Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege
2024-08-23 11:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), 5216 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX, United States
Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege presents work by the acclaimed Chicago-based artist, featuring large-scale paintings, sculptures, and installations that highlight the seen and unseen dynamics of Freedmen’s Town in Houston’s Fourth Ward. Throughout his career, Theaster Gates has soulfully elevated our understanding of Black labor, materials, place, and community to revitalize underrecognized neighborhoods by combining urban planning and a multifaceted art practice. His work powerfully highlights the true value Black spaces hold—although often devalued—as sites of American resilience, liberation, and redemption. Gates is a shape-shifter, a world-builder, and an artist who singularly connects the dots in both poetic and pragmatic ways. For over 20 years he has worked to transform the Southside of Chicago through various initiatives aimed at preserving and continuing the neighborhood’s vital role as a site for Black creativity. His multifaceted practice, which demonstrates the dual importance of building community and exposing power structures, has made him one of the most significant artists working in our time.

Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions
2024-08-23 11:00 - 19:00 | The Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross St, Houston, TX, United States
“Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions” highlights work made by succeeding generations of artists who forged new paths in their approaches to non-representational art. The exhibition brings together acquisitions made by the Menil over the past fifteen years, including work by Agnes Denes, Suzan Frecon, Sam Gilliam, Ellsworth Kelly, Rick Lowe, and Richard Serra.

Online Quiet Write-In
2024-08-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Writespace, 1907 Sabine St, Houston, TX, United States
TIME: Friday, August 23, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.CDT
PRICE: Free. $5.00 for nonmembers. Become a member here.
LOCATION: Online via Zoom
Whether you are hard at work revising poems for a chapbook, pantsing your way through the first draft of your novel, or outlining an essay, we made a date to do the work of writing!
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​Come take advantage of the collective energy and encouragement found in the Writespace community.
This event is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance. This project is generously funded by the Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, and Mid-America Arts Alliance.
​This project is generously funded by Mid-America Arts Alliance, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the state arts agencies of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Big, Hot & Sticky: Contributor Talks + Closing Party
2024-08-23 17:30 - 19:30 | Architecture Center Houston, 315 Capitol St, Houston, TX, United States
Join Architecture Center Houston as we celebrate the final days of Big, Hot & Sticky. Exhibition curators Maggie Tsang and Dalia Munenzon will engage in conversation with contributors Cadaster and Departamento del Distrito on their practices.
Reception sponsored by Rice School of Architecture.
About the exhibition:
Houston is Big, Hot, and Sticky. The metropolitan region is roughly 640 square miles, and from east of Galveston Bay to west of Katy, it is comparable in width to the State of Connecticut. For nearly one third of the year, the city’s temperature climbs to at least 90 °F; and 2,500 miles of slow moving, flat waterways crisscross the city creating a swamp-like environment.
Houston’s emergence as a metropolis, like many American cities, has been shaped by its defiance of the environment. From climate control to flood control, the city is a hyper-engineered, constructed landscape designed to resist the natural world. As Houston grows, however, so too does this tension between the natural and the human-made: from the shock of hurricanes and tropical storms to the chronic stresses of urban heat and nuisance flooding. In the face of these environmental challenges, engineered and technological solutions have a limited impact, and historically, have also been sources of inequality. Instead, what is needed is a more radical social, cultural, and ecological imaginary that recasts the city’s relationship to nature.
Big, Hot, and Sticky, spotlights Houston as a novel urban ecosystem: a constellation of highways, waterways, air-conditioned buildings, remnant prairies, and possums. This exhibition invites seven designers to respond to Houston’s provocation through critical histories, design research, and speculative projects rooted in the city’s urban landscape: How are environments, climates, and cultures co-constructed? What is the future of this notoriously air-conditioned, car-centered, energy capital? What does it look like to thrive in a city that is Big, Hot, and Sticky?
Contributors:
Cadaster; Lola Ben-Alon and The Natural Materials Lab; Dept.; Departamento del Distrito; Dalia Munenzon and the Urban Climate Adaptation Lab; Jess Myers; Feifei Zhou
This exhibition is generously supported by:
Diluvial Houston Initiative, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-supported project; Rice School of Architecture, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston, Rice University Office of Research, BeDESIGN.
Architecture Center Houston is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

When You Invent the Ship, You Also Invent the Shipwreck
2024-08-23 18:00 - 21:00 | Throughline, 3909 Main St, Houston, TX, United States
Throughline is pleased to present its fourth two-person collective member exhibition, “When You Invent the Ship, You Also Invent the Shipwreck,” with new work by artists Garland Fielder and Gabriel Martinez, opening Friday August 23, on view through September 21, 2024. Paintings, drawings, photography, and sculpture address threats humanity faces and the fear they engender. These works look toward the systems that have facilitated naturally occurring and human-engineered dangers and the structures used to safeguard against them. Join us for an opening reception on Friday, August 23, from 6-9pm.

Level 0 – FREE Intro to Improv Class
2024-08-23 19:00 - 19:30 | Station Theater, 2219 Crockett St, Houston, TX, United States
Our FREE Level 0 class is a fun, no-pressure way to try improv! This weekly 30-minute class lets you get a taste of Station’s improv training program, and it’s a great way to spend a Friday night! Level 0 students will receive a $25 discount code for our nine-week Level 1 – Fundamentals of Improv class and are invited to stay for the 8:00 pm show on us!
Free 8:00 pm show tickets are only available at the door and are based on ticket availability at showtime. Special events are excluded from the free ticket offer.

Level 0 - Intro to Improv Class
2024-08-23 19:00 - 19:30 | Station Theater, 2219 Crockett St, Houston, TX, United States
Station Theater’s weekly FREE Level 0 class is a fun, no-pressure way to try improv! This weekly 30-minute class lets you get a taste of Station’s improv training program, and it’s a great way to spend a Friday night! Students are invited to stay for the 8:00 pm show for free, pending ticket availability, and will receive a discount code for our nine-week Level 1 class. This class is perfect for those wanting to get a taste of our improv training program before registering – or for those wanting to try something new and have fun!

STALACTITES
2024-08-23 19:00 - 20:00 | MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston), 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United States
NobleMotion Spelunks into Industrial Cave World
Throughout time, the cave has been a mystical place, an opening into earth where humans have found shelter, given birth, performed rituals and burial rites, and told stories. Set in a futuristic primal society, Stalactites draws inspiration from Plato’s allegory of the cave as a response to current advances in AI technology. The theater is transformed into an industrial cave with climbable architectural structures designed by Jared Doster. The light grid is lowered into the performance space, allowing light designer Bryan Ealey to shape the world as the dancers perform above the fixtures. And a new hour-long music score by Travis Lake haunts and renders beautiful a hollow world full of possibility. Stalactites is an evocative evening-length performance that offers a glimpse into one possible future of human “progress.”

Best of the 2023 Ottawa International Animation Festival
2024-08-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Museum of Fine Arts – Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX, United States
Directed by various directors
(Various countries, 2023, 71 minutes, in original languages with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital
For adult audiences
The annual Ottawa International Animation Festival curates a selection of short films, both award winners and audience favorites, for the touring Best of Ottawa Program. The lineup of 10 short films highlights cutting-edge achievements in the art of animation, representing the myriad styles, techniques, and perspectives that animation is uniquely capable of realizing.
Animation Program
OIAF 2023 Signal Film | Canada, 1 min.
A Crab in the Pool (Un trou dans la poitrine) | Canada, 11 min.
Families’ Albums (Albums de familles) | Canada, 8 min.
Herzog’s Chicken | Canada, 1 min.
Box Cutters | France/Netherlands/South Africa, 8 min.
14th Anibar Animation Festival Trailer Love | Estonia/Kosovo, 1 min.
Cyclepaths | Belgium, 12 min.
Eeva | Estonia/Croatia, 16 min.
Miserable Miracle (Misérable Miracle) | Canada/France, 8 min.
Living the Dream | Canada, 2023, 1 min.

Breaking Community Limitations
2024-08-23 19:00 - 21:00 | MEIVE – Gallery & Studio, 1520 Center St, Houston, TX, United States
A screening of the short documentary “Life in the Nickel” invites attendees to examine the difference between how communities are viewed from the outside looking in and by those who experience it firsthand. A talkback will be led by a panel of community advocates.

5th Annual Mariachi Festival
2024-08-23 19:00 - 21:30 | Wortham Theater Center – Brown Theater, 501 Texas Ave, Houston, TX, United States
Mariachi Festival celebrates our Hispanic culture
A celebration of our Hispanic culture featuring some of the best mariachi musicians and ballet folklórico dancers from across Texas.
These events are huge celebrations, each with durations of 180 minutes including intermission.

Mariachi Festival
2024-08-23 19:00 - 22:00 | Wortham Theater Center – Brown Theater, 501 Texas Ave, Houston, TX, United States
The 5th Annual Mariachi Festival comes to Wortham Theater August 23-25, 2024, in partnership with Performing Arts Houston. The Mariachi Festival’s mission is to celebrate and promote our beautiful and lively Hispanic culture, that is such an important part of Houston’s history and diversity. Our goal is to make Houston a city that is known for first-class events featuring some of the best mariachi and ballet folklórico groups in the country and establish mariachi and ballet folklórico programs in schools.
Performers include the following:
Friday, August 23 at 7 pm
Oscar De La Rosa (singing with mariachi)
Mariachi 7 Leguas
Rio Grande Valley Ballet Folklórico
Carolina Rodriguez (Grand Champion of 2024 Festiba Mariachi Festival)
Attendees are encouraged to dress business casual for a light and wonderful evening of music.
Saturday, August 24 at 7 pm
Mariachi Mariposas
University of Houston Mariachi Pumas
Ballet Folklórico South Texas College
Winners of the 2024 National Youth Mariachi Vocalist Competition
Yasmine Duenes (Grand Champion of 2023 Mariachi Extravaganza)
Attendees are asked to dress to impress in formal wear for an evening of celebration.
Sunday, August 25 at 3 pm
Mariachi Imperial de America
México en Danzas Grupo Folklórico
Eduardo Antonio Treviño (as seen on America’s Got Talent)
Audience members are encouraged to sport traditional Mexican dresses and guayaberas.

Betrayal
2024-08-23 19:30 - 21:30 | Rec Room Arts, 100 Jackson St, Houston, TX, United States
by HAROLD PINTER
directed by SOPHIA WATT
From the final meeting of two lovers to the inception of an illicit affair, a love triangle unfolds backward as power dynamics shift in exhilarating and unexpected ways in Harold Pinter’s masterpiece. The most fundamental axioms of love and friendship are open for reassessment, as we witness Emma, Jerry, and Robert navigate their own brutal and unexpected feelings about each other and themselves. Their story unfolds through cutting dialogue and ominous tension, courtesy of one of the 20th century’s dramatic titans.

Scriptwriters-Houston 10x10 Play Festival
2024-08-23 19:30 - 21:30 | Theatre Suburbia, 5201 Mitchelldale St, Houston, TX, United States
Ten 10-minute plays written by ten local playwrights.

It Is Magic
2024-08-23 20:00 - 21:30 | MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston), 3400 Main St, Houston, TX, United States
Deb and Sandy are auditioning Tim for the role of the Wolf in a production of The Three Little Pigs, but there’s a mysterious haze in the basement of the Mortier Civic Playhouse and that, in addition to interruptions from the director of ‘the Scottish play’ that’s having its opening night upstairs, is making things difficult. Then, the mysterious Liz shows up throwing the room into utter chaos, revealing the deep, ancient evil at the heart of the community theater audition process.
It Is Magic is the latest play by Mickle Maher, writer of such Catastrophic favorites as There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, The Hunchback Variations, Song About Himself, the world premiere of Small Ball, co-produced by former Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey, and others.
Directed by core artist Jeff Miller, whose past directing credits include Catastrophic hits Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, Baby Screams Miracle, and The Book of Grace.

Funny Girl
2024-08-23 20:00 - 22:50 | Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby St, Houston, TX, United States
WELCOME TO MUSICAL COMEDY HEAVEN!
Featuring one of the most iconic scores of all time by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, an updated book from Harvey Fierstein based on the original classic by Isobel Lennart, tap choreography by Ayodele Casel, choreography by Ellenore Scott, and direction from Michael Mayer, this love letter to the theatre has the whole shebang!
The sensational Broadway revival dazzles celebrated classic songs, including “Don’t Rain On My Parade,” “I’m the Greatest Star,” and “People.” This bittersweet comedy is the story of the indomitable Fanny Brice, a girl from the Lower East Side who dreamed of a life on the stage. Everyone told her she’d never be a star, but then something funny happened—she became one of the most beloved performers in history, shining brighter than the brightest lights of Broadway.

COME CELEBRATE WITH US!
2024-08-24 08:00 - 17:00 | Russian Cultural Center “Our Texas”, 2337 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX, United States
Cultural Center “Our Texas” offers its venue for public events – recitals, corporate events, concerts, lectures, and more. The Gallery can seat up to 60 people. Amenities include a/v equipment and sound system, screen and projector, grand piano, stage and backstage, chairs and tables.
AMENITIES & DECOR
A/V equipment and sound system
Big Screen and projector
Baby piano
Stage, backstage, and backroom
Kitchen (only for serving)
Chairs and tables
Call us: 713-395-3301
$250 for 4 hours

2024 Culture Camp: Manga POP!
2024-08-24 09:00 - 15:00 | Asia Society Texas Center, 1370 Southmore Blvd, Houston, TX, United States
Attention, artists and manga fanatics! At our popular manga camp, create your own comics inspired by the Japanese manga style. Beginner to advanced students will learn new skills to bring comics to life on paper and on the web. Learn how comics are made, compete in sketching contests, and show off your work on the last day of camp at Camp Comic Con! Students will form small groups based on age.
Recommended for students ages 9–14.

Russian Language Summer School
2024-08-24 09:00 - 15:00 | Russian Cultural Center “Our Texas”, 2337 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX, United States
Summer Language School registration is open now. Don’t miss a chance to register for our Russian Language School this summer. We offer group lessons for kids ages 3-14, and private lessons as well. Learn a new language this summer, enhance your child’s education!
Hurry up and secure your spot at the School!
Private and Online classes are also available upon request.
Ages: 3 thru 14 years old.
Dates: Every Saturday.
Class duration: 60 minutes.

2024 Culture Camp: Rising Artists: The Nature of Symbols
2024-08-24 09:00 - 15:00 | Asia Society Texas Center, 1370 Southmore Blvd, Houston, TX, United States
Dive into calligraphy traditions and learn how nature has influenced this art form across Asia and beyond. Campers will be introduced to different techniques, scripts, and tools to create their own expressive artwork. No prior calligraphy or brushwork experience needed.
Recommended for students ages 9–12.

2024 Culture Camp: Documentary Filmmaking
2024-08-24 09:00 - 15:00 | Asia Society Texas Center, 1370 Southmore Blvd, Houston, TX, United States
In this two-week filmmaking camp, Kids TV producer Dan Gordon leads campers in scripting, filming, and acting in an original movie exploring the themes of community building and development. Learn the technical aspects of filmmaking, from camera operation to set design, while exploring cultural experiences from around the world! At the end of camp, parents and community members are invited to see the film created by the students.
Recommended for students ages 12–14.

Dance of Gestures
2024-08-24 09:00 - 17:00 | Sabine Street Studios, 1907 Sabine St, Houston, TX, United States
For her latest solo exhibition, Dance of Gestures, Houston-based Colombian artist Loriana Espinel, takes inspiration from the pre-Columbian pictographs of the Chiribiquete National Park in Colombia to develop a visual system based on the intersection of two different styles of calligraphy: the fluid lines of Japanese ink painting and angular gothic calligraphy.
Dance of Gestures combines both abstract and representational approaches and goals. Espinel writes of her work: “I aim to create a mural that is both abstract and representational. The lines will suggest natural forms while being expressive and dynamic on their own. I want viewers to appreciate both the shapes and lines and their interplay”.
The exhibition is part of the annual Sawyer Yards program at Sabine Street Studios’ East Corridor Gallery, a space dedicated to hosting exhibitions dedicated to the line as an essential, conceptual element in visual art.
The opening reception will be held on Thursday, July 18 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and the exhibitions is on view from July 18 to August 31. All exhibitions and activities are free and open to the public.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
2024-08-24 09:00 - 17:00 | Sabine Street Studios, 1907 Sabine St, Houston, TX, United States
Everyday life, forks in the road, and dead ends forcing us to alter course as time moves on are all natural parts of the human experience. Sometimes we aren’t even aware of certain changes until we reflect on our present and the events of the past. We are changed in the process and often wonder how we got to certain places in our lives. In this exhibition titled Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes inspired by the David Bowie song, artists of Sabine Street Studios present works incorporating the ideas of time, change, and reflection, connecting the past and the present, all steering us towards an unknown future.
The exhibition is on view in the South Gallery and corridor of Sabine Street Studios. Join the artists for a reception September 14, as part of Sawyer Yards Art Ramble.

Earl Staley: The Machine
2024-08-24 09:00 - 17:00 | Sabine Street Studios, 1907 Sabine St, Houston, TX, United States
Sawyer Yards presents Earl Staley: The Machine, a diverse showcase of the longtime Houston artist’s works on canvas at Sabine Street Studios’ North Gallery.
The artworks chosen for this exhibition are large, densely colorful paintings on canvas that highlight Staley’s variety of approaches to image-making, mark-making, and his range of techniques. Even at this stage in his long career, Staley continues to experiment, attempting new and different ways of building and finishing a work. The paintings all exist somewhere on a wide spectrum of abstraction and pictorial quality, as well as physicality. Though landscapes are evident in his work, no subject is off the table for the artist. For Staley, the most important considerations are that his pictures be “visually delightful, intellectually stimulating, and tell an interesting story.” He further writes:
“I found my voice when I stopped thinking about making art and stared telling my life story.
and “All art must contain love of life and an awareness of death.”
The exhibition is on view through August 31, and is free and open to the public. Join the artist for a reception on Thursday, July 18, from 6-8pm.
Artist Biography:
Earl Staley grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois and resides in Houston, Texas. He is an artist and teacher with more than 60 years of experience. Mr. Staley holds Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees. He taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Rice University in Houston, and the University of St. Thomas in Houston, where he was chairperson of the Art Department. Today he teaches in the Fine Art program at Lonestar College in Tomball, TX. Mr. Staley is the recipient of three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1981 he received the Rome Prize in Painting from the American Academy in Rome, Italy and he resided in Rome for 4 years. Mr. Staley’s paintings look back to his artistic roots and forward to new interpretations of the myths and symbols embedded in his life.

Arranging Your Poem on the Page
2024-08-24 09:30 - 12:30 | Writespace, 1907 Sabine St, Houston, TX, United States
INSTRUCTOR: Mathew Weitman
TIME: Saturday, August 24, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CDT
PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Sunday, August 18. After Monday, August 12: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here.
LOCATION: Hybrid. Writespace, 1907 Sabine Street, #125, Houston, TX 77007 (map). This workshop is also available via Zoom.
LEVEL: All levels
CAP: 15
How does your poem look on the page? And does it really matter how you arrange the lines and spaces? Aren’t the words the most important part?
The truth is the arrangement of a poem is a powerful and underrated element of poetic craft. Join prize-winning poet Mathew Weitman in a workshop that will categorically prove just how important it is to think about how your poem looks on the page. Using mentor texts and craft essays from such greats as Albert Ríos, Charles Simic, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, Harryette Mullen, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, and many others, we will turn our attention to the question of how to form poems on the page.
Students can expect to workshop at least one poem.
This event is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance. This project is generously funded by the Houston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, and Mid-America Arts Alliance.
​This project is generously funded by Mid-America Arts Alliance, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the state arts agencies of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.

George Bramlett Show “One Step Beyond”
2024-08-24 10:00 - 14:00 | The Woodlands Art Gallery & Studios, 208 Nursery Rd, Spring, TX, United States
Stop by to see George Bramlett’s award-winning work on display at The Woodlands Art Gallery & Studios! Come study how he captures a moment in time and brings subjects to life in his breathtaking realistic works of art (magnifying glass available). His show, “One Step Beyond” is on display until Friday, September 13, 2024.

Latino cARTographies Digital Board Exhibit of Houston Artists
2024-08-24 10:00 - 16:00 | The Heritage Society, 1100 Bagby St, Houston, TX, United States
We are featuring an exhibit with the University of Houston that features Latin artists through an art digital board that also features our mural. Under the leadership of Dr. Pamela Anne Quiroz, Director of the University of Houston’s (UH) Center for Mexican American and Latino Studies (CMALS) launched the groundbreaking digital board, Latino cARTographies: Mapping the Past, Present, and Future of Houston’s Latino Visual Art. The exhibit is on display from Friday, April 26 to December 31, 2024.
This portable, bilingual, and interactive digital board funded by the University of Houston is the result of a three-year collaboration led by Dr. Pamela Anne Quiroz, with the curatorial leadership of former vice president of the National Mexican Museum of Art in Chicago, Juana Guzman, the CMALS Research Team, and the International Gibson Group.
Tickets at the door are only $5 and include two other exhibits!
Click HERE to read an article about the exhibit in Houston History Magazine.
The idea for Latino cARTographies began when Dr. Quiroz organized the city of Houston to host the country’s premier Latino art event, Latino Art Now! Dr. Quiroz conceived the idea for the digital board and viewed it as a way to create a dynamic but permanent tribute to the Latino artists of Houston. She then persuaded the Gibson Group to collaborate with CMALS to achieve this goal. The result is a twenty-first-century mode to access the arts and experience culture – Latino cARTographies – that maps the past, present, and future of Houston’s Latino art. By utilizing technology that preserves, represents, and promotes Houston’s Latino visual arts and communities in an equitable and inclusive manner, CMALS is transforming how we experience art in the twenty-first century.
Latino cARTographies features our commissioned a mural to celebrate the many contributions of our city’s Mexican-American community. In the spirit of the great Mexican muralists, this vibrant collective artwork, Mexican-American History & Culture in 20th Century Houston, highlights the places, personalities, concepts and events that shaped the Mexican-American community and laid the foundation for the multicultural city we live in today. Set in Connally Plaza against a dramatic backdrop of City Hall and the downtown skyline, the mural is a cultural landmark in the historic heart of Houston. This mural spotlights 38 places, personalities, and events that played a key role in the growth of this community and provides recognition for the countless and essential contributions of Mexican Americans to the economy, culture, and vitality of our city in the 1900s. Mural artists Laura López Cano and Jesse Sifuentes, along with key fundraisers and government officials celebrated the unveiling to Houstonians in September 2018 for National Hispanic Heritage Month. Since then, we have several outdoor activities being celebrated around the mural for National Hispanic Heritage Month and host field trips telling the stories behind the mural. The vibrant mural, located at 1100 Bagby Street, is now complemented by the interactive, digital board that is inside our museum gallery.
About the Exhibitor: Center for Mexican American and Latino Studies, University of Houston
The Center for Mexican American and Latino/a Studies (CMALS) at the University of Houston was established in 1972 as an interdisciplinary academic program encompassing the liberal arts, education and social sciences focusing on the Mexican American and broader Latino experience in the U.S. Its mission is to advance knowledge, promote critical thinking and foster the value of service to the community. This involves designing a broad spectrum of public and scholarly programs. Located within the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, CMALS has evolved into an academic unit with several major components: teaching, research and publications, recruitment and retention, leadership training, academic advising and community service.
Thank you to the following:
Marisela Martinez, Ed.D. Associate Director
Debbie Z. Harwell, Ph.D. Editor, Houston History https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/
IG: @latinocart_uhcmals FB: @UHCMAS Website: www.class.uh.edu/cmas

“The Toy Canvas”: Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts
2024-08-24 10:00 - 17:00 | Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, 6815 Cypresswood Dr, Spring, TX, United States
It’s going to be another fantastic summer at the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts!
This summer, the Pearl has curated a one-of-a-kind exhibition that features toys as contemporary art. “The Toy Canvas: Artists at Play” features toys in photography, sculpture, mixed media and more.
This engaging exhibition explores the theme of play, with art by FriendsWithYou, Mitchel Wu, Herb Williams, Michelle Brooks and Tim Howell from FOX’s LEGO® Masters, Madame Alexander dolls, and many more!
Included in the exhibition is an interactive play zone where visitors can discover their own creativity. The makerspace will have a variety of STEAM activities such as building challenges with LEGO® bricks and MAGNA-TILES®, art activities inspired by the exhibition, digital drawing tools, and a literacy zone.
“The Toy Canvas: Artists at Play” opens Saturday, June 1 and continues through August 31, 2024. For special Opening Day festivities, Wild Art Wednesdays, and more, visit pearlmfa.org.
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.

Explore Your Mind at The Health Museum with the U.S. Premiere of MindWorks
2024-08-24 10:00 - 17:00 | The Health Museum, 1515 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX, United States
Ever wonder what is going on in your head? Now, you can find out! Opening on June 15, 2024, The Health Museum will debut the U.S. premiere of MindWorks, a hands-on, bodies-on psychology exhibition on loan from the Ontario Science Centre.
MindWorks brings ideas like decision-making, memory, and emotions to life through playful, interactive exhibits based on cognitive psychology. MindWorks will encourage visitors to step into their own mind and explore how they think, feel, and react in a playful and exciting new way.
Researched, designed, and fabricated by the Ontario Science Centre, MindWorks lets visitors explore and learn through a fully immersive experience – from writing a song with building blocks to understanding personality traits. Visitors can try their negotiation skills to play the world’s largest Pac-Man game and engage in critical thinking as they squeeze through unusual shapes and explore consciousness with help from a humanoid robot.

Facing Survival | David Kassan
2024-08-24 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.
