SHAPE Pre-Kwanzaa Market Celebration!
S.H.A.P.E. Community Center 3815 Live Oak, Houston, TX, United StatesJoin us as we usher in the new Kwanzaa season with live performances, food trucks, a kids zone, vendors, and much more! Free Event!
Join us as we usher in the new Kwanzaa season with live performances, food trucks, a kids zone, vendors, and much more! Free Event!
Presented in coordination with Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s (CAMH) 75th anniversary, Six Scenes From Our Future features the work of six artists who were invited to respond to the institution’s inaugural exhibition, This Is Contemporary Art (1948). This first show proposed a radical approach to the presentation of art. Offering unexpected pairings—like a Jacob Lawrence […]
THIS WAY: A Houston Group Show showcases new work from Black artists who are invited to examine innovative ways of participating in the storytelling of their legacy and heritage of Houston Freedmen’s Town. Each artist in THIS WAY: A Houston Group Show has demonstrated unique approaches that have inspired the momentum of Houston’s Black art […]
Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence showcases Kehinde Wiley’s new, monumental body of work, with large-scale paintings and sculptures of men and women in repose. Through his work, with detailed portrayals of Black and Brown individuals, the artist confronts the silence surrounding systemic violence and injustice. In this body of work, Wiley uses the visual […]
This exhibition presents more than one hundred portraits made over the past twenty years by Houston-based artist Nestor Topchy (b. 1963). The small paintings, with their gold backgrounds, resemble Byzantine icons; however, rather than representing religious figures, Topchy depicts friends and colleagues in the art community.
This exhibition presents the innovative art made by the Greek-born artist Chryssa (1933–2013) while she was living in New York City from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Renowned for her adoption of industrial process, found commercial materials and early work with neon light, she stands at the forefront of American art in the […]
Adapted and Directed by Tim Fried-Fiori A kid-friendly adaptation of the Holiday Classic! It takes 3 actors and 12 huge puppets to tell a story this big! Ebony Scrooge, a teenage millionaire, cares more about her money than the people in her life until the Ghosts of Past, Present and Future take her on a […]
Intimate confession is a project is a group exhibition that considers transmission, intergenerational life, and cultural inheritance through the prism of intimacy and infrastructure. Through the work of eleven artists spanning generations and geographies, the exhibition thinks through infrastructure as an intimate holding cell, capable of affective and affirmative power. The title is borrowed from […]
Diaspora is an exhibition that examines Caribbean influences on North American culture. Mathieu examines how exploitation and censorship of Caribbean politics impacts Caribbean nations and culture. Diaspora challenges the viewer to reimagine what achieving the American dream looks like aesthetically, financially, spiritually and emotionally as a first generation immigrant in the United States of America.
The Community Artists’ Collective kicks off its sixteenth Annual Ashé Market December 9 at The Collective. The market features a curated selection of unique gifts items made by local artisans. Additional items include African fabric, masks and other art pieces from various African nations. The Ashé Holiday Market will be open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays […]
Join us for the 10th annual Bayou Village School Winter Faire Festival! Winter Faire is a longtime Waldorf tradition where the entire community comes together to celebrate the beginning of winter and create a space of warmth and light. Since 2013, BVS’ Winter Faire has invited the local community to embark on a journey to […]
DACAMERA’s popular Beethoven for All series returns this December with FREE performances at the Menil Collection and Rothko Chapel. Performed by leading Houston pianists, the series will include 20 sonatas spanning Beethoven’s lifetime. In celebration of Beethoven’s birthday on December 16, the music series will culminate in an afternoon marathon at Rothko Chapel. Registration opens […]