Live oak friends meeting
 “Arts InSight: James Turrell“, Houston Public Media
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Live Oak Friends Meeting House is a Quaker meeting house located at 1318 West 26th Street in the Heights area of Houston, Texas, United States. The meeting house, which was completed in December 2000, was designed and built to house the Live Oak Friends Meeting, which was formed in 1954. The building features a permanent installation by the artist James Turrell, known as the Skyspace or One Accord. It has been described as an architectural "idealization of Quaker testimonies like peace and equality."
Live Oak Friends Meeting (LOFM) is a monthly meeting (congregation) of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Houston, Texas. The Meeting is a Liberal Quaker meeting and worships in the traditional unprogrammed style. The Meeting is a member of Bayou Quarterly Meeting and South Central Yearly Meeting and is associated with Friends General Conference. The meeting has approximately 75-100 attendees.
The Meeting was founded in 1954, when a group met at the home of Walter and Myra Whitson. Members of the meeting met for many years in temporary spaces, including a Jewish community center, a Presbyterian manse, the Chocolate Bayou Theater, and a dance studio. They acquired two acres on which to build, but lacked resources to do so.
Hiram Butler, a Houston gallery owner, connected the Live Oak meeting with Arizona-based artist James Turrell. Turrell, a Quaker himself, was fascinated by light. He saw the Live Oak meeting house as an opportunity to combine his art and his religious faith by creating a working space for religious worship that would embody the Quaker belief in inner divinity, often spoken of as the "light within". In turn, partnering with the artist offered new possibilities for raising funds for creation of the meeting house, by soliciting funds from the Houston arts community.
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