YardWorks is a partnership between Public Art UHS and the School of the Art at the University of Houston. It is a biennial program granting early-career Texas-based artists exhibition opportunities for their site-specific installations and public art projects. The program includes a professional dialogue component as well as a guided experience along all stages of the exhibition process, from concept development to fabrication to installation. Commissions remain on view from October 2026 through September 2027 at the Louise J. Moran Fine Arts Courtyard, in the heart of the University of Houston’s campus Arts District. 

YardWorks launched in the Summer of 2021 with Tay Butler’s We Are Still Searching… (2019). Tay Butler is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Houston, while teaching and studying in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Currently an MFA candidate of the University of Arkansas’ Photography and Studio Art program, Tay received his BFA in Photography and Digital Media from the University of Houston. His work utilizes photography, collage, video, music, installation and performance to identify and confront history, migration, memory and identity.

In August 2024, YardWorks welcomed a second commission with Gabrielle Constantine’s A Home Built of Lace (2024). Gabrielle Constantine received her double BFA in Sculpture and Fibers and Material studies at the Tyler School of Art (2017) in Philadelphia. She is currently living and working in Austin, TX and holds an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin (2023). Alongside her more sculptural practice, Constantine has shared in cooking dinners and hosting gatherings with communities in Philadelphia, Mexico City, Austin, and is consistently and continually innovating ways of gathering community through art and food.