HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston´s Core program awards residencies to emerging visual artists and art scholars. Overseen by the Core Program´s associate director, Mary Leclère, the Core fellows annually present an exhibition that showcases work made during that year´s residency. This year´s edition opens Friday, March 5, 2010, with works on view in the Laura Lee Blanton Gallery at the Glassell School of Art through April 16, 2010. The 2010 Core Exhibition features work by artists-in-residence Nick Barbee; Natasha Bowdoin; Jillian Conrad; Lily Cox-Richard; Steffani Jemison; Julie Ann Nagle; Kelly Sears; and James Sham. Core critical studies residents Regan Golden-McNerney, Kurt Mueller, and Wendy Vogel contribute essays based on their independent research to the Core 2010 Yearbook publication that accompanies the show.