When Hallie Beatrice Welcome Carpenter, known as Big Momma to family and friends, died in 2008, she left behind a home in significant disrepair in Polytechnic Heights, a historically Black community on the east side of Fort Worth. It’s a neighborhood marked by resilience, with a church every couple of blocks, many of them tiny congregations on residential lots. Roosters can be heard throughout the day, and front yards alternate between tidy garden beds and salvaged clutter.“It’s not a rich neighborhood,” says Sedrick Huckaby, a rising star of Texas art and Hallie’s grandson. “Not in terms of, like, money. But people are rich here in terms of culture. That’s one of the reasons for this place—to stir up that culture, both speak to it and…The post Big Momma’s House Is Texas’s Most Intriguing New Art Space appeared first on Texas Monthly.