"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, […]
"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 […]
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.
"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.
Join YAH Teaching Artist Junrui Garcia for a free Visual Arts Workshop! Explore the cultural importance of handwriting and calligraphy, and learn how to transform everyday writing into beautiful calligraphy art. Participants will also discuss the significance of handwriting in today’s digital world. All materials provided—just bring your creativity!
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 […]
Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? is a participatory installation by artist collaborators Alex Strada and Tali Keren. It critically examines the U.S. Constitution and creates space for intervention and political imagination. The artists ask visitors to engage critically with the U.S. Constitution and pose two questions: What […]
The Community Artists’ Collective will hold its seventeenth Annual Ashé Market December 19-21 at its new location at 4111 Fannin, Suite 100. Admission is free. The market, which also serves as an introduction to The Collective’s new home, features a curated selection of unique items made by local artisans. Additional items include African fabric, masks […]
Join YAH Teaching Artist Marsha Dorsey-Outlaw for this free visual arts workshop. Explore cultures all over the world through the uniqueness of their crafts. Single workshops or residencies will introduce the form, function and spiritual significance.
Embrace the memories of your family and friends by creating a poem using writing prompts inspired by Vincent Valdez’s People of the Sun (Grandma and Grandpa Santana) (2019).
Come join us in celebrating our three choirs, guitar ensemble, and our first ever violin program with holiday songs representing all of Latin-America. Over one hundred children will be performing representing communities from throughout Houston’s historic Second Ward and the greater East End.
Join YAH Teaching Artist Junrui Garcia for a Free Visual Arts Workshop! Explore the cultural importance of handwriting and calligraphy, and learn how to transform everyday writing into beautiful calligraphy art. Participants will also discuss the significance of handwriting in today's digital world. All materials provided - just bring your creativity!
