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An independent Houston platform bringing people, resources, and practical momentum into alignment around artists and their ideas.
Founded in Houston · 2021
Built from the conviction that access is something you produce.
RUBY Projects was founded by Megan Olivia Ebel to cultivate coalescence across Houston’s art community: a flexible structure where artists, curators, galleries, institutions, collectors, and independent producers can make ambitious projects together.
The program champions experimental, craft, performance, new-media, and culturally specific practices—particularly work that gains power through collaboration and does not fit comfortably inside a single institutional lane.
Megan
Olivia Ebel
Megan Olivia Ebel is a Houston-based curator, cultural strategist, art advisor, practicing artist, and USPAP-certified appraiser with more than fifteen years of experience across galleries, public art, education, artist relations, collector development, and nonprofit leadership. She has led or curated more than fifty exhibitions and cultural programs, building projects that connect artists with the institutions, patrons, and practical support that allow ambitious work to take form.
She is the Founder and Director of RUBY Projects and LaRucheHTX and Director of REVOLVER Galería Houston, where she helps shape a program centered on Latin American contemporary art and builds relationships across Houston, Lima, and Buenos Aires. Her earlier development and strategy work includes FotoFest, where she also served as the 2024 Biennial Auction Chair.
Ebel serves on the board of Glasstire and on the board and development and capital campaign committees of the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art. Her Orange Show leadership has included Auction Chair in 2024 and Gala Co-Chair in 2025. She holds a BA in Studio Art from Sewanee: The University of the South and pursued further study in contemporary art history, curation, and art business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London.
Grounded in a third-culture perspective and Houston’s capacity for self-invention, her work moves fluidly between independent curatorial practice, gallery leadership, artist advocacy, appraisal, and civic cultural service.
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