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    Silver Tray Artist

    Ultimate recycling: Artist turns silver trays into timeless sculptures — dents and all

    Nancy Wozny
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    Aug 5, 2013 | 12:09 pm

    In the opening passage of Bruce Norris' Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park, which proved a season highlight at the Alley Theatre, Bev tries to pawn off her silver chafing dish to her maid. After she refuses, she tries to give it away to the maid's husband. Another no go.

    I hear your pain Bev.

    Imagine how I felt when the estate sale lady told me, "No one wants that stuff anymore," when looking at the pile of silver from my parent's home. She muttered something under her breath about my generation never learning to entertain. Over the five weeks I spent getting my childhood home emptied for its next owner, I came to think of that pile of silver as a collection of orphans.

    "Surely, you need a silver butter dish," I would tell my sisters, sounding exactly like Bev.

    "I believe that within the new object still lives the past. That nothing is lost, only given a new history."

    No one did, so slowly I began to send some of the choice pieces back to Houston at a time when I was purging my own home of unneeded stuff. I sent so many pieces back to Texas that the UPS guy and I were on first-name basis. For a while there, it seemed that only the UPS guy and myself remotely cared about my mom's old silver.

    Then I wandered into Jaydan Moore's studio at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, whose work is now on view as part of In Residence: Work by 2012 Resident Artists, through Sept. 29. He, too, had a pile of silver, along with strange and beautiful silver sculptures mounted on the wall. Trays merging with each other possessed an otherworldly feeling, yet not so unfamiliar. A cluster of forks fused together made for another curious sculpture. On the far wall, I found elegant prints made from the engraved silver patterns. Moore even prints the back of the tray, showing the scratches, kicks and dents. It's life as a tray is revealed in the grooves of its history.

    "It's like a final record of the object," says Moore. Finally, someone who understood my silver situation.

    Tarnish and texture

    Moore takes donated old silver, or what he has found at re-sale shops, and turns them into something else, like three silver trays fused to make one elongated wall sculpture. Something we know and understand becomes a object of rare beauty. Tarnish doesn't scare him either, it adds to the texture of the work.

    It's as if he gives the silver another chance to be in the world.

    "I like the idea of how we add memory and meaning to objects."

    Moore was one of five artists in residence at the Craft Museum, a program started in 2001 for mid-career and emerging clay, fiber, glass, metal, wood and mixed media artists. Artists get space, a stipend and a show in exchange for being in their studios about 24 hours a week when the museum is open. So it's perfectly OK to wander in and chat with them about their work. Although it's a tiny bit like working in a fishbowl, Moore enjoys the interaction.

    "It's good to discuss your work with the public," he says. "Since I have said the same speech over and over, I find that I really start listening to what I am saying."

    Moore met the metal so to speak while still in high school, when he took a pre-college class at California College of Arts, Oakland, where he went on to earn his BFA in jewelry and metal arts. He headed straight to the Craft Center after earning his MFAH/MA at University of Wisconsin, Madison. His work took a turn toward using recycled objects while in grad school. "While making trophies I learned the commemorative object history began with table service ware. It was this knowledge that drove me to begin making trophies out of found tableware."

    He's attracted to things like heirlooms that carry the history of its owner. "I like the idea of how we add memory and meaning to objects," says Moore, who mostly uses recycled silver as his media now.

    "I am motivated by how an object moves through the world, changing in meaning as it is passed down," writes Moore in his artist statement, which is exactly why I handed over one of my mom's silver trays. Moore inspected it closely, nodding his head with approval. He knew the make and the model well.

    Transformation

    Weeks later, I revisited Moore and found my mom's tray transformed into a plate ready for the printing process.

    Moore has enjoyed his time in Houston and is now in Richmond, Va., working as a Fountainhead Fellow. Before he left he called me to say my print was done. I gazed at my mother's platter, now on paper, its every bump and scratch recorded by ink and the delicacy of the paper. It's more beautiful than I could have ever imagined. Moore puts it poetically in his artist statement, "I believe that within the new object still lives the past. That nothing is lost, only given a new history."

    Somewhere, Bev would be smiling, and that estate sale lady, smirking.

    Jaydan Moore hits the metal on HoustonPBS

    Jaydan Moore in his Houston Center for Contemporary Craft studio.

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    from screenings to streaming

    Award-winning Selena Quintanilla documentary to debut on Netflix

    Amber Heckler
    May 13, 2025 | 4:50 pm
    Selena y Los Dinos documentary at SXSW
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    Selena y Los Dinos was produced by her siblings Suzette and A.B. Quintanilla.

    A documentary about late Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez that made a splash at SXSW in Austin is coming to Netflix this winter, the streaming service has confirmed.

    Selena y Los Dinos premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and had its Texas debut at SXSW in March. The film racked up awards at both film festivals, including the 2025 SXSW Audience Award in the 24 Beats Per Second category, which focused on musical stories.

    "We are so excited to finally share that our documentary Selena y Los Dinos is coming to Netflix!" said executive producer Suzette Quintanilla in a release. "Grateful to have a platform that helps bring Selena’s story to fans around the world."

    The documentary gives a never-before-seen look into Selena's upbringing and her rise to fame as the "Queen of Tejano Music" alongside her siblings, A.B. III and Suzette. It describes a family rising above financial hardship in the name of making music, while also revealing the close connections that were formed between bandmembers Ricky Vela, Pete Astudillo, and Chris Pérez, who married Selena in 1992.

    The film also recalls the fateful day the 23-year-old singer was shot and killed by her former fan club president, Yolanda Saldívar, on March 31, 1995.

    Directed by Isabel Castro, Selena y Los Dinos feels like a love letter to the late singer from those that knew her the best. Castro told Netflix that she wanted to honor the singer's legacy while also unveiling "new dimensions" of her path to stardom.

    "I am deeply grateful to her family for their trust and support throughout this journey, and I can’t wait for a global audience to experience the magic, heart and community that Selena gave to all of us," Castro said.

    According to Deadline, the streaming deal is estimated to be between $6 to $7 million.

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