Spend a summer afternoon indoors and explore CAMH’s current exhibitions, Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege and Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow, through a variety of hands-on activities at the Museum!
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) invites all college students to explore our current exhibitions, Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege and Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow, during an evening of free and engaging activities throughout the Museum.
ISHIDA Dance Company announces the highly anticipated program “mutability” presented by Asia Society Texas Center June 7-9, 2024! The program includes two original ISHIDA poetic narratives: “green apples”—which experiments with matriarchal...
Michelle Donnelly, the 2023–24 Menil Drawing Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow, explores how artists have used drawing to engage with questions of place. Through processes such as stamping, rubbing, and body printing, they actively contended with the sociocultural and...
Inspired by artist Olivia Erlanger’s off-world landscapes and impossible architectures as featured in Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow, create a surreal structure using paper and tape.
Natalie Dupêcher, Associate Curator, and Tyler Green of “The Modern Art Notes Podcast” engage in a discussion about artist Janet Sobel and the exhibition “Janet Sobel: All-Over”. This public conversation will be recorded live at the Menil with...
Please join HCCC to celebrate the opening of our summer exhibitions, “Georgina Treviño: La Fuente del Deseo” and “Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass”. The evening will also feature open studios by the current resident artists.
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,...
Join Contemporary Arts Museum Houston to celebrate the Public Opening of Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege, to preview Gate’s large-scale paintings, sculptures, and installations highlighting the seen and unseen dynamics of Freedmen’s Town in Houston’s Fourth...
Co-presented with Aurora Picture Show, this is an annual lively evening of community-sourced projections on the museum’s façade. Picnics and blankets are encouraged. Rain date: May 18.
Join Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) to celebrate the opening of the Teacher Advisory Group (TAG) Pop-up exhibition State of Disruption, confronting the challenges and complexities of the nation’s current education system. Teachers from TAG and their students...
Join us in helping us celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month with us! We will explore tons of different cultural experiences including crafts like learning how to make seashell necklaces. Or join us with a live performance by Dance of Asia...
ABOUT THE EVENT Cinco de Mayo in Mexico, Spanish for “Fifth of May”, is a yearly celebration held on May 5, which commemorates the anniversary of Mexico’s victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It has become a day...
Attention all aspiring astronauts and Jedi knights! Dive into a day of intergalactic excitement where you can craft your own spaceship, meet Rey and Kylo Ren for thrilling story-time, and embark on mind-bending challenges in a galaxy far, far away! What’s...
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 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...
“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,...
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...
