BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//East End Houston - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://eastendhouston.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for East End Houston REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240328T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240328T200000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240328T022748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T022748Z UID:216458-1711648800-1711656000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Symbolic Self-Portraits – Celebration! DESCRIPTION:Come join us as we open our studios and our hearts and showcase a diverse collection of paintings\, drawings\, glass sculptures and photography\, in celebration to the Self-Portrait and its many forms and interpretations. You will encounter works of mystery and shadows\, alongside joyful and playful works.\nThere will be a special selection of Italian wines and snacks for the public.\nLet’s celebrate creativity together!\nFor the exhibition Symbolic Self-Portraits\, artists from Sabine Street Studios were asked to create their own version of a self-portrait\, and to consider how they might wish to be perceived. Join the artists on Thursday\, March 28\, from 6-8 pm to celebrate the opening of this exciting new exhibit! The show occupies the South Gallery Sabine Street Studios\, and will be on view and open to the public\, from 9-5 pm Monday through Saturday until April 13\, 2024.\n“… every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist\, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident\, the occasion. It is not they who are revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who reveals himself/herself.”\n― Oscar Wilde\, The Picture of Dorian Gray URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/symbolic-self-portraits-celebration/ LOCATION:Sabine Street Studios\, 1907 Sabine Street Studios\, Houston\, TX\, 77007\, United States CATEGORIES:Food + Wine,Free Events,Special Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/this-is-an-awesome-houston-cultural-event-gMeAZ5.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Sawyer Yards Houston":MAILTO:events@sawyeryards.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240328T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240328T200000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240328T022750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T022750Z UID:216464-1711650600-1711656000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Public Lecture with Dr. Ruth J. Simmons DESCRIPTION:Join Holocaust Museum Houston for a presentation from Dr. Ruth J. Simmons on her upbringing in Jim Crow-era Texas and how that affected her career in academia. A Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Rice University and Senior Adviser to the President of Harvard University on HBCU Initiatives\, Dr. Simmons served as President of Prairie View A&M University until March 2023. Dr. Simmons’ memoir\, “Up Home\,” is a “New York Times” bestseller.\nPublic programs at Holocaust Museum Houston are presented by Memorial Hermann. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/public-lecture-with-dr-ruth-j-simmons/ LOCATION:Holocaust Museum Houston\, 5401 Caroline St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77004-6804\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Literature + Lectures,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/web_ruth-simmons-tlW6sQ.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Holocaust Museum Houston":MAILTO:info@hmh.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T100000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240403T142241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T142241Z UID:216468-1712131200-1712138400@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Into the Wild: Bayou Preservation & FitHouston National Walking Day Walk DESCRIPTION:Celebrate National Walking Day with us by joining a special guided walk led by Bayou Preservation Association\, where we’ll explore the vital role of watersheds and natural areas in our community. Get ready for an exciting field trip experience in Spring Branch!\nOur walking group is dedicated to overcoming barriers in our area\, from addressing park needs to clearing blight and trash dumping along our streets.\nOn Wednesday\, April 23rd\, for the first time ever\, we’re marking National Walking Day Houston w2ith a memorable excursion. Meet us at the Spring Branch Community Health Center (8575 Pitner Road\, Houston\, TX 77080). From there\, we’ll carpool to Hillendahl Library (2436 Gessner Road\, Houston\, TX 77080)\, our starting point for the guided walk.\nStarting at 8:30 AM\, join us for a journey through a nearby nature trail in Spring Branch\, led by Morton Sager from Bayou Preservation Association. Discover the rich ecosystem of our waterways in Houston and learn about the diverse creatures that call them home. Who knows? You might even catch a glimpse of some critters in the water!\nSchedule:\n8:00 AM: Start at Spring Branch Community Health Center\n8:30 AM: Arrive at Hillendahl Library and begin walking with Morton Sager from Bayou Preservation Association\n9:15 AM: Refreshments provided on the trail (We’ll set up a table next to the trail).\nSo come join Bayou Preservation\, FitHouston\, and many others\, snap some photos\, and share your experience on social media using #NationalWalkingDayHouston and #WALK30! URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/into-the-wild-bayou-preservation-fithouston-national-walking-day-walk/ LOCATION:TX CATEGORIES:Free Events,Kids + Families,Outdoors,Special Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/this-is-an-awesome-houston-cultural-event-gMeAZ5.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bayou Preservation Association":MAILTO:bpa@hic.net END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T100000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240403T142242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T142242Z UID:216471-1712138400-1712138400@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:'Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette' DESCRIPTION:Asia Society Texas is pleased to present Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette\, the organization’s first public art installation. This collaboration between Cuban American artist Rafael Domenech and Vietnamese American artist Tomas Vu assumes the form of a dynamic outdoor pavilion with two stages\, occupying AST’s 13\,000-square-foot lot at the intersection of Oakdale and Caroline Streets in the heart of Houston’s Museum District. Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette is commissioned in partnership with the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.\nDescribed by the artists as a form of “urban acupuncture\,” Heat Silhouette is a physical structure designed to welcome the spontaneous circulation of people\, energy\, and events. The outdoor pavilion takes cues from college campuses\, popular culture\, and experimental magazines. Made of wood\, aluminum framing\, and laser-cut construction mesh — the very materials used to build the city of Houston — the pavilion becomes an extension of the museum and a public programming space. The title itself references the most omnipresent weather condition of Houston the summer’s intense heat\, a heat so palpable that it feels as if it occupies actual space\, creating a silhouette or edge.\nFor the artists\, the pavilion resists merely being a form of architecture. Instead\, the pavilion physically operates as an experimental magazine\, referencing the graphic processes seen in radical publications from the 1960s and 1970s like Kontexts\, an important catalyst of avant-garde poetry. Readers do not flip Heat Silhouette’s pages; instead\, they become viewers that are invited to walk in\, around\, and through the publication. Laser-cut texts appropriated from popular science-fiction films\, poetry\, and other sources intermingle to form multiple layers and viewpoints that shift with the sunlight. Heat Silhouette is a space of active production filled with theater-like compartments — a site where text\, image\, and pattern coalesce into a kind of urban camouflage. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/rafael-domenech-and-tomas-vu-heat-silhouette-19/ LOCATION:Asia Society Texas Center\, 1370 Southmore Blvd.\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/event-featured-rafael-domenech-and-tomas-vu-heat-silhouette-1697751613-ZVcLnx.tmp_-Tp18AU.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Asia Society Texas Center":MAILTO:txcenter@asiasociety.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240403T142304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T142304Z UID:216493-1712142000-1712163600@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Li(sa E.) Harris: This is the Day DESCRIPTION:Li(sa E.) Harris (aka “Li”) opens This is the Day in John M. O’Quinn Gallery\, on Thursday\, February 15 from 5 – 7 PM. This exhibition will culminate on Monday\, April 8 from 12:30 – 3:01 PM with Li’s performance Onshore Trilling: What to Do When the Earth Sings the Bruise in Lawndale’s outdoor space at 4900 Main Street. Taking place during the total solar eclipse over Texas\, this performance will tap into the cosmic cycles of the earth and sky.\nLi’s practice focuses on the energetic relationships between body\, land\, spirit\, and place. She uses voice\, theremin\, electronics\, movement\, improvisation\, meditation\, and new media to explore healing in performance and everyday living. Often\, her projects unfold over time in acts. For This is the Day\, Li will assemble photography\, analog technology\, video\, and resonant sounds that reflect a survey of her past artistic practice\, especially her work Onshore Trilling and Please Have a Seat.\nLi’s performance Onshore Trilling simultaneously references Houston’s offshore drilling industry—key to its economy as a world capital for oil and gas—and the history of the Blues in the Deep South\, which\, as Harris shares\, were invented by “enslaved persons\, previously enslaved persons\, and their descendants\, like me.”\n“Trilling” is a musical term describing the fast oscillation between two pitches; it is vibration and energy. This is The Day. includes relics and electronics from Li’s family\, fused together to fill the gallery space with frequencies that erode in relation to the respective battery life of each object. Overhead\, perforated sails mimic the sky\, reminding us of ever-present cosmic constellations which orient our earth and dream spaces.\nFor visitors’ navigation\, the center of the gallery includes something that could be—a boom\, a cannon\, a telescope peering northward\, bringing 4900 Main Street (where the eclipse performance will take place) into focus. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/lisa-e-harris-this-is-the-day-10/ LOCATION:Lawndale Art Center\, 4912 Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77002\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Special Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/this-is-an-awesome-houston-cultural-event-gMeAZ5.tmp_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240403T142304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T142304Z UID:216494-1712142000-1712163600@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Deangelo McMahon\, Jr.: High-Speed Channel Surfing DESCRIPTION:Hi-Speed Channel Surfing presents new work by Houston-based artist Deangelo McMahon Jr. Through still images that emulate classic television\, this exhibition explores mass media\, shared memory\, and censorship. In the featured paintings\, McMahon creates visual white noise with gestures such as cross-hatching and pointillism. These artworks carefully attend to color and scale\, bordering trompe-l’œil. In the words of McMahon\, this exhibition reflects “the ever-increasing role of technology in present-day life\, and seeks to remind the viewer of one’s own humanity amidst it all.” URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/deangelo-mcmahon-jr-high-speed-channel-surfing-10/ LOCATION:Lawndale Art Center\, 4912 Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77002\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/this-is-an-awesome-houston-cultural-event-gMeAZ5.tmp_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240403T142304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T142304Z UID:216490-1712142000-1712167200@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Critical Geography – FotoFest Biennial 2024 DESCRIPTION:The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition\, “Critical Geography”\, reexamines traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while expanding these investigations to new realms. Borrowing its name from the subdiscipline of geography that questions and challenges power structures\, inequality\, and the dominant ideologies shaping physical space\, Critical Geography explores how space\, place\, and communities are influenced by social\, economic\, ecological\, and political forces. By critically analyzing these dynamics\, the works in the exhibition provoke conversations around social justice\, environmental sustainability\, and transformative change.\n“Our intent is that the 2024 Biennial\, featuring both existing and newly commissioned works from local and international artists\, will allow viewers to engage in important dialogues around the social dimensions of space and our shared planet\,” says Steven Evans\, Executive Director of FotoFest. “We look forward to once again celebrating Houston’s vibrant art and photo community while embracing these new perspectives around place-making\, the image\, and geography.”\n“Critical Geography” features a diverse range of image-based practices\, representing artists from photographers and storytellers whose works shed light on systemic oppression\, violence\, and urgent environmental concerns to image-makers who appropriate mapping\, social media\, and technology in order to explore inequality in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The exhibition highlights a range of unorthodox strategies employed to construct new narratives around place and community while imagining alternative organizations of social space. The Biennial exhibition includes several site-specific works and new commissions by FotoFest. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/critical-geography-fotofest-biennial-2024-3/ LOCATION:FotoFest at Silver Street Studios\, 2000 Edwards Street (Silver Street Studios Building C\, Suite 2)\, Houston\, TX\, 77007\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ff24_critical-geography-eEVgkP.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="FotoFest International":MAILTO:info@fotofest.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T190000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240403T142303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T142303Z UID:216488-1712142000-1712170800@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Ruth Asawa Through Line DESCRIPTION:Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong drawing practice. The exhibition presents drawings\, collages\, & sketchbooks alongside stamped prints\, paperfolds\, & more\, showing the breadth of Asawa’s innovative practice. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/ruth-asawa-through-line-3/ LOCATION:The Menil Drawing Institute\, 1412 W. Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/untitled-bmc.128-study-in-repeated-vertical-angular-lines-triangles-ca.-1948-49-78NvfT.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T190000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240403T142303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T142303Z UID:216489-1712142000-1712170800@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Janet Sobel: All-Over DESCRIPTION:The Menil Collection will open “Janet Sobel: All-Over” on February 23\, 2024\, featuring some thirty paintings and drawings made by artist Janet Sobel (1893–1968). This exhibition\, the first to focus on Sobel’s highly accomplished and influential abstract paintings\, will explore the artist’s work as one of the first to pioneer a new approach to modern abstraction known as “all-over” painting. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/janet-sobel-all-over-10/ LOCATION:The Menil Collection\, 1533 Sul Ross Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/janet-sobel-untitled-ca.-1946-48_small-frrejz.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Menil Collection":MAILTO:info@menil.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T130000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240403T142246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T142246Z UID:216485-1712145600-1712149200@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:A Little Day Music: Celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month DESCRIPTION:Celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month\, DACAMERA presents Boomtown Brass\, Houston’s only traditional jazz band. Steeped in the traditions of authentic 1920s hot jazz\, the Boomtown sound begins with the classic New Orleans jazz style\, travels north to include Chicago’s “dixieland” style\, visits the early 1930s “gypsy jazz” guitar style\, and finally adds in a touch of New Orleans second line for good measure.\nA Little Day Music is a series of free concerts presented at noon on the first Wednesday of the month in the Grand Foyer of the Wortham Center. Each concert is designed to deliver DACAMERA’s signature programming to an audience including senior citizens\, downtown professionals and students. The series features a variety of chamber music and jazz\, presented in an accessible\, one-hour concert format. Audiences are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening to the music. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/a-little-day-music-celebrating-jazz-appreciation-month/ LOCATION:Wortham Theater Center – Lobby\, 501 Texas at Smith\, Houston\, TX\, 77002\, United States CATEGORIES:Blues | Jazz,Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/boomtown-brass-new-M2rGJg.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="DACAMERA":MAILTO:boxoffice@dacamera.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T203000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240403T142318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T142318Z UID:216506-1712169000-1712176200@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Houston Film Mixer 2 DESCRIPTION:Come hang out with fellow film enthusiasts at Houston Film Mixer 2 for a night of networking\, movie chats\, and good vibes!\nOrganized by: 4 The One Studio\nLocation: Heights Bier Garten\n1433 North Shepherd Drive Houston\, TX 77008 URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/houston-film-mixer-2/ LOCATION:Heights Bier Garten\, 1433 North Shepherd Drive\, Houston\, 77008\, United States CATEGORIES:Film,Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_714894779_1158013696643_1_original-KrNp9X.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Houston Cinema Arts Society (HCAS)":MAILTO:info@cinemartsociety.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240404T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240404T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240404T161303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T201040Z UID:216534-1712228400-1712250000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Li(sa E.) Harris: This is the Day DESCRIPTION:Li(sa E.) Harris (aka “Li”) opens This is the Day in John M. O’Quinn Gallery\, on Thursday\, February 15 from 5 – 7 PM. This exhibition will culminate on Monday\, April 8 from 12:30 – 3:01 PM with Li’s performance Onshore Trilling: What to Do When the Earth Sings the Bruise in Lawndale’s outdoor space at 4900 Main Street. Taking place during the total solar eclipse over Texas\, this performance will tap into the cosmic cycles of the earth and sky.\nLi’s practice focuses on the energetic relationships between body\, land\, spirit\, and place. She uses voice\, theremin\, electronics\, movement\, improvisation\, meditation\, and new media to explore healing in performance and everyday living. Often\, her projects unfold over time in acts. For This is the Day\, Li will assemble photography\, analog technology\, video\, and resonant sounds that reflect a survey of her past artistic practice\, especially her work Onshore Trilling and Please Have a Seat.\nLi’s performance Onshore Trilling simultaneously references Houston’s offshore drilling industry—key to its economy as a world capital for oil and gas—and the history of the Blues in the Deep South\, which\, as Harris shares\, were invented by “enslaved persons\, previously enslaved persons\, and their descendants\, like me.”\n“Trilling” is a musical term describing the fast oscillation between two pitches; it is vibration and energy. This is The Day. includes relics and electronics from Li’s family\, fused together to fill the gallery space with frequencies that erode in relation to the respective battery life of each object. Overhead\, perforated sails mimic the sky\, reminding us of ever-present cosmic constellations which orient our earth and dream spaces.\nFor visitors’ navigation\, the center of the gallery includes something that could be—a boom\, a cannon\, a telescope peering northward\, bringing 4900 Main Street (where the eclipse performance will take place) into focus. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/lisa-e-harris-this-is-the-day-11/ LOCATION:Lawndale Art Center\, 4912 Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77002\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Special Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/this-is-an-awesome-houston-cultural-event-gMeAZ5.tmp_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240404T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240404T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240404T161303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T201040Z UID:216535-1712228400-1712250000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Deangelo McMahon\, Jr.: High-Speed Channel Surfing DESCRIPTION:Hi-Speed Channel Surfing presents new work by Houston-based artist Deangelo McMahon Jr. Through still images that emulate classic television\, this exhibition explores mass media\, shared memory\, and censorship. In the featured paintings\, McMahon creates visual white noise with gestures such as cross-hatching and pointillism. These artworks carefully attend to color and scale\, bordering trompe-l’œil. In the words of McMahon\, this exhibition reflects “the ever-increasing role of technology in present-day life\, and seeks to remind the viewer of one’s own humanity amidst it all.” URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/deangelo-mcmahon-jr-high-speed-channel-surfing-11/ LOCATION:Lawndale Art Center\, 4912 Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77002\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/this-is-an-awesome-houston-cultural-event-gMeAZ5.tmp_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240404T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240404T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240404T161301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T201027Z UID:216531-1712228400-1712253600@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Critical Geography – FotoFest Biennial 2024 DESCRIPTION:The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition\, “Critical Geography”\, reexamines traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while expanding these investigations to new realms. Borrowing its name from the subdiscipline of geography that questions and challenges power structures\, inequality\, and the dominant ideologies shaping physical space\, Critical Geography explores how space\, place\, and communities are influenced by social\, economic\, ecological\, and political forces. By critically analyzing these dynamics\, the works in the exhibition provoke conversations around social justice\, environmental sustainability\, and transformative change.\n“Our intent is that the 2024 Biennial\, featuring both existing and newly commissioned works from local and international artists\, will allow viewers to engage in important dialogues around the social dimensions of space and our shared planet\,” says Steven Evans\, Executive Director of FotoFest. “We look forward to once again celebrating Houston’s vibrant art and photo community while embracing these new perspectives around place-making\, the image\, and geography.”\n“Critical Geography” features a diverse range of image-based practices\, representing artists from photographers and storytellers whose works shed light on systemic oppression\, violence\, and urgent environmental concerns to image-makers who appropriate mapping\, social media\, and technology in order to explore inequality in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The exhibition highlights a range of unorthodox strategies employed to construct new narratives around place and community while imagining alternative organizations of social space. The Biennial exhibition includes several site-specific works and new commissions by FotoFest. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/critical-geography-fotofest-biennial-2024-4/ LOCATION:FotoFest at Silver Street Studios\, 2000 Edwards Street (Silver Street Studios Building C\, Suite 2)\, Houston\, TX\, 77007\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ff24_critical-geography-eEVgkP.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="FotoFest International":MAILTO:info@fotofest.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240404T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240404T190000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240404T161301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T201026Z UID:216529-1712228400-1712257200@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Ruth Asawa Through Line DESCRIPTION:Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong drawing practice. The exhibition presents drawings\, collages\, & sketchbooks alongside stamped prints\, paperfolds\, & more\, showing the breadth of Asawa’s innovative practice. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/ruth-asawa-through-line-4/ LOCATION:The Menil Drawing Institute\, 1412 W. Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/untitled-bmc.128-study-in-repeated-vertical-angular-lines-triangles-ca.-1948-49-78NvfT.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240404T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240404T190000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240404T161301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T201026Z UID:216530-1712228400-1712257200@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Janet Sobel: All-Over DESCRIPTION:The Menil Collection will open “Janet Sobel: All-Over” on February 23\, 2024\, featuring some thirty paintings and drawings made by artist Janet Sobel (1893–1968). This exhibition\, the first to focus on Sobel’s highly accomplished and influential abstract paintings\, will explore the artist’s work as one of the first to pioneer a new approach to modern abstraction known as “all-over” painting. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/janet-sobel-all-over-11/ LOCATION:The Menil Collection\, 1533 Sul Ross Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/janet-sobel-untitled-ca.-1946-48_small-frrejz.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Menil Collection":MAILTO:info@menil.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240404T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240404T210000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240404T161245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T201011Z UID:216521-1712255400-1712264400@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Houston reVision CommUnity Night DESCRIPTION:reVision’s CommUnity Night is a weekly get together for a hot meal\, music\, dancing\, and celebration. While primarily focused on school-aged children and youth\, and young adults\, reVision’s CommUnity Night is open to the public. The musical focus is on hiphop\, a live DJ plays music\, and children and youth can learn the fundamentals of breakdancing and other dance styles. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/houston-revision-community-night-4/ LOCATION:Houston reVision Community Center\, 6856 Bellaire Blvd.\, Houston\, TX\, 77074\, United States CATEGORIES:Dance,Free Events,Kids + Families,Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/community-night-guide-star-PPS50v.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240404T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240404T200000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240404T161242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240404T201011Z UID:216515-1712257200-1712260800@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Nancy Grossman DESCRIPTION:Best known for her sculptures of leather-wrapped heads\, Nancy Grossman discusses her practice of more than fifty years with Michelle White\, Senior Curator\, The Menil Collection. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/artist-talk-nancy-grossman/ LOCATION:Menil Collection\, 1515 Sul Ross\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Literature + Lectures,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/nancy-grossman_courtesy-of-michael-rosenfeld-gallery-1-1ectE8.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Menil Collection":MAILTO:info@menil.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240409T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240409T100000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240409T144003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T144003Z UID:216558-1712656800-1712656800@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:'Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette' DESCRIPTION:Asia Society Texas is pleased to present Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette\, the organization’s first public art installation. This collaboration between Cuban American artist Rafael Domenech and Vietnamese American artist Tomas Vu assumes the form of a dynamic outdoor pavilion with two stages\, occupying AST’s 13\,000-square-foot lot at the intersection of Oakdale and Caroline Streets in the heart of Houston’s Museum District. Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette is commissioned in partnership with the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.\nDescribed by the artists as a form of “urban acupuncture\,” Heat Silhouette is a physical structure designed to welcome the spontaneous circulation of people\, energy\, and events. The outdoor pavilion takes cues from college campuses\, popular culture\, and experimental magazines. Made of wood\, aluminum framing\, and laser-cut construction mesh — the very materials used to build the city of Houston — the pavilion becomes an extension of the museum and a public programming space. The title itself references the most omnipresent weather condition of Houston the summer’s intense heat\, a heat so palpable that it feels as if it occupies actual space\, creating a silhouette or edge.\nFor the artists\, the pavilion resists merely being a form of architecture. Instead\, the pavilion physically operates as an experimental magazine\, referencing the graphic processes seen in radical publications from the 1960s and 1970s like Kontexts\, an important catalyst of avant-garde poetry. Readers do not flip Heat Silhouette’s pages; instead\, they become viewers that are invited to walk in\, around\, and through the publication. Laser-cut texts appropriated from popular science-fiction films\, poetry\, and other sources intermingle to form multiple layers and viewpoints that shift with the sunlight. Heat Silhouette is a space of active production filled with theater-like compartments — a site where text\, image\, and pattern coalesce into a kind of urban camouflage. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/rafael-domenech-and-tomas-vu-heat-silhouette-20/ LOCATION:Asia Society Texas Center\, 1370 Southmore Blvd.\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/event-featured-rafael-domenech-and-tomas-vu-heat-silhouette-1697751613-ZVcLnx.tmp_-Tp18AU.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Asia Society Texas Center":MAILTO:txcenter@asiasociety.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240409T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240409T120000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240409T144007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T165134Z UID:216565-1712660400-1712664000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Carmela Full of Wishes DESCRIPTION:Carmela Full of Wishes is a hopeful play based on the acclaimed book of the same title by Newbery Medal and Caldecott Honor-winning author Matt de la Peña and illustrator Christian Robinson.\nOn her birthday\, young Carmela wakes up thrilled to finally be old enough to join her big brother on their family errands. As they travel through their neighborhood\, Carmela stumbles upon a lone dandelion growing in the pavement. But before she can blow away its white fluff\, her brother reminds her to make a wish. With a heart full of hopes and dreams\, Carmela wishes for a candy machine\, a fancy bed for Mamí like the ones at the hotel where she works\, and most importantly\, for Papí to come back home soon.\nThen her dandelion is crushed before she can make her biggest wish.\nCan her brother help her to believe in the power of wishes once again?\nJoin us on this journey celebrating family\, dreamers\, and the power of hope found in the most unexpected places.\nMagik Theatre’s mission is to use the power of theatre to create Magikal storytelling for children that Activates imagination\, Grows young minds\, and Inspires creativity and a love of learning that is the Key to a more literate future for our community.\nAll performances at Miller Outdoor Theatre are FREE! URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/carmela-full-of-wishes/ LOCATION:Miller Outdoor Theatre\, 6000 Hermann Park Dr. \, Houston\, TX\, 77030\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Kids + Families,Theatre + Comedy ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5.carmela-square-web-GaCHaq.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Miller Theatre Advisory Board":MAILTO:rdarby@milleroutdoortheatre.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240409T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240409T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240409T144047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T220709Z UID:216586-1712660400-1712685600@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Critical Geography – FotoFest Biennial 2024 DESCRIPTION:The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition\, “Critical Geography”\, reexamines traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while expanding these investigations to new realms. Borrowing its name from the subdiscipline of geography that questions and challenges power structures\, inequality\, and the dominant ideologies shaping physical space\, Critical Geography explores how space\, place\, and communities are influenced by social\, economic\, ecological\, and political forces. By critically analyzing these dynamics\, the works in the exhibition provoke conversations around social justice\, environmental sustainability\, and transformative change.\n“Our intent is that the 2024 Biennial\, featuring both existing and newly commissioned works from local and international artists\, will allow viewers to engage in important dialogues around the social dimensions of space and our shared planet\,” says Steven Evans\, Executive Director of FotoFest. “We look forward to once again celebrating Houston’s vibrant art and photo community while embracing these new perspectives around place-making\, the image\, and geography.”\n“Critical Geography” features a diverse range of image-based practices\, representing artists from photographers and storytellers whose works shed light on systemic oppression\, violence\, and urgent environmental concerns to image-makers who appropriate mapping\, social media\, and technology in order to explore inequality in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The exhibition highlights a range of unorthodox strategies employed to construct new narratives around place and community while imagining alternative organizations of social space. The Biennial exhibition includes several site-specific works and new commissions by FotoFest. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/critical-geography-fotofest-biennial-2024-5/ LOCATION:FotoFest at Silver Street Studios\, 2000 Edwards Street (Silver Street Studios Building C\, Suite 2)\, Houston\, TX\, 77007\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ff24_critical-geography-eEVgkP.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="FotoFest International":MAILTO:info@fotofest.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240409T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240409T210000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240409T144030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240410T013826Z UID:216581-1712685600-1712696400@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:reVision Tuesday Night Sessions DESCRIPTION:Tuesday Night reVision Sessions is a community-focused event that aims to promote exercise\, dance\, and unity while shaping young minds. The night includes various activities such as educational workshops\, mentorship\, and interactive sessions in breakdancing\, basketball\, and DJing. By fostering creativity\, critical thinking\, and personal development among the youth and young adults\, the event serves as a platform for the community to come together and support each other. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/revision-tuesday-night-sessions-7/ LOCATION:Houston reVision Community Center\, 6856 Bellaire Blvd.\, Houston\, TX\, 77074\, United States CATEGORIES:Dance | Latin | Urban,Free Events,Kids + Families,Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/d7ba7219-646c-4be0-a985-d1488b7f6a0f-L1fAjk.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T100000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240409T144048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240410T143622Z UID:216589-1712743200-1712743200@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:'Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette' DESCRIPTION:Asia Society Texas is pleased to present Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette\, the organization’s first public art installation. This collaboration between Cuban American artist Rafael Domenech and Vietnamese American artist Tomas Vu assumes the form of a dynamic outdoor pavilion with two stages\, occupying AST’s 13\,000-square-foot lot at the intersection of Oakdale and Caroline Streets in the heart of Houston’s Museum District. Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette is commissioned in partnership with the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.\nDescribed by the artists as a form of “urban acupuncture\,” Heat Silhouette is a physical structure designed to welcome the spontaneous circulation of people\, energy\, and events. The outdoor pavilion takes cues from college campuses\, popular culture\, and experimental magazines. Made of wood\, aluminum framing\, and laser-cut construction mesh — the very materials used to build the city of Houston — the pavilion becomes an extension of the museum and a public programming space. The title itself references the most omnipresent weather condition of Houston the summer’s intense heat\, a heat so palpable that it feels as if it occupies actual space\, creating a silhouette or edge.\nFor the artists\, the pavilion resists merely being a form of architecture. Instead\, the pavilion physically operates as an experimental magazine\, referencing the graphic processes seen in radical publications from the 1960s and 1970s like Kontexts\, an important catalyst of avant-garde poetry. Readers do not flip Heat Silhouette’s pages; instead\, they become viewers that are invited to walk in\, around\, and through the publication. Laser-cut texts appropriated from popular science-fiction films\, poetry\, and other sources intermingle to form multiple layers and viewpoints that shift with the sunlight. Heat Silhouette is a space of active production filled with theater-like compartments — a site where text\, image\, and pattern coalesce into a kind of urban camouflage. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/rafael-domenech-and-tomas-vu-heat-silhouette-21/ LOCATION:Asia Society Texas Center\, 1370 Southmore Blvd.\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/event-featured-rafael-domenech-and-tomas-vu-heat-silhouette-1697751613-ZVcLnx.tmp_-Tp18AU.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Asia Society Texas Center":MAILTO:txcenter@asiasociety.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T120000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240409T144049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240410T165200Z UID:216595-1712746800-1712750400@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Carmela Full of Wishes DESCRIPTION:Carmela Full of Wishes is a hopeful play based on the acclaimed book of the same title by Newbery Medal and Caldecott Honor-winning author Matt de la Peña and illustrator Christian Robinson.\nOn her birthday\, young Carmela wakes up thrilled to finally be old enough to join her big brother on their family errands. As they travel through their neighborhood\, Carmela stumbles upon a lone dandelion growing in the pavement. But before she can blow away its white fluff\, her brother reminds her to make a wish. With a heart full of hopes and dreams\, Carmela wishes for a candy machine\, a fancy bed for Mamí like the ones at the hotel where she works\, and most importantly\, for Papí to come back home soon.\nThen her dandelion is crushed before she can make her biggest wish.\nCan her brother help her to believe in the power of wishes once again?\nJoin us on this journey celebrating family\, dreamers\, and the power of hope found in the most unexpected places.\nMagik Theatre’s mission is to use the power of theatre to create Magikal storytelling for children that Activates imagination\, Grows young minds\, and Inspires creativity and a love of learning that is the Key to a more literate future for our community.\nAll performances at Miller Outdoor Theatre are FREE! URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/carmela-full-of-wishes-2/ LOCATION:Miller Outdoor Theatre\, 6000 Hermann Park Dr. \, Houston\, TX\, 77030\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Kids + Families,Theatre + Comedy ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5.carmela-square-web-GaCHaq.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Miller Theatre Advisory Board":MAILTO:rdarby@milleroutdoortheatre.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240409T210706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240410T222334Z UID:216604-1712746800-1712772000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Critical Geography – FotoFest Biennial 2024 DESCRIPTION:The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition\, “Critical Geography”\, reexamines traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while expanding these investigations to new realms. Borrowing its name from the subdiscipline of geography that questions and challenges power structures\, inequality\, and the dominant ideologies shaping physical space\, Critical Geography explores how space\, place\, and communities are influenced by social\, economic\, ecological\, and political forces. By critically analyzing these dynamics\, the works in the exhibition provoke conversations around social justice\, environmental sustainability\, and transformative change.\n“Our intent is that the 2024 Biennial\, featuring both existing and newly commissioned works from local and international artists\, will allow viewers to engage in important dialogues around the social dimensions of space and our shared planet\,” says Steven Evans\, Executive Director of FotoFest. “We look forward to once again celebrating Houston’s vibrant art and photo community while embracing these new perspectives around place-making\, the image\, and geography.”\n“Critical Geography” features a diverse range of image-based practices\, representing artists from photographers and storytellers whose works shed light on systemic oppression\, violence\, and urgent environmental concerns to image-makers who appropriate mapping\, social media\, and technology in order to explore inequality in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The exhibition highlights a range of unorthodox strategies employed to construct new narratives around place and community while imagining alternative organizations of social space. The Biennial exhibition includes several site-specific works and new commissions by FotoFest. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/critical-geography-fotofest-biennial-2024-6/ LOCATION:FotoFest at Silver Street Studios\, 2000 Edwards Street (Silver Street Studios Building C\, Suite 2)\, Houston\, TX\, 77007\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ff24_critical-geography-eEVgkP.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="FotoFest International":MAILTO:info@fotofest.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T190000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240409T210720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240410T232216Z UID:216606-1712746800-1712775600@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Janet Sobel: All-Over DESCRIPTION:The Menil Collection will open “Janet Sobel: All-Over” on February 23\, 2024\, featuring some thirty paintings and drawings made by artist Janet Sobel (1893–1968). This exhibition\, the first to focus on Sobel’s highly accomplished and influential abstract paintings\, will explore the artist’s work as one of the first to pioneer a new approach to modern abstraction known as “all-over” painting. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/janet-sobel-all-over-12/ LOCATION:The Menil Collection\, 1533 Sul Ross Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/janet-sobel-untitled-ca.-1946-48_small-frrejz.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Menil Collection":MAILTO:info@menil.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240410T190000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240409T220736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240410T232216Z UID:216608-1712746800-1712775600@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Ruth Asawa Through Line DESCRIPTION:Ruth Asawa Through Line is the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s lifelong drawing practice. The exhibition presents drawings\, collages\, & sketchbooks alongside stamped prints\, paperfolds\, & more\, showing the breadth of Asawa’s innovative practice. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/ruth-asawa-through-line-5/ LOCATION:The Menil Drawing Institute\, 1412 W. Main St.\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/untitled-bmc.128-study-in-repeated-vertical-angular-lines-triangles-ca.-1948-49-78NvfT.tmp_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240411T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240411T100000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240410T013855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T142135Z UID:216621-1712829600-1712829600@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:'Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette' DESCRIPTION:Asia Society Texas is pleased to present Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette\, the organization’s first public art installation. This collaboration between Cuban American artist Rafael Domenech and Vietnamese American artist Tomas Vu assumes the form of a dynamic outdoor pavilion with two stages\, occupying AST’s 13\,000-square-foot lot at the intersection of Oakdale and Caroline Streets in the heart of Houston’s Museum District. Rafael Domenech and Tomas Vu Heat Silhouette is commissioned in partnership with the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.\nDescribed by the artists as a form of “urban acupuncture\,” Heat Silhouette is a physical structure designed to welcome the spontaneous circulation of people\, energy\, and events. The outdoor pavilion takes cues from college campuses\, popular culture\, and experimental magazines. Made of wood\, aluminum framing\, and laser-cut construction mesh — the very materials used to build the city of Houston — the pavilion becomes an extension of the museum and a public programming space. The title itself references the most omnipresent weather condition of Houston the summer’s intense heat\, a heat so palpable that it feels as if it occupies actual space\, creating a silhouette or edge.\nFor the artists\, the pavilion resists merely being a form of architecture. Instead\, the pavilion physically operates as an experimental magazine\, referencing the graphic processes seen in radical publications from the 1960s and 1970s like Kontexts\, an important catalyst of avant-garde poetry. Readers do not flip Heat Silhouette’s pages; instead\, they become viewers that are invited to walk in\, around\, and through the publication. Laser-cut texts appropriated from popular science-fiction films\, poetry\, and other sources intermingle to form multiple layers and viewpoints that shift with the sunlight. Heat Silhouette is a space of active production filled with theater-like compartments — a site where text\, image\, and pattern coalesce into a kind of urban camouflage. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/rafael-domenech-and-tomas-vu-heat-silhouette-22/ LOCATION:Asia Society Texas Center\, 1370 Southmore Blvd.\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/event-featured-rafael-domenech-and-tomas-vu-heat-silhouette-1697751613-ZVcLnx.tmp_-Tp18AU.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Asia Society Texas Center":MAILTO:txcenter@asiasociety.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240411T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240411T180000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240410T035205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T222126Z UID:216631-1712833200-1712858400@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Critical Geography – FotoFest Biennial 2024 DESCRIPTION:The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition\, “Critical Geography”\, reexamines traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while expanding these investigations to new realms. Borrowing its name from the subdiscipline of geography that questions and challenges power structures\, inequality\, and the dominant ideologies shaping physical space\, Critical Geography explores how space\, place\, and communities are influenced by social\, economic\, ecological\, and political forces. By critically analyzing these dynamics\, the works in the exhibition provoke conversations around social justice\, environmental sustainability\, and transformative change.\n“Our intent is that the 2024 Biennial\, featuring both existing and newly commissioned works from local and international artists\, will allow viewers to engage in important dialogues around the social dimensions of space and our shared planet\,” says Steven Evans\, Executive Director of FotoFest. “We look forward to once again celebrating Houston’s vibrant art and photo community while embracing these new perspectives around place-making\, the image\, and geography.”\n“Critical Geography” features a diverse range of image-based practices\, representing artists from photographers and storytellers whose works shed light on systemic oppression\, violence\, and urgent environmental concerns to image-makers who appropriate mapping\, social media\, and technology in order to explore inequality in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The exhibition highlights a range of unorthodox strategies employed to construct new narratives around place and community while imagining alternative organizations of social space. The Biennial exhibition includes several site-specific works and new commissions by FotoFest. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/critical-geography-fotofest-biennial-2024-7/ LOCATION:FotoFest at Silver Street Studios\, 2000 Edwards Street (Silver Street Studios Building C\, Suite 2)\, Houston\, TX\, 77007\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ff24_critical-geography-eEVgkP.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="FotoFest International":MAILTO:info@fotofest.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240411T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240411T190000 DTSTAMP:20260506T145709 CREATED:20240410T153739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240411T232121Z UID:216643-1712833200-1712862000@eastendhouston.com SUMMARY:Janet Sobel: All-Over DESCRIPTION:The Menil Collection will open “Janet Sobel: All-Over” on February 23\, 2024\, featuring some thirty paintings and drawings made by artist Janet Sobel (1893–1968). This exhibition\, the first to focus on Sobel’s highly accomplished and influential abstract paintings\, will explore the artist’s work as one of the first to pioneer a new approach to modern abstraction known as “all-over” painting. URL:https://eastendhouston.com/event/janet-sobel-all-over-13/ LOCATION:The Menil Collection\, 1533 Sul Ross Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77006\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events,Visual Arts + Museums ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://eastendhouston.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/janet-sobel-untitled-ca.-1946-48_small-frrejz.tmp_.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Menil Collection":MAILTO:info@menil.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR