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Open Studio: Colorful Abstractions inspired by artist Angel Otero
Thursday, February 2 | 6-8PM
This is a Super Special Extra OPEN STUDIO in conjunction with the Game City Showcase from 6-8PM.
Use oil pastels to create COLORFUL ABSTRACTIONS inspired by the oil-skin paintings of Angel Otero.
Please arrive early as parking may be particularly difficult due to Super Bowl activities in the area!
FAQ Team Tours
Saturday, February 4 | 1–4PM
Exhibition tours led by our FAQ Team are offered free of charge every Saturday from 1–3PM. Tours meet at the front desk near the entrance.
OPEN STUDIO: Homemade Valentines
Saturday, February 4 | 2-4PM
Show some love to all the art-lovers in your life by creating HOMEMADE VALENTINES. We’ll provide all things pink, red, and heart-shaped!
Performance: Musiqa Presents "Everything and Nothing"
Thursday, February 9 | 6:30PM
Musiqa presents a special concert inspired by the exhibition Angel Otero: Everything and Nothing in the Brown Foundation Gallery. In honor of Otero’s Puerto Rican heritage, the program features music by contemporary Hispanic composers including Carlos Carillo-Cotto, Alfonso Fuentes, William Ortiz-Alvarado, and Roberto Sierra along with Musiqa composer Marcus Maroney. The performers include Natalie Hoe and John Walters, clarinet, Max Geissler, cello, and Brandon Bell, percussion.
FAQ Team Tours
Saturday, February 11 | 1–4PM
Exhibition tours led by our FAQ Team are offered free of charge every Saturday from 1–3PM. Tours meet at the front desk near the entrance.
20HERTZ: Jawwaad Taylor
Thursday, February 23 | 6:30PM
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is pleased to present a lecture and performance by Jawwaad Taylor, Houston-based multi-disciplinary musician and educator, in conjunction with CAMH’s music-based lecture series 20HERTZ. Taylor will discuss a variety of topics, including his inspirations, musical projects, and connections between visual arts and musical practices. The performance will include his unique approach of electronic music and live trumpet.
GALLERY TALK: ART AT NOON with Rex Koontz
Friday, February 24 | 12-1PM
Join Rex Koontz, Director of the School of Art, University of Houston, and Natilee Harren, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Critical Studies, University of Houston for a discussion on the work of artist Angel Otero, exploring the questions: Is Angel Otero a Global Contemporary Artist or a Latin American Artist? Does it matter? Light lunch provided.
Panel: Performance as Praxis: A Discussion with the Artists of Experimental Action
Saturday, February 25 | 2-4PM
Selected international and national artists from Experimental Action will come together and engage with Houston's art community, creating a dialogue around the practice of performance art in an ever-changing social, political, and artistic climate.
OPEN STUDIO: Masks inspired by the exhibition "Origins of the Self"
Saturday, March 4 | 2-4PM
Make your own MASK and explore issues of identity and personality as we participate in drawing activities that investigate how our possessions become extensions of our true selves inspired by the Teen Council curated exhibition, Origins of the Self.
Gallery Talk: Terry R. Myers
Saturday, March 11 | 2PM
Join writer, curator, and professor Terry R. Myers for a walk-through of Angel Otero: Everything and Nothing. Myers will discuss his first-hand experience witnessing Otero’s artistic development as a graduate student and will explore the work more closely through the larger context of contemporary painting.
Family Day
Saturday, March 18 | 1–4PM
Come by CAMH to explore our two exhibitions on view: Angel Otero: Everything and Nothing and Origins of the Self, curated by our Teen Council. Venture through the museum using our exploratory ART GUIDE, which encourages looking closely, drawing, and writing. We’ll also be experimenting with the world of FABRIC ARTS.
OPEN STUDIO: Analogue Social Media Party inspired by the exhibition "Origins of the Self"
Saturday, April 1 | 2-4PM
Like, share, and comment in an ANALOG SOCIAL MEDIA PARTY, inspired by the works of Houston-area teens in Origins of the Self.
Opening Reception: Atlas, Plural, Monumental
Friday, April 28 | 6:30-9PM
Celebrate the opening of Atlas, Plural, Monumental, Paul Ramirez Jonas’s first survey exhibition in the Americas. Including sculptures, photographs, videos, drawings, and participatory works made from 1991 to 2016, Atlas, Plural, Monumental demonstrates how Ramirez Jonas is redefining “public art” by investigating how a public is constituted as well as what brings community members together. Many pieces in the exhibition invite viewers to participate and activate the work.
OPEN STUDIO: Box Kites inspired by artist Paul Ramirez Jonas
Saturday, May 6 | 2-4PM
Create your own BOX KITE inspired by the work of artist Paul Ramirez Jonas in his exhibition Atlas, Plural, Monumental.
OPEN STUDIO: Soft Sculpture inspired by the exhibition "A Better Yesterday"
Saturday, June 3 | 2-4PM
Transform a family member, imaginary friend, or a character from an alternative universe into your own SOFT SCULPTURE inspired by the exhibition A Better Yesterday.
On View
Angel Otero: Everything and Nothing
On View: December 10, 2016 – March 19, 2017
Now showing in the Brown Foundation Gallery
