Art and Photography
Saturday Open Artist Studios
The Silos at Sawyer 1502 Sawyer Studio120, Houston, TX, United StatesThe artists at the Silos at Sawyer Yards welcome the public to their studios every Saturday, 12-5 p.m., to tour our work spaces, connect with us individually and purchase original artwork, in all mediums, including painting, sculpture, ceramic, glass, mosaic, photography, mixed media and jewelry, and all styles, meaning there’s something for everyone! Saturday open …
In/Between | A Rock and a Hard Place: Visions from the Ghost World of how to Survive One’s Sovereignty of Self Destruction in a Land We Assumed We Once Knew
Rice Media Center Gallery, at Rice University (Entrance #8 via University Blvd & Stockton Dr.) 6100 Main (Entrance #8 via University Blvd & Stockton Dr.), HoustonThe Visual and Dramatic Arts department at Rice University is pleased to announce its first fall exhibition, “In/Between | A Rock and a Hard Place: Visions from the Ghost World of how to Survive One’s Sovereignty of Self Destruction in a Land We Assumed We Once Knew” by Photography Lecturer Justin Raphael Roykovich. The opening …
Katya | Help Me I’m Dying Comedy Tour | Houston
Cullen Theater 501 Texas Ave, Houston, TX, United StatesHELP ME, I'M DYING is a multi-media, multi-character, multi-faceted live stage show. A fusion of stand-up comedy, story-telling, video, and live dancerly-ish action and music that talks about what it means to be a woman, from the perspective of a person that dresses up like one. Due to overwhelming demand, we are thrilled to expand …
Let’s Roam Houston Scavenger Hunt
Hermann Park Conservency 6001 Fannin St,, HoustonForget tourist-filled museums, make your own memories with a photo scavenger hunt tour in Houston! On a Let’s Roam scavenger hunt, you and your team will work together to wander throughout Houston, racking up points and laughs along the way. Houston's Museum District is the perfect small group activity for anyone looking to spend an …
Moon Shot: Opening Reception
Rice University Moody Center for the Arts 6100 Main Street, HoustonJoin the Moody for the opening of 'Moon Shot,' an exhibition of works responding to the moon landing by a selection of innovative artists working from 1969 to the present. Featuring works by Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Laurie Anderson, Siah Armajani, Nancy Graves, Rachel Rose, Katy Schimert, and Michelle Stuart. Complimentary bites and beverages. Free …
Artist Talk: Nina Katchadourian
Rice University Moody Center for the Arts 6100 Main Street, HoustonJoin the Moody for a conversation with artist Nina Katchadourian who will discuss her creative process and her current Rice University Public Art exhibition Please, Please, Pleased to Meet’cha. The outdoor sound installation installed among the branches of five trees in the Live Oak Grove (between Herring Hall and Brochstein Pavilion) is a whimsical work …
The Kama Sutra: Challenging the Stereotypes: Stories about Love and Sex
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX, United StatesDR. SUSHMA JANSARI Tabor Foundation Curator of the South Asia Collections, British Museum Books for sale following lecture: The Complete Illustrated Kama Sutra by Vᾱtsyᾱna, edited by Lance Dane Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest Times to the Sixth Century by Naman P. Ahuja It’s not what you think! Two thousand years ago, the …
Moonlight at the Moody
Rice University Moody Center for the Arts 6100 Main Street, HoustonJoin the Moody for an evening celebrating 'Moon Shot', an exhibition of works responding to the moon landing by a selection of innovative artists working from 1969 to the present. The evening will feature: • Ask an Astronomer Café • Film screenings • Expert Talks • Moon Gazing through Telescopes • Inprint Poetry Buskers • …
2019 Bayou City Art Festival Downtown
Downtown Houston Houston, TX, United StatesThe Art Colony Association, Inc. (ACA) will celebrate 48 years of art for all and giving back to local nonprofits as it spotlights 300 artists, representing 19 different disciplines, at Bayou City Art Festival in Downtown Houston. Houston’s largest art festival will transform the streets of Downtown into artistic avenues bursting with colors and culture. …
Project Row Houses Round 50: Race, Health and Motherhood Opening
Project Row Houses 2521 Holman St., HoustonProject Row Houses (PRH) will unveil its latest Artist Round, Round 50: Race, Health and Motherhood, on Saturday, October 12, 2019. Curated by PRH Curator and Programs Director Ryan N. Dennis, Round 50 explores how artists, healthcare professionals, practitioners, and philanthropy are responding to the Black maternal mortality rate, a national health care issue that …
Who is An Artist? Sol LeWitt Master Installer Talk at Rice
John Hogan, Installations Director for the LeWitt Estate and Installations Director and Archivist for Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings at Yale University Art Gallery, reflects on four decades of installing LeWitt’s work in this talk facilitated by John Sparagana, Grace Christian Vietti Chair of Visual and Dramatic Arts and Professor of Painting and Drawing, Rice University. …
Artists in Dialogue: Matthew Day Jackson and Leroy Chiao
Rice University Moody Center for the Arts 6100 Main Street, HoustonJoin the Moody for a conversation between artist Matthew Day Jackson and former NASA astronaut and International Space Station commander Leroy Chiao. The discussion, moderated by artist Matthew Ritchie, will focus on moon exploration and the artistic creativity that it inspires. This event is free and open to the public.
2019 Houston Cinema Arts Festival
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX, United StatesThe Houston Cinema Arts Festival is a five-day, multi-venue festival that includes a multitude of narrative and documentary films, live multimedia performances, panel discussions, Meet the Makers workshops, and free outdoor and student field trip screenings. In its relatively short history, HCAS has brought notable guest artists, such as Tilda Swinton, Alex Gibney, Guillermo Arriaga, …
2019 Houston Cinema Arts Festival
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX, United StatesThe Houston Cinema Arts Festival is a five-day, multi-venue festival that includes a multitude of narrative and documentary films, live multimedia performances, panel discussions, Meet the Makers workshops, and free outdoor and student field trip screenings. In its relatively short history, HCAS has brought notable guest artists, such as Tilda Swinton, Alex Gibney, Guillermo Arriaga, …
Gareth Long: Kidnappers Foil Opening Reception
Blaffer Art Museum University of Houston, United StatesOpening Reception: Friday, November 15 Artist/Curator Remarks: Friday, November 15 at 6 p.m. Exhibition on view through March 14, 2020 "Kidnappers Foil" is an immersive moving image installation by the Toronto-based artist Gareth Long that explores the social, cultural and media histories of amateur American filmmaking through the lens of the itinerant Texan filmmaker Melton …
Solebration: Community Opening Reception
Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, Rice University 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX, United KingdomJoin us Monday, Nov. 18th, 5:30-7 p.m. This fall, the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies and Rice Public Art celebrate the acquisition of internationally-renowned artist Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #1115” and the exhibition of a loaned work, “Wall Drawing #869A,” at the Anderson-Clarke Center. Celebrate the completed wall drawings in a public installation opening reception …
2019 Theta Charity Antiques Show
George R. Brown Convention Center 1001 Avenida De Las Americas, HoustonThe Houston Alumnae Chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta will host the 2019 Theta Charity Antiques Show at the George R. Brown Convention Center from November 22 to 24, 2019. Bringing together top exhibitors, designers, collectors, and admirers of fine arts and décor from around the nation, this year’s weekend-long event will be the Theta Charity …
Project Row Houses and the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts Host 2019 Fellowship Final Presentations
Dudley Hall, Fine Arts Building, University of Houston 4188 Elgin Street, Houston, TXOn Tuesday, December 3 at 6:30 p.m., join us at the University of Houston Fine Arts Building for the performance-lectures by the 2019 Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts-Project Row Houses (KGMCA-PRH) Fellows, Libby Bland and Sarah Rafael García. As their fellowship year comes to a close, Bland and García will present their to-date …
Paloma Sponsored by PNC Bank
Discovery Green 1500 McKinney St, Houston, TX, United StatesPaloma Sponsored by PNC Bank is a temporary, site-specific public art installation in two parts. Paloma, created by French creative studio Pitaya, is a series of 200 colorful aluminum “origami” birds, which will be suspended from the canopy along Discovery Green’s Brown Promenade and will be illuminated by dynamic LED lights after dusk to create …
Holiday Market and Pet Adoption
Post Oak Central 1990 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 120, HoustonOn Tuesday, December 10 from 11 am until 2 pm, Uptown’s Post Oak Central campus hosts a Holiday Market and Pet Adoption. The lunchtime activation will feature an array of food trucks, a variety of artisan vendors showcasing one-of-a-kind items ideal for gift giving and a pet adoption hosted by local rescue group Houston Pets …
Flatland Gallery Presents, Missed Connections
Flatland Gallery 1709 Westheimer Rd, Houston"Missed Connections" Opening December 13th, 6-9pm, 2019! Co-curated by Megan Gonzalez & Jeremy Perez On View December 13th - December 26th, 2019 Flatland Gallery: 1709 Westheimer Rd Houston, Texas 77098 Artists: Megan Gonzalez, Jeremy Perez, Gabriel Montoya, Kumquat, Alex Beraza and Elijah Jimenez About: An exhibition challenging the meanings of intimacy and affection featuring photographs, …
Jumper Maybach Boutique Holiday Party!
jumper maybach boutique 1131 Uptown Park Blvd, Houston, TXCome eat, drink and be merry in celebrating our first Holiday Party at Jumper Maybach in Uptown Park. Experience Houston’s first and premier “Artistic Boutique” with creations by world renowned Artist Ben Workman, aka Jumper Maybach. From its’ Soho roots to artistic industrial design: this concept space also features consistent art exhibition, rotating performance art …
Works on Paper 2009 – 2019 by Randall McCabe
Rice Media Center Gallery, at Rice University (Entrance #8 via University Blvd & Stockton Dr.) 6100 Main (Entrance #8 via University Blvd & Stockton Dr.), HoustonThe Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts (VADA) at Rice is pleased to announce the upcoming spring exhibition ‘Works on Paper 2009 - 2019’ by Randall McCabe, artist and long-time shop supervisor for the department who retired in May 2019. ‘Works on Paper 2009 - 2019' will have an opening reception at the Rice Media Center Gallery on Thursday, January 16 from 6:00 – …
Opening Reception: Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present
Rice University Moody Center for the Arts 6100 Main Street, HoustonJoin the Moody for the opening of Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present, an exhibition that addresses the violent erasure of marginalized histories and the ways in which artists reinterpret familiar themes through contemporary, Afrocentric lenses. Featured artists include Sammy Baloji, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Omar Victor Diop, Adama Delphine …
Margaret Wertheim, Science Communicator and Artist
Dudley Hall, Fine Arts Building, University of Houston 4188 Elgin Street, Houston, TXMargaret Wertheim is an internationally noted writer, artist and curator whose work focuses on relations between science and the wider cultural landscape. Her work is animated by a two-fold proposition: that science is both a field of conceptual enchantment, and a socially embedded activity with political and communal consequences. The author of six books, including …