East End Houston

Pink Place
2024-12-24 11:00 - 16:00, 2024-12-23 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-12-23 11:00 - 16:00, 2024-12-22 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-12-22 11:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | St. Arnold Brewing Company, 2000 Lyons Ave, Houston, TX, United States
Join us at St. Arnolds Brewery to experience “Pink Place”, a restorative, color-field installation on Sunday Dec. 22 and Monday Dec. 23. “Pink Place” is an Art Uniti art space immersing visitors in shades of pinks and reds while wandering thru domestic home stage sets. Room sets feature a tribute to five accomplished Latina, Northside women. At the entry, visitors encounter a geometric wood sculpture that features botanical wood cuts painted by the Northside community during Jensen Jubilee. The totem structure is titled “Blooming Trees” (Arboles En Flor) and remains on display thru the Holiday Season. Pilot Dance performs “Women of Northside” choreographed by Adam Castaneda Sunday 1pm & 4pm and Monday 3pm. Jonn Del Toro Richardson and Evelyn Rubio preform a lively sets of blues & popular music on Sunday 12pm-4pm. Art in the Heart bus and artist team is hosting family woodcut ornament painting crafts both days 11am to 4pm. Pink Holiday House backdrop provides a festive family photo op with a pink Christmas tree.
Pink Place is tribute to cancer fighters and survivors!

Christmas with Masterworks, Rejoice!
2024-12-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Trinity Lutheran Church Downtown, 600 Washington Ave, Houston, TX, United States
CHRISTMAS WITH MASTERWORKS, REJOICE!
Trinity Lutheran Downtown
December 15, 2024 4 pm
Our annual eclectic celebration includes joyful and distinctive rhythms from around the globe. Dr. Paulo Gomes weaves carols and holiday favorites throughout the concert, ending with a candlelit sing-along of Silent Night.
Featuring: The winner of the 4th Annual HMC Young Singer Competition.

Christmas with HMC, Rejoice!
2024-12-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Trinity Lutheran Church Downtown, 600 Washington Ave, Houston, TX, United States
Our annual eclectic celebration includes joyful and distinctive rhythms from around the globe.
Dr. Paulo Gomes weaves carols and holiday favorites throughout the concert, ending with a candlelit sing-along of Silent Night.
Featuring: The winner of the 4th Annual HMC Young Singer Competition

Mercado Mart
2024-12-15 14:00 - 20:00 | Casa Wesley, 1625 Wesley St, Houston, TX, United States
Come see some of Houston’s hottest makers at an intimate showcase of art, sculpture, fashion, and more! Swing by on Saturday, December 14th, from 2 PM to 8 PM, to meet the artists, hear their stories, and snag one-of-a-kind creations for your home and wardrobe.
Featuring: Christian Bravo creating functional and decorative pieces inspired by pre-Hispanic motifs, crafted entirely from recycled paper pulp.Tejidos x Magdalendo, who braves the bayou brush to gather natural materials for his incredible weavings. Stalina Villarreal who will be presenting some beautiful and historic vessels from her archive. And Jorge Galvan Flores, bringing some bold fashion pieces, killer accessories, as well as some vibrant new 2D works. We’ll keep you quenched with aguas frescas and snacks from the always-delectable Comades.HTX while you browse and connect with the artists. Be there or hear about it from your friends later.

“Latin to Latin America” Collaborative Christmas Concert
2024-12-14 15:00 - 16:30 | Villa De Matel Convent, 6510 Lawndale St, Houston, TX, United States
Bay Area Youth Singers & Segundo Barrio Children’s Chorus present a Free concert ranging from 15th century Latin texts to current Spanish songs performed by children, ages 8 to 16.

Trio Menil @ TBH
2024-12-07 19:00 - 20:30 | TBH Center (Talento Bilingüe de Houston), 333 S Jensen Dr, Houston, TX, United States
Join us for an extraordinary evening with Trio Menil, an innovative ensemble redefining the classic piano trio experience. Their performances seamlessly blend beloved classical works with bold contemporary pieces, delivering a captivating musical journey.
This performance by Trio Menil is sponsored by The City of Houston through the Arts Alliance

ARTCRAWL 2024
2024-11-23 10:00 - 20:00 | Bisong Art Gallery, 1305 Sterrett St, Houston, TX, United States
The Original and Historical Downtown Artist’s Warehouse District will “open house” their working art studios and gallery exhibition spaces to the public for the Official ARTCRAWLhouston2024, a one-day event on Saturday, November 23, 2024, from 10am to 9pm. Some venues will be open for viewing Friday and Sunday.
This year’s event marks the 32nd Anniversary of Artistic Survival by an all-volunteer-artist-run, non-organization in the 4th largest city in the United States. Over 100 Artists will pARTicipate in Houston’s original cluster of artists warehouses: Bisong Art Gallery, Hardy & Nance Studios, Los Muertos Tattoo Studio, Mother Dog Studios, Saint Arnold Brewing Company.​
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Sponsors: Clay Crawford, m Architecs, NDT Seals, Platinum Parking, Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Studio 713

October 25 - November 23, 2024 Exhibitions
2024-11-08 18:00 - 21:00, 2024-11-02 18:00 - 21:00, 2024-11-01 18:00 - 21:00 | Box 13 ArtSpace, 6700 Harrisburg Blvd, Houston, TX, United States
BOX 13 ArtSpace is pleased to present three new exhibitions opening Friday October 25, 2024 6pm to 9pm.
In the Front BOX gallery, Kevin Lopez’s “A Thinning of the Veneer” explores the multiplicity of the inner self. Through the use of simultaneous figures and curiously unique painting structures, the exhibition asks viewers to question their identities, and likewise, the identities of others. BOX 13 ArtSpace is delighted to present in our Back BOX gallery “The Myth of colonization” an exhibition by local artist Daniel Anguilu. In this body of work he examines the complexities of colonization emphasizing on the false narrative about religion, language and the agreements that were made after the invasion and war. In the Window Box artist Sue Montoya creates “Rastros” (2024) is a series of truck piñatas made from solo auto magazines found in Houston to explore themes of accumulation, car culture, and familial histories of labor through constructing piñatas.
The exhibitions continue through November 23, 2024. An Opening Reception will be held on Friday October 25, 2024 6pm to 9pm at BOX 13 ArtSpace, 6700 Harrisburg, Houston, TX 77011.
A special thank you to Houston Arts Alliance , the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs , The Brown Foundation and all who have helped to support our programing.

Creatives as Caregivers: Balancing Art & Family
2024-10-24 17:30 - 19:30 | Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, 4848 Main St, Houston, TX, United States
Join Fresh Arts and HCCC for a discussion designed for artist-parents and caregivers. Panelists will share their unique perspectives on the intersection of art and caregiving. Engage in conversation, share your experiences, and connect with others navigating this shared journey. Attendees are encouraged to contribute their perspectives and resources, fostering a deeper understanding of the challenges and rewards faced by creative caregivers. This is a free event with registration, and childcare will be provided.
This event is hosted in conjunction with HCCC’s fall exhibition, Designing Motherhood, the first show of its kind to consider the arc of human reproduction through a design lens. Designing Motherhood originated in Philadelphia at the Mütter Museum at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Center for Architecture and Design. HCCC’s iteration of the exhibition is the first mounted in the Southern United States and the first to extend the contents to highlight the craft perspective on the topic. Featuring over 60 craft and design objects and prototypes from the past 50 years and the work of more than 20 contemporary artists, the show traverses themes ranging from the DIY culture of parenthood and health activism to reproductive access and equity, parental leave, and the work-life balance of artist-mothers.
Learn more about the exhibition and enjoy refreshments at 5:30, before the panel begins at 6:00 PM.
This event is powered by Fresh Arts in collaboration with the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and generously funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

“Tacita Dean: Blind Folly”
2024-10-24 11:00 - 19:00 | The Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross St, Houston, TX, United States
“Tacita Dean: Blind Folly” is the first major museum survey in the United States of work by British European visual artist Tacita Dean (b. 1965). The exhibition, organized in close collaboration with Dean, spotlights her career-defining approach to creating art through unmediated and chance-based drawing processes across a variety of mediums, from film to printmaking.

Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo
2024-10-24 11:00 - 19:00 | The Menil Drawing Institute, 1500 W Main St, Houston, TX, United States
Wall Drawing Series: Ronny Quevedo features a site-specific work by New York-based artist Ronny Quevedo (b. 1981). The 36-foot triptych, C A R A A C A R A, 2024, explores the relationship between origin, transfer, and translation, with each panel of the composition indicating a different step in the artist’s process.

"Fragments of Memory"
2024-10-24 11:00 - 19:00 | Menil Drawing Institute, 6100 S Main St, Houston, TX, United States
“Fragments of Memory”, a selection of works from the Menil Collection’s permanent collection, explores the ways in which the past imbues present experiences. In their drawings, the featured artists take up commonplace embodiments of personal and collective memory, such as scrapbooks, snapshots, notes, relics, and odes, to reimagine how we might access fraught memories and contested histories. On view September 20, 2024-January 26, 2025.

“Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms”
2024-10-24 11:00 - 19:00 | Menil Drawing Institute, 6100 S Main St, Houston, TX, United States
“Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms” examines drawing as a meditative process that invites the gradual appearance of indeterminate images. Selected from the Menil Collection’s permanent collection, this display of twenty-nine drawings dating from the late 1930s to the present share a visual language of emerging forms. On view September 20, 2024 through January 26, 2025.

Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow
2024-10-24 11:00 - 18:00 | Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), 5216 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX, United States
Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow is the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States. Across an installation, a video, and a series of commissioned sculptures, Erlanger continues her decade-long disruption of the “semiotics of suburbia.” In her practice, Erlanger thinks of the home as a greater ecosystem containing not only houses but also their surrounding infrastructures and interior architectures.
At Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), massive illuminated planet sculptures map the suburban landscape, positioning the development of home as an environmental force in itself. These new works explore “speculative memory”—how progress can only be understood through hindsight—and what this psychic limitation implies for the artist. Viewers will then move to new diorama sculptures that play on an institutional language of presentation, positioning the enclosed scenes as already-past. Here, Erlanger proposes both impossible architectures and terrestrial forms created using strategies of model-making. These works are each marked by changes in season, emphasizing receding memories of a once-diverse climate.
The exhibition culminates in a sitcom set, riffing on the psychology of interiors as well as acting as a platform to watch Erlanger’s new short film Appliance. The film dovetails recent research into the history and cultural significance of domestic technologies, such as the shower or washing machine, with a specific focus on how their operations have been considered interchangeably with human bodily functions. In our age of “polycrisis,” wherein multiple seismic events occur simultaneously, If Today Were Tomorrow provides a framework for thinking about the porousness of interior and exterior, self and non-self, body and home.
Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Hatje Cantz containing newly commissioned texts about the artist’s practice, as well as contributions focusing on the interplay between architecture, psychology, and science fiction.
Support
Major support for Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud - New Suns
2024-10-24 11:00 - 17:00 | Lawndale Art Center, 4912 Main St, Houston, TX, United States
“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns” – Octavia Butler
Framing explorations of space, geography, mapping, and land/waterscapes, especially of the African diaspora, New Suns in Lawndale’s Cecily E. Horton Gallery features new installation, painting and drawing by Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud.
Featured image courtesy of the artist.

Here All Along - Sol Diaz-Peña
2024-10-24 11:00 - 17:00 | Lawndale Art Center, 4912 Main St, Houston, TX, United States
Here All Along in Lawndale’s John M. O’Quinn Gallery is a collection of new work by Sol Diaz-Peña, created during their time as a 2023/2024 Artist Studio Program participant brought forth by a journey of rematriation to their Zapotec roots in Oaxaca, Mexico.
This exhibition features the artist’s multidisciplinary work based in painting, photography, light, and textile, to “explore internal boundlessness, collective cultural experiences, and the poetic relationship between nature and humanity.”
More information found here: https://lawndaleartcenter.org/exhibition/sol-diaz/

Brenda Biondo: Sun to Earth
2024-10-24 11:00 - 17:00 | Koslov Larsen, 4411 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX, United States
Koslov Larsen is pleased to present Sun to Earth, the gallery’s third solo presentation by artist Brenda Biondo. Combining several series of Biondo’s works, Sun to Earth introduces new ways of looking at common subjects while challenging viewers’ perception of color and three-dimensional space. The works explored throughout the show focus on atmospheric phenomena and other ephemeral components of the natural world. Unnatural (Texas Tumbleweeds) and Prairie Wheels study the interconnectedness of humans and flora, inspired by the iconic tumbleweed, an invasive species brought inadvertently to the United States in the 1870s by Eastern European settlers. Influenced heavily by James Turrell’s Skyspaces, Perceptual Skies emphasizes the limitless potential of light as a subject and the subjectivity of perception. Biondo states, “Using a visual language that deconstructs the sky portion of the landscape helps articulate questions about how we engage with our environment and the emotional and psychological effects natural light has on humans.” The images in the series follow the formal aesthetics of modern painting, particularly minimalism, while emphasizing the ambiguity between the real and the reproduced.
Sun to Earth will be on view at Koslov Larsen from May 3 – June 21, 2024.

From the Czech Silver Thaler to the US Dollar
2024-10-24 11:00 - 16:00 | Czech Cultural Center Houston (Czech Center Museum Houston), 4920 San Jacinto St, Houston, TX, United States
Money has history and ancestors just like we humans do. Over 500 years ago, the “family history” of the dollar currency was established due to the agreement of the Lands Diet of the Kingdom of Bohemia. This one event can be regarded as the origin of all the dollars that belong to many different countries today. Come and learn more about the historical origin and development of these coins!

Fall Exhibition at the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
2024-10-24 10:00 - 17:00 | Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, 6815 Cypresswood Dr, Spring, TX, United States
This Fall, the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts is honored to present “Roots & Reverence: Exploring Indigenous Perspectives on Art, Culture, and Identity.”
Discover the vibrant tapestry of Native American cultures through this immersive exhibition, which showcases the artistic legacy and profound narratives of tribes across North America.
Visitors will experience traditions that have been passed from generation to generation, such as the intricate craftsmanship of basketry, the symbolic power of pottery, and the timeless beauty of beadwork.
“Roots & Reverence” opens to the public Saturday, September 21 and continues through January 4, 2025. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated to help support the work of the museum.
Located at 6815 Cypresswood Drive in Spring, TX, the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, visit pearlmfa.org.

Facing Survival | David Kassan
2024-10-24 10:00 - 17:00 | Holocaust Museum Houston, 5401 Caroline St, Houston, TX, United States
This compelling and transformative exhibition features the masterful paintings and drawings of acclaimed artist David Kassan, capturing the poignant stories and portraits of Holocaust survivors.
“Facing Survival” stands as a profound testament to the enduring power of art in narrating the untold stories of resilience and survival. Through the evocative paintings and sketches meticulously crafted by Kassan, the exhibition unveils the profound journey of more than two dozen Holocaust survivors. By intertwining the visual representation of the survivors with the sketches revealing Kassan’s artistic process, this exhibition transcends conventional forms of testimony, forging a poignant visual language that surpasses the limitations of spoken or written word.
Preceding the creation of each portrait, Kassan deeply engaged with the survivors, filming their testimonies and comprehending their intricate histories. His profound connection with his subjects enables him to capture not just their present visages, but the essence of their harrowing pasts. The lifelike imagery pulsates with their spirit, pain and dignity, transforming these paintings into testaments of resilience and reflections of lives shaped by unspeakable violence.
Moreover, “Facing Survival” aspires to transcend the incomprehensible statistics—such as the unfathomable six million lives lost—to highlight the individuality of each survivor. It is a testament that defies generalization, seeking to evoke a profound emotional connection, to allow us to bear witness to the miraculous existence of each singular soul.
