music, and revelers can enjoy the Cowboix Havvevn soundtrack with 30 songs by Houston locals. Also, guests shouldn’t move on until they’ve witnessed the red-eyed pop of punk rock mixed into the the line-up. Like a dream, it’s over in a flash.
This is the amalgamation of experiences of the former Texan, now Santa Fe-based artist Cole Bee Wilson.
According to Jose Tolosa, Chief Executive Officer of Meow Wolf, look for this space to take reservations on weekends.
About Meow Wolf
Meow Wolf was established in 2008 as an art collective in Santa Fe. It has grown into an arts and entertainment B Corp. Located in Fifth Ward, Meow Wolf Radio Tave is at 2103 Lyons Ave Building 2, Houston. It opens on Thursday, October 31.
