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Sunday in the District invites the community to experience this dynamic academic and creative environment through a day of performances, exhibitions, demonstrations, interactive experiences, and hands-on activities featuring UH students, faculty, alumni, and visiting artists.
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Date
Nov 08 2026
Time
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

KGMCA Sunday in the District

Celebrate creativity at Sunday in the District on November 8 from 12–4 p.m. at the University of Houston Arts District. This free, family-friendly event features live performances, visual art, hands-on activities, and an art sale showcasing original work by UH students, faculty, and visiting artists.

Date:

Sunday, November 8, 2026 | 12pm-4pm

Format:

12:30pm | Lunch

1pm | Adriana Corral and Janaye Brown in conversation, moderated by Roberto Tejada.

2pm | Performance, Amazing Grace. Harp rendition by Juliana Jordan.

About Adriana Corral

Portrait of Adriana Corral
Adriana Corral’s installations, sculptures, drawings and films confront histories that are often threatened by erasure. Her interdisciplinary, research-based practice explores themes of memory, loss, human rights abuses, natural disasters and the unacknowledged histories that are often hidden in plain sight. Corral’s exhibition, AS LONG AS LIFE ENDURES, is on view at the Blaffer Art Museum through December 5.

About Janaye Brown

Portrait of Janaye Brown
Janaye Brown makes video work that explores perception of time, fragmented narratives and the unseen. She has exhibited at venues including New York City’s Studio Museum Harlem, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada and Nazarian/Curcio in Los Angeles. Residencies include the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME; Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX; Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX and Fiskars AiR, Fiskars, Finland among others. Brown received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013 and her BA in Cinematic Arts and Technology from California State University Monterey Bay in 2010.

About Roberto Tejada

Portrait of Roberto Tejada
Roberto Tejada is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at the University of Houston. Tejada is the author of poetry collections that include Why the Assembly Disbanded (Fordham, 2022), Full Foreground (Arizona, 2012), Exposition Park (Wesleyan, 2010), and Mirrors for Gold (Krupskaya, 2006). His book Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (2019) is a Latinx poetics attuned to colonial settlements and cultural counter-conquest; intersections of history and metaphor in art and writing of the Americas.

Location:

Blaffer Art Museum/Wilhemina’s Grove