Houston’s visual art landscape boasts numerous art museums, countless galleries, and plenty of pop-up shows. On any day of the week, you can find everything from celebrated touring exhibitions to stunning public art. Browse this page to find fine art currently on view, as well as tours and lectures.
Events in the next week
For the 2011-2012 season artist Daniel Anguilu will transform Lawndale's north exterior wall into a site specific mural on view through June 2012. Anguilu’s work can be found throughout Houston, including locations in the East End and most recently in in Midtown’s MHMRA building. Anguilu’s style is deeply inspired by...
Aug 12, 2011 (All day) - Jun 16, 2012 (All day)
Free
We offer traditional Russian souvenirs and gifts for all occasions:
-“Gzhel”: an array of white-and-blue porcelain items-from beautiful vases to sugar bowls and cups to miniature figurines
- Collection of plates hand-painted with the Russian fairy-tale motifs;
-Golden Khokhloma brightly painted wooden tableware;
-Nesting dolls-...
Feb 1, 2012 - May 31, 2012
Free
Art Class with Instructor Elizabeth Cencini
Every Sunday at Texas Art Supply
FRIENDSWOOD, TX.- Art Classes are available every Sunday with artist Elizabeth Cencini at Texas Art Supply in Friendswood,1507 Bay Brook Mall, 77546.
Texas Art is located in the Bay Brook Shopping mall parking lot just behind Dillard’s...
Feb 26, 2012 (All day) - Dec 30, 2012 (All day)
@15-30.00
Landscape II: A Photography Exhibit
Houston City Hall
March 5 - November 16, 2012
Opening Reception: April 2, 5:30-7:30pm at City Hall
Participating Artists:
David Brown
Danae Falliers
George Fowler
Scott Martin
Skeet McAuley
Anne Stautberg
Mike Stude
Pablo Gimenez-Zapiola
Curated by Libbie J. Masterson, HCP Exhibitions Coordinator
Viewing by...
Mar 6, 2012 (All day) - Nov 30, 2012 (All day)
Free
Solo Shows for Kristy Peet and Britt Ragsdale for FotoFest 2012 Biennial
on view at Gallery 1724, March 31 – May 31, 2012.
Kristy Peet and Britt Ragsdale will both open solo shows for the FotoFest 2012 Biennial at Gallery 1724 on Saturday, March 31 from 8-10pm. Kristy Peet’s exhibition will feature her series “How I...
Mar 31, 2012 - May 31, 2012
Free
Spring Schedule of Art Classes
Classes begin April 2 and end June 9
Register before March 12 and save $25 on each class!
Members save an additional $35 on classes!
REGISTRATION CALENDAR
EARLY REG: February 27 - March 10, $25 savings!
GEN REG: March 12 - 24
LATE...
Apr 2, 2012 (All day) - Jun 9, 2012 (All day)
Dependent on class
Rice University Art Gallery has commissioned Japanese artist Yasuaki Onishi to create a site-specific installation to coincide with the Grand Opening of the Asia Society Texas Center's new Houston headquarters designed by Yoshio Taniguchi.
Opening Celebration:
Friday, 13 April 5:00- 7:00pm
Gallery talk by Yasuaki Onishi at...
Apr 13, 2012 (All day) - Jun 24, 2012 (All day)
Free
Looking at the work in his show, Implied Utility, it’s hard to believe Chris Hedrick hasn’t been carving wood his whole life—the illusion of his pieces is just so good. Using primarily hand tools in the converted garage of his historic Houston Heights home, Hedrick digs into exotic woods to extract amazingly accurate...
Apr 14, 2012 - Jun 10, 2012
Free
Artists: Jean-Baptiste Lyonnet and Antoine Grospiron-Jaccoux
Show Title: Paradoxe Poétique
Guest Curator: Laure Parise
Dates: April 19 – May 26
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 6 – 8 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Saturday, April 21, 2 – 3 p.m.
Wade Wilson Artis pleased to announce Paradoxe Poétique, an exhibition of...
Apr 19, 2012 (All day) - May 26, 2012 (All day)
Free
Houston Center for Photography is proud to announce an exhibition of work, Senior Dogs Across America, by photographer Nancy LeVine. The exhibition will be on view in HCP's Main Gallery from May 4 - June 23, 2012 with an artist talk at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, May 4, preceding the opening reception.
Nancy LeVine began traveling the...
May 4, 2012 (All day) - Jun 23, 2012 (All day)
Free
Houston Center for Photography is proud to announce an exhibition of Isa Leshko’s Elderly Animals. Leshko is the 2012 HCP Fellowship recipient. The exhibition will be on view at HCP in Gallery X from May 4 - June 23, 2012 with an artist talk and conversation with Juror Christopher Rauschenberg of Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, OR), at 5:...
May 4, 2012 (All day) - Jun 23, 2012 (All day)
Free
Houston Center for Photography is proud to announce an exhibition of David Politzer’s When You’re Out There. Politzer is the 2012 Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship recipient. The exhibition will be on view at HCP in Gallery Y from May 4 - June 23, 2011 with an artist talk and conversation with Juror Christopher Rauschenberg of Jen...
May 4, 2012 (All day) - Jun 23, 2012 (All day)
Free
Houston Center for Photography (HCP) is proud to announce the ninth exhibition of the Collaborations program, Aging.
From May 4 - June 23, HCP’s Learning Center Gallery will showcase work by sixteen participants in the Collaborations IX program. During the six-month program, students from nine Houston-area high schools met every other...
May 4, 2012 (All day) - Jun 23, 2012 (All day)
Free
Lorena Morales Exhibit Premieres May 5 at Galeria Regina
Lorena Morales expresses change, possibility and potential in her art. She creates sculptures that can be disassembled and rearranged and paintings on Plexiglas that vary depending on the lighting in the room and the angle of the viewer.
“I don’t want static...
May 5, 2012 - Jun 16, 2012
Free
The juror for this exhibit is Ellen Orseck. Ms Orseck will present the awards for the experimental exhibition at a reception on May 11 at the Watercolor Art Society-Houston at 1601 W. Alabama. She received a Master’s Degree in painting from New York University. She also studied at the Maryland Institute of Art and has a...
May 8, 2012 (All day) - May 31, 2012 (All day)
Free
The juror for this exhibit is Ellen Orseck. Ms Orseck will present the awards for the experimental exhibition at a reception on May 11 at the Watercolor Art Society-Houston at 1601 W. Alabama. She received a Master’s Degree in painting from New York University. She also studied at the Maryland Institute of Art and has a...
May 8, 2012 (All day) - May 31, 2012 (All day)
Free
Opening Reception
Friday, May 11, 2012
6:30 – 8:30 PM, artist talks at 6 PM
Isometric Solutions to Contemporary Economic Dilemmas • Jack Eriksson
Cecily E. Horton Gallery
Isometric Solutions to Contemporary Economic Dilemmas will be a full scale installation populated with 2D and 3D representations of economic data. It will show...
May 11, 2012 (All day) - Jun 16, 2012 (All day)
Free
Opening Reception
Friday, May 11, 2012
6:30 – 8:30 PM, artist talks at 6 PM
Prospectors • Seth Mittag, David Politzer & Anne J. Regan
Lawndale Artist Studio Program Exhibition
John M. O’Quinn Gallery
The Lawndale Artist Studio Program is part of Lawndale’s ongoing commitment to support the creation of...
May 11, 2012 (All day) - Jun 16, 2012 (All day)
Free
Opening Reception
Friday, May 11, 2012
6:30 – 8:30 PM, artist talks at 6 PM
#everyoneisanartist • Travis McCarra & Michael Gonzales
Grace R. Cavnar Gallery
#everyoneisanartist uses Twitter to create an installation allowing the audience to simultaneously act as generator and spectator to this constantly changing piece...
May 11, 2012 (All day) - Jun 16, 2012 (All day)
Free
Opening Reception
Friday, May 11, 2012
6:30 – 8:30 PM, artist talks at 6 PM
TrendFACTORY • Leslie Mutchler
Project Space
TrendFACTORY is a community-driven, multi-participatory installation. Artist, Leslie Mutchler, will be exploring issues related to hand(craft), the physicality of labor, and the repetition of memes in the...
May 11, 2012 (All day) - Jun 16, 2012 (All day)
Free
Objects in Motion
May 12- June 17
Artist Talk: June 9, 4:00PM
New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation is excited to present Objects in Motion, an exhibition featuring the NARS International Artist Residency Program Season I 2012 participants: Santina Amato, Suzanne Goldenberg, Tang-Wei Hsu, Hisao Ihara, Jacqueline Hoang...
May 11, 2012 - Jun 16, 2012
Free
Source Material: Work by Brian Dupont and Chris Rusak
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 17, 7–10pm.
Skydive is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Brian Dupont (Brooklyn, NY) and Chris Rusak (San Francisco, CA). Although they work on separate coasts, both artists share an...
May 17, 2012 - Jun 16, 2012
Free
"Sticks and Stones"
Opening Reception: May 18, 2012 at 7pm
Gallery M Squared is pleased to announce the opening of Sticks and Stones, a paired exhibition of new original paintings by Nicky Davis and Jessica Rice, two artists from the Houston area.
As the title suggests, the pieces on display in Sticks and Stones are frequently playful...
May 18, 2012 - Jun 3, 2012
Free
"Sticks and Stones"
Opening Reception: May 18, 2012 at 7pm
Gallery M Squared is pleased to announce the opening of Sticks and Stones, a paired exhibition of new original paintings by Nicky Davis and Jessica Rice, two artists from the Houston area.
As the title suggests, the pieces on display in Sticks and Stones are frequently playful...
May 18, 2012 - Jun 3, 2012
Free
Stephen Kwok | Walled Garden
On view May 19 - June 22, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 19, 7-10 p.m.
Fresh Arts (Spacetaker + Fresh Arts Coalition) presents Walled Garden, a solo site-responsive installation-based exhibition by Stephen Kwok in its Spacetaker Gallery.
Creating work straddling the boundary between the...
May 21, 2012 - Jun 22, 2012
Free
Join Houston Young People for the Arts for a one-of-a-kind happy hour uniting Houston Urbanites with the performing and visual arts. If you're looking to get more involved with the Houston arts scene, this is the place to do it!
Complimentary drinks, light bites & valet, music by DJ Derek Jones, plus the chance to win prizes from...
May 23, 2012
Free but RSVP Required
Houston Arts Alliance Folklife + Traditional Arts Program presents
Weaving Home:
Textile Traditions From Houston's Karenni Community
Alliance Gallery 3201 Allen Parkway, 77019
May 16- July 6, 2012
Opening Reception Thursday May 24th 5:30-7PM
Houston is home to refugee communities from around the world. All refugees bring...
May 24, 2012
Free
TALK-BACK WITH FILMMAKER - BILL HOWZE
Not all the civil rights victories of the '60s were won at the cost of vicious beatings and mass arrests played-out in front of television cameras. The Strange Demise of Jim Crow reveals for the first time on film how many Southern cities were desegregated in a quieter, almost stealthy fashion with behind...
May 24, 2012
$10 or FREE for Members
Thursday May 24
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
doors open at 6:45PM
free parking on street
TALK-BACK WITH FILMMAKER - BILL HOWZE
Part of tonight's proceeds will benefit: THE CENTER FOR THE HEALING OF RACISM
Not all the civil rights victories of the '60s were won at the cost of vicious beatings and mass arrests played-out in front of television cameras...
May 24, 2012
$11
Exhibition on view Friday, May 25 – July 6, 2012
Art League Houston, Main Gallery
Art League Houston presents The Emotional Life of a Spy, an installation by Houston-based artist Sasha Dela, featuring a unique selection of found and handmade sculpture and video, inspired by the acclaimed 1935 Alfred Hitchcock spy thriller,...
May 25, 2012
Free
Exhibition on view Friday, May 25 – July 6, 2012
Art League Houston, Project Gallery
Art League Houston is excited to present the Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists (SNAP) thirtieth anniversary exhibition, SNAP:THIRTY ARTISTS CELEBRATE THIRTY YEARS. To celebrate this milestone, SNAP has invited thirty artists from...
May 25, 2012
Free
Exhibition on view Friday, May 25 – July 6, 2012
Art League Houston, Hallway Gallery
Art League Houston presents Tu Eres O No Tu Eres Mi Baby (Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby), a series of text-based carved paintings by San Antonio artist Ricky Armendariz, which combine themes of narco-pop-culture, with romantic-style...
May 25, 2012 - Jul 6, 2012
Free
Empty Bowls is a grassroots effort by artists and craftspeople in cities and towns across the country to feed the hungry in their communities. Hundreds of handmade bowls are donated by local artists and, in exchange for a minimum $25 cash donation, guests pick out and take home a one-of-a-kind handmade bowl as a reminder of all the...
May 26, 2012
$25.00
Empty Bowls Houston is a unique lunch event and fundraiser that brings together the arts and crafts community to fight hunger in our area and benefits the Houston Food Bank. For a minimum donation, guests enjoy a simple lunch and select a bowl from hundreds of one-of-a-kind; hand-crafted bowls donated by Houston area ceramicists and craft artists...
May 26, 2012
$25 donation per bowl benefitting the Houston Food Bank
In 1965 six French New Wave directors took a Paris neighborhood and concocted a short sketch around it. The results sometimes favor character and story, and sometimes local flavor, but almost all are engaging in their own right. Jean Douchet and Jean-Luc Godard (repsectively) offer gloriously French slices of romantic comedy in the sexually open...
May 26, 2012
$10 or FREE for Members
Saturday May 26
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
doors open at 6:45PM
free parking on street
Admission: $10 for non-members and free to members
In 1965 six French New Wave directors took a Paris neighborhood and concocted a short sketch around it. The results sometimes favor character and story, and sometimes local flavor, but almost all are engaging in their...
May 26, 2012
$10
Sunday May 27
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
doors open at 3:45PM
free parking on street
Admission: $10 for non-members and free to members
In 1965 six French New Wave directors took a Paris neighborhood and concocted a short sketch around it. The results sometimes favor character and story, and sometimes local flavor, but almost all are engaging in their own...
May 27, 2012
$10
Professional artists must be able to write clearly and persuasively about their work. Yet too many see writing as a frustrating, anxiety provoking, or simply baffling.
Tacey A. Rosolowski, Ph.D. will demystify writing by breaking it down into distinct skills and inspire workshop participants by showing how their writing can grow along with...
May 30, 2012
$5 member rate/$15 non-member rate in advance; $10/$20 at the door
Events in the next month
For the 2011-2012 season artist Daniel Anguilu will transform Lawndale's north exterior wall into a site specific mural on view through June 2012. Anguilu’s work can be found throughout Houston, including locations in the East End and most recently in in Midtown’s MHMRA building. Anguilu’s style is deeply inspired by...
Aug 12, 2011 (All day) - Jun 16, 2012 (All day)
Free
We offer traditional Russian souvenirs and gifts for all occasions:
-“Gzhel”: an array of white-and-blue porcelain items-from beautiful vases to sugar bowls and cups to miniature figurines
- Collection of plates hand-painted with the Russian fairy-tale motifs;
-Golden Khokhloma brightly painted wooden tableware;
-Nesting dolls-...
Feb 1, 2012 - May 31, 2012
Free
Art Class with Instructor Elizabeth Cencini
Every Sunday at Texas Art Supply
FRIENDSWOOD, TX.- Art Classes are available every Sunday with artist Elizabeth Cencini at Texas Art Supply in Friendswood,1507 Bay Brook Mall, 77546.
Texas Art is located in the Bay Brook Shopping mall parking lot just behind Dillard’s...
Feb 26, 2012 (All day) - Dec 30, 2012 (All day)
@15-30.00
Landscape II: A Photography Exhibit
Houston City Hall
March 5 - November 16, 2012
Opening Reception: April 2, 5:30-7:30pm at City Hall
Participating Artists:
David Brown
Danae Falliers
George Fowler
Scott Martin
Skeet McAuley
Anne Stautberg
Mike Stude
Pablo Gimenez-Zapiola
Curated by Libbie J. Masterson, HCP Exhibitions Coordinator
Viewing by...
Mar 6, 2012 (All day) - Nov 30, 2012 (All day)
Free
Solo Shows for Kristy Peet and Britt Ragsdale for FotoFest 2012 Biennial
on view at Gallery 1724, March 31 – May 31, 2012.
Kristy Peet and Britt Ragsdale will both open solo shows for the FotoFest 2012 Biennial at Gallery 1724 on Saturday, March 31 from 8-10pm. Kristy Peet’s exhibition will feature her series “How I...
Mar 31, 2012 - May 31, 2012
Free
Spring Schedule of Art Classes
Classes begin April 2 and end June 9
Register before March 12 and save $25 on each class!
Members save an additional $35 on classes!
REGISTRATION CALENDAR
EARLY REG: February 27 - March 10, $25 savings!
GEN REG: March 12 - 24
LATE...
Apr 2, 2012 (All day) - Jun 9, 2012 (All day)
Dependent on class
Rice University Art Gallery has commissioned Japanese artist Yasuaki Onishi to create a site-specific installation to coincide with the Grand Opening of the Asia Society Texas Center's new Houston headquarters designed by Yoshio Taniguchi.
Opening Celebration:
Friday, 13 April 5:00- 7:00pm
Gallery talk by Yasuaki Onishi at...
Apr 13, 2012 (All day) - Jun 24, 2012 (All day)
Free
Looking at the work in his show, Implied Utility, it’s hard to believe Chris Hedrick hasn’t been carving wood his whole life—the illusion of his pieces is just so good. Using primarily hand tools in the converted garage of his historic Houston Heights home, Hedrick digs into exotic woods to extract amazingly accurate...
Apr 14, 2012 - Jun 10, 2012
Free
Houston Center for Photography is proud to announce an exhibition of work, Senior Dogs Across America, by photographer Nancy LeVine. The exhibition will be on view in HCP's Main Gallery from May 4 - June 23, 2012 with an artist talk at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, May 4, preceding the opening reception.
Nancy LeVine began traveling the...
May 4, 2012 (All day) - Jun 23, 2012 (All day)
Free
Houston Center for Photography is proud to announce an exhibition of Isa Leshko’s Elderly Animals. Leshko is the 2012 HCP Fellowship recipient. The exhibition will be on view at HCP in Gallery X from May 4 - June 23, 2012 with an artist talk and conversation with Juror Christopher Rauschenberg of Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, OR), at 5:...
May 4, 2012 (All day) - Jun 23, 2012 (All day)
Free
Houston Center for Photography is proud to announce an exhibition of David Politzer’s When You’re Out There. Politzer is the 2012 Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship recipient. The exhibition will be on view at HCP in Gallery Y from May 4 - June 23, 2011 with an artist talk and conversation with Juror Christopher Rauschenberg of Jen...
May 4, 2012 (All day) - Jun 23, 2012 (All day)
Free
Houston Center for Photography (HCP) is proud to announce the ninth exhibition of the Collaborations program, Aging.
From May 4 - June 23, HCP’s Learning Center Gallery will showcase work by sixteen participants in the Collaborations IX program. During the six-month program, students from nine Houston-area high schools met every other...
May 4, 2012 (All day) - Jun 23, 2012 (All day)
Free
Lorena Morales Exhibit Premieres May 5 at Galeria Regina
Lorena Morales expresses change, possibility and potential in her art. She creates sculptures that can be disassembled and rearranged and paintings on Plexiglas that vary depending on the lighting in the room and the angle of the viewer.
“I don’t want static...
May 5, 2012 - Jun 16, 2012
Free
The juror for this exhibit is Ellen Orseck. Ms Orseck will present the awards for the experimental exhibition at a reception on May 11 at the Watercolor Art Society-Houston at 1601 W. Alabama. She received a Master’s Degree in painting from New York University. She also studied at the Maryland Institute of Art and has a...
May 8, 2012 (All day) - May 31, 2012 (All day)
Free
The juror for this exhibit is Ellen Orseck. Ms Orseck will present the awards for the experimental exhibition at a reception on May 11 at the Watercolor Art Society-Houston at 1601 W. Alabama. She received a Master’s Degree in painting from New York University. She also studied at the Maryland Institute of Art and has a...
May 8, 2012 (All day) - May 31, 2012 (All day)
Free
Opening Reception
Friday, May 11, 2012
6:30 – 8:30 PM, artist talks at 6 PM
Isometric Solutions to Contemporary Economic Dilemmas • Jack Eriksson
Cecily E. Horton Gallery
Isometric Solutions to Contemporary Economic Dilemmas will be a full scale installation populated with 2D and 3D representations of economic data. It will show...
May 11, 2012 (All day) - Jun 16, 2012 (All day)
Free
Opening Reception
Friday, May 11, 2012
6:30 – 8:30 PM, artist talks at 6 PM
Prospectors • Seth Mittag, David Politzer & Anne J. Regan
Lawndale Artist Studio Program Exhibition
John M. O’Quinn Gallery
The Lawndale Artist Studio Program is part of Lawndale’s ongoing commitment to support the creation of...
May 11, 2012 (All day) - Jun 16, 2012 (All day)
Free
Opening Reception
Friday, May 11, 2012
6:30 – 8:30 PM, artist talks at 6 PM
#everyoneisanartist • Travis McCarra & Michael Gonzales
Grace R. Cavnar Gallery
#everyoneisanartist uses Twitter to create an installation allowing the audience to simultaneously act as generator and spectator to this constantly changing piece...
May 11, 2012 (All day) - Jun 16, 2012 (All day)
Free
Opening Reception
Friday, May 11, 2012
6:30 – 8:30 PM, artist talks at 6 PM
TrendFACTORY • Leslie Mutchler
Project Space
TrendFACTORY is a community-driven, multi-participatory installation. Artist, Leslie Mutchler, will be exploring issues related to hand(craft), the physicality of labor, and the repetition of memes in the...
May 11, 2012 (All day) - Jun 16, 2012 (All day)
Free
Objects in Motion
May 12- June 17
Artist Talk: June 9, 4:00PM
New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation is excited to present Objects in Motion, an exhibition featuring the NARS International Artist Residency Program Season I 2012 participants: Santina Amato, Suzanne Goldenberg, Tang-Wei Hsu, Hisao Ihara, Jacqueline Hoang...
May 11, 2012 - Jun 16, 2012
Free
Source Material: Work by Brian Dupont and Chris Rusak
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 17, 7–10pm.
Skydive is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Brian Dupont (Brooklyn, NY) and Chris Rusak (San Francisco, CA). Although they work on separate coasts, both artists share an...
May 17, 2012 - Jun 16, 2012
Free
"Sticks and Stones"
Opening Reception: May 18, 2012 at 7pm
Gallery M Squared is pleased to announce the opening of Sticks and Stones, a paired exhibition of new original paintings by Nicky Davis and Jessica Rice, two artists from the Houston area.
As the title suggests, the pieces on display in Sticks and Stones are frequently playful...
May 18, 2012 - Jun 3, 2012
Free
"Sticks and Stones"
Opening Reception: May 18, 2012 at 7pm
Gallery M Squared is pleased to announce the opening of Sticks and Stones, a paired exhibition of new original paintings by Nicky Davis and Jessica Rice, two artists from the Houston area.
As the title suggests, the pieces on display in Sticks and Stones are frequently playful...
May 18, 2012 - Jun 3, 2012
Free
Stephen Kwok | Walled Garden
On view May 19 - June 22, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 19, 7-10 p.m.
Fresh Arts (Spacetaker + Fresh Arts Coalition) presents Walled Garden, a solo site-responsive installation-based exhibition by Stephen Kwok in its Spacetaker Gallery.
Creating work straddling the boundary between the...
May 21, 2012 - Jun 22, 2012
Free
Exhibition on view Friday, May 25 – July 6, 2012
Art League Houston, Hallway Gallery
Art League Houston presents Tu Eres O No Tu Eres Mi Baby (Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby), a series of text-based carved paintings by San Antonio artist Ricky Armendariz, which combine themes of narco-pop-culture, with romantic-style...
May 25, 2012 - Jul 6, 2012
Free
Professional artists must be able to write clearly and persuasively about their work. Yet too many see writing as a frustrating, anxiety provoking, or simply baffling.
Tacey A. Rosolowski, Ph.D. will demystify writing by breaking it down into distinct skills and inspire workshop participants by showing how their writing can grow along with...
May 30, 2012
$5 member rate/$15 non-member rate in advance; $10/$20 at the door
Artists: Lucinda Cobley, Jill Moser, Ellen Orseck, Althea Murphy-Price, Joelle Verstraeten, Robert Ryman, Mark Williams, Joan Winter, and Nazar Yahya
Show Title: Impressions: Group Exhibition
Dates: June 1 – July 7, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, June 1, 2012, 6 – 8 p.m.
Wade...
Jun 1, 2012 - Jul 7, 2012
Free
Texas Master Series: Piero Fenci—Battlement
June 2 – September 1, 2012
In the Small Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, June 1, 2012
5:30, Artist Talk
6:00 – 8:00, Reception
In conjunction with the opening of Interstitial Spaces: Julia Barello & Beverly Penn. Featuring open studios by current HCCC artists-in-...
Jun 2, 2012 - Sep 1, 2012
Free
Interstitial Spaces: Julia Barello & Beverly Penn
June 2 – September 1, 2012
In the Large Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, June 1, 2012
5:30, Artist Talks
6:00 – 8:00, Reception
In conjunction with the opening of Texas Masters Series: Piero Fenci--Battlement. Featuring open studios by current artists-in-...
Jun 2, 2012 - Sep 1, 2012
Free
Saturday Jun 2
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
doors open at 6:45PM
free parking on street
“We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour.
The “Bill” in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and...
Jun 2, 2012
$10
Sunday Jun 3
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
doors open at 5:45PM
free parking on street
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces...
Jun 3, 2012
10
14 Pews Film Academy
Summer Film Session
June 4th - June 22nd
9AM - 2PM Monday - Thursday (meet at Reagan High School Media Lab)
Guest Lectures on Fridays 9AM - 2PM (we meet at 14 Pews where students get the opportunity to meet award-winning documentarists)
Starting June 2012 we will kick-off our first workshop called...
Jun 4, 2012 - Jun 22, 2012
FREE
Have you heard?! Google now has a local marketing team here in Houston! We’ll be hosting a free workshop with them to enlighten us about Google for Nonprofits! That's right, folks. You get to talk to someone from Google...in person.
They will be coming out on June 6th from 6:00 - 7:30 PM to talk to us about using Google's...
Jun 6, 2012
Free but please RSVP!
Based in Galveston County, Texas, Mayuko Ono Gray is an artist working mainly in the medium of graphite drawing. She was born in Gifu, Japan where she was trained in traditional Japanese calligraphy in her early childhood. During her later teenage years, she was also trained in classical western drawing.
After graduating from high school, she...
Jun 6, 2012 - Jul 3, 2012
Free
Soak it all in and view Kelley's works in:
Sculpture + Canvas + Paper + Fabric
Pigments + Metallics + Charcoals
Please join artist Kelley Devine for an intimate look at her working studio - works in progress and finished works.
Drop in to visit with Kelley, view her work, and enjoy cool cocktails + refreshments in the late afternoon and into...
Jun 7, 2012
Free
The I Can Do Anything! screening of film shorts by, about, and for kids celebrates children who truly can do anything because they still know how to dream! You’ll get to see a vintage 1972 “Fat Albert” clip – the first cartoon with an all black cast -- as well as the dreamy skydiving film, Chute, by French filmmaker Mathias Lachal. Other treats...
Jun 8, 2012
Free
Russian Cultural Center and CaviArt Gallery present
Art Exhibition
“Point of View”
by Olga Porter
Admission: Free
Opening Night Reception and meeting with the artist: June 8, 7:30p.m.
Wine will be served.
On view: June 9 - August 31, 2012
The Russian-born artist Olga Porter works in traditional medium of oil on linen to capture the...
Jun 9, 2012 (All day) - Aug 31, 2012 (All day)
Free
Saturday Jun 16
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
doors open at 6:45PM
free parking on street
An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and...
Jun 16, 2012
$10 or FREE for Members
Friday Screenings, June 29, 7PM & 9PM
Saturday VIP Reception, June 30, 8PM
Location: Aurora Picture Show (new home), 2442 Bartlett Street
Screening only on Friday: $5 Members, $15 Non-Members
Screening and Award Reception on Saturday: $15 Members, $25 Non-Members
Started in 1998, the Extremely Shorts Festival is a juried...
Jun 29, 2012 - Jun 30, 2012
Anyone interested in making movies from writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, gaffers, storyboard artists, editors, and more will be blown away by SWAMP’s upcoming workshop on Visual Structure with Hollywood Guru and USC Professor Bruce Block.
So what is “Visual Structure”? Visual structure...
Jun 30, 2012 - Jul 1, 2012
SWAMP Members: $125; General Public: $150
Saturday Jul 7
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
doors open at 10:45AM
free parking on street
For those who already know the short films of the Brothers Quay, Phantom Museums is a welcome, thorough investigation of a lifelong dedication to stop-motion animation and dream sequence narratives. For those just discovering this identical twin team...
Jul 7, 2012
$10
Whether you like it or not, if you want to elevate your career as an artist, there are some basic business skills that you need to employ.
Fresh Arts (Spacetaker + Fresh Arts Coalition) brings successful businessman and full-time artist Taft McWhorter back to offer a more in depth workshop that builds on his Basic Business Skills workshop...
Jul 11, 2012
$5 for members/$15 for non-members
Friday Jul 13
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
doors open at 6:45PM
free parking on street
Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham and Marek (Piotr Jagiello) is a Polish immigrant who lives with his dad in the working-class immigrant...
Jul 13, 2012
$10 or FREE for Members
Sunday Jul 15
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
doors open at 4:45PM
free parking on street
Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham and Marek (Piotr Jagiello) is a Polish immigrant who lives with his dad in the working-class immigrant...
Jul 15, 2012
$10 or FREE for Members
Friday Jul 20
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
doors open at 6:45PM
free parking on street
In this remarkable directorial debut, the stern father of a Muslim family in France has his teenage son drive him to Mecca for the religious pilgrimage known as the hajj. The son, who is irreligious and has a non-Muslim girlfriend, doesn't relate to his...
Jul 20, 2012
$10
Sunday Jul 22
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
doors open at 4:45PM
free parking on street
In this remarkable directorial debut, the stern father of a Muslim family in France has his teenage son drive him to Mecca for the religious pilgrimage known as the hajj. The son, who is irreligious and has a non-Muslim girlfriend, doesn't relate to his...
Jul 22, 2012
$10 or FREE for Members
Friday Jul 27
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
doors open at 6:45PM
free parking on street
For just about everybody, adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing 15 year-old Alex (Inés Efron,) who was born an intersex child.* As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites...
Jul 22, 2012
$11
Houston Arts Resource Fair
Saturday July 28, 2012 9:00am – 6:00pm
The University of Saint Thomas
3910 Yoakum, Houston, Texas 77006
FREE! All Disciplines Welcome!
Mark your calendars for the inaugural Houston Arts Resource Fair, an intensive day of professional development for individual artists and...
Jul 28, 2012
Free
Sunday Jul 29
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
doors open at 3:45PM
free parking on street
For just about everybody, adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing 15 year-old Alex (Inés Efron,) who was born an intersex child.* As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites...
Jul 29, 2012
$11
Lights! Camera! Action! Moviemaking Camp is a week-long course designed to teach teenagers (ages 13-17) how to use a camera to tell a story. Each student will get hands-on instruction in digital camera operation, lighting, sound and editing while working as a team in the production of a short film. At the end of the camp, the students...
Aug 6, 2012 - Aug 10, 2012
SWAMP Members $250; General Public: $300
Wednesday Aug 29
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
doors open at 6:45PM
free parking on street
Nominated for an Academy Award® for best feature documentary, TROUBLE THE WATER takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. It's a redemptive tale of two self-described street hustlers who become heroes-two unforgettable people who...
Aug 29, 2012
$11
Saturday Sep 1
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
In MUSIC FROM THE BIG HOUSE, Rita Chiarelli, Canada’s Goddess of the Blues, takes a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the Blues: Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary, a.k.a Angola Prison - formerly the bloodiest prison in America. Rita’s trip turns into an unprecedented historic jailhouse...
Sep 1, 2012
$11
