Mich Stevenson is a Houston-based artist, curator, and creative entrepreneur whose practice is rooted in Artist Operations, a resource-centered model that integrates skilled trades with art, construction, historic preservation, fabrication, and design. This approach reframes artistic production as an embedded civic practice, linking creative labor to the physical, social, and historical systems that shape public space. Through Artist Operations, Stevenson leads a structured trade-skills training program for local artists ages 18–25, emphasizing hands-on learning and workforce readiness. By pairing trade skills with artistic inquiry, the program expands emerging artists’ ability to engage meaningfully with the built environment at community and civic scales.
Stevenson’s creative work spans sculpture, outdoor product design, manufacturing, community organizing, and project management, and includes public art, site-specific installations, design, photography, film, and writing. His work has been featured in the 2021 Texas Biennial at Ruby City, the Houston Airport System’s permanent collection through the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and Project Row Houses. He has also curated exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Houston Freedmen’s Town Conservancy.
As part of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership Artist-in-Residence program, Stevenson will explore Buffalo Bayou’s waterways and adjacent sites that pass through culturally and historically significant communities. Drawing from these investigations, he will develop site-responsive work that combines research, hands-on training, public art and installation, and site-specific programming. These activities will serve as educational platforms for Artist Operators while fostering broader public understanding of the bayou’s layered histories, labor systems, and role as shared civic infrastructure.