Artist

You see more than you think. Your brain drops most of it. I keep the part it dropped.

Twenty-five years of reflections, layers, wreckage and light. I still can't tell you why some frames hold and others don't.

See the work

Creative

Tell me what it needs to say. I'll work out how to say it, then go make it.

Direction, storyboards, video, photography, public art commissions, family sessions, and the shoebox of prints nobody in your family can face.

See what that looks like

Founder

I keep building the thing that isn't there yet, then getting out of its way.

dabfoto in 1998. Spacetaker in 2000, which is Fresh Arts now. Invest in Houston in 2010, which became the Washington Avenue Arts District. The Change Lab in 2025, and that one I'm still inside.

The receipts

Consulting

Most organizations don't need a new strategy. They need the one they already agreed on to become something a person can do on a Tuesday.

Program design and implementation. Two years with the Houston Food Bank on Strategic Goal 4, a year and a half on Red Sand Project. Few partners, and I stay.

How it works

Coaching

Most of it comes down to how we talk to ourselves.

Integrative — live, work, play, not fenced off from each other. Three months at a stretch, ninety minutes a session, breath and movement alongside the conversation.

How it runs
DavidABrown

This moment was inevitable, it could be no other way.

I work in community, and with the organizations, businesses and people trying to build more of it.

Artist

You see more than you think. Your brain drops most of it. I keep the part it dropped.

Twenty-five years of reflections, layers, wreckage and light. I still can't tell you why some frames hold and others don't.

See the work

Creative

Tell me what it needs to say. I'll work out how to say it, then go make it.

Direction, storyboards, video, photography, public art commissions, family sessions, and the shoebox of prints nobody in your family can face.

See what that looks like

Founder

I keep building the thing that isn't there yet, then getting out of its way.

dabfoto in 1998. Spacetaker in 2000, which is Fresh Arts now. Invest in Houston in 2010, which became the Washington Avenue Arts District. The Change Lab in 2025, and that one I'm still inside.

The receipts

Consulting

Most organizations don't need a new strategy. They need the one they already agreed on to become something a person can do on a Tuesday.

Program design and implementation. Two years with the Houston Food Bank on Strategic Goal 4, a year and a half on Red Sand Project. Few partners, and I stay.

How it works

Coaching

Most of it comes down to how we talk to ourselves.

Integrative — live, work, play, not fenced off from each other. Three months at a stretch, ninety minutes a session, breath and movement alongside the conversation.

How it runs

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