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Resident Artist Talks: Gabo Martinez and Jamie Sterling Pitt

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft 4848 Main Street, Houston, Tx, United States

Join HCCC for talks by current resident artists, Gabo Martinez (clay) and Jamie Sterling Pitt (wood). Discover the artistic processes of working craft artists and learn about the artists’ works of art, influences, and materials. After the talk, visit the resident’s open studios to learn more about their tools and explore their work up close! […]

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Open Studio w/ slowdanger

Houston Metropolitan Dance Center 4916 Main Street Suite 100, Houston, TX, United States

Meet the artists of slowdanger and learn about how they will be spending in Texas as the Inaugural New Work Development Artists In Residence at Texas A&M’s College for Performance, Visualization, and Fine Art! This event is free and open to the public anna thompson and taylor knight, are co-founders of Pittsburgh, PA based multidisciplinary […]

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Event Series Level 0 – FREE Intro to Improv Class

Level 0 – FREE Intro to Improv Class

Station Theater 2219 Crockett St #C2, Houston, United States

Our FREE Level 0 class is a fun, no-pressure way to try improv! This weekly 30-minute class lets you get a taste of Station’s improv training program, and it’s a great way to spend a Friday night! Level 0 students will receive a $25 discount code for our nine-week Level 1 - Fundamentals of Improv […]

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Event Series Scenes From Films I’ll Never Make

Scenes From Films I’ll Never Make

Sabine Street Studios 1907 Sabine Street Studios, Houston, TX, United States

Marking a major shift in Maloney’s practice, Scenes From Films I’ll Never Make, introduces a selection of 10 new oil paintings made by the artist within the last year. As the title suggests, a lot of the pieces were first conceived as ideas for films that for one reason or another never came to be. […]

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Event Series WiVLA Presents: Entangled

WiVLA Presents: Entangled

Sabine Street Studios 1907 Sabine Street Studios, Houston, TX, United States

Women in the Visual and Literary Arts (WiVLA) is excited to announce that its 2024 Biennial Collaboration, one of WiVLA’s hallmark events, will be hosted at Sabine Street Studios North Gallery from September 12 through November 2. The Biennial Collaboration, which began in 1994, enables a visual or performance artist to collaborate with a literary […]

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Event Series Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow

Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) 5216 Montrose, Houston, TX, United States

Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow is the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States. Across an installation, a video, and a series of commissioned sculptures, Erlanger continues her decade-long disruption of the “semiotics of suburbia.” In her practice, Erlanger thinks of the home as a greater ecosystem containing not only houses but […]

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Event Series Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege

Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) 5216 Montrose, Houston, TX, United States

Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege presents work by the acclaimed Chicago-based artist, featuring large-scale paintings, sculptures, and installations that highlight the seen and unseen dynamics of Freedmen’s Town in Houston’s Fourth Ward. Throughout his career, Theaster Gates has soulfully elevated our understanding of Black labor, materials, place, and community to revitalize underrecognized neighborhoods […]

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Event Series “Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms”

“Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms”

Menil Drawing Institute 1412 W. Main St., Houston, TX, United States

"Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms" examines drawing as a meditative process that invites the gradual appearance of indeterminate images. Selected from the Menil Collection’s permanent collection, this display of twenty-nine drawings dating from the late 1930s to the present share a visual language of emerging forms. On view September 20, 2024 through January 26, […]

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Event Series “Fragments of Memory”

“Fragments of Memory”

Menil Drawing Institute 1412 W. Main St., Houston, TX, United States

"Fragments of Memory", a selection of works from the Menil Collection’s permanent collection, explores the ways in which the past imbues present experiences. In their drawings, the featured artists take up commonplace embodiments of personal and collective memory, such as scrapbooks, snapshots, notes, relics, and odes, to reimagine how we might access fraught memories and […]

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Event Series Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo

Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo

The Menil Drawing Institute 1412 W. Main St., Houston, TX, United States

Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo features a site-specific work by New York-based artist Ronny Quevedo (b. 1981). The 36-foot triptych, C A R A A C A R A, 2024, explores the relationship between origin, transfer, and translation, with each panel of the composition indicating a different step in the artist’s process.

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Event Series “Tacita Dean: Blind Folly”

“Tacita Dean: Blind Folly”

The Menil Collection 1533 Sul Ross Street, Houston, TX, United States

"Tacita Dean: Blind Folly" is the first major museum survey in the United States of work by British European visual artist Tacita Dean (b. 1965). The exhibition, organized in close collaboration with Dean, spotlights her career-defining approach to creating art through unmediated and chance-based drawing processes across a variety of mediums, from film to printmaking.

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Event Series Artist Round 57: Southern Survey Biennial II

Artist Round 57: Southern Survey Biennial II

Project Row Houses 2500 Holman , Houston, TX, United States

Project Row Houses (PRH) proudly presents the second iteration of our Southern Survey Biennial in the historic row houses on Holman Street in Third Ward. This survey of recent works created by contemporary visual artists living and working in “The South” will feature installations in PRH’s historic row houses from Rabeeha Adnan (Richmond, VA), Nic […]

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