Artist Talk: Michelle Stuart

Artist Talk: Michelle Stuart

In this online talk, the renowned land artist Michelle Stuart discusses her decades-long practice recording and studying traces upon the earth. Link will be posted to the event page at Menil.org prior to the program.
Identity: Unraveled on Film

Identity: Unraveled on Film

Identity: Unraveled on Film showcases the vibrant talents of our Houston teen filmmakers. Exploring their evolving individuality and their multiple facets of being, these filmmakers present their authentic selves through creative cinematic works. Presented and curated...
The Health Museum – Film Streaming – Linked by Love

The Health Museum – Film Streaming – Linked by Love

“Linked by Love” delves into the complexities of transplantation, family dynamics, and the intricate history of Black Americans with the medical establishment. Through laughter, tears, and moments of revelation, this poignant story explores themes of love, resilience,...
Book Reading – Clayton Sparks Leaves His Mark

Book Reading – Clayton Sparks Leaves His Mark

Abby Gray is the author of Clayton Sparks Leaves His Mark and an advocate for organ donation. Abby’s husband, Reid Gray, received a directed donation liver transplant in January of 2019 from Clayton Sparks. After developing an amazing relationship with Clayton’s...
SCI Cafe: Planet vs Plastics

SCI Cafe: Planet vs Plastics

UTMB’s Sealy Center for Environmental Health & Medicine and Institute for Translational Sciences invite you to participate in a conversation on Planet vs Plastics. Of special significance, this year’s theme for Earth Day is Planet vs. Plastics to advocate for...
Off Script: Stories from the Heart of Medicine

Off Script: Stories from the Heart of Medicine

Theme: To Give and To Receive Prompt: We give blood, birthday presents, and fudge brownies. We give books, time, and valentines. On the other side of the transaction is the recipient. Receiving a kidney, a parent’s attention, a coveted letter of recommendation. What...
Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

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...
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage

Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage

Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage is the first major museum exhibition devoted to exploring the breadth and complexity of Black identity and experiences in the United States through collage. Works by multiple generations of living artists...
Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

In the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a creative partnership that would change the course of French painting. The two painters experimented with daring directions in energetic bursts of color, form, and structure that eventually led to a...
Mindful Origami

Mindful Origami

Be both creative and mindful as we create something beautiful from origami paper. Origami technique requires precise attention and patience, but as we repeat the same folds over and over again, the process becomes easier, less stressful, and even soothing. Choose...
Houston Shakespeare Festival: Romeo & Juliet

Houston Shakespeare Festival: Romeo & Juliet

“Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say ‘Good night” till it be morrow.” The greatest love story ever told, Shakespeare’s powerful masterwork of exhilarating love and loss will capture your imagination and leave you breathless. Two star-crossed lovers are...
WindSync’s 15th Anniversary Concert

WindSync’s 15th Anniversary Concert

WindSync’s Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival invites you to celebrate the 15th anniversary of WindSync where it all began! WindSync musicians from founding to present reunite at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in their first concert at Duncan Hall...
Aperitivo Italiano: Sipping Sangiovese

Aperitivo Italiano: Sipping Sangiovese

We’re getting serious about Sangiovese! Join us for a tasting tour of Tuscany as we explore four wines produced with the Sangiovese grape varietal at our Aperitivo Italiano: Sipping Sangiovese. Riccardo Guerrieri, owner of VinSanto, will be our guest speaker for...
Cyanotype Workshop

Cyanotype Workshop

Join HCCC and current resident artist Hai-Wen Lin for an in-depth workshop on the cyanotype process, an early form of photography that uses basic chemistry, light, and time to produce brilliant blue images. Explore Hai-Wen’s practice of creating experimental...
The Fourth Dimension: Four Person Exhibition, Opening May 3

The Fourth Dimension: Four Person Exhibition, Opening May 3

Opening Reception: Friday, May 3, 6 – 8 p.m. On view: May 3 – June 29, 2024 Anya Tish Gallery is pleased to present “The Fourth Dimension”, an exhibition of work by four international and regional artists: HJ Bott, Árpád Forgó, George Grochocki, and...
Italian for Travelers (Online)

Italian for Travelers (Online)

Get ready for your Italian getaway! In this introductory, online Italian language class, you’ll learn essential words and phrases that will help you travel with confidence in il Bel Paese. This course will focus on how to approach people and ask simple questions...
BIPOC Book Fest

BIPOC Book Fest

The annual BIPOC Book Fest presented with Inprint, is a celebration centered on underrepresented voices through a showcase of literary works that feature Black, Indigenous, people of color, and other creatives of marginalized communities. Curated with diversity in...
Homegrown Houston: All Asian, No Fusion With Street to Kitchen

Homegrown Houston: All Asian, No Fusion With Street to Kitchen

Celebrate the incredible cuisines of Houston at this special tasting tour with Chef G and Graham Painter of Street to Kitchen! Chef G and Graham Painter have curated a selection of stand-out, innovative chefs who are each presenting a dish that showcases their stories...